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The Forbidden Experiment

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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The Story of Richard of Shrewsbury

Richard the third had been killed in 14 85, and the tutor, king henrye seventh, succeeded him. According to his confession, a number of local yorkists mistook him for richard, and from there he decided to go with it. The names warbeck gave of relatives in terna and antwerp are backed up by the municipal records of those cities. When perkin warbeck launched his next english invasion, james's scottish army joined his ragtag collection of mercenaries and yorkish loyalists on the field of battle. This invasion was even worse than the first one, and eventually ended with warbeck in chains, confessing his probably true identity

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