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KING Richard the Second.
Duke of York, i
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, } Uncles to the King.
Bolingbroke, Son to John of Gaunt, afterwards King

Henry the Fourth.
Aumerle, Son to the Duke of York... ..
Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.
Earl of Salisbury
Lord Berkley.
Bagot, > Servants to King Richard.
Green,
Earl of Northumberland, -
Percy, Son to Northumberland, Friends to Bolingo
Ross,

broke,

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Willoughby,
Bishop of Carlisle, 27
Sir Stephen Scroop, S
Fitzwater,

(Lords in the Parliamento
Abbot of Westminster,
Sir Pierce of Exton,

Surry,

(1) The LIFE and DEATH of KING RICHARD II.

A C T I.
SC EN E, the COUR T.
Enter King Richard, John of Gaunt, with other
:::.. Nobles and Attendants.

King RichARD.
PASANG LD John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lana

cafter,
Hast thou, according to thy oath and

bond, Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold

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BADGE

"(1) The Life and Death of King Richard 11.) But this Hilto

i sy comprizes little more than the Two last Years of this undi fortunate Prince. The Action of the Drama begins with Beer

lingbroke's appealing the Duke of Norfolk, on an Acculation of high Treason, which fell out in the Year 1398 ; and it closes with the Murder of King Richard at Pomfret-Castle to

wards the End of the Year 1400, or the Beginging of the engluing Year, A 3

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