by Licence, Amy
12. Strutt, Joseph, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (Methuen & Co., 1908).
13. Rickert.
3 Warring Cousins, 1458–1460
1. Pepys 1, 64–5. A most sorrowfull Song, setting forth the miserable end of Banister, who betraied the Duke of Buckingham, his Lord and Master. EBBA ID 20265.
2. www.devonperspectives.co.uk.
3. Connors, Michael, John Hawley, Merchant, Mayor and Privateer (Richard Webb, 2008).
4. Chaucer, G., The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387).
5. SLP Henry VI May 1458.
6. Ibid.
7. Ingham, Patricia, Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).
8. Weir, Alison, Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses (Vintage, 2009).
9. Gairdner, James (ed.), Gregory’s Chronicle 1461–9 (London, 1876).
10. Ibid.
11. Weir, Lancaster (2009).
12. SLP Venice July 1460.
13. Edward IV: November 1461, Parliament Rolls of Medieval England.
14. Henry VI: October 1460, Parliament Rolls of Medieval England.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Hall.
4 Boy and Girl, 1461–1465
1. Shakespeare, William, Henry VI, Part 3.
2. Nichols, John Gough, Inventories of the wardrobes, plate, chapel stuff, etc. of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and of the wardrobe stuff at Baynard’s Castle of Katharine, Princess Dowager (Camden Society, 1855).
3. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/middleham-castle-info-for-teachers/.
4. Amt, Emilie (ed.), Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe, A Sourcebook (Routledge, 1993).
5. A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Governance of the Royal Household, made in divers reigns from King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary (London: Society of Antiquities, 1790).
6. Ibid.
7. Wilkinson, Josephine, Richard, the Young King to Be (Amberley, 2009).
8. Weightman, Christine, Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, 1446–1503 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1989).
9. Hicks, Michael, Warwick the Kingmaker (Blackwell, 1998).
10. Ibid.
11. Calendar of Close Rolls for Edward IV, Nov 1461.
12. Rhodes, Hugh, The Boke of Nurture.
13. Ibid.
5 Romance and Chivalry, 1465–1469
1. John Rous on Anne Neville.
2. Sutton, Anne F. and Livia Visser-Fuchs, ‘“Richard Liveth Yet”: An Old Myth’, Ricardian, 9 (June 1992).
3. Payne Collier, J. (ed.), ‘The Ghost of Richard III’ (First pub. 1614; London: Shakespeare Society, 1884).
4. Laynesmith, J. L., The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445–1503 (Oxford University Press, 2004).
5. Weightman.
6. Gravett, Christopher, Knight: Noble Warrior of England, 1200–1600 (Osprey, 2008).
7. Clephan, R. Coltman, The Medieval Tournament (Dover, 1995).
8. King René’s Tournament Book (1406; trans. E. Bennett, 1997).
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Clephan.
6 Queens in Waiting, 1469–1470
1. Anonymous, ‘How the Good Wife Taught her Daughter’ (1430).
2. State Letters and Papers, Milan 1470.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Abbot, Jacob, Margaret of Anjou (Harper and Brothers, 1904).
8. SLP Milan Oct 1458.
9. Abbott.
10. SLP Milan 1470.
11. Ibid.
12. Abbot.
13. SLP Milan 1470.
7 Lancastrian Princess, 1471
1. Pepys 3.235 A Courtly New Ballad of the Princely Wooing of the fair maid of London, by King Edward. EBBA 21249.
2. Bruce, J. (ed.), Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV in England and Finall Recouerye of his Kingdomes from Henry VI (Camden Society, 1838).
3. Ibid.
4. Commines.
5. Jesse, John Heneage, Memoirs of King Richard III and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Richard Bentley, 1862).
6. Bruce, Arrivall.
7. SLP Milan 1471.
8. Ibid.
9. Weir, Alison, Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses (Vintage, 1995).
10. SLP Venice June 1471.
11. Ibid.
12. Wilkinson.
8 A Strange Courtship, 1471–1472
1. Bogin, M. quoted in Shahar, Shulamith, The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages (Methuen, 1983).
2. A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Governance of the Royal Household, made in divers reigns from King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary (London: Society of Antiquities, 1790).
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Hilton, Lisa, Queens Consort: England’s Medieval Queens (Phoenix, 2009).
7. Hicks.
8. Hilton.
9. Cheetham, Anthony, The Life and Times of Richard III (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972).
10. Page, W. (ed.), A History of the County of London: Volume 1: London within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark (1909).
11. Hicks.
12. Twemlow, J. A. (ed.), Calendar of Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland, August 1473.
13. Ibid., March 1485.
9 Richard’s Wife, 1472–1483
1. Bernardino of Siena, ‘Sermon on Wives and Widows’ (1472).
2. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office of the Reigns of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III, April 1477.
3. CPR Richard III June 1484.
4. Jones, M. and S. Walker (eds), ‘Private Indentures for Life Service in Peace and War’, Camden Miscellany, XXXII (Royal Historical Society, 1994).
5. Idley, Peter, Instructions to his Son (Greifswald, Druck von J. Abel, 1903).
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Hammond, Peter W., ‘The Illegitimate Children of Richard III’, in Petre, J. (ed.), Richard III: Crown and People, A Selection of Articles from The Ricardian Journal of the Richard III Society, March 1975 to December 1981 (Alan Sutton, 1985).
11. Kendall.
12. Camden Miscellany, XXXII.
13. Mitchell, Dorothy, ‘York and Richard III’ (Silver Boar, 1984).
14. Ibid.
15. Bernardino of Siena.
16. Sutton, Anne F., ‘Caxton the Cult of St Winifred and Shrewsbury’ in Clark, Linda (ed.), Of Mice and Men; Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England (Boydell Press, 2005).
10 Crisis, Summer 1483
1. Richard III, Letter to the Mayor of Southampton, 1484. ‘The corporation of Southampton: Letters and loose memoranda’, The Manuscripts of the Corporations of Southampton and Kings Lynn, Eleventh report, Appendix; part III (1887), pp. 97–134.
2. Davies, Robert, Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York During the Reigns of Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III (London: J. B. Nichols, 1843).
11 Queen, July–December 1483
1. Reputed to have been written by Henry VI when a prisoner in the Tower.
2. More.
3. Hicks.
4. Ibid.
5. Anne F. Sutton and P. W. Hammond (eds), The Coronation of Richard III: The Extant Documents (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1983).
6. Ibid.
7. CPR Richard July 1483.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Croyland.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Pollard.
17. ‘The Corporation of Southampton’ (1887).
12 Disquiet, 1484
1. K. Dockray, ‘Sir Marmaduke Constable
of Flamborough’ in Petre, J. (ed.), Richard III (1985).
2. CPR Richard III 1483–5.
3. Walford, E., ‘Greenwich’, Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878), pp. 164–76.
4. Ibid.
5. Sutton, Anne F. and R. C. Hairsine, ‘Richard III at Canterbury’ in Petre, J. (ed.), Richard III (1985).
6. Tatton-Brown, T., Canterbury: History and Guide (Alan Sutton, 1994).
7. ‘Addenda to Volume 12: Minutes of the Records and Accounts of the Chamber’, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 12 (1801), pp. 612–662.
8. Thanks to John D. Hunt for local information on this.
9. Pisan, Christine de, The Treasure of the City of Ladies or the Book of the Three Virtues (trans. Rosalind Brown-Grant: Penguin, 1999).
10. Hicks.
11. CPR Richard III 1483.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. ‘Section II: Nottingham Castle’, Thoroton’s History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 2, Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1790).
16. Hicks.
17. Mortimer, R. and T. Tatton-Brown (eds), Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry VII (Boydell Press, 2003).
18. Fabyan.
19. Hillier, K., P. Normark and P. Hammond, ‘Colyngbourne’s Rhyme’ in Petre, J. (ed.), Richard III (1985), pp. 107–8.
20. Ibid.
21. ‘The Corporation of Southampton’ (1887).
22. Baldwin.
23. Buck in Kincaid, A. N. (ed.), The History of King Richard III (1979).
13 Elizabeth of York, 1484–1485
1. Brereton, Humphrey, ‘The Ballad of Lady Bessye’.
2. uuuwell.com.
3. Peachey, Stuart, ‘Festivals and Feasts of the Common Man 1550–1660’ (Stuart Press, 1995).
4. Okerlund, Arlene Naylor, Elizabeth of York (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
5. Brereton.
6. van den Bos, Lambert, The Position of the Roode en Witte Roos (Amsterdam, 1651).
14 Eclipse, 1485
1. Thornbury, W., ‘Westminster: Introduction’, Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878).
2. Cunningham, Sean, Richard III, a Royal Enigma (Kew: National Archives, 2003).
3.‘Venice: 1481–1485’, Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 1: 1202–1509 (1864), pp. 141–59.
Epilogue
1. Taken from Richard III’s prayer book, held in Lambeth Palace.
2. Goddard, ‘Richard III’s House in Leicester’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 9 (1863).
3. Extant by 1594, although composed before, as Marlowe died in 1593.
4. From my notes, taken whilst watching the live conference on the BBC website.
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