deaths of the princes at all. He did not make a public confession, which was common practice in the fifteenth century, nor did he make a written confession.
             More's perpetually inconsistent story also tells of Richard originally ordering Robert Brackenbury to murder the children, which Brackenbury promptly refused to do. In any normal court, a blatant refusal of the monarch's will would result in at least a loss of favour, at most in a loss of life. Brackenbury suffered neither of these. He enjoyed Richard's good graces for years, and died fighting for him in the Battle of Bosworth. This is more than unusual; it is implausible.
             These, and many other serious problems with More's text, make it hard to take anything that he wrote very seriously. His accusations against Richard, which include everything from being a monstrous hunchback to murdering scores of innocent people, are therefore questionable and mostly unfounded. He is clearly writing for Tudor approval and did not bother checking his facts. More demonstrated his ama
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