Sir William Cornwallis
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(by Annette Carson) On the matter of sources that are usually cited for the origin of Richard III’s blackened reputation, it occurs to me that I’ve done quite a lot of reading lately around Thomas More’s influential Richard III, which means I have been delving more deeply into the analyses published in the Appendix to…
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THE MALIGNED RICARDIANS
“Princes”, “Tudors”, Anthony Woodville, Charles II, Earl of Essex, Earl of Southampton, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Lucy, forced loans, George Buck, Henry VI, Horace Walpole, Ireland, James VI/I, John Morton, Kincaid, Magna Carta, Mary I, Netherlands, Norfolk, Orford, Phillip II, Privy Chamber, Ralph Shaa, recusants, Richard III, Robert Cecil, Seneca, ship money, Sir Henry Neville, Sir Thomas Grey, Sir William Cornwallis, Slobodan Milosevic, Spain, The Encomium of Richard III, Thomas More, War, William CecilPart 1 – Sir William Cornwallis the younger “ His virtues I have sought to revive, his vices to excuse” (The Encomium of Richard III, Sir William Cornwallis) It is conceivable that historians do not take the early revisionist histories of king Richard III seriously owing to an assumption that the authors were not themselves…
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