by S B Chrimes
Chandée, Sir Philibert de (earl of Bath), (i) and n. 2, (ii), n. 1, (iii) and n. 14; rewards, (i) and n. 15
Charles VI of France, (i)
Charles VII of France, and Brittany, (i)
Charles VIII of France, (i); and Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), n. 1, (v); succession, (i); marriage to Anne of Brittany, (i), (ii), (iii); and Warbeck, (i), (ii), n. 1, (iii), (iv), (v); expedition to Italy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); trade agreement, (i); minority, (i); aggrandizement, (i), (ii), (iii); and Brittany, (i), (ii)
Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, (i)
Charles, archduke (Charles V of Castile), (i), (ii), (iii); betrothal to Mary Tudor, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and League of Cambrai, (i), (ii)
Chenlet, John, and Henry VII, (i)
Cheyney, Humphrey, (i), (ii)
Cheyney, Sir John, (i), n. 1, (ii), n. 1, (iii); denunciation, (i), n. 5; at Bosworth, (i); rewards, (i); and the coronation, (i); summoned by writ, (i)
Church, the, arbiter on law of marriage, (i); representation on King's Council, (i) and n. 7; summons of prelates to parliament, (i), (ii); acts concerned with, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); source of royal revenue, (i), (ii), (iii); and war to aid Brittany, (i); clerical taxation, (i), n. 4; episcopal appointments, (i), (ii), (iii); prosecution of heretics, (i); Henry VII and buildings, (i), (ii)
City of London, (i); and loans to Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii); petition from the commons, (i); and standard weights and measures, (i)
Clifford, Sir Robert, and Warbeck's plot, (i)
Clifford, Robert, execution, (i), n. 2, (ii)
Clifford, Roger, execution, (i), n. 2
Clinton, John, Lord, (i)
Coinage, statutory enactments, (i), (ii), (iii); valuation and new creations, (i), (ii) and n. 6, (iii); the sovereign, (i) and n. 2; clipped and foreign, (i); outlawing, 226, images of Henry VII, (i)
Cokesge, Thomas, (i), n. 3
Common law, main area of judicial commissions, (i); freeing from abuses, (i); and offences against public order, (i), (ii); supplemented by Chancery, (i); new legislation, (i)
Common law courts, (i); activity of justices, (i); deficiencies, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and maintenance offences, (i); and offences by sheriffs, (i); punishment for rioting, (i); appointment of justices, (i); under Henry VII, (i)
Common Pleas, court of, (i); under Henry VII, (i), (ii); proclamation of fines, (i); Welsh justices, (i)
Coningsby, Humphrey, Council Learned, (i), (ii), n. 1
Constable, Robert, reading on Praerogativa regis, (i)
Conway, Sir Hugh, emissary to Henry VII, (i), (ii); and Lovel's escape, (i), n. 2; treasurer in Ireland, (i), (ii); and the king's safety, (i)
Corneburgh, Alvered (Alfred Cornburgh), keeper of the Great Wardrobe, (i), (ii), n. 1; expenses allowance, (i) and n. 2; offices held, (i)
Cornwall, (i); anti-taxation rebellion, (i), (ii), (iii), nn. 2, 4, (iv); attainders, (i), n. 1; chancellorship, (i); duchy of, (i), (ii), n. 1, (iii); Warbeck and, (i)
Council Learned, position in King's Council, (i) and n. 3, (ii); conduct of judicial work, (i), (ii) and n. 2, (iii); membership, (i), (ii), (iii), n. 1; and office of audit, (i); debt-collecting agent, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); private and Crown suits, (i); punishment imposed, (i); enforcement of King's Prerogative rights, (i). See also King's Council
Council in the Marches of Wales, (i)
Council of the North, origins, (i)
Council of Requests, and ‘poor men's causes’, (i); appointment of clerk, (i); personnel, (i) and n. 3; differentiated from Star Chamber, (i) and n. 1
Courtenay, Sir Edward (earl of Devon), (i), n. 1, (ii), (iii), (iv), n. 1, (v); and Buckingham's rebellion, (i)
Courtenay, Peter, bp. of Exeter, (i), (ii), n. 3, (iii); and Buckingham's rebellion, (i), (ii), (iii); attainder, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); rewards, (i); and the coronation, (i), (ii), (iii); keeper of the Privy Seal, (i), (ii), (iii); career, (i); bp. of Winchester, (i), (ii), (iii), n. 1
Courtenay, Sir Philip, of Powderham, (i)
Courtenay, Sir William, earl of Devon, (i), n. 2
Courts: of Auditors, (i); and corrupt jurors, (i), n. 5; of General Surveyors, (i), (ii) and n. 2; of Hustings, (i); for offenders in the Household, (i), n. 5; of Requests, (i) and n. 2, (ii); of Wards, (i), (ii); see also under Chancery, Common Pleas, and King's Bench
Cradock, Sir Mathew, (i), n. 2
Creton, William, king's commissioner, (i), n. 1
Croft, Sir Richard, (i); and papal dispensation, (i)
Cromwell, Ralph, baron, (i); lord treasurer, (i), n. 1
Crown, the, initiation of litigation, (i); and common law procedure, (i); and outlawry, (i) and n. 1; and uses, (i); and local government posts, (i); source of law, (i), (ii); nature of proclamations, (i); and feoffments to uses, (i); and law enforcement, (i), (ii). n. 2; knowledge of private wealth, (i); and taxation, (i), (ii), (iii); as landowner, (i); financial provisions for the family, (i); giving and taking of bonds, (i), (ii), n. 1; and standard weights and measures, (i); alliance with the episcopate, (i); union with Wales, (i); power to repeal or revoke statutes, (i); Irish acquisitions (earldoms), (i)
Crown lands, source of revenue, (i), (ii); administration, (i); appointment of ad hoc receivers, (i), (ii); revised payment of issues and accounts, (i); exemptions from Exchequer process, (i); receiver-general of newer revenues, (i); rights in concealed lands, (i); acquisition from outlawing, (i), n. 1
Customs and subsidy, statutory enactments, (i), (ii), (iii); source of royal revenue, (i) and n. 4, (ii); average annual receipts, (i); payments by aliens made denizens, (i); and voyages of discovery, (i), n. 1; abolitions in Wales, (i)
Danvers, William, judge of Common Pleas, (i)
Darcy, fifth baron of Knaith, (i)
Darcy de Darcy, Thomas, (i)
Daubeny, Giles, first baron, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), n. 1, (v), n. 1, (vi); and Cornish revolt, (i), (ii); and King's Council, (i); career, (i); chamberlain of the Household, (i), of the Exchequer, (ii); master and worker of Monies, etc., (i); and English aid to Brittany, (i)
Daubeny, William, (i)
David ap Llewyllyn, (i)
Deacon, Michael, bp. of St Asaph, (i)
Deane, Henry, archbishop of Canterbury, (i); chancellor of Ireland, (i), (ii); bp. of Bangor, (i); deputy lieutenant, (i)
De Burgh, house of, (i), (ii), n. 3
De Mainbier, George, envoy of Duke Francis, (i), (ii)
Denmark, trading relations with Henry VII, (i); and Icelandic fishing rights, (i), n. 4
Desmonds, the, siege of Waterford, (i)
Deveres, Sir Walter, (i)
Devereux, Walter, Lord Ferrers, (i); attainder, (i), n. 1
Digby, Sir Symon, (i), n. 3
Dinham, John, Lord, treasurer, (i), and n. 11, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), n. 1; career, (i); and Crown lands commission, (i)
Diseases, ‘sweating sickness’, (i), n. 1
Drogheda parliament, (i), (ii) and n. 2; and independence of Ireland, (i); enactments, 1494–5, (i) and nn, (ii) and nn, (iii) and nn; 1498, (iv); and Poynings's Law, (i), (ii)
Drury, Sir Robert, speaker, (i)
Dublin, (i); ‘coronation’ of Simnel, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); oaths of allegiance, (i); freemen, (i)
Dudley, Edmund, (i), n. 1; president of King's Council, (i), n. 7; Account Book, (i), n. 2, (ii); and debt collection, (i), (ii); speaker, (i); Council Learned, (i); under sheriff of London, (i); charges of extortion, (i), (ii), (iii); in the Tower, (i), (ii); confession, (i) and n., (ii); arrest and execution, (i), (ii); criticizes the regime, (i), n. 1; career, (i), n. 2
Dupon, Francis, French Secretary, (i), n. 3
Dymock, Andrew, baron of the Exchequer, (i)
Dymoke, Sir Robert, and the coronation, (i)
Edgecombe, Sir Richard, (i); rewards, (i) and n. 17; and oaths of allegiance in Ireland, (i), (ii); chamberlain of the Exchequer, (i), (ii), n. 1; career, (i), n. 1; duties in Ireland, (i); and papal dispensation, (i)
Edward I, inves
titure of his son, (i); statute of Rhuddlan, (i)
Edward III, (i), (ii), n. 1; land grants, (i); royal effigy, (i)
Edward IV, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), n. 2, (v), (vi), n. 2, (vii), (viii); accession, (i); and Henry VII, (i) and n. 2, (ii); invasion of France, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); bastardy of his children, (i), (ii); seven daughters, (i), n. 2; and Morton, (i), (ii); attainders, (i), (ii), n. 2; and Scotland, (i), (ii); and Ireland, (i), (ii); escape to Calais, (i); and Daubeny, (i); financial administration, (i), (ii), n. 6; chief justices, (i), (ii); and evasion of royal rights, (i); and unlawful retaining, (i) and n. 3, (ii); and the navy, (i); and royal revenue, (i), (ii); and the coinage, (i); and Hanseatic League, (i); and trade with Spain, (i), (ii); policy towards the Church, (i), (ii), n. 1; and princedom of Wales, (i), (ii); treaty with Maximilian, (i)
Edward V, (i); imprisonment and murder, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), n. 2; impersonation, (i); Tyrell's confession, (i) and n.; tutor, (i); Prince of Wales, (i), (ii)
Edward, Prince of Wales (‘Black Prince’), (i)
Edward, Prince, son of Richard III, (i); death, (i), (ii)
Edward, earl of Warwick, (i); imprisonment in Tower, (i), (ii); death, (i), (ii), (iii) and n. 8, (iv); escape plan, (i), n. 2, (ii) and n. 1; cost of funeral, (i); attainder, (i)
Egremont, Sir John, flight after insurrection, (i)
Eleanor, daughter of Maximilian, proposed bride for Prince Henry, (i)
Elizabeth Woodville, queen of Edward IV, and Buckingham's rebellion, (i); takes sanctuary in Westminster Abbey, (i), (ii); Richard III and, (i), (ii), (iii); restoration of her property, (i); transfer of her jointure, (i) and n. 3; removal to Bermondsey convent, (i); financial provision, (i); proposed marriage to James III, (i)
Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii); released from Tower, (i); marriage, (i), (ii); in sanctuary, (i); legitimization, (i); coronation, (i), (ii), nn 1, 2, (iii); offspring, (i) and n. 3, (ii); acquires queen dowager's jointure, (i) and n. 3; death, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); in Wales, (i), n. 2; contemporary description, (i); and her son's death, (i); interment, (i), n. 5; book of payments, (i); portraiture, (i), (ii)
Elvira, Doña, (i); and Catherine's marriage consumation, (i), n. 1, (ii) and n. 4
Empson, Sir Richard, (i), n. 5, (ii), n. 1; and debt collection, (i); speaker, (i); Council Learned, (i); and pardon for outlawery, (i), n. 1; charges of extortion, (i), (ii), (iii); arrest and execution, (i); career, (i), n. 2
Englefield, Sir Thomas, speaker, (i)
English, John, king's servant, (i), n. 3
Erasmus, (i), n. 1, (ii), n. 6, (iii), (iv)
Estrada, Hernan Duque of, (i) and n. 4; on Henry VII, (i)
Estrete, John, (i), n. 2
Europe, international politics, (i); Henry VII and its chief potentates, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and French aggression in Italy, (i)
Exchequer, (i); income from endowed revenues, (i); loses financial precedence to Chamber organization, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); office of under-treasurer, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), n.; of Chancellor, (i); of chamberlain, (i), (ii), n.; and administration of Crown lands, (i); comes into its own again, (i), (ii); and Receipt of the Exchequer, (i) n.; office of teller, (i), n.; activities of justices, (i), (ii); barons and chief barons, (i), (ii); basis of promotion, (i) and n.; continuity of tenure, (i); and arrears of fees, (i); under Henry VII, (i), (ii); and law enforcement, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and n. 2; prosecutions for retaining, (i); and customs violations, (i), n. 2; prosecutions against officials, (i), n. 3; and tax assessments, (i); and management of land revenue, (i)
Exeter, (i), n. 2, (ii); and Buckingham's rebellion, (i), n. 1, (ii); attainders, (i)
Fairfax, Guy, judge of King's Bench, (i)
Ferdinand of Spain, (i), (ii), (iii); and Catherine's marriage to Arthur, (i), (ii); widowerhood and remarriage, (i), (ii), (iii); and League of Cambrai, (i); and Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii) and n. 8, (iv); reclaims marriage portion, (i); and Catherine's marriage to Prince Henry, (i), (ii), nn 1, 2, 3, (iii); diplomatic moves, (i), (ii); and Henry VII's remarriage, (i), (ii)
Fernandez, Fray Diego, confessor to Catherine of Aragon, (i)
Ferrars, Lord, death at Bosworth, (i)
Fineux, Sir John, chief justice, (i), (ii)
Fiscal provisions, subsidies for war purposes, (i) and n. 1, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and n. 7; statutory enactments, (i) ff.; royal revenues, (i) ff.; basis of fifteenths and tenths, (i), (ii); efforts to make equitable distribution, (i); direct assessment of individuals, (i), (ii), n. 7; county spread based on wealth, (i); aid, loans and benevolences, (i), (ii), n. 1, (iii); Henry VII and, (i), (ii). See also taxes and taxation
Fisher, John, bp. of Rochester, and Henry VII's funeral oration, (i), (ii); and his illness, (i), n. 3
Fitzgerald, Gerald, eighth earl of Kildare, ‘uncrowned’ king of Ireland, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); oath of allegiance, (i), (ii); deputy in Ireland, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); reappointment, (i), (ii), n. 1; and Warbeck, (i); relations with Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii) and n. 1, (iv); and Simnel, (i); negotiations with Edgecombe, (i); conditions of general pardon, (i), n. 4, (ii); in England, (i), (ii); attainder and imprisonment, (i), (ii), (iii); reversal, (i); marriage, (i)
Fitzgerald, James, sixth earl of Desmond, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Fitzgerald, Maurice, ancestor of Desmond and Kildare earldoms, (i)
Fitzgerald, Thomas, earl of Desmond, (i)
Fitzgerald, Thomas, seventh earl of Kildare, and Yorkist cause, (i), (ii)
Fitzjames, Richard, bp. of London, president of King's Council, (i), n. 7
Fitzsimons, Walter, archbishop of Dublin, (i), n. 1; deputy in Ireland, (i), (ii)
Fitzwilliam, Sir Thomas, speaker, (i)
Flamank (Fleming), John, report to Henry VII, (i) and n. 1, (ii)
Florence, (i), n. 2; treaty with Henry VII, (i)
Foreign policy, (i); achievement of Henry VII, (i) and n. 1, (ii), (iii); subordination to dynastic policy, (i); main objectives, (i); three phases, (i)
Fortescue, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii), n. 1, (iv), (v); and kingly poverty, (i); chief justice of King's Bench, (i), (ii); and law making, (i)
Fox, Richard, bp. of Winchester, (i); adherent of Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii); career, (i), n. 1, (ii), (iii); bishoprics, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); keeper of the Privy Seal, (i), (ii) and n. 5, (iii), (iv) and n.; and the coronation, (i); Scottish negotiations, (i), (ii), (iii); retention by Henry VIII, (i); and Crown lands commission, (i); and invention of the ‘fork’, (i), n. 6; and Prince Henry's declaration, (i), n. 1
France, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and Henry VII, (i), (ii) and n. 1, (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); relations with Brittany, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); under Charles VIII, (i); war against, (i), (ii), (iii); trade agreements with England, (i); potentates, (i); becomes French, (i)
Francis I of France, (i), n. 2
Francis II, duke of Brittany; and Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and n. 3, (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi); and Richard III, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); and Buckingham's rebellion, (i); struggle with France, (i), (ii), (iii); death, (i), (ii), (iii)
Frederick III, emperor, (i); funeral, (i)
Frowyk, Sir Thomas, chief justice of Common Pleas, (i), (ii); reading on Praerogativa regis, (i)
Fryon, Stephen, French Secretary, (i), n. 3
Fuensalida, Don Gutierro Gomez de, (i) and n. 4, (ii)
Fychan, Ednyfed, seneshal of Gwynedd, (i)
Gardiner, Stephen, bp. of Winchester parentage, (i), n. 3
Gardiner, William, marriage, (i), n. 3
Garth, Thomas, commission in Ireland, (i)
George, duke of Clarence, (i), (ii), n. 5, (iii), n. 9, (iv); birth in Dublin Castle, (i); lieutenant in Ireland, (i), n. 1
Geraldine, Thomas, Irish leader at Stoke, (i)
Germaine de Foix, second wife of Ferdinand, (i), (ii)
Gigli, Giovanni de', bp. of Worcester, (i), n. 5; and papal dispensation, (i)
Gigli, Silve
ster de', (i), n. 5
Glyndŵr, Owain, rebellion, (i), (ii)
Goldsborough, Edward, baron of the Exchequer, (i)
Gordon, George, second earl of Huntly, (i)
Gordon, Lady Katherine, marriage to Warbeck, (i); subsequent marriages, (i), n. 2
Goronwy, son of Ednyfed Fychan, (i)
Government, relations with parliament, (i); initiation of important measures, (i), (ii); punishment of rioting, (i), (ii); type of cases, (i), (ii); and common law courts, (i), (ii); and Justices of the Peace, (i), (ii); and ‘official bills’, (i) and n. 2; and law enforcement, (i), (ii); and taxation for war, (i); economic and social measures, (i), (ii); and Henry VII's foreign policy, (i); dynastic concern, (i)
Gravesend, and Buckingham's rebellion, (i), n. 1, (ii); attainders, (i)
Great Councils, (i); and major policy matters, (i), (ii); and threats of war or rebellion, (i); and war subsidies, (i), (ii), (iii)
Great Malvern Priory Church, stained glass depictions, (i)
Grey, Richard, of Ruthin, earl of Kent, (i), n. 4
Grey, Thomas, first marquis of Dorset, and Buckingham's rebellion, (i); denunciation, (i) and n. 5, (ii), n. 1; and Henry VII, (i), (ii), (iii); attainder, (i); severe treatment, (i), n. 4
Griffith, William ap, (i), n. 3
Guildford, and Buckingham's rebellion, (i), n. 1, (ii); attainders, (i)
Guildford, Sir John of Rowerde, (i)
Guildford, Sir Richard, and Buckingham's rebellion, (i), (ii), (iii); rewards, (i) and n. 3; and coronation tournaments, (i) and n. 2, (ii), n. 1; and King's Council, (i) and n. 5; sphere of influence, (i), (ii) and n. 2; K.G., (i); master of the Ordinance, (i); death in Jerusalem, (i); chamberlain of the Exchequer, (i)
Guillaume de Rochefort, compares England with France, (i), n. 2
Gyfford, Sir Richard, (i), n. 1
Hakluyt, Ralph, indenture with Henry VII, (i)
Harwell, Sir John, (i), n. 1, (ii), n. 1
Hammes Castle, (i) and n. 2, (ii), (iii), n. 2
Hanse, the, (i), n. 2, (ii), (iii), n. 7; privileged position in England, (i)