Note 973 — Howe Richarde Plantagenet Duke of Yorke was slayn through his ouer rash boldnes, and his sonne the Earle of Rutland for his lacke of valiaunce, An. Dom. 1460.[950]
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His cursed sonne ensued the father’s trade, And kept my cosin guiltlesse in sure hold For whom my father ful often did perswade, With his allies and cousins, that they would Their kinsman’s right mainteyn, and vphold, And to depose by pollicy or power, The heyre of him that was an vsurper. 1578.