THE 



HISTORY OF THE REIGN 

 OF 



KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 



AFTER that Richard, the third of that name, king in 

 fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment, and 

 so commonly termed and reputed in all times since, 

 Tvas, by the divine revenge favouring the design of 

 an exiled man, overthrown and slain at Bosworth- 

 field ; there succeeded in the kingdom the Earl of 

 Richmond, thenceforth styled Henry the Seventh. 

 The king, immediately after the victory, as one that 

 had been bred under a devout mother, and was in 

 his nature a great observer of religious forms, caused 

 &quot; Te Deum laudamus&quot; to be solemnly sung in the 

 presence of the whole army upon the place, and was 

 himself with general applause and great cries of joy, 

 in a kind of military election or recognition, saluted 

 &quot;king. Meanwhile the body of Richard, after many 

 indignities and reproaches, the &quot; diriges&quot; and obse 

 quies of the common people towards tyrants, was 

 obscurely buried. For though the king of his noble 

 ness gave charge unto the friars of Leicester to see 

 an honourable interment to be given to it, yet the 

 religious people themselves, being not free from ths 



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