Richard III and the Murder in the Tower

by Peter A. Hancock

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  Chapter 2: Eleanor Talbot, Lady Butler

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  Hancock, P. A. ‘On the Trail of King Richard III.’ Ricardian Register, 29 (1) (2004), 8-10.

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  Chapter 3: William Catesby, Esquire of the Body

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  Morris, M. ‘Catesby Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers.’ The Ricardian, 39 (1972), 28-32.

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  Payling, S. ‘“Never desire to be grete about princes, for it is dangeros”: the Rise and Fall of the fifteenth-century Catesbys’ (pp 1-17). In: Bertram, J. (ed.), The Catesby Family and their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers. Monumental Brass Society, Headley Brothers: Ashford, Kent, 2006.

  Puplick, C. ‘The Parliament of Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 36 (1972), 27-29.

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  Chapter 4: William, Lord Hastings

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ord Hastings’ Indentured Retainers 1481-1483.’ Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 39 (1955), 1-175.

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  Moorhen, W. E. A. ‘William, Lord Hastings and the Crisis of 1483: An Assessment. Part 2 (Conclusion).’ The Ricardian, 123 (1993), 482-497.

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  Wigram, I. ‘The Death of Hastings.’ The Ricardian, 50 (1975), 27-29.

  Wolfe, B. P. ‘When and Why Did Hastings lose his Head?’ English Historical Review, 89 (1974), 835-844.

  Wolfe, B. P. ‘Hastings Re-interred.’ English Historical Review, 91 (1976), 813-824.

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  Chapter 5: Jane Shore

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  Barker, N. & Birley, R. ‘The Real Jane Shore.’ Etoniana, 125 (1972), 391-397.

  Brown, R. D. ‘“A talkative wench (whose words a world hath delighted in)”: Mistress Shore and Elizabethan Complaint.’ The Review of English Studies, 49 (196) (1998), 398-415.

  Crossland, M. The Mysterious Mistress: The Life and Legend of Jane Shore. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Glos, 2006.

  Davis, M. A. ‘Lord Hastings Dies.’ The Medelai Gazette, 13 (2) (2006), 26-32.

  Fahy, C. ‘The Marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville: A New Italian Source.’ English Historical Review, 76 (1961), 660-672,

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  Thompson, C. J. S. The Witchery of Jane Shore. Grayson & Grayson: London, 1933.

  Chapter 6: Robert Stillington

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  Edwards, R. The Itinerary of King Richard III 1483-1485. Alan Sutton, for the Richard III Society: London, 1983.

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  Greensmith, L. T. ‘Coats of Arms of some Ricardian Contemporaries.’ The Ricardian, 56 (1977), 20-22.

  Habington, T. History of Edward IV. Cotes, Holborne: London. 1640.

  Hairsine, R. C. ‘The Changing View from Oxford: I. Vivat rex in eternum.’ The Ricardian, 53 (1976), 16-22.

  Hairsine, R. C. ‘The Changing View from Oxford: II. Most Christian Prince.’ The Ricardian, 54 (1976), 14-23.

  Hairsine, R. C. ‘The Changing View from Oxford: III. Our Most Dread Sovereign.’ The Ricardian, 55 (1976), 13-24.

  Hammond, P. W. ‘Research Notes and Queries.’ The Ricardian, 52 (1976), 27-28.

  Hammond, P. W. ‘Stillington and the pre-contract.’ The Ricardian, 54 (1976), 31.

  Hampton, W. E. ‘A Further Account of Robert Stillington.’ The Ricardian, 54 (1976), 24-27.

  Hampton, W. E. ‘Bishop Stillington’s Chapel at Wells and his family in Somerset.’ The Ricardian, 56 (1977), 10-16.

  Hancock, P. A. ‘The Polarizing Plantagenet’. Ricardian Register, 26 (4) (2001), 4-7.

  Hicks, M. A. False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence. Alan Sutton: Gloucester, 1980.

  Hicks, M. A. ‘The Middle Brother: False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence.’ The Ricardian, 72 (1981), 302-310.

  Hicks, M. A. (1981). ‘Clarence’s Calumniator Corrected.’ The Ricardian, 74, 399-401.

  Hicks, M. A. ‘False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence: A Further Exchange, Richard and Clarence.’ The Ricardian, 76 (1982), 20-21.

  Jacob, E. F. The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.

  Jex-Blake, T. W.’ Historical Notices of Robert Stillington; Chancellor of England, Bishop of Bath and Wells.’ Proceedings of the Somerset Archeological and Natural History Society, 20 (Part II) (1894), 1-18.

  Kendall, P. M. Richard the Third. W.W. Norton: New York, 1955.

  Knecht, R. J. ‘The Episcopate and the Wars of the Roses.’ Birmingham History Journal, VI (1957–1958), 108-131.

  Lander, J. R. ‘Edward IV: The Modern Legend: And a Revision.’ History, 41 (1956), 38-52.

  Levine, M. ‘Richard III: Usurper or Lawful King?’ Speculum, 34 (1959), 391-401.

  Lingard, J. The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary in 1688. 6th edition, 10 volumes, Charles Dolman: London, 1855.

  Markham, C. R. (1891). ‘Richard III: A Doubtful Verdict Reviewed.’ English Historical Review, 6 (22), 250-283.

  Maxwell-Lyte, H.C. (1937). The Registers of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1466–1941, Somerset Records Society, Taunton, Somerset.

  Mowat, A. J. ‘Robert Stillington.’ The Ricardian, 53 (1976), 23-28.

>   Ramsay, J. Lancaster and York. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892.

  Richardson, G. The Deceivers. Baildon Books: Shipley1997.

  Riley, J. C. Rising Life Expectancy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

  Rosenthal, J. T. ‘The Training of an Elite Group: English Bishops in the Fifteenth Century.’ Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 60 (5) (1970), 1-54.

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  Scofield, C. L. The Life and Reign of Edward IV. London, 1923.

  Smith, M. ‘Edward, George and Richard.’ The Ricardian, 77 (1982), 49-49.

  Somerset Record Society The Register of Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1466-1491. 1937.

  Vergil, P. English History (p. 117). Ed. H. Ellis. Camden Society: London, 1849.

  Wigram, I. ‘Clarence still perjur’d.’ The Ricardian, 73 (1981), 352-355.

  Wigram, I. ‘False, fleeting, perjur’d Clarence: A further exchange, Clarence and Richard.’ The Ricardian, 76 (1982), 17-20.

  Wood, C.T. ‘The Deposition of Edward V.’ Traditio, 31 (1975), 247-286.

  Chapter 7: Return to the Tower

  Anon. ‘Foundation of the College of Heralds.’ The Ricardian, 25 (1969), 9. Hammond, P. W. ‘The Deformity of Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 62 (1978), 35.

  Hammond, P. W. ‘The Illegitimate Children of Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 66 (1979), 92-96. Hammond, P. W. & Weeks, M. ‘The Deformity of Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 61 (1978), 21-24.

  Johnson, D. ‘The Real Reason why Hastings Lost his Head.’ The Ricardian Bulletin, Winter 2007, 38-41.

  Leach, C. A. ‘A Mess of Strawberries.’ The Ricardian, 29 (1970), 21-22.

  McArthur, R. P. ‘Thomas Stanley.’ The Medelai Gazette, 7 (1) (2000), 22-26.

  Pitfield, F. P. Bere Regis Church, Dorset. Thomas Williams Educational Trust, Dorset Publishing Co.: Sherborne, Dorset, 2000.

  Pollard, A. J. ‘North, South and Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 74 (1981), 384-389.