Richard III
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
King Richard the Third · Richard the Third
in the texts
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
King of England, described as the murderer of his two nephews, under whose reign Sir William Collingbourne was condemned for a written verse.
When Richard the Third, the murderer of his two nephews, was acknowledged king of England, the jury found Sir William Collinburn guilty of having written to a friend of the Duke of Richmond, who was at that time raising an army, and who afterwards reigned by the name of Henry VII.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
King of England listed among precedent monarchs for the customary receipt of Tonnage and Poundage.
and that in the succeeding times of King Richard the Third, King Henry the Seventh, King Henry the Eighth, King Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage was not only enjoyed by every of those Kings and Queens, from the death of each of them deceasing, until it was granted by Parliament unto the successor;