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ncle Lord Welles, and sent away to live in Lincolnshire. Anne and Katherine, who were children, were married when they were old enough to good Lancastrians. Bridget, the youngest, became a nun at Dartford.'
'Orthodox enough, so far. Who comes next? George's boy.'
'Yes. Young Warwick. Shut up for life in the Tower, and executed for allegedly planning to escape.'
'So. And George's daughter? Margaret.'
'She became the Countess of Salisbury. Her execution by Henry VIII on a trumped-up charge is apparently the classic sample of judicial murder.'
'Elizabeth's son? The alternative heir?'
'John de la Pole. He went to live with his aunt in Burgundy until-'
'To live with Margaret, Richard's sister.'
'Yes. He died in the Simnel rising. But he had a younger brother that you didn't put in that list. He was executed by Henry VIII. He had surrendered to Henry VII under a safe-conduct, so Henry, I suppose, thought that it might break his luck to ignore that. In any case he had about used up his quota. Henry VIII took no chances. He didn't stop at De la Pole. There were four more that you missed out of that list. Exeter, Surrey, Buckingham, and Montague. He got rid of the lot.'
'And Richard's son? John? The bastard one.'
'Henry VII granted him a pension of ￡20 a year, b
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