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the Ricardian Bulletin The magazine of the Richard III Society A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMAS RICHARD’S CHILDHOOD HOME? ‘LOOKING FOR RICHARD’ – LATEST NEWS AGM AND BOSWORTH REPORTS December 2013 Trade enquiries welcome Society contacts Chairman & Fotheringhay Librarian, Fiction Public and Customer Relations Co‐ordinator Anne Painter Richard Van Allen Phil Stone Yoredale, Trewithick Road, Breage, 125 Coniston Road, Bromley, Kent 181 Rock Avenue, Gillingham, Kent Helston, Cornwall TR13 9PZ BR1 4JA ME7 5PY Tel: 01326 562023 Tel: 020 8402 8149 Tel: 01634 581547 e‐mail: [email protected] e‐mail: [email protected] e‐mail: [email protected] Librarian, Non‐Fiction Research Officer Advertising Officer Keith Horry Lynda Pidgeon Howard Choppin 36 Hesketh Lane, Tarleton, Preston, Lancs. 42 Osborne Street, Swindon SN2 1DA 30 Hawkshill, Dellfield, St Albans PR4 6AQ Tel: 01793 497530 AL1 5HU Tel: 01772 815152 e‐mail: [email protected] e‐mail: [email protected] e‐mail: [email protected] Ricardian & Bulletin back issues Branch and Group Liaison Officer Librarian, Non‐Fiction Papers Judith Ridley & Research Events Administrator Marie Barnfield 11 Tamarisk Rise, Wokingham, Jacqui Emerson 25 Egerton, High Legh, RG40 1WG 5 Ripon Drive, Wistaston, Crewe, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6PT e‐mail: [email protected] Cheshire CW2 6SJ e‐mail: marie.barnfi[email protected] Tel: 01270 664645 Sales Liaison Officer e‐mail: [email protected] Librarian, A‐V & Press Records Sally Empson Geoffrey Wheeler 42 Pewsey Vale, Forest Park, Bracknell, Bulletin Contact 195 Gloucester Place, London RG12 9YA John Saunders NW1 6BU e‐mail: [email protected] 9 Colley Lane, Bridgwater, Tel: 020 7724 5842 Somerset TA6 5JJ Secretaries Tel: 01278 433741 Membership Officer & Deputy Chair David and Susan Wells e‐mail: [email protected] Wendy Moorhen 23 Ash Rise, Halstead, Essex CO9 1RD 2 Field Hurst, Langley Broom, e‐mail: [email protected] Business and Distribution Manager Langley, Berks SL3 8PQ Stephen York Tel: 01753 546066 Treasurer Hawthorn Cottage, Back Lane, e‐mail: [email protected] Paul Foss Holywell, St Ives, Cambs PE27 4TQ 46 Badminton Gardens, Bristol Tel: 01480 465120 Palaeography Course BS16 6FG e‐mail: [email protected] Heather Falvey Tel: 0117 957 0045 119 Winton Drive, Croxley Green, e‐mail: [email protected] Editor of The Ricardian Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 3QS Anne Sutton Tel: 01923 248581 Visits Officer 44 Guildhall Street, Bury St Edmunds, e‐mail: [email protected] Marian Mitchell Suffolk IP33 1QF 20 Constance Close, Witham, Essex Press Officer CM8 1XL Library Co‐ordinator Peter Secchi Tel: 01376 501984 Carolyn Hammond Tel: 07780 866225 e‐mail: [email protected] Flat 4, 9 Devonhurst Place, e‐mail: [email protected] Heathfield Terrace, London, W4 4JB Web Content Manager e‐mail:griff[email protected] Beth Stone e‐mail: [email protected] Calendar We run a calendar of all forthcoming events notified to us for inclusion. If you are aware of any events of Ricardian interest, whether organised by the Society (Visits Committee, Research Committee, Branches/Groups, etc.) or by others, please let theBulletin team have full details in sufficient time for entry. The calendar will also be run on the website. Date Events Originator Date Events Originator 2014 13 September Portchester Castle and Visits Committee 4–6 April Study Weekend in York Research Romsey Committee (see p. 13) 4 October Members’ Day and AGM Secretaries 15 May Afternoon guided walk in Visits Committee Norwich London – Inns of Court. 8 November Norfolk Branch study day Norfolk Branch Please note this is on a (see p. 13) Thursday. 13 December Christmas at Fotheringhay Chairman 10–14 July Herefordshire and Visits Committee Shropshire 2014 (see p. 13) 2015 Long Weekend 17–19 April Triennial Conference Research Committee 19 July Leicestershire Branch Leicestershire Branch study day (see p. 58) 17 August Bosworth commemoration Visits Committee rom the Society’s shop This is a small selection of books and merchandise available to members from the Society’s shop.For current prices and postal charges, see the sales catalogue in the Shop section of our web‐ fsite, www.richardiii.net. Contact details for the Sales Liaison Officer are on the inside of this cover. BOOKS Bosworth: birth of Richard III: a source The King’s the Tudors book Grave Chris Skidmore Peter Hammond & Philippa Langley Drawing on eyewitness Keith Dockray & Michael Jones. reports, new sources and Using contemporary The story of the real archaeological evidence, chronicles, letters and life, death and including the recent records, this book remarkable discovery of Richard III’s enables the reader to get discovery of remains, the author behind the mythology Richard III. vividly recreates this for a more realistic battle‐scarred world. picture of the NEW NEW king. The Yorkist Age Richard III: the Royal Funerals ed. Hannes Kleineke & Leicester of the House of Christian Steer connection York at Windsor Harlaxton Medieval David Baldwin. Anne F. Sutton & Studies Vol XXIII – A Pitkin publication proceedings of the 2011 Livia Visser‐Fuchs with information about with Ralph A. Harlaxton Symposium Richard III’s Leicester Griffiths covering political and connections including religious history, literary the dig and discovery criticism, archaeology, art of his remains. history and musicology NEW of the period. NEW MERCHANDISE MESSENGER/LAPTOP SHOULDER WHITE ROSE PIN BAG White, bonded porcelain Biscuit coloured jute. Measurements are rose 2.5 cm diameter on a 38cm wide by 31cm high, with a gusset 4 cm lapel pin, with width of 8cm. The strap is 75cm. There are protective and retaining three internal compartments with a small cap on point – supplied in pocket fastened with Velcro and two press gift box. NEW stud fastenings to a flap front with Richard III Society and website address above and below the Ricardian boar, all printed in THE CRESTED IMAGE RANGE Andrew Jamieson’s Available as: heraldic depiction of A4 prints On good Richard III on quality card and horseback. presented in a card protective envelope. Notelets Can be used as greetings cards: on good quality card with an envelope banded and sold in packs of 10. Postcards WHITE BOAR ARMS OF ENGLAND BADGE LAPEL BADGE White boar on black An enamelled lapel badge enamel background in a depicting the Arms of England gold tresor. Traditional as used by Richard III. Each brooch/pin fastening. badge comes in a presentation Supplied in black velvet box. pouch. NEW the Ricardian Bulletin The magazine of the Richard III Society December 2013 Richard III Society Contents Founded 1924 In the belief that many features of the 2 From the Chairman traditional accounts of the character and 3 Members’ letters career of Richard III are neither supported by sufficient evidence nor reasonably tenable, the 4 Society news and notices Society aims to promote in every possible way 13 Future Society events research into the life and times of Richard III, 14 Society reviews and to secure a reassessment of the material relating to this period and of the role in English 24 Other news, reviews and events history of this monarch. 27 Research news 29 Looking for Richard – the follow-up Patron HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO 37 The Man Himself: Richard’s childhood home? A. J. Pollard 39 Articles President Peter Hammond FSA 39 John Rous – the man who said too much? David Johnson 42 A medieval Christmas Lynda Pidgeon Vice Presidents 43 Notes towards the definition of a tyrant Annette Carson John Audsley, Kitty Bristow, Moira Habberjam, Carolyn Hammond, Jonathan Hayes, Rob 45 A series of remarkable ladies 6: Mechtild, Princess Palatinate, Smith. Countess of Würtemberg and Archduchess of Austria Executive Committee Rita Diefenhardt-Schmitt Phil Stone (Chairman), Paul Foss, 46 William, Lord Hastings, and Humphry Repton in California Marian Mitchell, Wendy Moorhen, Heather Falvey Lynda Pidgeon, John Saunders, Anne Sutton, Richard Van Allen, 49 A genealogical mystery deepens Stephen Lark David Wells, Susan Wells, 51 Books Geoffrey Wheeler, Stephen York 56 The Barton Library 56 Branch and group reports The Ricardian Bulletin is produced by the Bulletin Editorial Committee. 61 Membership [email protected] © Richard III Society 2013. Other features Individual contributions and illustrations © the contributors except where otherwise 50 Ricardian crossword 6 by Sanglier stated. 64 Branch and group contact changes Designed by Flagholme Press 64 Coming in your March Bulletin Printed by XLPress Limited Distributed by e-Mediacy Limited 64 Late news Advertising contact: Howard Choppin, Inside back cover: Society contacts and Calendar [email protected] For details on submitting future Cover photo: Winter comes to contribut ions, please see p. 12. Fotheringhay church, the setting for the Society’s annual carol service, this year on Bulletin and Ricardian back numbers: 14 December. Photo by Dave Porter, Back issues of The Ricardian and the Bulletin reproduced by courtesy of are available from Judith Ridley. If you are Northamptonshire Enterprise Partnership. interested in obtaining any back numbers, (For more on heritage in please contact Mrs Ridley to establish Northamptonshire visit whether she holds the issue(s) in which you www.lovenorthamptonshire.com/reasons) are interested. For contact details see the inside back cover. Right: North to Newcastle – see p. 16. 1 From the CHAIRMAN It’s been a remarkable year, and in many respects a secretaries who have recently retired difficult one too. The finding and identification of King from their posts: Anne Painter of the Richard’s remains is a welcome and historic event, but Devon and Cornwall Branch and Julia Redlich of the the controversies surrounding the king’s final resting New South Wales Branch. Both have given over 20 place and the design of his tomb have been unfortunate. years’ service to their branches and deserve our thanks As the Christmas season of goodwill approaches, we and gratitude for all they have done for the Society should all reflect on what has transpired over the past during their time in office.