Thomas More The History of King Richard the Third

18th February 1536

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Thomas More

            Thomas More and his Novel "The History of King Richard the Third", how could we talk about this without mentioning the Tower of London and the presume murders of the Princes of the Tower?

            The beginning of the Tudor period marked the start of the decline of the Tower of London'suse as a royal residence. As 16th century chronicler, Raphael Holinshed said the Tower became used more as "an armouries and house of munition, and also into a place for the safekeeping of offenders than a palace royal for a king or queen to stay in" The Yeoman Warsders have been the Royal Bodygard since ay least 1509.

             During the reign of Henry VIII, the Tower of London was assessed as needing considerable work on it's defences. In 1532, Thomas Cromwell spent £3.593 on repairs and imported nearly 3.000 tons of Caen stone for the work. Even so, this was not sufficient to bring the castle up to the standard of comtemporary military fortifications which were designed to withstand powerful artillery. 

King Henry VII

             Whatever, The two princes of the tower, the beloved sons of King Edward IV were dead there as well. To More's mind Richard III, their uncle, should kill them to legitimate his right to the throne and to become the king of England with like a Queen, Anne Neville his beloved wife, and the younger daughter of Earl of Warwick. Because their were the last heirs at that time to the throne after the death of Edward IV. And as Richard III was reclaimed as their lord-protector by the King Edward IV he decided to send them to the Tower where he probably killed them at night.

          And Thomas More (1478-1535) worked on a History of King Richard III, which he never finished but which was published after his death. Some consider it an attack on royal tyranny, rather than on Richard III himself or the House of York. He painted him as tyrannical man who murdered the sons of Edward IV to take the throne. Published the first time in 1513, More's version also barely mentions King Henry VII, the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John More...

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