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The Mirror for Magistrates

Edited from original texts in the Huntington Library by Lily B. Campbell

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TRAGEDIES OF THE 1559 EDITION
 
The fall of Robert Tresilian chiefe Iustice of Englande, and other his felowes, for misconstruyng the lawes, and expounding them to serue the Princes affections.
 
Howe the two Rogers, surnamed Mortimers, for theyr sundry vices ended theyr lyues vnfortunatelye.
 
Howe syr Thomas of Wudstocke Duke of Glocester, vncle to king Richarde the seconde, was vnlawfully murdred.
 
Howe the Lorde Mowbray promoted by Kyng Richarde the seconde, was by hym banyshed the Realme, and dyed miserably in exyle.
 
Howe kyng Richarde the seconde was for his euyll gouernaunce deposed from his seat, and miserably murdred in prison.
 
Howe Owen Glendour seduced by false prophesies tooke vpon him to be prince of Wales, and was by Henry then prince therof, chased to the mountaynes, where he miserably dyed for lacke of foode.
 
How Henry Percy Earle of Northhumberland, was for his couetous and trayterous attempt put to death at Yorke.
 
How Richard erle of Cambridge entending the kinges destruction was put to death at Southhampton.
 
How Thomas Montague the earle of Salysbury in the middes of his glory, was chaunceably slayne with a piece of ordinaunce.
 
How king Iames the first for breaking his othes and bondes, was by gods suffrauns miserably murdred of his owne subiectes.
 
How Lorde William Delapole Duke of Suffolke was worthily punyshed for abusing his Kyng and causing the destruction of good Duke Humfrey.
 
How Iacke Cade traiterously rebelling agaynst his Kyng, was for his treasons and cruell doinges wurthely punyshed.
 
How Richard Plantagenet duke of York was slayne through his over rash boldnes, and his sonne the earle of Rutland for his lack of valiauns.
 
How the lord Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty, came to as straunge and sodayne a death.
 
The infamous ende of Lord Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Wurcester, for cruelly executing his princes butcherly commaundementes.
 
How sir Richard Nevell Earle of Warwike, and his brother Iohn Lord Marquise Mountacute through their to-much boldnes wer slayne at Barnet field.
 
How king Henry the syxt a vertuous prince, was after many other miseries cruelly murdered in the Tower of London.
 
How George Plantagenet third sonne of the Duke of Yorke, was by his brother King Edward wrongfully imprisoned, and by his brother Richard miserably murdered.
 
How king Edward through his surfeting and vntemperate life, sodainly died in the mids of his prosperity.
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TRAGEDIES ADDED IN THE EDITION OF 1563
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TRAGEDIES ADDED IN THE EDITION OF 1578
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TRAGEDIES ADDED IN IN THE EDITION OF 1587

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The Mirror for Magistrates

Edited from original texts in the Huntington Library by Lily B. Campbell

The University Press
Cambridge
1938
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