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d. 1510 England

Robert Fabyan (died c. 1512) was a London draper, Sheriff and Alderman, and the author of The New Chronicles of England and of France, better known as the Chronicle of Fabyan.

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King Henry [I] being in Normandy, after some writers, fell from or with his horse, whereof he caught his death; but Ranulph saith he took a surfeit by eating of a lamprey, and thereof died.

The duke of Clarence and seconde brother to the kynge thanne beynge prysoner in the towre, was secretely put to deth and drowned in a barell of maluesye wythin the sayde towre.

The New Chronicles of England and of France (1516)

The Duke of Clarence...then being a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine within the said Tower.

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