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Updated: June 8, 2025
I never can remember how those wars began can you?" "They began when the Duke of York tried to get the crown of Henry the Sixth. But I think he was wrong don't you?" "Somebody is always wrong in those affairs," said the doctor. "You are getting through the wars of the Roses. What do you find was the end of them?" "When the Earl of Richmond came. We have just finished the battle of Bosworth Field.
Tamworth is also Shakespearian ground, for here Richmond halted on his march to Bosworth Field, and made a stirring address to inspire his forces for the coming combat.
He had preëminently "The calm eye that seeks 'Midst all the huddling silver little worth The one thin piece that comes, pure gold." The anecdote further illustrates the use which Mr. Webster made of the ideas of other people. He did not say to Mr. Bosworth, here is the true point of the case, but he saw that something was wanting, and asked the young lawyer what it was.
King David of Scotland and Owen Glendower of Wales were held prisoners in Nottingham Castle, and from it Richard III. advanced to meet his fate on Bosworth Field, while Charles I. set up his standard and gathered his army at Nottingham at the opening of the Civil Wars, the blowing down of the standard by a gale on Castle Hill being taken as ominous of the unfortunate termination of the conflict.
His family were brought up "in godliness and the fear of the Lord;" and in all points the old Latimer seems to have been a worthy, sound, upright man, of the true English mettle. There were several children. The Reformer was born about 1490, some five years after the usurper Richard had been killed at Bosworth.
"You do not mean to inherit that infamous crotchet my brother has got into his head? You do not mean to exchange Sir William de Caxton, who fought and fell at Bosworth, for the mechanic who sold black-letter pamphlets in the Sanctuary at Westminster?" "That depends on the evidence, uncle!" "No, sir; like all noble truths, it depends upon faith.
"What are you doing, Clive?" she asks. "I was trying to draw; Lord knows who Lord Newcome, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth," said the artist, and the girl ran to look at the picture. "Why, you have made him like Punch!" cries the young lady. "It's a shame caricaturing one's own flesh and blood, isn't it?" asked Clive, gravely. "What a droll, funny picture!" exclaims Lady Anne.
Henry, advancing toward Shrewsbury, received every day some reënforcement from his partisans. The two rivals at last approached each other at Bosworth, near Leicester, Henry at the head of six thousand men, Richard with an army of above double the number; and a decisive action was every hour expected between them.
It had been founded by King John in defiance of the Magna Carta, and now held absolute power over windmills, wine and spirit licences, ladies traveling in Turkey, revision of sentences for dog-stealing and parricide, as well as anything whatever that happened in the town of Market Bosworth. Duke.
It was the body of the last of the Plantagenet line, King Richard the Third, usurper and murderer, slain at the battle of Bosworth Field in the thirty-second year of his age, after a reign of two years. King Henry the Seventh did not turn out to be as fine a fellow as the nobility and people hoped, in the first joy of their deliverance from Richard the Third.
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