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Scroop (6 September 1803) In his biography of Chaucer, WG refers
to Scrope in a note concerning the death of Richard II: ‘Scrope,
archbishop of York, who was beheaded for high treason in
1405, asserts, in the manifesto in which he
announced his rebellion, that Richard perished in consequence of
being denied all sustenance, having first endured the miseries of
hunger and thirst for fifteen days and nights. (Anglia Sacra, para
II, art. 18). (Godwin's
Life of Chaucer 1804 edition, 2:552). Unable to locate
Scrope's manifesto, but see:
Wharton, HenryAnglia sacra, sive collectio historiarum, partem antiquitus,
partem recenter scriptorum, de archiepiscopis et episcopis
Angliae, a prima fidei christianae suceptione ad annum
MDXL. 1691Mentions in the Diary
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