Biographies & Memoirs

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PRIMARY SOURCES: MANUSCRIPTS

London, British Library [BL]

Cotton MSS

Egerton MSS

Harleian MSS

London, The National Archives [TNA]

C 81

Chancery, Warrants for the Great Seal

DL 26

Duchy of Lancaster, Ancient Deeds

DL 29

Duchy of Lancaster, Ministers Accounts

E 159

Exchequer, King’s Remembrancer, Memoranda Rolls

E 404

Exchequer, Treasury of Receipt, Warrants for Issue

PSO 1

Privy Seal Office, Warrants for the Privy Seal

SC 6

Special Collections, Ministers’ Accounts, General Series

Oxford, Bodleian Library

MS Dugdale 15

MS Top Glouc d.2

PRIMARY SOURCES: PRINTED BOOKS

The Beauchamp Pageant, ed. Sinclair, A. (Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, Donnington, 2003)

Bruce, J., ed., Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV, Camden Society i (1838)

Buck, G., The History of King Richard III, ed. Kincaid, A.N. (Gloucester, 1979)

Calendar of the Close Rolls 145294

Calendar of Papal Registers: Papal Letters 14484

Calendar of the Patent Rolls 145294

Calendar of State Papers Milanese i.

Commines, P., Mémoires, ed. Calmette, J., and Durville, G., 3 vols. Societé de l’histoire de France 23-5 (Paris 1923–5)

Courthope, W.H., ed., The Rows Rolls (1859)

Crawford, A., ed., Letters of the Queens of England 11001547 (Stroud, 1994)

Davis, N., ed., Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1971-6)

Ellis, H, ed., Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History, Camden Society xxix (1844)

Hammond, P.W., and Horrox, R.E., eds, British Library Harleian Manuscript 433 (4 vols. Upminster, 1979–83)

Hammond, P.W., and Sutton, A.F., ed., Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field (1985)

Kekewich, M.L., Richmond, C., Sutton, A.F., Visser-Fuchs, L., and Watts, J.L., eds., Politics in the Fifteenth Century: John Vale’s Book (Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, 1996)

Kingsford, C.L., ed, Chronicles of London (1905).

––, Stonor Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, 2 vols, Camden 3rd series xxix, xxx (1919)

Mancini, D., The Usurpation of Richard III, ed. C.A. J. Armstrong (2nd edn. Oxford, 1969)

Leland, J., De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, ed. T. Hearne (6 vols. Oxford, 1770)

Marx, W., ed., An English Chronicle 1377-1461 (Woodbridge, 2004),

More, T., History of King Richard III, ed R.S. Sylvester, Yale Edition of the Complete Works (New Haven, Conn., 1963)

Pronay, N. and Cox., J.C., eds., The Crowland Abbey Chronicles 145986 (Gloucester, 1986)

Rotuli Parliamentorum (6 vols. Record Commission, 1832), v and vi.

Shakespeare, W., Richard III, ed. Honigman, E.J., New Penguin Shakespeare (1995).

Stevenson, J.S., ed., ‘Annales Rerum Anglicarum’, Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the English in France (4 vols., Rolls Series, 1864)

Sutton, A.F., and Hammond, P.W., eds., The Coronation of Richard III: The Extant Documents (Gloucester, 1983)

Sutton, A.F., and Visser-Fuchs, L., eds, The Reburial of Richard Duke of York, 2130 July 1476, Richard III Society (1996)

Sutton, A.F., Visser-Fuchs, L., and Griffiths, R.A., eds., The Royal Funerals of the House of York at Windsor, Richard III Society (2005)

Thomas, A.H., and Thornley, I.D., eds., The Great Chronicle of London (1938)

Waurin, J., Recueil des Croniques et Anchiennes Istories de la Grant Bretaigne, ed. Hardy, W. and E.L.C.P., 5 vols. (Rolls Series, 1891)

SECONDARY SOURCES

Baldwin, D., Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower (Stroud, 2002)

Barron, C.M., ‘The Education and Training of Girls in Fifteenth-century London’, Courts, Counties, and the Capital in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Dunn, D.E.S. (Stroud, 1996)

Bean, J.M.W, The Estates of the Percy Family 14161537 (1958), 23

Calmette, J. and Périnelle, G., Louis XI et L.Angleterre 146183 (Paris, 1930)

Clarke, P.D., ‘English Royal Marriages and the Papal Penitentiary in the Fifteenth Century’, English Historical Review cxx (2005)

Cokayne, G.E., The Complete Peerage of England etc, ed. H.V. Gibbs and others (13 vols., 1910–59)

Edwards, R., The Itinerary of King Richard III 14831485 (Richard III Society, 1983)

Erlanger, P., Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England (1970)

Gairdner, J., History of the Life and Times of Richard III (Cambridge, 1898)

Goldberg, P.J.P., ‘Women’, Fifteenth-Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England, ed. Horrox, R.E. (Cambridge, 1994)

Hammond, P.W. Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, Gloucester Group Publications (Cliftonville, 1973)

––, ‘Edward of Middleham’, Ricardian 146 (1999)

––, ‘The Illegitimate Children of Richard III’, Richard III: Crown and People, ed. J. Petre (Gloucester, 1985)

––, ‘John of Gloucester’, Ricardian 72 (1981)

––, ed., Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law (Gloucester, 1986)

Halsted, C.A., Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England, 2 vols. (1844)

Hanham, A., Richard III and his earlier Historians (Cambridge, 1975)

Helmholz, R., Marriage Litigation in Medieval England (Cambridge, 1974)

Hicks, M.A., Edward IV (2004)

––, Edward V: The Prince in the Tower (Stroud, 2003)

––, English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2002)

––, False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence: George Duke of Clarence 1449-1478 (Gloucester, 1980)

––, ‘One Prince or Two? The Family of Richard III’, The Ricardian 122 (1993)

––, Richard III (Stroud, 2000)

––, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and Their Motives during the Wars of the Roses (1991)

––, Richard III as Duke of Gloucester: A Study in Character, Borthwick Paper 70 (1986)

––, ‘Richard Lord Latimer, Richard III and the Warwick Inheritance’, The Ricardian 154 (2001)

––, Warwick the Kingmaker (Oxford, 1998)

Horrox, R.E., Richard III: A Study of Service (Cambridge, 1989)

––, ‘Some Expenses of Richard Duke of Gloucester 1475–7’, Ricardian 83 (1983)

Kelly, H.A., ‘Canonical Implications of Richard III’s Plan to Marry his Niece’, Traditio xxiii (1967)

Kingsford, C.L., English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (1913)

Lander, J.R., Crown and Nobility 14501509 (1976)

Laynesmith, J.L., The Last Medieval Queens (Oxford, 2004)

Lewis, K.J., Menuge, N.J., and Phillips, K.M., eds., Young Medieval Women (Stroud, 1999)

McCarthy, C. Marriage in Medieval England. Law, Literature and Practice (Woodbridge, 2004)

Myers, A.R., Crown, Household and Parliament in Fifteenth Century England, ed. Clough, C.H. (1985)

Okerlund, A., Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen (Stroud, 2005)

Orme, N., From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy 10661530 (1984)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 64 vols. (Oxford, 2004)

Payne, A., ‘The Salisbury Roll of Arms c.1463’, England in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Williams, D. (Woodbridge, 1987)

Petre, J., ed, Richard III: Crown and People (Gloucester, 1985)

Pollard, A.J., Late Medieval England 13991509 (2000)

––, Richard III and the Princes in the Tower (Stroud, 1991)

––, The Worlds of Richard III (Stroud, 2001)

Reeves, A.Compton, ‘King Richard III at York in Late Summer 1483’, Ricardian 159 (2002)

Ross, C.D., Edward IV (2nd edn., 1997)

––, Richard III (2nd edn. 1999)

Saul, N., The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II, and Richard III (2005)

Sutton, A.F., ‘Anne and Peter Idley’, Ricardian 74 (1981)

––, ‘The Death of Queen Anne Neville’, Richard III: Crown and People, ed. Petre, J. (Gloucester, 1985)

––, ‘The Hautes of Kent’, Ricardian 77 (1982);

––, ‘Richard of Gloucester visits Norwich, August 1471’, Ricardian 95 (1986)

Sutton, A.F., and Visser-Fuchs, L., Richard III’s Books (Stroud, 1997)

Ward, J.C., English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (Harlow, 1992)

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