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Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Richard III (from a contemporaryportrait) 1 Tie murder of the two young princes was long a mystery and is notyet entirely clear, but twenty years after their disappearance Sir JamesTyrrei confessed that he had secretly strangled and buried the two boys inthe Tower, and two hundred years later two skeletons, which correspondedto their size, were discovered buried under the steps.
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THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK 275 of Edward JV, and this marriage now took place. There wasthus founded a new and great line of kings, the Tudors. Somany and su< b important changes occurred during the periodof the Tudors that by general consent it is looked upon as a newepoch and its history will be the subject of the next two chapters. The Wars of the Roses have left a dark record. There wasno great principle for which the two parties were fighting. Theearly battles were merely to gratify the jealousy and mutual hatredof the great nobles, the later ones only to secure possession ofthe crown. The leaders frequently betrayed one another, andchanged sides from motives of anger or personal ambition. Someof the battles were very bloody, and many captured nobles wereput to death on the baseless charge of treason. There was a constant succession of confiscations of estates,many of the old noble families were ruined in fortune, and someof them were left without a single representative

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