‘Ladye Bessye’, in Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, vol. III, ed. J. Hales and F. Furnivall, London 1868.
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. J. Gairdner, Rolls Series, London 1861–3 (2 vols).
Letters of the Kings of England, ed. J. O. Halliwell, London 1846.
Mancini, D., De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium, trans. and ed. C. A. J. Armstrong, Oxford 1969.
Memorials of King Henry the Seventh, ed J. Gairdner, Rolls Series 1858.
Molinet, J., Chroniques, ed. S. A. Buchon, Paris 1827–8 (5 vols).
More, Sir T., The History of King Richard the Third, in The Complete Works of St Thomas More, vol. II, ed. R. S. Sylvester, Yale 1963.
‘The Most Pleasant Song of the Lady Bessy’, in English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, C. L. Kingsford, Oxford 1913.
Paston Letters, 1422–1509, ed. J. Gairdner, London 1904 (6 vols).
Rous, J., The Rous Roll, ed. C. R. Ross, Alan Sutton 1980.
Scriptores Rerum Silesiacarum, ed. G. A. Stenzel, Breslau 1847 (3 vols).
Sources for the Reign of Henry VII, ed. A. F. Pollard, London 1913 (3 vols).
‘A Spanish Account of the Battle of Bosworth’, ed. E. M. Nokes and G. Wheeler, in Ricardian (1972).
The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290–1483, ed. C. L. Kingsford, Camden Series 1919 (2 vols).
Vergil, P., The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil, A.D. 1485–1573, trans. and ed. D. Hay, Camden Series 1950.
Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History, ed. H. Ellis, Camden Society 1844.
Voragine, J. de, The Golden Legend, ed. W. Caxton, Dent 1900.
Warkworth, J., A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth, ed. J. O. Halliwell, Camden Society 1839.
Wavrin, J. de, Anchiennes Cronicques d’Engleterre, ed. E. Dupont, Paris 1858–63 (3 vols).
LATER AND MODERN
Adair, J., ‘The Newsletter of Gerhard von Wesel, 17 April 1471’, in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 1968.
Armstrong, C. A. J., ‘The Piety of Cecily, Duchess of York’, in For Hilaire Belloc, ed. D. Woodruff, Burnes Oates 1942.
Bacon, Sir F., The History of the Reign of Henry VII, C.U.P. 1888.
Bagley, J. J., Margaret of Anjou, London 1948.
Barker, N. and Birley, Sir R., ‘The Story of Jane Shore’, in Etoniana, 125 (June 1972).
Blyth, J. D., ‘The Battle of Tewkesbury’, in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 80 (1961).
Bonney, H. K., Historical Notices in References to Fotheringay, Oundle 1821.
Buck, Sir G., The History of King Richard the Third, ed. A. N. Kincaid, Alan Sutton 1979.
Burne, A. H., Battlefields of England, Methuen 1950.
More Battlefields of England, Methuen 1952.
Cheetham, A., Richard III, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1972.
Chrimes, S. B., Henry VII, Eyre Methuen 1972.
The Complete Peerage, ed. G. E. Cockayne and V. Gibbs, St Catherine’s Press 1910–59 (13 vols).
Conway, A. E., Henry VII: Relations with Scotland and Ireland 1485–1498, C.U.P. 1932.
‘The Maidstone Sector of Buckingham’s Rebellion’, in Archaeologia Cantiana, xxxvii (1925).
Cooper, C. H., The Lady Margaret: A Memoir of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, C.U.P. 1874.
Crawford, A., ‘John Howard, Duke of Norfolk: A Possible Murderer of the Princes’, in the Ricardian, V, 70 (1980).
Dictionary of National Biography, passim.
Dunham, W. J., ‘Lord Hastings’s Indentured Retainers’, in Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, xxxix (1955).
Gairdner, J., History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third, Cambridge 1898.
‘Did Henry VII Murder the Princes?’, in English Historical Review, vi (1891).
‘The Battle of Bosworth’, in Archaeologia, lv (i) (1896).
Gillingham, J., The Wars of the Roses, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981.
Goodman, A., The Wars of the Roses, Routledge 1981.
Green, V. H. H., The Later Plantagenets, Edward Arnold 1955.
Griffiths, R. A., The Reign of King Henry VI, Benn 1981. (ed.), The Crown and the Provinces in Later Mediaeval England, Alan Sutton 1981.
and Thomas, R. S., The Making of the Tudor Dynasty, Alan Sutton 1987.
and Sherborne, J. W. (eds), Kings and Nobles, 1377–1529, Alan Sutton 1986.
Guillim, J., Displays of Heraldrie, London 1638 (3rd edn).
Gill, L., Richard III and Buckingham’s Rebellion, Sutton, 1999
Grummit, D., The Wars of the Roses, L.B. Tauris, 2013
Habington, W., The Historie of Edward the Fourth, London 1640.
Halsted, C., Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England, London 1844.
Hammond, P. W., Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, Gloucester Group, 1973.
The Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury, Alan Sutton 1990.
Hanham, A., Richard III and his Early Historians, O.U.P. 1975.
Hicks, M. A., False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence, Alan Sutton 1980.
Richard III and his Rivals, Hambledon Press 1991.
Richard III: The Man behind the Myth, Collins & Brown 1992.
‘Richard III as Duke of Gloucester: A Study in Character’, in Borthwick Papers 70 (1986).
‘The Last Days of Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford’, in English Historical Review, C (1988).
Hope, W. St John, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Garter, Constable 1901.
Horrox, R., Richard III: A Study in Service, C.U.P. 1989.
Hutton, W., The Battle of Bosworth Field, London 1813.
Hammond, P. W. (ed.), Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law, Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, London, 1986
Hicks, M, The Wars of the Roses, Yale University Press, 2010
Hipshon, D., Richard III, Routledge, 2011
Jacob, E. F., The Fifteenth Century, 1399–1485, Oxford 1961.
Jenkins, E., The Princes in the Tower, Hamish Hamilton 1978.
Jones, M. K. and Underwood, M. G., The King’s Mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, C.U.P. 1989.
Keen, M. H., ‘Treason Trials under the Law of Arms’, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 12 (1962).
Kendall, P. M., Warwick the Kingmaker, London and New York 1957.
Richard III, Folio 1955.
Richard the Third, Cardinal 1974.
Louis XI, Cardinal 1974.
King, E. J. and Luke, H., The Knights of St John in the British Realm, St John’s Gate 1967.
Kingsford, C. L., English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, O.U.P. 1913.
Kleinecke, H., Edward IV, Routledge, 2009
Lander, J. R., The Wars of the Roses, Secker and Warburg 1965.
Crown and Nobility, 1450–1509, Edward Arnold 1976.
Government and Community: England, 1450–1509, Edward Arnold 1980.
Leland, J., Itinerary in England and Wales, Centaur 1964 (4 vols).
McFarlane, K. B., The Nobility of Later Medieval England, O.U.P. 1973.
MacGibbon, D., Elizabeth Woodville, London 1938.
Mackie, J. D., The Earlier Tudors, Oxford 1952.
Markham, Sir C. R., Richard III; His Life and Character, Smith Elder, 1906.
‘Richard III: A Doubtful Verdict Reviewed’, in English Historical Review, vi (1891).
Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, Lord, The History of the Noble House of Stourton, London 1899 (2 vols).
Myers, A. R., England in the Late Middle Ages, Penguin 1952.
‘The Character of Richard III’, in History Today, iv (August 1954).
‘The Outbreak of War between England and Burgundy in February 1471’, in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 33 (1960).
Nicholson, R., Scotland: The Later Middle Ages, Oliver & Boyd 1974.
&n
bsp; Painter, G. D., William Caxton, Chatto 1976.
Peck, F., Desiderata Curiosa, London 1779.
Peers, Sir C. R., Middleham Castle, HMSO 1943.
Pollard, A. F., ‘The Making of Sir Thomas More’s Richard III’, in Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait, ed. J. G. Edwards, Manchester 1933.
Pollard, A. J., The Wars of the Roses, Macmillan 1988.
Richard III and the Princes, Alan Sutton 1991.
Pugh, T. B., ‘The Magnates, Knights and Gentry’, in Fifteenth Century England, 1399–1509, ed. S. B. Chrimes, C. D. Ross and R. A. Griffiths, Alan Sutton 1972.
Penn, The Winter King, Allen Lane, 2011
Ramsay, J. H., Lancaster and York, Oxford 1892 (2 vols).
Rawcliffe, C. W., The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham, 1394–1521, C.U.P. 1978.
Rhodes, D. E., John Argentine, Provost of King’s: His Life and Library, Amsterdam 1967.
Rhodes, P., ‘The Physical Deformity of Richard III’, in British Medical Journal, 2 (1977).
Richmond, C. F., ‘English Naval Power in the Fifteenth Century’, in History, 52 (1967).
‘Fauconberg’s Kentish Rising of May 1471’, in English Historical Review, lxxxv (1970).
Roskell, J. S., ‘William Catesby, Counsellor to Richard III’, in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, xlii (1959–60).
Ross, C. D., Edward IV, Eyre Methuen 1974.
The Wars of the Roses, Thames and Hudson 1976.
Richard III, Eyre Methuen 1981.
‘Rumour, Propaganda and Popular Opinions during the Wars of the Roses’, in Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Mediaeval England, ed. R. A. Griffiths, Alan Sutton 1981.
(ed.), Patronage, Pedigree and Power in Later Mediaeval England, Alan Sutton 1979.
Rotuli Parliamentorum, vol. IV, ed. J. Strachey, London 1767.
Routh, P. and Knowles, R., The Sheriff Hutton Alabaster: A Reassessment, Rosalin Press 1981.
Rowse, A. L., Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses, Macmillan 1966.
Scofield, C. L., The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, London 1923 (2 vols).
Somerville, R., History of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1265–1603, London 1953.
Storey, R. L., The End of the House of Lancaster, Barrie and Rockcliff 1966.
‘The North of England’, in Fifteenth Century England, ed. S. B. Chrimes, C. D. Ross and R. A. Griffiths, Alan Sutton 1972.
Stow, J., The Annales or Generall Chronicle of England, London 1615.
A Survey of London, Oxford 1908 (2 vols).
Tanner, L. E. and Wright, W., ‘Recent Investigations Regarding the Fate of the Princes in the Tower’, in Archaeologia, lxxxiv (1934).
Tey, Josephine, The Daughter of Time, Peter Davies 1951.
Thoroton, R., The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, vol. I, Nottingham 1790.
Tucker, M. J., The Life of Thomas Howard, 1443–1524, The Hague 1964.
Tudor-Craig, P., Richard III, National Portrait Gallery 1977 (2nd edn).
Victoria County History
Walpole, H., Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, London 1768.
Wedgwood, J. C., History of Parliament: Biographies of Members of the Commons House, 1439–1509, HMSO 1938.
Register, HMSO 1938.
Williams, D. T., The Battle of Bosworth, Leicester University Press 1973.
Williamson, A., The Mystery of the Princes: An Investigation into a Supposed Murder, Alan Sutton 1978.
Wolffe, B. P., Henry VI, Eyre Methuen 1981.
About the Author
Desmond Seward was born in Paris and educated at Ampleforth and St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He is the author of many books including The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders, The Hundred Years War, The Wars of the Roses, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry V as Warlord, Josephus, Masada and the Fall of Judaea (da Capo, US, April 2009), Wings over the Desert: in action with an RFC pilot in Palestine 1916-18 (Haynes Military, July 2009) and Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (Haus August 2009).
Richard III Page 31