This was the most damaging aspect of Richard’s rule. With a mercurial, unstable and sometimes vicious king, the entire top rank of society was made to feel insecure. It was difficult to know whom to trust.

— Ian Mortimer The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-made King (2007)

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