Word: bosworth
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...reign (1483-85) he was obsessed with social justice in a generation that, after 100 years of civil war, was obsessed with stability - peace at any price. The great lords on whom his power principally depended did not understand or trust his policies, and they turned against him at Bosworth Field. He was a man both behind and ahead of his time: a remnant of the Middle Ages; an early Puritan...