beauty, but Russell said she was "the fairest of all the King's wives". Polydore Vergil commented that she was "a woman of the utmost charm in both character...
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(born on Milk Street), Edmund Campion (son of a London bookseller) and Polydore Plasden (of Fleet Street). Newman was born on 21 February 1801 in the City...
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entered the fray on behalf of Henry, decisively defeating Richard's army. Polydore Vergil, Henry's official historian, records that "King Richard, alone,...
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Lauder to Edinburgh, in an older edition of this unreliable chronicle. Polydore Vergil, Anglica Historia (1555), bk.24 cap.27 translated by Dana F. Sutton...
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