ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS, ALLEGORIES, ESSAYS, AND POETICAL FRAGMENTS; TENDING TO AMUSE THE FANCY, AND INCULCATE BY MR. ADDISON. London: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING Anecdotes, Memoirs, &c. ANECDOTE OF THE Bastard Son of RICHARD III, N the walls of the ancient houfe of Sir Edward IN Dering, in the County of Kent, lately pulled down and rebuilt, a Latin manufcript was found, written by a baftard fon of Richard III. not mentioned by any of our Hiftorians. The occafion of its lodgment was as follows: This youth was privately educated in the Country, at a great expence, under the best masters in every science. The tuition anfwered the royal expectation. The night before the fatal battle of Bofworth Field, the King sent for him, and he was privately conducted |