
194 The Wars of the Roses
The History of England
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The Death of Richard III
Richard III had a tomb in the Franciscan Abbey. The epitaph is to be believed it was fit to honour a king. He held the kingdom by broken faith, but also fought bravely in war. For what it's worth, like many tombs, it appears to be the dissolution of the monasteries that does for Richard’s tomb rather than a mean-minded Henry VII. So for the moment we're going to ignore all of the immediate events of the reign. We'll come back to all of those later. But first let's get to the end of the rules of the Wozers.
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