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I mean, was the boy separated from all the people he had been growing up with?'
'Oh, no. His tutor, Dr Alcock, came on to London with him, for one.'
'So there was no panic clearing-out of everyone who might be on the Woodville side; everyone who might influence the boy against him.'
'Seems not. Just the four arrests.'
'Yes. A very neat, discriminating operation altogether. I felicitate Richard Plantagenet.'
'I'm positively beginning to like the guy. Well, I'm going along now to look at Crosby Place. I'm tickled pink at the thought of actually looking at a place he lived in.
And tomorrow I'll have that copy of Comines, and let you know what he says about events in England in 1483, and what Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath, told the Council in June of that year.'
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WHAT Stillington told the Council on that summer day in 1483 was, Grant learned, that he had married Edward IV to Lady Eleanor Butler, a daughter of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, before Edward married Elizabeth Woodville.
'Why had he kept into himself so long?' he asked when he had digested the news.
'Edward had commanded him to keep it secret. Naturally.'
'Edward seems t
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