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onne transport茅e a l'assassin par la faveur des peuples.
'"Ce pays",' said Grant. 'Then he was in full flood against England. He even suggests that it was with the will of the English people that the boys were "massacred". We are being held up as a barbarous race.'
'Yes. That's what I meant. It's a Congressman scoring a point. Actually, the French Regency sent an embassy to Richard that same year-about six months later-so they had probably found that the rumour wasn't true. Richard signed a safe-conduct for their visit. He wouldn't have done that if they had been still slanging him as a murdering untouchable.'
'No Can you give me the dates of the two libels?'
'Sure. I have them here. The monk at Croylandwrote about events in the late summer of 1483. He says that there was a rumour that the boys had been put to death but no one knew how. The nasty slap in the meeting of the States-General was in January 1484.'
'Perfect,' said Grant.
'Why did you want there to have been another instance of rumour?'
'As a cross-check. Do you know where Croyland is?'
'Yes. In the Fen country.'
'In the Fen country. Near Ely. And it was in the Fen country that Morton was hiding out after his escape from Buc
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