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Richard III – The last
Yorkshireman to sit on the English throne.
bail, the mail, the Court of Appeal
(then called the Court of Requests, which was also a court which poor people
could afford to use), the College of Arms, abolished benevolence taxes,
translated the laws into English so that lawyers couldn’t fool their clients,
paid out of his own pocket for the first printing presses to be built in
England, thereby greatly reducing the price of books, and removed restrictions
on their content and sale. He also decentralized the state, establishing the
Council of the North.
But in those class-conscious days, and in a country which had suffered dynastic
war for 30 years, he knew that he was hated, and that plots were afloat to
destroy him.
After his death in battle his
successor, the Tudor Henry VII, undid many of his reforms (he even closed the
College of Arms and gave the building to his mother), and, mindful of Richard’s
superior title to the throne (Henry was a minor noble who’d only married one of
Edward IV’s illegitimate daughters) he set about a long and deliberate program
of blackening his name, attributing to him the foulest of deeds, some of which
we now know he could not possibly have done, and for some of which Henry’s own
motives were crucial to him while Richard didn’t really have one.
Meantime the City of York recorded
that, “King Richard, late reigning mercifully over us …. was piteously slain
and murdered, to the great heaviness of this city”. John Rous, a priest who
worked among the poor, said during Richard’s reign that, “He contents men
wherever he goes best than ever did a king, for many an innocent man woman and
child who hath suffered wrong for many a long year hath finally been relieved
and helped by him. God hath sent him to us, for the weal of us all”.
He was the last Yorkshireman to
sit on the throne. After his death the crown never found its way back to the
rightful heirs.
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Richard III: A Brief Introductory
Bosworth Field: Where
Exactly Was The Battle Fought?
Richard's remains need to be recovered:
10 years before he was found, I published a
detailed call to start looking.
When the Sun of York goes out: How eclipses seemed to follow the
Yorkists around
How many of us are of Royal Descent ? The proof that we
ALL are !!
Future Ricardian Technology: When walls have
ears and paintings talk. Recovering voices trapped in paintings, and ancient
sound and images absorbed into walls.
Ongoing Projects: The
mothers of Richard's illegitimate children
The Pastime of People
(1529). Containing a very early account of the fate of the Princes.
The Princes: A Personal View
Caught in "somebody else's" portrait: Is This
Richard?
Two Mysterious Children Are
Buried with Edward IV
Hey Diddle Diddle,
the Cat and the Fiddle... Is This Really About Richard?
Treason! Richard's City
Boasts Welsh National Emblem
The
Strange Case of Richard of Eastwell
Are Ricardians Deluded? The Critics Say We Can't Face Facts
The Holinshed Chronicles – Including Richard Commenting on
the Princes’ Death!
On a lighter note: The
Adventures of Theo R Nurdy
Enjoy your visit!
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