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Excerpt from The American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 15: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; Shomer-Trollope
Shore, Jane, an English woman, the wife of Matthew or William Shore, a goldsmith in London, and mistress of King Edward IV. She was beautiful and amiable, and Sir Thomas More says that the king's favor she never abused to any man's hurt, but to manyaman's comfort and relief. After the death of the king She became attached to Lord Hastings; and when Richard III. Had resolved on the destruction of that nobleman, he accused Jane Shore of Witchcraft and of having withered his arm by sorcery. The king, though he sent her to prison and confiscated her goods, did not attempt to maintain his charge of witch craft; but the bishop of London caused her to do public penance for impiety and adultery. After the death of Hastings, Thomas Lynom, the king's solicitor, desired to marry her, but was prevented by the king. She lived till the time of Henry VIII., and tradition represents her as dying of hunger in a ditch. A celebra ted tragedy by Rowe is founded on her story.
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