Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    has knowingly facrificed hiftoric truth in fome de« gree, and has moved us by the fufferings of Fohn, and not by thofe of Edmund Mortimer. é 7 Sir ‘fobn Mortimer was undoubtedly confined in the Tower in the fecond year of the reign of Henry VI. he was a man of a violent and ambitious temper, and was probably detained in prifon, and certainly condemned to death, on account of his re{tlefinefs and intrigues : among other accufations which were adduced again{ft him, he was charged with faying “‘ that hee would goe into Wales unto the Earle of the Marches, and there hee would raife forty thoufand men, and with that power hee would enter the land, and that the Earle of March was but a daw, fave that hee was the greateft, nobleft, and worthieft of blood, and fhould be king by right of inheritance, and that hee himfelf was next rightfull heire to the faid -crowne* after the faid Earle * This is aconvincing proof of his being the drother of Edmund Mortimer, who was childlefs. Rapim indeed (as I before obferved) has informed us that the name of the brother
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