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unusual facts about John Rastell


The Abbreviacion of Statutis

The Abbreviacion of Statutis (1519), of which fifteen editions appeared before 1625, is a book by John Rastell.


Black Deep

A rumour current in the sixteenth century, repeated by the chroniclers John Rastell and Edward Hall, by a continuer of John Hardyng's chronicle and subsequently by John Speed, suggested that Richard III, aided by the priest of Sir Robert Brackenbury, had disposed of the bodies of the murdered Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York in the Black Deep, "whereby they should never rise up, or be any more seen".


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