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Index
Accord, Act of, 1460 17
Albany, Duke of 53
Alcock, John, Bishop of Worcester and Ely 40, 59, 75, 81, 88
Ambien Hill, Leics 214-15
Andre, Bernard 6-7, 28, 63, 158, 168, 223, 226, 231
Anne de Beujeu, Regent of France 191. 199
Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Queen of France 58
Anne of Gloucester, Countess of Stafford and Buckingham 67
Anne of York (see Plantagenet, Anne)
Antwerp, Flanders 55, 241
Archaeologia 27, 251
Archaeological Resource Centre, York 253
Argentine, Dr John 3, 11, 108, 140, 178, 255
Armstrong, Professor C. A. J. 3
Arnold, Richard 183
Arras, Treaty of 60
Arthur, Duke of Brittany 165
Arthurian Legends, The 8
Ascham, Roger 9
Ashby St Legers, Northants 98
Ashford, Kent 176
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 167, 254
Ashmole, Elias 254
Ashmole MS. 149
Ayton, N. Yorkshire 157
Bacon, Sir Francis 12-13, 23, 121, 170, 192, 222, 229, 232-3, 236, 239, 245
Banastre, Gilbert 133
Banastre, Ralph 188
Barnard Castle, Yorks 51, 133, 140
Barnet, Battle of, 1471 25, 30, 94
Barnet, Herts 87
Barrow, Thomas, Lord Chancellor 214
Barton, Dr Saxon 197
Basin, Thomas, Norman Chronicler 61
Basle, Switzerland 7
Basley, Mr 95
Baynard's Castle, London 15, 25, 88, 97, 126, 128, 160
Beauchamp, Anne, Countess of Warwick 33, 35-6, 150-1
Beauchamp family 5, 35, 42
Beaufort, Edmund, Duke of Somerset 30
Beaufort family 15-16, 68, 154-5
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Beaufort, Joan, Countess of Westmorland 15
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby 62, 131, 137, 152-4, 172, 179-84. 189, 200, 213, 221, 229-30, 237
Beaugency, France 2, 191
Beaulieu Abbey, Hants 35
Becket, St Thomas a 58
Bedford, Dukes of (see John of Lancaster; Tudor, Jasper)
Beja, Duke of 213
Berkeley family 46
Berkeley, Charles, later Earl of Nottingham 52, 135
Bermondsey Abbey, Southwark 233-4
Bernall, Richard 35
Berwick-upon-Tweed 55
Bianca of Savoy, Duchess of Milan 42
Bibliotheque Municipale, Lille 3
Bishopsgate, London 97
Bishop's Palace, The, St Paul's Churchyard 88
Black Book of the Household,
The 38, 89
Black Friars Monastery, London 27
Blanche Sanglier, herald 216
Blaybourne, an archer 24
Bodleian Library, Oxford 5-6
Bodmin, Cornwall 187
Bohun, Eleanor de, Duchess of Gloucester 67
Bohun, Mary de, Countess of Derby 67
Boleyn, Anne, Queen of England 250
Bona of Savoy 19
Borgia, Cesare 132
Bosworth, Battle of, 1485 12, 166-7, 170, 177, 214-17, 220-1, 225, 227, 234, 243, 256
Boteler (see Butler) Bourchier, Thomas, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury 64, 85-6, 88, 91, 96, 109-111, 137, 178
Bow Bridge, Leics 217
Brackenbury, Elizabeth 170
Brackenbury, Sir Robert 6, 129-30, 141-2, 147-50, 156-61, 164, 170, 216, 225, 252
Bradford, Professor E. W. 257
Bradgate Manor, Leics 20
Brampton, Sir Edward 239, 241
de Braose family 15
Bray, Sir Reginald 11, 179-80, 182, 220
Brecknock Castle, Brecon 107, 151, 172, 179, 187
Brecon, Wales 71-2, 148-9, 151
Brereton, Humphrey 7, 213
Brescia, Italy 5
Bridgenorth, Salop 152
Bridget of York (see Plantagenet, Bridget)
British Library, London 5, 12, 86, 99, 126, 137, 205, 235
Buck, Sir George 10, 12, 31, 118-19, 172, 205, 207-9, 224
Buck, Sir George the Younger 12, 209
Buck, John 12
Burdett, Thomas 44-5
de Burgh family 15
Burgundy, Duke of (see Charles the Bold)
Burleigh, Lord (see Cecil, William)
Butler, Eleanor 118-20, 122, 124, 170, 224
Butler family 133
Butler, Ralph, Lord Sudeley 118
Butler, Sir Thomas 118
Caius, John, of Cambridge 8
Calais, France 24, 54, 65-6, 128, 141, 160, 173, 243-5
Cambrai, Bishop of 241
Cambridge, Earl of (see Richard of Conisburgh)
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