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Simnel be the Widow of Richard. Whether in--nocent or guilty, he did not reign for everlong1 in peace,for Henry Tudor E.Earl of Richmond as great a Villainas ever lived, made a great fuſs about gettingthe Crown & having killed the King at the battleof Bosworth, he succeeded to it.

Henry the 7th

This Monarch soon after his acceſsionmarried the Princeſs Elizabeth of York, by which alliance he plainly proved that he thought his own right inferior to hers, tho'though he pretended to the contrary. By this

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