Miscellanies, antiquarian and historical / By F. Sayers.

  • Frank Sayers
Date:
1805
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    conveyed into Ireland, but with an honourable red tinue, in the year 1424.* and on the nineteenth of January, 1425, he died inthe Caftle of Trim, in that kingdom :t his body was removed for burial to the Collegiate Church of Stoke Clare,} in Sufs folk, which had been foundéd by-his ancéftors 5 as he left no children, and as his brother J i had been previoufly cut off, his rights and eftates de- fcended to the fon of his fifter Anne, Richard Plantagenet. We poffefs no information fufficient to juftify any endeavour to delineate the character of Edmund Mortimer ; but from his never having himfelf at- tempted, except po/ibly in the revolt of Northum. * Stowe, p. 366. Dugdale fays, he was made Lieutenant of Ireland, 1 Hen. 6, but this appointment is net noticed by the hiftorians. + Dugdale’s Baronage, p.151- Weever (Funeral Mo- numents, p. 742.) and Baker (Chronicle, p. 195.) fix his death in 1424, and Fuller, by fome f{trange miftake, i. 14546 _ Anne, the widow of Mortimer, furvived him eight years, and married John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, ~ Weever, as above. berland,
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