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 | | From henceforth the succession of priors may be given with reasonable certainty, although it was not until the election of brother Richard, treasurer of England, in 1204 that the dates of election, death or resignation of every prior are known. |
 | | England itself was soon divided by the Wars of the Roses, with Grand Prior Botyell of England becoming a leading advisor to the Lancastrian Henry VI - although he did not hesitate to abandon him when the Yorkists occupied London in 1460. |
 | | [14] John Noel died in exile in 1562, as did Richard and James Bell and Edward Carmus in 1583; Sir Edward Waldegrave died in prison in 1563 and Sir Thomas Mytton in 1583; Sir Marmaduke Bowes, a collateral ancestor of H.M. the Queen Mother, was hanged, drawn and quartered at York in 1585. |
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