Richard III. Jacob Abbott

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      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       PREFACE.

       ENGRAVINGS.

       KING RICHARD III.

       Chapter I.

       Richard's Mother.

       Chapter II.

       Richard's Father.

       Chapter III.

       The Childhood of Richard III.

       Chapter IV.

       Accession of Edward IV., Richard's elder Brother.

       Chapter V.

       Warwick, the King-Maker.

       Chapter VI.

       The Downfall of York.

       Chapter VII.

       The Downfall of Lancaster.

       Chapter VIII.

       Richard's Marriage.

       Chapter IX.

       End of the Reign of Edward.

       Chapter X.

       Richard and Edward V.

       Chapter XI.

       Taking Sanctuary.

       Chapter XII.

       Richard Lord Protector.

       Chapter XIII.

       Proclaimed King.

       Chapter XIV.

       The Coronation.

       Chapter XV.

       The Fate of the Princes.

       Chapter XVI.

       Domestic Troubles.

       Chapter XVII.

       The Field of Bosworth.

       The End.

PREFACE.

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      King Richard the Third, known commonly in history as Richard the Usurper, was perhaps as bad a man as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever raised to the throne, or perhaps it should rather be said, as the principle of hereditary sovereignty ever made. There is no evidence that his natural disposition was marked with any peculiar depravity. He was made reckless, unscrupulous, and cruel by the influences which surrounded him, and the circumstances in which he lived, and by being habituated to believe, from his earliest childhood, that the family to which he belonged were born to live in luxury and splendor, and to reign, while the millions that formed the great mass of the community were created only to toil and to obey. The manner in which the principles of pride, ambition, and desperate love of power, which were instilled into his mind in his earliest years, brought forth in the end their legitimate fruits, is clearly seen by the following narrative.

ENGRAVINGS.

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