The Character of this Prince has been in general very severely treated
by Historians, but as he was a _York_, I am rather inclined to suppose
him a very respectable Man. It has indeed been confidently asserted
that he killed his two Nephews and his Wife, but it has also been
declared that he did _not_ kill his two Nephews, which I am inclined to
beleive true; and if this is the case, it may also be affirmed that he
did not kill his Wife, for if Perkin Warbeck was really the Duke of
York, why might not Lambert Simnel be the Widow of Richard. Whether
innocent or guilty, he did not reign long in peace, for Henry Tudor E.
of Richmond as great a villain as ever lived, made a great fuss about
getting the Crown and having killed the King at the battle of Bosworth,
he succeeded to it.