There may even some doubt arise with regard to the proposal of marriage made to Bona of Savoy; though almost all the historians concur in it, and the fact be very likely in itself; for there are no traces in Rymer of any such embassy of Warwick's to France.

The chief certainty in this and the preceding reign arises either from public records, or from the notice taken of certain passages by the French historians.

On the contrary, for some centuries after the conquest, the French history is not complete without the assistance of English authors.

We may conjecture, that the reason of the scarcity of historians during this period, was the destruction of the convents, which ensued so soon after.

Copies of the more recent historians not being yet sufficiently dispersed, those histories hare perished.] [Footnote 20: NOTE T, p.490.Sir Thomas More, who has been followed, or rather transcribed, by all the historians of this short reign, says, that Jane Shore had fallen into connections with Lord Hastings; and this account agrees best with the course of the events; but in a proclamation of Richard's, to be found in Rymer, vol.xii.p.