England Under the Tudors

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

England Under the Tudors ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS ARTHUR D. INNES ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS Table of Contents ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS......................................................................................................................1 ARTHUR D. INNES......................................................................................................................................2 INTRODUCTORY NOTE............................................................................................................................3 ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS.........................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................................5 CHAPTER I. HENRY VII (i), 1485−92—THE NEW DYNASTY..............................................................8 CHAPTER II. HENRY VII (ii), 1492−99—PERKIN WARBECK............................................................14 CHAPTER III. HENRY VII (iii), 1498−1509−THE DYNASTY ASSURED............................................20 CHAPTER IV. HENRY VII (iv), 1485−1509—ASPECTS OF THE REIGN............................................26 CHAPTER V. HENRY VIII (i), 1509−27—EGO ET REX MEUS............................................................33 CHAPTER VI. HENRY VIII (ii), 1509−32—BIRTH OF THE REFORMATION....................................46 CHAPTER VII. HENRY VIII (iii), 1527−29—THE FALL OF WOLSEY...............................................55 CHAPTER VIII. HENRY VIII (iv) 1529−33—THE BREACH WITH ROME.........................................62 CHAPTER IX. HENRY VIII (v), 1533−40—MALLEUS MONACHORUM...........................................69 CHAPTER X. HENRY VIII (vi), 1540−47—HENRY'S LAST YEARS...................................................80 CHAPTER XI. HENRY VIII (vii), 1509−47−ASPECTS OF HENRY'S REIGN......................................88 CHAPTER XII. EDWARD VI (i), 1547−49—THE PROTECTOR SOMERSET.....................................96 CHAPTER XIII. EDWARD VI (ii), 1549−53—THE DUDLEY ASCENDANCY.................................104 CHAPTER XIV. MARY (i), 1553−55—THE SPANISH MARRIAGE...................................................111 CHAPTER XV. MARY (ii), 1555−58—THE PERSECUTION...............................................................117 CHAPTER XVI. ELIZABETH (i), 1558−61—A PASSAGE PERILOUS...............................................124 CHAPTER XVII. ELIZABETH (ii), 1561−68—QUEENS AND SUITORS...........................................132 CHAPTER XVIII. ELIZABETH (iii), 1568−72—THE CATHOLIC CHALLENGE.............................141 CHAPTER XIX. ELIZABETH (iv), 1572−78—VARIUM ET MUTABILE...........................................148 CHAPTER XX. ELIZABETH (v), 1558−78−IRISH AND ENGLISH....................................................156 CHAPTER XXI. ELIZABETH (vi), 1578−83—THE PAPAL ATTACK................................................162 CHAPTER XXII. ELIZABETH (vii), 1583−87—THE END OF QUEEN MARY.................................169 CHAPTER XXIII. ELIZABETH (viii), 1558−87—THE SEAMEN........................................................175 CHAPTER XXIV. ELIZABETH (ix), 1587−88—THE ARMADA.........................................................182 CHAPTER XXV. ELIZABETH (x), 1588−98−BRITANNIA VICTRIX................................................189 CHAPTER XXVI. ELIZABETH (xi), 1598−1603−THE QUEEN'S LAST YEARS...............................200 CHAPTER XXVII. ELIZABETH (xii), 1558−1603—LITERATURE....................................................206 CHAPTER XXVIII. ELIZABETH (xiii), 1558−1603—ASPECTS OF THE REIGN.............................212 APPENDICES...........................................................................................................................................219 APPENDIX A. [Tables omitted]...............................................................................................................220 APPENDIX B. CLAIMS TO THE THRONE...........................................................................................221 APPENDIX C. THE QUEEN OF SCOTS................................................................................................224 APPENDIX D. BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................226 i ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS 1 ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS ARTHUR D. INNES This page copyright © 2002 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com • INTRODUCTORY NOTE • ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS • INTRODUCTION • CHAPTER I. HENRY VII (i), 1485−92—THE NEW DYNASTY • CHAPTER II. HENRY VII (ii), 1492−99—PERKIN WARBECK • CHAPTER III. HENRY VII (iii), 1498−1509−THE DYNASTY ASSURED • CHAPTER IV. HENRY VII (iv), 1485−1509—ASPECTS OF THE REIGN • CHAPTER V. HENRY VIII (i), 1509−27—EGO ET REX MEUS • CHAPTER VI. HENRY VIII (ii), 1509−32—BIRTH OF THE REFORMATION • CHAPTER VII. HENRY VIII (iii), 1527−29—THE FALL OF WOLSEY • CHAPTER VIII. HENRY VIII (iv) 1529−33—THE BREACH WITH ROME • CHAPTER IX. HENRY VIII (v), 1533−40—MALLEUS MONACHORUM • CHAPTER X. HENRY VIII (vi), 1540−47—HENRY'S LAST YEARS • CHAPTER XI. HENRY VIII (vii), 1509−47−ASPECTS OF HENRY'S REIGN • CHAPTER XII. EDWARD VI (i), 1547−49—THE PROTECTOR SOMERSET • CHAPTER XIII. EDWARD VI (ii), 1549−53—THE DUDLEY ASCENDANCY • CHAPTER XIV. MARY (i), 1553−55—THE SPANISH MARRIAGE • CHAPTER XV. MARY (ii), 1555−58—THE PERSECUTION • CHAPTER XVI. ELIZABETH (i), 1558−61—A PASSAGE PERILOUS • CHAPTER XVII. ELIZABETH (ii), 1561−68—QUEENS AND SUITORS • CHAPTER XVIII. ELIZABETH (iii), 1568−72—THE CATHOLIC CHALLENGE • CHAPTER XIX. ELIZABETH (iv), 1572−78—VARIUM ET MUTABILE • CHAPTER XX. ELIZABETH (v), 1558−78−IRISH AND ENGLISH • CHAPTER XXI. ELIZABETH (vi), 1578−83—THE PAPAL ATTACK • CHAPTER XXII. ELIZABETH (vii), 1583−87—THE END OF QUEEN MARY • CHAPTER XXIII. ELIZABETH (viii), 1558−87—THE SEAMEN • CHAPTER XXIV. ELIZABETH (ix), 1587−88—THE ARMADA • CHAPTER XXV. ELIZABETH (x), 1588−98−BRITANNIA VICTRIX • CHAPTER XXVI. ELIZABETH (xi), 1598−1603−THE QUEEN'S LAST YEARS • CHAPTER XXVII. ELIZABETH (xii), 1558−1603—LITERATURE • CHAPTER XXVIII. ELIZABETH (xiii), 1558−1603—ASPECTS OF THE REIGN • APPENDICES • APPENDIX A. [Tables omitted] • APPENDIX B. CLAIMS TO THE THRONE • APPENDIX C. THE QUEEN OF SCOTS • APPENDIX D. BIBLIOGRAPHY BY ARTHUR D. INNES SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD FOURTH EDITION ARTHUR D. INNES 2 ENGLAND UNDER THE TUDORS INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE GENERAL EDITOR In England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristic of the last twenty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. The standard histories of the last generation need to be revised, or even to be put aside as obsolete, in the light of the new information that is coming in so rapidly and in such vast bulk. But the students and researchers of to−day have shown little enthusiasm as yet for the task of re−writing history on a large scale. We see issuing from the press hundreds of monographs, biographies, editions of old texts, selections from correspondence, or collections of statistics, mediaeval and modern. But the writers who (like the late Bishop Stubbs or Professor Samuel Gardiner) undertake to tell over again the history of a long period, with the aid of all the newly discovered material, are few indeed. It is comparatively easy to write a monograph on the life of an individual or a short episode of history. But the modern student, knowing well the mass of material that he has to collate, and dreading lest he may make a slip through overlooking some obscure or newly discovered source, dislikes to stir beyond the boundary of the subject, or the short period, on which he has made himself a specialist. Meanwhile the general reading public continues to ask for standard histories, and discovers, only too often, that it can find nothing between school manuals at one end of the scale and minute monographs at the other. The series of which this volume forms a part is intended to do something towards meeting this demand. Historians will not sit down, as once they were wont, to write twenty−volume works in the style of Hume or Lingard, embracing a dozen centuries of annals. It is not to be desired that they should—the writer who is most satisfactory in dealing with Anglo−Saxon antiquities is not likely to be the one who will best discuss the antecedents of the Reformation, or the constitutional history of the Stuart period. But something can be done by judicious co−operation: it is not necessary that a genuine student should refuse to touch any subject that embraces an epoch longer than a score of years, nor need history be written as if it were an encyclopaedia, and cut up into small fragments dealt with by different hands. It is hoped that the present series may strike the happy mean, by dividing up English History into periods that are neither too long to be dealt with by a single competent specialist, nor so short as to tempt the writer to indulge in that over−abundance of unimportant detail which repels the general reader. They are intended to give something more than a mere outline of our national annals, but they have little space for controversy or the discussion of sources, save in periods such as the dark age of the 5th and 6th centuries after Christ, where the criticism of authorities is absolutely necessary if we are to arrive at any
Recommended publications
  • The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service
    Quidditas Volume 9 Article 9 1988 The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service F. Jeffrey Platt Northern Arizona University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, History Commons, Philosophy Commons, and the Renaissance Studies Commons Recommended Citation Platt, F. Jeffrey (1988) "The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service," Quidditas: Vol. 9 , Article 9. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol9/iss1/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Quidditas by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. JRMMRA 9 (1988) The Elizabethan Diplomatic Service by F. Jeffrey Platt Northern Arizona University The critical early years of Elizabeth's reign witnessed a watershed in European history. The 1559 Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, which ended the long Hapsburg-Valois conflict, resulted in a sudden shift in the focus of international politics from Italy to the uncomfortable proximity of the Low Countries. The arrival there, 30 miles from England's coast, in 1567, of thousands of seasoned Spanish troops presented a military and commer­ cial threat the English queen could not ignore. Moreover, French control of Calais and their growing interest in supplanting the Spanish presence in the Netherlands represented an even greater menace to England's security. Combined with these ominous developments, the Queen's excommunica­ tion in May 1570 further strengthened the growing anti-English and anti­ Protestant sentiment of Counter-Reformation Europe. These circumstances, plus the significantly greater resources of France and Spain, defined England, at best, as a middleweight in a world dominated by two heavyweights.
    [Show full text]
  • The Influence of the Introduction of Heavy Ordnance on the Development of the English Navy in the Early Tudor Period
    Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 8-1980 The Influence of the Introduction of Heavy Ordnance on the Development of the English Navy in the Early Tudor Period Kristin MacLeod Tomlin Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the European History Commons Recommended Citation Tomlin, Kristin MacLeod, "The Influence of the Introduction of Heavy Ordnance on the Development of the English Navy in the Early Tudor Period" (1980). Master's Theses. 1921. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1921 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTRODUCTION OF HEAVY ORDNANCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH NAVY IN THE EARLY TUDOR PERIOD by K ristin MacLeod Tomlin A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Department of History Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan August 1980 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This thesis grew out of a paper prepared for a seminar at the University of Warwick in 1976-77. Since then, many persons have been invaluable in helping me to complete the work. I would like to express my thanks specifically to the personnel of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, and of the Public Records Office, London, for their help in locating sources.
    [Show full text]
  • 0 Medieval Flokestone Robertson
    http://kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/archaeologia-cantiana/ Kent Archaeological Society is a registered charity number 223382 © 2017 Kent Archaeological Society ( civ ) MEDIAEVAL FOLKESTONE. FOLKESTONE gives its name to one of the Hundreds of Kent, and was the site of a nunnery (said to have been the first in England), founded in the seventh century by Eadbald, King of Kent, the father of St. Eanswith, its first Abbess. These facts prove that the town was in earlier times a place of some importance, but very little is known respecting its history, prior to the Middle Ages. It is evident that the name, spelt Polcstane in the earlier records, was given by the Saxons,* and that it was derived from the natural peculiarities of the place, its stone quarries having always played a conspicuous part in its history. They are mentioned in two extents (or valuations) of the manor of " Folcstane" which were made in the reign, of Henry III. In the first of these, dated 1263, we read that "there are there certain quarries worth per annum-)- 20s." The second gives us further information; it is dated 1271, and says "the quarry J in which mill-stones and handmill- stones are dug " is worth 20s. per annum. Such peaceful and useful implements as mill-stones were, however, by no means the only produce of these quarries. When Edward III., and his son the Black Prince, were prosecuting their conquests in France, some of the implements of war were obtained from Folkestone. On Jan. the 9th, 1356,§ the King ordered the Warden of the Cinque Ports to send over to Calais|| those stones for warlike engines which had been prepared at Folkestone.
    [Show full text]
  • Or, Why Did Henry VIII's Queens and Children Patronize Travelling
    Early Theatre 16.2 (2013), 59–90 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12745/et.16.2.4 James H. Forse Advertising Status and Legitimacy: or, Why Did Henry VIII’s Queens and Children Patronize Travelling Performers? Patronage of travelling performers by English kings seems to have been one way of displaying royal power, prestige, and status. Beginning with Edward IV and continuing through Henry VIII, queens and royal offspring also gave their names to travelling performance troupes. Chronologies of the travelling troupes of queens and royal offspring suggest that during the reign of Henry VIII, as queens and heirs presumptive changed, one likely purpose of these troupes was to advertise and legitimize the status of their royal patrons. To date, the volumes published in the University of Toronto’s Records of Early English Drama project provide performance data from over half of Tudor England: sixteen counties, nine municipalities, and Wales. Informa- tion found in Ian Lancashire’s Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain, the Malone Society’s Plays and Players in Norfolk and Suffolk, and a few other sources augments this data.1 Taken together, these printed sources provide thousands of entries detailing locale-specific performance activities for large and small communities.2 More will appear as further volumes of the reed series appear. The superb editorial apparatus for reed volumes provides information about the historical background and performance activities of the locale, lists of documents consulted with descriptions, statements of editorial procedure, notes and appendices, translations of entries in Latin, and glossaries of Latin and English. When perusing the actual entries transcribed from the original sources, however, readers may find the vast amount of data daunting at first glance.
    [Show full text]
  • Drake and the Tudor Navy
    r.l UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN 189I BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE r DATE DUE ;lMWrt^ ^ff— liyWllTO JiT a ffgi^ 3^^«F=« uss^ t^til .^ PRINTED INU.S.A. Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924087991646 ^3////fr DEAKE AND THE TUDOE NAVY VOL. I. — ' Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade ; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.' Sib Walter Baieiqh. /unf-L /T^i^' f'1u/-f//?ff/ <•// //.-ff/u/7//^/ fJi'd i'^iur/Va^y/a'- ''f/-/-Ti/ . DEAKE AND THE TUDOR NAYY WITH A HISTOEY OF THE RISE OF ENGLAND • AS A MAEITIME POWER BY JULIAN S. COEBETT IN TWO VOLUMES YOL I. LONGMANS, GEEEN, AND CO. 89 PATEENOSTEE EOW, LONDON NEW YOEK AND BOMBAY 1898 All rights reserved A.ii^is 1 ' PEEFACE In the present work an attempt is made to give a general view of the circumstances under which England first be- came a controlling force in the European system by virtue of her power upon the sea. In centering the history of such a movement upon the life of one of its leaders, there must be almost inevitably a tendency to present him too much as its author, where he was in reality only the foremost of men similarly inspired who determined its direction and extent.
    [Show full text]
  • Perkin Warbeck (NZ Version)
    Whether my hero was or was not an impostor, he was 1 believed to be the true man by his contemporaries . Perkin Warbeck Talk to the Australasian Convention of the Richard III Society, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, 13 - 15 April 2007 Dorothea Preis The young man, called by Henry VII's spin doctors, "Perkin Warbeck", has been surrounded by controversy ever since he first appeared on the world stage. He claimed to be Richard, Duke of York, the younger son of Edward IV, and thus would have been the brother of Henry's Queen Elizabeth. As Perkin Warbeck he is often regarded by historians as a footnote of little consequence to the glorious Tudor reign, and this is certainly the image that the Tudors liked to create. As we shall see, whatever Henry’s efforts at portraying the affair, this young man had him seriously worried and was widely accepted as Richard of York. As we know according to Tudor history Richard III was that evil monster who killed his poor innocent nephews. Therefore anyone claiming to be one of these nephews had to be an impostor, and a rather stupid one at that. However, there is no proof that they were indeed murdered by their uncle, or anyone else for that matter, and once we acknowledge this, we can have a more unbiased look at this young man’s identity. When Henry came to the throne he had the Titulus Regius, stating that Edward IV's children were illegitimate, revoked, in order to have an added claim to the throne through his wife.
    [Show full text]
  • The Elizabethan Court Day by Day--1573
    1573 1573 At HAMPTON COURT, Middlesex. Jan 1,Thur New Year gifts. New Year Gift roll is not extant, but Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King of Arms, gave the Queen: ‘A Book of all the Knights of the Garter made in the short reign of Richard III’. Also Jan 1: play, by the Children of Windsor Chapel.T also masque: Janus. Eight Januses; eight who present fruit. Revels: ‘going to Windsor about Mr Farrant’s play; gloves for the Children of Windsor two dozen and for masquers 16 pair; a desk for Farrant’s play’; ‘a key for Janus’; ‘fine white lamb to make snowballs eight skins’. Robert Moorer, apothecary, for sugar, musk comfits, corianders, clove comfits, cinnamon comfits, rose water, spice water, ginger comfits. ‘All which served for flakes of ice and hail-stones in the masque of Janus, the rose water sweetened the balls made for snowballs presented to her Majesty by Janus’. Janus: Roman god, facing two ways; Richard Farrant: Master of the Children. Jan 2,Fri new appointment: George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury: Earl Marshal. In overall charge of the College of Arms, succeeding the Duke of Norfolk. Jan 4,Sun play, by the Children of Paul’s.T Revels paid for: ‘two squirts for the play of the Children of Paul’s; the waggoner for carriage of the stuff to Hampton Court’, Jan 4. Jan 6,Tues Earl of Desmond and his brother at Hampton Court. Gerald Fitzgerald, 14th Earl of Desmond (c.1533-1583), known as the Rebel Earl, and his brother Sir John Desmond led a rebellion in Ireland and were in the Tower December 1567-Sept 1570, then in the custody of Warham St Leger, in Kent and Southwark.
    [Show full text]
  • Richard III and the Wars of the Roses: a Teaching Unit
    East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Undergraduate Honors Theses Student Works 5-2021 Constructing History: Richard III and the Wars of the Roses: A Teaching Unit Lawson Hammock Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/honors Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Curriculum and Instruction Commons Recommended Citation Hammock, Lawson, "Constructing History: Richard III and the Wars of the Roses: A Teaching Unit" (2021). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 621. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/621 This Honors Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Constructing History Lawson Garrett Hammock Richard III and the Wars of the Roses: A Teaching Unit The historical life and times of Richard III of England (1452-1485) presents an especially vivid demonstration of the idea that history is constructed. Both villainized and venerated by his contemporaries, Richard has also run the gamut through modern historians’ portrayals, which brings some query as to their historiological methods. This teaching unit is designed to introduce high school history students to some key concepts of artifact/document analysis. Its four activities allow students to discover for themselves the historical disjunctions that can occur between competing histories. Another reason Richard makes for a wonderful subject is the excitement, the drama, the mystery, and the intrigue surrounding his persona.
    [Show full text]
  • The University of Hull the Early Career of Thomas
    THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL THE EARLY CAREER OF THOMAS, LORD HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY AND THIRD DUKE OF NORFOLK, 1474—c. 1525 being a Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Hull by Susan Elisabeth Vokes, B.A. September, 1988 Acknowledgements I should like to thank the University of Hull for my postgraduate scholarship, and the Institute of Historical Research and Eliot College, the Universiy of Kent, for providing excellent facilities in recent years. I am especially grateful to the Duke of Norfolk and his archivists for giving me access to material in his possession. The staff of many other archives and libraries have been extremely helpful in answering detailed enquiries and helping me to locate documents, and / regret that it is not possible to acknowledge them individually. I am grateful to my supervisor, Peter Heath, for his patience, understanding and willingness to read endless drafts over the years in which this study has evolved. Others, too, have contributed much. Members of the Russell/Starkey seminar group at the Institute of Historical Research, and the Late Medieval seminar group at the University of Kent made helpful comments on a paper, and I have benefitted from suggestions, discussion, references and encouragement from many others, particularly: Neil Samman, Maria Dowling, Peter Gwynn, George Bernard, Greg Walker and Diarmaid MacCulloch. I am particularly grateful to several people who took the trouble to read and comment on drafts of various chapters. Margaret Condon and Anne Crawford commented on a draft of the first chapter, Carole Rawcliffe and Linda Clerk on my analysis of Norfolk's estate accounts, Steven Ellis on my chapters on Surrey in Ireland and in the north of England, and Roger Virgoe on much of the thesis, including all the East Anglian material.
    [Show full text]
  • Usurpation, Propaganda and State-Influenced History in Fifteenth-Century England
    "Winning the People's Voice": Usurpation, Propaganda and State-influenced History in Fifteenth-Century England. By Andrew Broertjes, B.A (Hons) This thesis is presented for the Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Western Australia Humanities History 2006 Table of Contents Abstract Acknowledgements Introduction p. 1 Chapter One: Political Preconditions: Pretenders, Usurpation and International Relations 1398-1509. p. 19 Chapter Two: "The People", Parliament and Public Revolt: the Construction of the Domestic Audience. p. 63 Chapter Three: Kingship, Good Government and Nationalism: Contemporary Attitudes and Beliefs. p. 88 Chapter Four: Justifying Usurpation: Propaganda and Claiming the Throne. p. 117 Chapter Five: Promoting Kingship: State Propaganda and Royal Policy. p. 146 Chapter Six: A Public Relations War? Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda 1400-1509 p. 188 Chapter Seven: Propagandistic Messages: Themes and Critiques. p. 222 Chapter Eight: Rewriting the Fifteenth Century: English Kings and State Influenced History. p. 244 Conclusion p. 298 Bibliography p. 303 Acknowledgements The task of writing a doctoral thesis can be at times overwhelming. The present work would not be possible without the support and assistance of the following people. Firstly, to my primary supervisor, Professor Philippa Maddern, whose erudite commentary, willingness to listen and general support since my undergraduate days has been both welcome and beneficial to my intellectual growth. Also to my secondary supervisor, Associate Professor Ernie Jones, whose willingness to read and comment on vast quantities of work in such a short space of time has been an amazing assistance to the writing of this thesis. Thanks are also owed to my reading group, and their incisive commentary on various chapters.
    [Show full text]
  • Who Was Perkin Warbeck?
    Ricardian Bulletin Summer 2005 Contents 2 From the Chairman 3 Society News and Notices 4 Be Prepared 5 Media Retrospective 8 Stratford St Mary Church, Suffolk 10 News and Reviews 15 The Nature of Research 19 The Man Himself 22 The Debate: Who Was Perkin Warbeck? 27 King Richard the Third by Keith Dockray 29 The French Connection by David Johnson 30 Thomas Stafford: Sixteenth Century Yorkist Rebel by Stephen Lark 32 Logge Notes and Queries: What did a monk spend his money on? by L. Wynne-Davies 36 Correspondence 42 The Barton Library 44 Book Review 46 Booklist 48 Letter from America 50 Report on Society Events 54 Future Society Events 57 Branches and Groups Contacts 59 Branches and Groups 63 New Members 64 Calendar Contributions Contributions are welcomed from all members. Articles and correspondence regarding the Bulletin Debate should be sent to Peter Hammond and all other contributions to Elizabeth Nokes. Bulletin Press Dates 15 January for Spring issue; 15 April for Summer issue; 15 July for Autumn issue; 15 October for Winter issue. Articles should be sent well in advance. Bulletin & Ricardian Back Numbers Back issues of the The Ricardian and The Bulletin are available from Judith Ridley. If you are interested in obtaining any back numbers, please contact Mrs Ridley to establish whether she holds the issue(s) in which you are interested. For contact details see back inside cover of the Bulletin The Ricardian Bulletin is produced by the Bulletin Editorial Committee, General Editor Elizabeth Nokes and printed by St Edmundsbury Press. © Richard III Society, 2005 1 From the Chairman Those of you who were in Cambridge recently for the Society’s Triennial Conference will have had the opportunity to view some documents contemporary with King Richard that in all proba- bility have not been unfolded and looked at by anyone for over five hundred years.
    [Show full text]
  • Henry VII Year Group: 12
    Subject: History Topic: Henry VII Year Group: 12 1. Character & Aims 2. Government Key Events Dates 1 Henry’s 1457 - Born at Pembroke Castle to Margaret Beaufort and 1 Central Chamber: Politically important, presided by the Lord Early life the late Edmund Tudor. Gov. & Chamberlain. Lord Chamberlain was both powerful & Printing press established and 1462 - Removed from his mother’s care and made a ward Councils trusted. Betrayal by Sir William Stanley (1495) through 1478 Character of the Yorkist, William Lord Herbert. involvement in the Perkin Warbeck plot was a big blow. 1470-71 - In the care of his uncle Jasper Tudor at Pembroke Privy Council: Created due to Stanley’s betrayal. It 1485 Battle of Bosworth, H7 coronation and Castle. They are besieged by Yorkist forces in 1471. changed the character of the court through making it first parliament 1471 - Leaves for Brittany with Jasper Tudor to seek asylum more difficult for those who were out of favour to regain with Duke Francis. the king’s support. H7 cut himself off from much of the 1486 Marriage to Eliz. of York, Lovell 1476 - Duke Francis agrees to surrender Henry to Yorkist king’s traditional contacts at court. rebellion, birth of Arthur forces, but confusion led to Henry seeking sanctuary and Royal Council: 227 attended parliament 1485-1509, not returning to England. although only 6 or 7 members on the working Council. 1487 Simnel plot, Battle of Stoke, Trade 1482 - Margaret Beaufort making plans for Henry’s return Role: advise the king, administer the realm and make legal embargo to England judgements.
    [Show full text]