<p>Excerpt from Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, Vol. 2IN giving this second and final volume to the public a few words may seem necessary with regard to the work as a whole, to account for, and in some measure to remedy, the imperfect arrangement of its contents.When I first began collecting the materials, it appeared to me they could not possibly exceed the bulk of a moderate-sized volume. I was far from supposing that, even if I had devoted many years to it, I could have made anything like an exhaustive search, so as to feel finally confident that no important letter had escaped me. But the archives from which most was to be expected, -the few collections of mss. Likely to yield much fruit to a systematic Search, lay within easy reach and comparatively moderate compass. I had also special advantages from other researches prosecuted under the direction of the Master of the Rolls in the Record Office and the British Museum. And when I committed the first sheets to the press, I trusted to have arranged all the materials in true chronological order. As the work advanced, however, I became conscious of omissions. I added appendices.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

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<p>Excerpt from Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, Vol. 1Documents, such as we should call State papers, Were in early times preserved in the treasury of the Exchequer. Of those which were once kept there a large number of the most interesting are now in the Cottonian library. But the great bulk is still in the original collection, till lately kept in the Chapter House at Westminster, and now in the General Repository of the Public Records. The principal contents of this volume relating to the reign of Henry VII, are dev rived from these two sources.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.</p>

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Excerpt from History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To Which Is Added, the Story of Perkin Warbeck, From Original Documents The fact that this is written in an eighteenth century hand might of course suggest the question whether the subject of the drawing has been rightly identified. But we may dismiss all doubt on that point, as the scribe has Simply followed the authority of an alphabetical index (now mutilated at the beginning) which was clearly contemporary with the drawings themselves. And really, if we had no authority for the name at all, internal evidence alone would have very strongly suggested that the portrait represented Warbeck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third: To Which Is Added, the Story of Perkin Warbeck, From Original Documents (Classic Reprint)