Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume IAnonymous
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Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I
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Great Britain -- Biography
Mortimer); she then rose, and, rushing into the room, passionately
exclaimed that he was a worthy knight, her well-beloved cousin, her
dearest friend; but he was quickly secured and hurried off. At a
parliament held at Westminster about a month after, he was condemned,
with little form of trial, to die the death of a traitor; and he and one
of his confederates were hanged together at the Elms at Tyburn, on the
29th of November. "He hung," Stow tells us, "two days and two nights by
the king's commandment, and then was buried in the Grey Friars' Church,"
now Christ's Hospital, in Newgate Street. Yet Mortimer's attainder was
reversed in 1352, and his honours restored to his grandson; his
great-granddaughter married Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son of
Edward III.; his great-great-granddaughter and ultimately sole heir, Ann
Mortimer, by her marriage with Richard Plantagenet Earl of Cambridge,
conveyed her right to the crown thence derived to the House of York; her
grandson mounted the throne as Edward IV.; and it has been occupied ever
since the death of Henry VII. by her descendants. As for Queen Isabella,
she was, upon her fall from power, reduced to an income of 3000_l._ a
year (which was afterwards increased to 4000_l._), and ordered to
confine herself in what some authorities call her manor of Risings near
London, others Rising Castle, on the coast of Norfolk, where once a year
her son paid her a visit of ceremony, and where she survived almost
forgotten by the world for nearly eight and twenty years. She died on
the 22nd of August, 1358, and was then buried in the choir of the same
church of the Grey Friars where the body of Mortimer had been laid.
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