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Notwithstanding in her sixties, she was once made to stroll to his condo at Walbrook within the urban and there gave approach. Gloucester's key ploy was once to threaten her that 'he may ship her to Vliddleham (Yorks. ) there to be stored. Wherefore the acknowledged girl, contemplating her nice age, the good trip and the good chilly which then used to be of frost and snow, idea that she couldn't undergo to be conveyed thither with out nice jeopardy of her lifestyles, and likewise sore fearing how she will be there advised. ' She gave means, she defined to a trustee, purely 'for nice worry and for the salvation of my lifestyles for if I make now not the acknowledged estates and releases i'm threatened on hand within the north kingdom the place i'm yes I will not be reside lengthy and for the lengthening of my existence this I do'. Frivolous although her fears might sound to northerners, she did certainly die quickly after, might be a similar yr. Gloucester secured her estates, to which he had no different correct and which he used to endow his schools or offered. Following his defeat and demise, and the victory between others at Bosworth of Oxford, the latter overturned most of these transactions with assistance from surviving ducal retainers and the countess' trustees; it really is to their testimony that we're indebted. Margaret woman Hungerford (d. 1478) against this used to be a powerful dowager who kept a minimum of a few of her inheritance and supplied for her personal soul inspite of virtually overwhelming problems. The Hungerford Pedigree 7: sufferers of Civil battle: The Hungerford girls Walter Lord Hungerford d. 1449 Robert Lord Hungerford d. 1459 Robert Lord (I) = Hungerford and Moleyns ex. 1464 Sir Thomas ex. 1469 = Margaret (Botreaux) woman Hungerford d. 1478 Eleanor Moleyns d. c. 1476 = Anne Percy Mary William Lord Botreaux d . 1462 = Sir Walter d. 1516 Edward Lord Hastings = (2) Sir Oliver Manningham attainted Lancastrian Frideswide nun of Syon Portrait of civilians inheritance had already been mortgaged to pay off the ransom of her son, Robert Lord Moleyns, ahead of he took the Lancastrian facet in and after 1461. He used to be accomplished in 1464 and his son Thomas in 1469. 3 times Margaret was once arrested, as soon as through the sheriff of Wiltshire, and two times consigned to custody: first in 1463 to Amesbury Abbey (Wilts. ), the place she misplaced £l,000-worth of chattels in a hearth and needed to give a contribution £200 in the direction of the rebuilding of the guesthouse the place she had no longer wanted to be; and secondly, in 1470, first to the a lot more youthful (and uncongenial) Elizabeth Duchess of Norfolk, after which (for a fee of £200) to Syon Abbey (Middx. ), of which she used to be an enthusiastic supporter. She needed to struggle off Edward IV himself, such strong Yorkist friends as Lord Dynham (price £100 a year), the king's brother Gloucester and his chamberlain Hastings, and in addition her (younger) spouse's mother Margaret, now remarried to the grasp of the pony. for almost 20 years she time and again petitioned Parliament, the king and council and performed off her collectors, the king's grantees and her family, who had varied and contradictory pursuits.