Charlie Fenton’s Reviews > John Morton: Adversary of Richard III, Power Behind the Tudors > Status Update
Charlie Fenton
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‘Morton’s stance is another clear demonstration of his adherence to principles of hereditary and legal legitimacy. Whilst Edward V was a minor, and uncrowned, he was still king, and Morton was clearly not swayed by the tales of bastardy that Richard had used to justify his seizure of the throne. The king was forced to recognise in Morton a determined opponent who had to be neutralised.’
— Mar 29, 2019 08:20PM
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Charlie Fenton
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‘The surviving records of the council, which are sparse for the reign of Henry VII, record that Morton attended more sessions than any other of the king’s councillors: fifty-one sessions between 1486 and 1500. Second in this regard was Sir Thomas Lovell, who was present on thirty-five occasions but over the longer period of 1485 to 1509.’
— Mar 30, 2019 07:31PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘Morton now faced a lengthy period of imprisonment and possibly even execution. However, in one of those tantalising moments of history of which sadly no details survive, Morton escaped and fled abroad. A contemporary chronicler recorded that he was ‘put in the Towre, but he schapyd a way longe aftyr, and ys by yonde the see with the Queen, &c’.’
— Mar 28, 2019 08:23PM
Charlie Fenton
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‘John Morton served the English state for nearly fifty years. He was a man of immense ability who survived the twisting turns of fortune eventually to die in his bed within his episcopal palace at Knole in Kent aged over eighty. His loss was deeply felt by the king and led a well-informed foreign official to record that there had been no other statesman in England who could be compared with him.’
— Mar 28, 2019 06:22PM
