York and Lancaster, 1399-1485 - Unknown

I have to thank Sir E. Maunde Thompson and the Council of the Royal Society of Literature for so readily permitting me to quote from Sir E. Maunde Thompson's edition of Adam of Usk's Chronicle. With three exceptions, the sources quoted in this volume are contemporary, and, where I have employed non-contemporary material, I have endeavoured to justify its use in a prefatory note to the extract.

W. G. J.

Postscript.—Mr. C. L. Kingsford, in his valuable critical account, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, recently published, argues strongly against the accepted authorship of the Vita et gesta Henrici Quinti (quoted on pp. 15-19). Hearne erroneously attributes it to Thomas Elmham. Mr. Kingsford shows that the date of its composition lies between 1446 and 1449, and that its anonymous author was, in all probability, a foreigner.

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	Introduction		[v]
DATE
1399.	The Coronation of Henry IV.	Chronicle of Adam of Usk	[1]
1400.	Conspiracy of the Earls	Capgrave's Chronicle	[2]
1401.	De Heretico Comburendo	Statutes of the Realm	[3]
1401-2.	The Glendower War	Chronicle of Adam of Usk	[4]
1403.	The Peril of Henry	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[6]
	The Battle of Shrewsbury	Chronicle of Adam of Usk	[7]
1404.	French Aid for Glendower	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[8]
1406.	Election of Knights of the Shire	Statutes of the Realm	[8]
1407.	Money-Grants to Initiate in the Commons	Rotuli Parliamentorum	[9]
1410.	Prince Henry and the Heretic	Gregory's Chronicle	[11]
1413.	The Death of Henry IV.	Fabyan's "Chronicle"	[12]
	Electors and Elected to Parliament to be Resident	Statutes of the Realm	[13]
1414.	The Dauphin's Reply to Henry	Chronicle of Henry V.	[13]
	The Commons and Legislation	Rotuli Parliamentorum	[14]
1415.	The Conspiracy of Cambridge	Nicolas's "Agincourt"	[15]
	The Battle of Agincourt	Elmham's "Vita et gesta Henrici Quinti"	[15]
1416.	Borough Customs	Customs of Hereford	[19]
1417.	The Execution of Sir John Oldcastle	Brief Chronicle of Sir John Oldcastle	[22]
1418.	The Siege of Rouen	Collections of a London Citizen (Camden Soc.)	[23]
1420.	The Treaty of Troyes	Rymer's "Fœdera"	[24]
1422.	The Death of Henry V.	Monstrelet's "Chronicles"	[26]
	A Begging Letter to Henry VI.	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[27]
1424.	The Battle of Verneuil	Waurin's "Chronicles"	[28]
1429.	To King Henry VI.	Wright's "Political Poems"	[30]
	The Battle of Herrings	Monstrelet's "Chronicles"	[31]
	Joan of Arc Raises the Siege of Orleans	Waurin's "Chronicles"	[32]
1430.	The Forty-Shilling Franchise	Statutes of the Realm	[35]
1431.	The Condemnation of the Maid	Waurin's "Chronicles"	[36]
1432.	The Education of Henry VI.	Paston Letters	[40]
1439.	Precautions to Protect the King against Infection	Rotuli Parliamentorum	[43]
1445.	A Nobleman requests a Licence for a Ship	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[44]
	Discomforts of Pilgrims at Sea	Early Naval Ballads	[44]
	Parliamentary Elections	Statutes of the Realm	[46]
1446.	Henry VI. Reforms the Grammar Schools	Excerpta Historica	[47]
1449.	The French Recover Fougères	Reductio Normannie	[48]
	Capture of Verneuil	Reductio Normannie	[49]
1450.	The Battle of Formigny	Reductio Normannie	[51]
	A Father's Counsel	Paston Letters	[52]
1450.	Murder of Duke of Suffolk	Paston Letters	[54]
	Cade's Rebellion	Three 15th-Cent. Chronicles	[55]
1451.	Packing a Jury	Paston Letters	[58]
	Partial Judges	Paston Letters	[58]
1454.	Lawlessness	Paston Letters	[59]
	The Condition of Ireland	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[62]
	Beginnings of Civil Strife	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[63]
	The King's Madness	Paston Letters	[64]
1455.	The Battle of St. Albans	Archæologia	[65]
	An Unruly Noble	Rotuli Parliamentorum	[69]
	The Litigiousness of the Age	Gascoigne's "Loci e Libro Veritatum"	[70]
1457.	The Trial of Bishop Pecock	An English Chronicle	[70]
1458.	A Sea Fight	Paston Letters	[72]
	The Evils in the Church	Gascoigne's "Loci e Libro Veritatum"	[73]
1459.	The Evils of Misgovernment	An English Chronicle	[75]
1460.	York's Popularity	An English Chronicle	[75]
	The Battle of Northampton	An English Chronicle	[76]
	The Wanderings of Margaret	Gregory's Chronicle	[78]
	The Battle of Wakefield	Hall's "Chronicle"	[79]
	Ravages of the Lancastrians	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[80]
1461.	Battle of Mortimer's Cross	Collections of London Citizen	[81]
	The Battle of Towton	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[81]
	Accession of Edward IV.	Archæologia	[83]
1463.	Mayor of London's Dignity	Collections of London Citizen	[83]
1464.	Marriage of Edward IV.	Collections of London Citizen	[84]
1465 (circa).	A Dinner of Flesh	Russell's "Boke of Nurture"	[85]
1469.	Private Wars	Paston Letters	[86]
1470.	Restoration of Henry VI.	Chronicles of the White Rose	[88]
1471.	The Arrival of Edward IV.	Chronicles of the White Rose	[88]
	The Battle of Barnet	Chronicles of the White Rose	[90]
	The Plague	Paston Letters	[92]
	The Death of Henry VI.	Chronicles of the White Rose	[92]
1472.	King Edward's Court	Archæologia	[93]
1475.	An Englishman's Library	Paston Letters	[96]
1478.	The Death of Clarence	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[97]
1479.	An Eton Boy's Letter	Paston Letters	[100]
	The University	Paston Letters	[101]
1483.	Richard Usurps the Throne	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[102]
	The Murder of the Princes	More's "History of King Richard III."	[106]
	Character of King Richard III	Harding's "Chronicle"	[108]
1484.	An Act against Benevolences	Statutes of the Realm	[109]
1485.	Henry Tudor and the Welsh	MSS. Sources	[110]
	Proclamation against Tudors	Ellis's "Original Letters"	[111]
	Henry's Landing	Cambrian Biography	[113]
	Henry Summons Welsh Chiefs	Wynne's "Gwydir Family"	[115]
	The Journey to Bosworth	Cambrian Biography	[116]
	The Eve of Bosworth	Paston Letters	[117]
	The Battle of Bosworth Field	Ingulph's "Chronicles"	[118]
	The Last of the Plantagenets	Percy Folio MS.	[120]

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YORK AND LANCASTER

THE CORONATION OF HENRY IV. (1399).