The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1899-02-09
an UNHAPPY pucAgsa
CseGiy OF York. neither Of Two Kinaa
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Uneasy lieR the head that weRrs .
crown" II lay uneaslly Ia Shakes.
Yseare'a time, and before bis time, II
history tells the truth probanly II lies
uneasiIy even now. But Il wasn't only
The actual head which wore crown
that was uneasy IN time past; the head
which came too near to wearing
crown had lts own sorrows. The Wars
OF the Roses wiped out mosi Of the mo-
hili,y % England, though the plain
PEOPLE suffered little; and many we'll
born mothers mourned husbands and
sona slain 10 the wars, But few, II any
OF them, had sach succession u sOr.
rows az one who might have seemed
born only to enjoy the days OF her life
-Ccciiy. wife Of Richard PiantnEenct.
duke Of York, and leader Of the White
Rose.
Cccily Nevil was granddaughter Of
"old John OF CANT, time-honored Ian
cnstcr," aud 80 grcat-granddnughter Of
King Edward Ill: her father was
Ralph Nevil earl Of Wcstmorlaud. her
mother Joan Beaufort, the duke ot
I4ancaster's daughter. Ceclly Nevil
married Richard Plnutagouct when abe
vas about - years old, Ia .4i0; and
they had four SONS and two daughters.
Edward, Edmund, George, Richard.
Anne and Margaret for 70 years no
| especial sorrows reached her; her sons
were strong. her husband was thr
principal Huolsct in tie Kingdom.
But In itij the Wars of tine Roses bc-
l gan With the bloody battle al 81. Al
bans. on May 81, end the earl Of stat
ford. the nephew OF Duchess Cecily,
/ was killed there. ~ Northampton, CA
July no. i450, her brother.iu.law, Stat.
/ ford, duke Of buckingham. was Killed;
I =;.a chs terrible GSrh: =! Wakefield on
| December 30. 1860, robbed her at once
/ o. two nephews. brother, soB and
/ q husband. IN the battle fell Sir
/ Thomas Neyil aud Sir Edmund
Bourchier, ncphewE. and her husband,
Richard. Immediately after the battle
her brother Ralph. earl OF Salisbury,
was executed, and her son Edmund,
earl Of Rutland, only l2 years old, was
murdered by John, Lord Clifford, IN
cold blood, IN revenge for the death OF
! his father In battle.
When sorr0ws came to Duchess Ce-
civ, they did not come alone, Another
nephew, Sir John Nctil, fell at Towton.
March 20, isGi. Then came breathing
sLell; but IN il6p Sir Henry Nevil was
executed. and at Barnet, April Is, iiTi,
feil still other ncphcws-Juhn Ncvii,
marquis al Montague, and Richard
Ne,l. earl Of Warwick, famous as "thc
King Maker" On May 4, li7l, the bat
tie OF Tewkesbury WAS fought, and i'm,
rucdlntely agierward Edward, prince oi
Nrlrs. who, though n LancaEtri0u, had
married the duchess niece, the King
Makers daughter Anne, was murdered
by her sons. the dukes Of Clarence and
Gloucester They kept the killing Ia
the family, but ii was killing just Tbs
same.
Two years later. 30 that the duchess
should not &c: unaccustnmed TO grief
her AuE-lu-iuw, Thomas Holland, duke
% Exeter, who had had 20 beg hi
bread in exile, was found dead un th,
seahhore at Dover, and IN l+1s her son
| tine duke uf Clarence, was druW ned j,
butt Of Malmsey. his w he Cecily hav
ing been poisoned previously; her son
In-law, Charles the Bold, duke Of Bur
pundy. had been killed In battle IL
1917. Then there was little respite
Tor the poor duchess. ln 1883 died he
san. Edward ", only Al years old
the first one Of her descendants TO di'
IL natural death since 1873 years
In the same gear her two grandsous
Edward V and Richard, duke Of York
were murdered ny their uncle and he
son, Richard, duke Of Gloucester. wht
became king a. Richard Ill, and d
Ills turn was killed at HCsWUrlh fiot'
ON August 20, lass, when only % year
old. Her sou.in.Iaw. Sir Thomas 81
Leccr, VAS executed In Iis5, and
granddaughter, a srcuul Henry Stat
ford, duke Of buckingham was exc
cuted iu liS7,
Except for q fcw SMALL deaths. zuel
as two husbands Of a niece. Cathcrin
Nern. and Il grandson, john, earl o
Lincoln, aud grandson, Edward
princc Of Wales. the duchess lost NJ
: more relatives, and dlel peacefully Il
1875. AT nut the prince oi Wales, Q
these four, died 10y violence. " he
children, Margaret, duchess of Bur
rnndy, was the oaly one who survives
; her. During the 80 Year, 1858, sh
had seen IS Of her relatives die by vic
, lence and three by disease.
Hut she herself did hot rest eve
after death. When Henry VIII. de
stroyed tie monnsteries, the ColieRint
Church of FotheFinFay WIS RACED I
the ground. gai the bodies Of Kichar
PlantaRenet and Ceciiy Nelil, duke an
duchess Of York. were exposed 10 Sie'
in their graves, They lay so tor severa
b Years. until Elizabeth, their great
crcat-grsnddaaghter, queen OF EnE
land Ii her own right, caused them
be Teinssrred, with the solcmnities bs
J fitting the funeral of two such diztir
7, Euished persons.
! So Cecily Newell. mother Of two king
and grandmother OF one king, hHviH
died, at last found rest.--N. !. san.
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