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Ricardian Bulletin Is Produced by the Bulletin Editorial Committee, Printed by Micropress Printers Ltd Ricardian Bulletin Spring 2009 Contents 2 From the Chairman 3 Society News and Notices 7 The Logge Wills now at www.logge.co.uk 8 Has Richard’s Coffin Been Discovered? 12 Media Retrospective 15 News and Reviews 18 Meet the Herald: An interview with Dr Clive Cheesman 21 Proceedings of the Triennial Conference 2008: Part 4: The Remains 27 Henry VII 1485-1509: A Retrospective on the Quincentenary of his death: Part 1 30 Living History: by Helen Cox 33 The Man Himself: The Bosworth Portal: by Wendy Moorhen 35 William Herbert, Earl of Huntingdon: A Biography: Part 2: by Sarah Sickels 37 Tying Up Loose Ends in Research: by Toni Mount 38 Branch and Group Contacts Update 39 The Crime of Eleanor Kechen: by Lesley Boatwright 42 Edward IV’s Pre-contract of Matrimony: by Alison Hanham 43 Fotheringhay December 2008 44 York or Lancaster – A Rejoinder: by Ian Mortimer 46 The March From Leicester: by Sandra Worth 50 New Members 51 Correspondence 54 Barton Library 55 Report on Society Events 56 Future Society Events 57 Branches and Groups 62 Obituaries 63 Recently Deceased Members 64 Calendar Contributions Contributions are welcomed from all members. All contributions should be sent to Lesley Boatwright. 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 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 inside back cover of the Bulletin The Ricardian Bulletin is produced by the Bulletin Editorial Committee, Printed by Micropress Printers Ltd. © Richard III Society, 2009 1 From the Chairman have been wondering about banking crises in the fifteenth century. We know that the Spinelli I bank, a counterpart of the Medici bank, ran into serious difficulty in 1456 when Pope Calixtus III defaulted on a loan for a proposed crusade against the Turks. I’m not sure if that’s what we might call a sub-prime loan, but in those days, lending to popes and secular rulers was the price for operating in the market. It might be interesting and certainly very topical if we had an article in the Bulletin about how the banking system operated in Yorkist times. Are there any takers out there? Maintaining its reputation for a wide and lively range of articles, news and forthcoming events, this edition of the Bulletin sees a return of the interview series, this time with Meet the Herald. The subject is Dr Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, and, whilst we might have preferred that he were Blanc Sanglier Pursuivant, we are nonetheless grateful to him for agreeing to be interviewed. For The Man Himself, the topic is the Bosworth Portal, something we are going to hear a lot more about in the future. It’s a major achievement for the Society, giving us an opportunity to present the positive case for King Richard at a major tourist venue, and I would like to give my thanks to all involved, especially the artists Gerry Hitch, Graham Turner and Geoff Wheeler. It seems to be the season for retirements, with Wendy Moorhen, Jane Trump and Moira Hab- berjam all stepping down from their posts. Sir Christopher Wren’s memorial in St Paul’s Cathe- dral has the inscription, ‘Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you’. So it is for Wendy, Jane and Moira. We need only look at the strong and active Society we have today, for which so much is owed to all three. We will miss their direct involvement on the front bench, but I’m sure they will be active backbenchers. The Society is fortunate, too, in that it has such excellent peo- ple to take their places, with the husband-and-wife team of David and Susan Wells becoming joint secretaries, Lynda Pidgeon, already a key player in our research activities, taking over as Research Officer, while, up in Yorkshire, Pauline Harrison Pogmore takes Moira’s place as sec- retary of that branch. Due to her new appointment, Lynda has passed on the job of collecting Bulletin material to Lesley Boatwright. Let me point out, though, that although we have successfully managed to replace Wendy, Jane and Moira, we still need a new Papers Librarian to take over from Rebecca Beale, who is also stepping down after many years of service for which we are most grateful. Our papers col- lection is an important part of the Barton Library and we want to keep this resource available to members, so if there is anyone interested in helping out, please get in touch with Carolyn Ham- mond (see page 54 for details) as soon as you can. It’s always good when members have books published, and in Eleanor – the Secret Queen, John Ashdown-Hill gives the shadowy figure of Eleanor Talbot some much needed prominence. Also, as many of you know, John has been at the forefront of research into Richard III’s mtDNA sequence, and it is with much regret that we record the death of Joy Ibsen, whom he traced and identified as a direct descendant in an all-female line from Richard’s sister Anne. Despite the economic gloom, we still have much to look forward to during the coming Ri- cardian year and since the Society was recently the subject of a question on University Chal- lenge, without anybody being rude about us, I guess that might even mean that we really have made it! Phil Stone 2 Society News and Notices All Change The last twenty years or so have seen profound changes to the lives of many people. There is more technology about: we have mobile phones, computers, and spend time on the Internet. There is a greater expectation that things will be done ‘professionally’ as a business ethic has crept into our lives. The Society too has changed a great deal recently. It has cashed in on technology. We can pay our subscriptions by PayPal, order the Society’s books – and others – on line and, above all, we now have a website, which is one of our great glories. We are about to have an electronic pres- ence at Bosworth, with our Portal, a rolling display putting the facts about Richard to the public who visit the battlefield. We have had a stand at the Who Do You Think You Are? – Live exhibi- tion at Olympia in London, and shall do so again this year. In other words, we have raised our public profile immensely over the last few years. We used to have a nice little Bulletin, entirely produced by the hard work of Elizabeth Nokes. It had news and reviews, details of visits, notes, addresses, and a calendar, and was in its own way a good read, and looked forward to. But now we have a splendid new Bulletin. It still has the news and reviews, details of visits, notes and so on, but now we can have longer articles, and pictures to illustrate them, in a format which can take its place on any magazine stand and catch the eye. Many of these updatings and innovations came about because of the intense enthusiasm of Wendy Moorhen. With her background in business, and her organisational ability – and her abil- ity to talk other people into helping – she has been one of the main movers in pulling our Society firmly into the twenty-first century. She was instrumental in making us have a revamped Bulletin, the website – and the additional Logge website which is part of it – and the Bosworth Portal, and did a great deal of work for all of them. Another person who brought a business background and organisational ability to the Society was our Secretary, Jane Trump. Unfailingly cheerful and efficient, Jane also became a leading light in the creation of an education pack for schools, a project which is still ongoing. We thought Wendy and Jane were fixtures, and relaxed, believing they were shepherding us on our continued way forward into the twenty-first century. But nothing is for ever. Jane’s new daytime job is demanding much more of her time, and Wendy’s home life will be much more demanding this year and she has for a long time wanted to do more research into the fifteenth century. So change has come again upon the Society. Our new secretaries are David and Sue Wells, and our new Research Officer is Lynda Pidg- eon. Good luck to all! Executive Committee Goodbye For Now In December I stepped down from most of my Society roles: Execu- tive Committee member; Research Officer; Trustee of the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust; and also from the various sub- committees of which I was a member. I will, however, together with my husband Brian, continue to run the membership department and act as membership liaison officer. I was elected to the EC in 1994, and was appointed Research Officer in 2001, but for the past five years I have been mainly in- volved in the business side of Society affairs including the transition 3 of the membership function from our service provider, RIMMS, back in-house, the technical editing of The Ricardian, together with identifying new methods of distribution of the journals. Other projects have included the re-organisation of the sales function, organising the celebratory events of 2006 and project managing our presence at the Who Do Yo Think You Are? Live exhibi- tion last year.
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