Richard of Eastwell

1469 – 22 December 1550) was a reclusive bricklayer who was claimed to be a son of Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England.

According to Francis Peck's Desiderata Curiosa (a two-volume miscellany published 1732–1735), Richard boarded with a Latin schoolmaster until he was 15 or 16.

This person once took him to a "fine, great house" where Richard met a man in a "star and garter" who treated him kindly.

Brett communicated it in a letter to William Warren, L.L.D., president of Trinity Hall, who in turn passed it on to Peck.

[3][4] The register entry reads: "Rychard Plantagenet was buryed on the 22. daye of December, anno ut supra.

[5] He states: Anciently, when any person of noble family was interred at Eastwell, it was the custom to affix a special mark against the name of the deceased in the register of burials.