King Richard II with his father Product:Framed picture ' A further [indistinct] inscription

' A further [indistinct] inscription below: 'From a drawing taken from life at Rome 1752 by -- Pozzi in the possession of John Disney D

was not getting to grips with the problems of those responsible for safeguarding law and order in Britain

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King Richard II with his father Product:Framed picture ' A further [indistinct] inscriptionRichard was confronted with a series of crises, ranging from the Peasants' Revolt to a series of power struggles with prominent barons. Eventually, in 1399, he was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke, who ruled as Henry IV. He was imprisoned in Pontefract Castle, where he died in 1400, either murdered or left to starve to death. Illustration from Volume II of The Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, 1799.