A

COLLECTION

OF INTERESTING

Anecdotes, Memoirs, &c.

ANECDOTE

OF THE

Bastard Son of RICHARD III.

IN the walls of the ancient house of Sir Edward

Dering, in the County of Kent, lately pulled down and rebuilt, a Latin manuscript was found, written by a bastard son of Richard III. not mentioned by any of our Historians. The occasion of its lodgment was as follows: This youth was privately educated in the Country, at a great expence, under the best masters in every science. The tuition answered the royal expectation. The night before the fatal battle of Bosworth Field, the King sent for him, and he was privately conducted