Biographies & Memoirs

Reference Materials

Original Sources

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Bruce, J. (ed). Historie of the Arrival of Edward IV. Camden Society: London, 1838.

Commines, P. de Memoirs. Henry G. Bohn: London, 1855.

Davies, R. (ed.) Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York. J. B. Nichols & Son: London, 1843.

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Gairdner, J. (ed.). The Paston Letters 1422–1509 A.D. PRO: London, 1872.

Horrox, R. & Hammond, P. W. (eds). British Library Harleian Manuscript 433. Alan Sutton, for the Richard III Society: Upminster, Essex, 1979.

Mancini, D. (Ed. and trans. C. A. J. Armstrong). The Usurpation of Richard III. 1984.

Pronay, N. & Cox, J. (eds.). The Crowland Chronicle Continuations: 1459–1486. Alan Sutton, for the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust: London, 1986.

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Warkworth, J. A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth. Camden Society: London, 1839.

General References

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Abbott, J. Margaret of Anjou. Harper & Brothers: New York, 1900.

Aleyn, C. The historie of that wise and fortunate Prince Henrie of that name the Seventh, King of England. With that famed Battaile, fought betweene the sayd King Henry and Richard the theird named Crookbacke, upon Redmoore neere Bosworth. (Thomas Cotes for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop, neere Furnivalls Inne gate in Holbourne). London, 1638.

Ashley, M. British Kings & Queens. Carroll & Graf, 2002.

Baldwin, D. Elizabeth Woodville. Sutton: Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2002.

Buck, G. (ed. A. N. Kincaid). The History of King Richard the Third. Alan Sutton: Stroud, Glos, 1982

Cheetham, A. The Llife and Times of Richard III. Weidenfeld & Nicholson: London, 1972.

Chrimes, S. B. Henry VII. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1999.

Clive, M. The Son of York. Knopf: New York, 1974.

Colwell, T .M. ‘Why Richard III.’ The Ricardian, 151 (2000), 161–178.

Cunningham, S. Richard III: a Royal Enigma. National Archives: London, 2003.

Dockray, K. Richard III. Alan Sutton: Stroud, Glos, 1988.

Drewett, R. & Redhead, M. The Trial of Richard III. Alan Sutton: Stroud, Glos, 1984.

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

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

Fields, B. Royal Blood: Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes. Regan Books: New York, 1998.

Gairdner, J. History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1898.

Goodman, A. The New Monarchy: England 1471–1534. Blackwell: Oxford, 1988.

Green, R. F. ‘Historical Notes of a London Citizen, 1483-1488.’ English Historical Review, 96 (1981), 585–590.

Halsted, C. A. Richard III. Longman, Brown, Green & Longman: London, 1844.

Hammond, P. W. & Sutton, A. F. Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field. Constable: London, 1985.

Hanham, A. Richard III and his Early Historians 1483-1535. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

Helmholtz, R. H. ‘The Sons of Edward IV: A canonical assessment of the claim that they were illegitimate.’ In P. W. Hammond (ed.). Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law (pp 91-103). London, 1986.

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

Hicks, M. Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III. Tempus: Stroud, Glos, 2006.

Horrox, R. Richard III: a Study in Service. Cambridge, 1980.

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

Jenkins, E. The Princes in the Tower. Barnes & Noble: New York, 1978.

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

Kendall, P. M. The Yorkist Age. W.W. Norton: New York, 1962.

Kendall, P. M. (ed.). Richard III: The Great Debate. W.W. Norton: New York, 1965.

Kingsford, C. L. (ed.). ‘Citizens of London.’ Chronicles of London. Oxford, 1905.

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

Lamb, V. B. The Betrayal of Richard III. Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Glos, 1990.

Lander, J. R. ‘The Treason and Death of the Duke of Clarence.’ Canadian Journal of History, 2 (1967), 1–28.

Lander, J. R. Crown and nobility, 1450-1509. Edward Arnold: London, 1976.

Lindsay, P. The Tragic King: Richard III. Robert . M. McBride & Co.: New York, 1934.

Littleton, T. & Rea, R. R. To Prove a Villain. MacMillan: New York, 1964.

Manning, J. A. The Lives of the Speakers. Willis: Covent Garden, London, 1851.

Markham, C. R. Richard III: His Life and Character. Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1906.

More, T. (ed. R. S. Sylvester). The History of King Richard III. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1976.

Myers, A. R ‘The Character of Richard III.’ History Today, 4 (1954), 511-521.

Myers, A. R. ‘Hastings.’ History Today, 1954, 710.

Okerlund, A. Elizabeth Wydville: the Slandered Queen. Tempus: Stroud, Glos, 2005.

O’Regan, M. ‘The pre-contract and its effect on the succession in 1483.’ The Ricardian, 54 (1976), 2-7.

Pendrill, C. ‘Richard III.’ In S. J. Hunt (ed.). A History of Fotheringhay. (pp. 17-19) Fotheringhay Church Restoration Committee: Peterborough, 1999.

Pollard, A. J. The Wars of the Roses. St Martin’s Press: New York, 1988.

Pollard, A. J. Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. Sutton Publishing: Stroud, Glos, 1991.

Potter, J. Good King Richard? Constable: London, 1983. Richardson, G. The Hollow Crowns. Baildon Books: Shipley, England, 1996.

Richardson, G. The Deceivers. Baildon Books: Shipley, England, 1997.

Richardson, G. The Lordly Ones. Baildon Books: Shipley, England, 1998.

Richardson, G. The Popinjays. Baildon Books: Shipley, England, 2000.

Richardson, G. A Pride of Bastards. Baildon Books: Shipley, England, 2002.

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.

Roskell, J. S. ‘The Office and Dignity of Protector of England, with special reference to its origins.’ English Historical Review, 68 (1953), 193-233.

Roskell, J. S. The Commons and their Speakers in English Parliament 1376-1523. Manchester, 1954.

Ross, C. Richard III. University of California Press: Berkley, CA, 1981.

Saul, N. Richard II, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Scofield, C. L. The Life and Reign of Edward IV. Frank Cass & Co.: London, 1967.

Seward, D. Richard III: England’s Black Legend. Penguin: London, 1982.

Speed, J. The Historie of Great Britaine. Humble: London, 1632.

St Aubyn, G. The Year of Three Kings. Athenaeum: New York, 1983.

Strachey, J. (ed.). ‘Parliamentary Record,’ Act of Attainder, Rotundi Parliamentorum, 1767-83, volume VI.

Walpole, H. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III. Faulkner, Leathley & Smith: Dublin, 1768.

Weir, A. The Princes in the Tower. Ballantine: New York, 1992.

Williams, N. The Life and Times of Henry VII. Weidenfeld & Nicholson:

London, 1973.

Williamson, A. The Mystery of the Princes. Alan Sutton: Gloucester, 1981.

Wise, T. & Embleton, G. A. The Wars of the Roses. Reed International: London, 1983.

Chapter 1: The Path to the Throne

Carpenter, C. (ed.). Kingsford’s Stonor Letter and Papers. 1290-1483 (pp 159-160). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Davies, R. Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York. J. Nichols & Son: London, 1843.

de Blieck, E. Analysis of Analysis of Crowland’s Section on the Usurpation of Richard III. http://crowland.netfirms.com/.2003.

De Commines, P. The Memoirs of Phillip de Commines, Lord of Argenton. Bohn: London, 1855.

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

Gairdner, J. Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, London: HMSO, 1861.

Green, R. F. ‘Historical Notes of a London Citizen 1483-1488.’ English Historical Review, 96 (1981), 585-590.

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

Hancock, P. A. ‘On images of the “Princes in the Tower.”’ Ricardian Register, 30 (1) (2005), 4-18.

Hancock, P. A. ‘No Richard Rhyme nor Reason.’ The Medelai Gazette, 14 (3) (2007), 16-22.

HMSO. The Tower of London (p. 6), HMSO: London, 1974.

Kendall, P. M. Richard III: The Great Debate. W.W. Norton: New York, 1965.

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

Mancini, D. The Usurpation of Richard III. Trans. C. A. J. Armstrong. Alan Sutton: Gloucester, 1989.

Markham, C. R. Richard III: His Life & Character (pp 93-102). Smith, Elder, & Co.: London, 1906.

More, T. The History of Richard III. Ed. R. S. Sylvester. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976.

Myers, A. R. ‘The Character of Richard III.’ History Today, 4 (1954), 511-521.

Pollard, A. J. The Middleham Connection: Richard III and Richmondshire 1471-1485. (p. 1). Old School Arts Workshop: Middleham, 1983.

Pronay, N. & Cox, J. (eds.). The Croyland Chronicle Continuations. Alan Sutton, for the Richard III Society: London, 1986.

Richmond, C. ‘The Princes in the Tower; The Truth at Last.’ Ricardian Register, 26 (3) (2001), 10-18.

Smith, G. ‘Hastings and the news from Stony Stratford.’ Ricardian Bulletin, Summer 2006, 48-49.

Strickland, A. Lives of the Bachelor Kings of England (p. 143). Sempkin, Marshall, & Co.: London, 1861.

Wigram, I. ‘Research Report.’ The Ricardian, 7 (1963), 9-10.

Williams, B. ‘Richard III and Pontefract.’ The Ricardian, 86 (1984), 366-370.

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

Wood, C. T. ‘If Strawberries Were Ripe on June 13, Was October 2 Really Richard III’s Birthday?’ Paper given at the 1993 Meeting of the American Branch of the Richard III Society

Worth, S. ‘Richard & the Parson of Blokesworth.’ Ricardian Register, 26 (3) (2001), 4-7.

Chapter 2: Eleanor Talbot, Lady Butler

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘Lady Eleanor Talbot: New evidence: New answers; New questions.’ The Ricardian: 16 (2006), 113-132.

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘Edward IV’s Uncrowned Queen. The Lady Eleanor Talbot. Lady Butler.’ The Ricardian, 11 (1997), (139), 166-190.

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘Further Reflections on Lady Eleanor Talbot.’ The Ricardian, 11 (1999), (144), 463-467.

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘The Inquisition Post Mortem of Eleanor Talbot, Lady Butler, 1468.’ The Ricardian, 12 (2002), (159) 563-573.

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘Lady Eleanor Talbot’s Other Husband.’ The Ricardian, 14 (2004), 62-81.

Ashdown-Hill, J. ‘The Endowments of Lady Eleanor Talbot and Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk, at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.’ The Ricardian, 14 (2004), 85-86.

Ashdown-Hill. J. ‘The Go-between.’ The Ricardian, 15 (2005), 119-121.

Ashdown-Hill. J. (2009) ‘Eleanor: The Secret Queen,’ The History Press: Stroud, Gloucestershire

Baker, E. ‘Notes on the paintings in Burton Dassett Church.’ In F. O’Shauhnessy, Undated.

Barker, J. ‘Sir Thomas Le Boteler.’ The Ricardian, 45 (1974), 6-8.

Bertram, J. The Catesby Family and their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers. Monumental Brass Society: Burlington House: London, 2006.

Campbell, J. Lives of the Lord Chancellors (pp 333-335). Murray: London, 1868.

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

Hargreaves, J. W & Gray, J. B. The Passion Series of Wall Paintings in the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Leodagarius, Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire. JR Press: Daventry, undated.

O’Regan, M. ‘The pre-contract and its Effect on the Succession in 1483.’ The Ricardian, 54 (1976), 2-7.

O’Shaughnessy, F. The Story of Burton Dassett Church. In possession of the author. Undated.

Phillips, G. The Templars and the Ark of the Covenant. Bear & Company: Rochester, VT, 2004.

Routh, P. ‘In Search of Lady Eleanor Butler.’ The Ricardian, 32 (1971), 4-7.

Smith, M. ‘Reflections on Lady Eleanor.’ The Ricardian, 142 (1998), 336-339.

Sutton, A. ‘Richard III’s “tytylle & right”: A new discovery.’ The Ricardian, 57 (1977), 2-8.

Tristram, E. W. ‘Wall-paintings in Ashby St Ledgers Church.’ Northampton & Oakham Architectural & Archeological Society, in Associated Architectural Societies Report and Papers, 38 (1926–1927), 352-360.

Vane, G. H. F. (ed.). ‘Will of John Talbot, First Earl of Shrewsbury.’ Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, (3rd Series) 4 (1904), 371-378.

Chapter 3: William Catesby, Esquire of the Body

Badham, S. & Saul, N. ‘The Catesbys’ Taste in Brasses.’ In J. Bertram (ed.), The Catesby Family and their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers (pp 36-75). Monumental Brass Society: London, 2006.

Bertram, J. (ed.). The Catesby Family and their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers. Monumental Brass Society, Headley Brothers: Ashford, Kent., 2006

Brindley, D. The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick; The Beauchamp Chapel. R. J. L. Smith & Associates: Much Wenlock, Shropshire, 2001.

Dickson, J. ‘William Catesby.’ The Medelai Gazette, 4 (3) (1997), 24-28.

Dickson, J. M. William Catesby: ‘Gras de Hower Gyd.’ Richard III Foundation: Las Vegas, NV, 2007.

Foss, P. The Field of Redemore: the Battle of Bosworth, 1485. Kairos Press: Newton Lindford, 1998.

Gairdner, J. History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1898.

Hammond, P. W. ‘The Cat, the Rat, etc.’ The Ricardian, 50 (1975), 31.

Hammond, P. W. ‘Colyngbourne’s Rhyme.’ The Ricardian, 67 (1979), 145-146.

Hancock, P. A. ‘Solem a tergio reliquit: the Troublesome Battle of Bosworth.’ Ricardian Register, 27 (2) (2002), 4-10.

Hillier, K. ‘William Colyngbourne.’ The Ricardian, 49 (1975), 5-9.

Hutton, W. The Battle of Bosworth Field. Nichols, Son & Bentley: London, 1813. Ives, E. W. The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Jones, M. K. Bosworth 1485. Tempus: Stroud, Glos, 2002.

Kendall, P. M. Richard III. W.W. Norton: New York, 1955. Kleineke, H. ‘The Catesby Family and their Brasses at Ashby St Ledgers: Book Review.’ The Ricardian, XVII (2007), 108-109.

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

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

Nicholas, N. H. Testamenta Vetusta. Nichols & Son: London, 1826.

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.

Richardson, G. ‘The Cat, the Rat and the Dog.’ Ricardian Register, 23 (4) (1998), 4-10.

Roskell, J. S. ‘William Catesby, Counsellor to Richard III.’ Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 44 (1959), 145-174.

Serjeantson, R. M. ‘The Restoration of the Long-lost brass of Sir William Catesby [at Ashby St Legers].’ Association of Architectural Societies, XXXI (1912), 519-24.

Stephen, L. & Lee, S. (eds). The Dictionary of National Biography (pp 1193-1194). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917.

Sutton, A. F. ‘Colyngbourne’s Rhyme.’ The Ricardian, 67 (1979), 145-146.

Sutton, A. F. & Hammond, P. W. (eds). The Coronation of Richard III. Alan Sutton: Gloucester, 1983.

Thorne, S. E. (ed.). Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century (p. lvii), Selden Society, Bernard Quaritch: London, 1954.

Williams, D. T. ‘The Hastily Drawn-up will of William Catesby, Esquire, 25th August, 1485.’ Transactions of the Leicestershire Archeological and Historical Society, 51 (1975), 43-51.

Chapter 4: William, Lord Hastings

Atreed, L. ‘Hanham redivivus:’ A salvage operation. The Ricardian, 65 (1979) pp. 41-50. Chrimes, S. B. Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII. Macmillan: London, 1964.

Coleman, C. H. D. ‘The Execution of Hastings: A Neglected Source.’ Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 244-247.

Craig, J. (1953). The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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

Donno, E. S. ‘Thomas More and Richard III.’ Renaissance Quarterly, 35 (3) (1982), 401-447.

Dunham, W. H. ‘Lord Hastings’ Indentured Retainers 1481-1483.’ Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 39 (1955), 1-175.

Hamilton Thompson, A. ‘The Building Accounts of Kirby Muxloe, 1480-1484.’ Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society, II (Parts 7 and 8) (1919–1920).

Hammond, P. ‘Research notes and queries.’ The Ricardian, 39 (1972), 10-12.

Hanham, A. ‘Lord Hastings and the Historians.’ English Historical Review, 87 (1972), 233-248.

Hanham, A. ‘Hastings Redivivus.’ English Historical Review, 90 (1975), 821-827.

Hillier, K. ‘William, Lord Hastings and Ashby-De-La-Zouch.’ The Ricardian, 100 (1988), 13-17.

Keay, A. The Elizabethan Tower of London: The Haiward and Gascoyne Plan of 1597. Topographical Society: London, 2001.

Moorhen, W. E. A. ‘William, Lord Hastings and the Crisis of 1483: An Assessment. Part 1.’ The Ricardian, 122 (1993), 446-466.

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

Ross, C. Edward IV. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 1974.

Thompson, J. A. F. ‘Richard III and Lord Hastings – A Problematical Case Reviewed.’ Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 48 (1975), 22-30.

Turner, D. H. (1983) The Hastings Hours. Thames and Hudson: London

Weissbruth, C. A. ‘Inquiry.’ The Ricardian, 31 (1970), 12.

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.

Woodhead, P. The Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: Schneider Collection, English Gold Coins and their Imitations. Spink & Sons: London, 1996.

Chapter 5: Jane Shore

Anon. The History of Jane Shore. printed by Henry Blake and Co: Keene, New Hampshire, 1794.

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,

Helgerson, R. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2000.

Johnson, W. S. The History of Jane Shore (Compiled from Authentic State papers). W. S. Johnson, Charing Cross: London, 1830.

King, S. The unfortunate concubine; or, history of Jane Shore, Mistress to Edward IV, King of England; showing how she came to be concubine to the King with an account of her untimely end. S. King, Publisher: New York, 1821.

Paget, G. The Rose of London – Jane Shore. Hutchinson: London, 1934.

Rowan, D. F. ‘Shore’s Wife.’ Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 6 (3) (1996), 447-464.

Rowe, N. The Tragedy of Jane Shore. Players Press: London, 1995.

Scott, M. M. Re-presenting Jane Shore: Harlot and Heroine. Ashgate: Aldershot, England, 2005.

Seward, D. The Wars of the Roses. Viking: New York, 1995.

Shepard, A. C. ‘“Female Perversity,” male entitlement: The Agency of Gender in More’s The History of King Richard III.’ Sixteenth-Century Journal, 26 (2) (1995), 311-328.

St Aubyn, G. The Year of Three Kings. Atheneum: New York, 1983.

Stephen, L. & Lee, S. (eds). The Dictionary of National Biography (pp 147-148). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1917.

Sutton, A. ‘William Shore, Merchant of London and Derby.’ Derbyshire Archeological Journal, 106 (1986), 127-139.

Sweeney, J. ‘Eleanor Butler, Queen to Edward IV?’ The Medelai Gazette, 3 (3) (1996), 18-19.

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

Chapter 6: Robert Stillington

Anon. ‘False, fleeting, perjured.’ The Ricardian, 25 (1969), 17.

Brindley, D. The Collegiate Church of St Mary Warwick. R. J. L. Smith & Associates: Much Wenlock, Shropshire, 2001.

Campbell, J. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and the Keepers of the Great Seal: From the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. John Murray: London, 1868.

Campbell, W. Materials for a History of the Reign of Henry VII (p. 172). London: Macmillan, 1873.

Cassan, S. H (1829) Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells, C. and J. Rivington: London

Chrimes, S. B. Henry VII. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1999.

Clive, M. The Son of York. Knopf: New York, 1974.

De Comines, P. The Historical Memoirs of Philip de Comines. Ed. W. McDowall. Fleet Street, London, 1855.

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

Foss, E. A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England (p. 632). London, 1870.

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 14661941, 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.

Roskell, J. S. The Commons and their Speakers in English Parliaments 1376-1523. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1965.

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

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Chapter 7: Return to the Tower

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Chapter 8: Summary and Narrative

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