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c MARGARET BEAUFORT. 11
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famil in the y nei worke hborhood d by her of -hands Bletshoe , and used King to Jaines ask to see I . whenever the specimens he was of g
science medicine her embroidery that , and in had later there so life preserved thoroug it is related hl . y studied She she was . used the skille to practical d devote also in a part portion the of art the of of
each Soon day to after . tending the the birth sick of poor Margaret , curing their her wounds parents and removed diseases to .
Kingston had been Lacy iven , to in the Dorsetshire familof , John and inhabited of , Gaunt . the Here mansion the Duke which of .. y
Somerset died g , May , 1444 , when his Church daughter of Wimborne was only three years after
years old , and Margaret and was that buried founded of her in the mother and Abbey endowed who lies a entombed perpetual with chantry . him In . to She his
also memory erected a handsome monument , of grey marble over their tomb , _. the with duke their ' s death effigies Margaret in white returned alabaster with lying her hand mother in hand to . Bletsho . After e ,
where the Duchess , continued to live in . great state . And now for Margaret she not was onl looked became upon possessed as the richest of her heiress father's in estates the king but dom she ,
was also heir to y considerable property on her mother ' s side , . All this wealth : attracted the notice of the ambitious Duke of Suffolk , obtained the wardshiof
the the _> favoriteminister and lands ; of of Henry the Lad VI . Margaret He , an office which p in those estates person days of the was heiress very lucrative with a view . Suffolk to y his own had famil his y eye aggrandizement upon the rich _,,
and r she was scarcely nine ye ars old when he sought her in marriage for his son and heir , John de la Pole . It does not ,
how-Iier ever thoug , removal h appear when to the that the latt he vicinit er withdrew married of the - his for Court the ward third broug from time ht her , Leo her mother , more Lord ' s within Wells care , , y
Ms scene power . The . King But another wooed her suitor for his of yet half nobler -brother birth , Edmund came on Tudor the ,
Earl of Kichmond . In great perplexity as to which of the two she loved should and choose confided , Margaret in greatl consulted Thi an s old friend gentlewoman considered whom it she too
responsible Margaret to a seek decision the intercession to take y . upon of St herself . Nicholas , and , that recommended advice she mi and ght . _^
prayed was be . guide granted so d earnestl rig in htly a y , in marvellous the the legend matter runs manner . , that She . a followed One solution morning thi to s her difficulty whether ,
, a sleep vision ing or in waking which a , she form could appeare never d tell to her , about in _© four piscopal o ' clock robes , she _^^ had m _^^ , _^
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C Margaret Beaufort. 11
c MARGARET _BEAUFORT . 11
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/11/
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