16, 1485, as the date of Anne's death. '[ Richard] intended shortlie to marie the ladie Elizabeth, his brothers daughter.' Holinshed, iii. 751. Halle, 407.
IV. ii. 91. wife. In 1484, according to Holinshed, there was surprise that the Lord Stanley had not been arrested as a reputed enemy of Richard, for Margaret, Stanley's wife, was mother to the Earl of Richmond. Holinshed, iii. 746. Halle, 398.
IV. ii. 95. prophesy. This prophecy will be found in Holinshed, iii. 678.
IV. ii. 98–115. This passage occurs only in the Quarto.
IV. ii. 104. Rougemont. Richard visited Exeter in November, 1483. 'And during his abode here he went about the citie, & viewed the seat of the same, & at length he came to the castell; and, when he vnderstood that it was called Rugemont, suddenlie he fell into a dumpe, and (as one astonied) said: "Well, I see my daies he not long." He spake this of a prophesie told him, that, when he came once to Richmond, he should not long live after. . . .' Holinshed, iii. 746.
IV. ii. 113. Jack. The figure which in old clocks struck the hour upon the bell. The word came to be a nickname for a busybody (Wright). Cf. Richard II, V. v. 60: 'his Jack o' the clock.'
IV. ii. 116. resolve. 'And, suerlie, the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerslie reported. Some haue I heard say, that the duke [Buckingham], a little before his [Richard's] coronation, among other things, required of the protector the erle of Herefords lands, to the which he pretended himself iust inheritor. . . . [Richard] reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minatorie words.' Holinshed, iii. 736. More, 86/29.
IV. ii. 121. Brecknock. A castle and property in Wales belonging to the Duke of Buckingham.
IV. iii. 6. flesh'd. A term derived from hunting.
