Vulgar words in Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third (Page 1)
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Morton had not only violated his allegiance to Richard; but had been the chief engine to dethrone him, and to plant a bastard scyon in the throne.
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Why a bastard branch of Lancaster, matched with a bastard of York, were obtruded on the nation as the right heirs of the crown!
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Edward earl of Warwick, his nephew, and son of the duke of Clarence, was in his power too, and no indifferent rival, if king Edward's children were bastards.
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"Also it appeareth that all the issue of the said king Edward be bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance, by the law and custom of England."
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Had Edward the Fifth been dead, would not the act indubitably have run thus, were and be bastards.
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No, says the act, all the issue are bastards.
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Richard had set them aside as bastards, and thence had a title to the crown; but Henry was himself the issue of a bastard line, and had no title at all.
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On one side he had no blood royal, on the other only bastard blood.