Royal castles of England; comprising an account of those ancient fortresses which from the days of William the Conqueror either were the homes of English sovereigns or have been intimately associated with the history and romance of their lives (1913)
Shelley, Henry Charles. [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 384
ares historical plays, once to introduce the im-prisoned Richard II and again to foreshadow thefate of Rivers, Grey, and Vaughan, whom RichardIII wished removed from his path. The apostropheof Rivers is ominous of his own fate and that of hiscompanions: 0 Pomfret, Pomf ret! 0 thou bloody… … * A Bloody Prison * 285 But the second Richard was not the first of royallineage to whom Pontefract was a fatal prison. Inthe second decade of the fourteenth century thecastle was the property of Thomas, Earl of Lan-caster, the cousin of Edward II, he having obtainedpossession of the building…
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