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She was born in London, and married before she was quite out of girlhood to a citizen named William Shore, who though young, handsome, and well-to-do, never really won her affections; and thus she yielded the more readily to the solicitations of King Edward. Her husband on this abandoned her, and after Edward's death she became the mistress of Lord Hastings, whom Richard III, then duke of Gloucester, as protector during the minority of Edward V, suddenly ordered to be beheaded on 13th June 1483. |
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She was born in London, and married before she was quite out of girlhood to a citizen named William Shore, who though young, handsome, and well-to-do, never really won her affections; and thus she yielded the more readily to the solicitations of King Edward. Her husband on this abandoned her, and after Edward's death she became the mistress of Lord Hastings, whom Richard III, then duke of Gloucester, as protector during the minority of [Edward V]?, suddenly ordered to be beheaded on 13th June 1483. |
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According to the account given by More, Richard had accused Hastings at the council table of conspiring against him along with the queen-dowager and Shore's wife, who by sorcery and witchcraft had given him a withered arm. So having got rid of Hastings he caused Jane Shore to be committed to prison and spoiled her house, containing property to the value of 200 or 3000 marks, equvalent to a sum of 20,00 or 30,000 pounds at the present day (N.B. the presnt day referred to is 1876.). But having sought in the first place to charge her with conspiracy - a charge which apparently he could not substantiate - he thought afterwards to get the bishop of London to put her to open penance at Paul's Cross for her vicious life. She accordingly went in her kirtle through the streets one Sunday with a taper in her hand, her beauty really enhanced by the blush which her humiliation called up in her usually pale cheeks; and many who detested her mode of life could not but pity her as the victim of a hypocritical tyranny. |
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According to the account given by More, Richard had accused Hastings at the council table of conspiring against him along with the queen-dowager and Shore's wife, who by sorcery and witchcraft had given him a withered arm. So having got rid of Hastings he caused Jane Shore to be committed to prison and spoiled her house, containing property to the value of 2000 or 3000 marks, equvalent to a sum of 20,000 or 30,000 pounds at the present day (N.B. the present day referred to is 1886.). But having sought in the first place to charge her with conspiracy - a charge which apparently he could not substantiate - he thought afterwards to get the bishop of London to put her to open penance at Paul's Cross for her vicious life. She accordingly went in her kirtle through the streets one Sunday with a taper in her hand, her beauty really enhanced by the blush which her humiliation called up in her usually pale cheeks; and many who detested her mode of life could not but pity her as the victim of a hypocritical tyranny. |
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