Excerpt from Richard IV Plantagenet Although the taste for Historical Romance may be said to belong, itself, to bygone times, there are certain portions of our history which never lose their charm, while the exciting scenes they record are fully as sensational as any of those which the morbid fancy of the devourer of the shilling dread ful delights to revel in, and I fail to see why those stirring times should not be made to yield as much amusement to the readers of the present day as can be extracted from more commonplace and to my mind, less attractive subjects. Impelled by this thought, I have been led to dress up an old, weird legend in such a manner as to render it acceptable, even though four hundred years have passed away since the events referred to were fresh in the minds of men. I am mainly indebted to the memory of an old book which I was wont to pore over in my father's library some fifty odd years ago. It had no author's name, and professed to be the autobiography of a legitimate son of Richard III, born long before his parent's rise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.