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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.

— Robert Fabyan The New Chronicles of England and of France (1516)

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Pt. 2 (s.a. 1478) | Death of George Plantagenet

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