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Calendar of Patent Rolls

CSPM

Calendar of State Papers, Milan

CSPS

Calendar of State Papers , Spain , vol. I

CSPS, II

Calendar of State Papers, Spain , vol. II

CSPS Supp

Calendar of State Papers, Spain , Supplement to vols. I and II

CSPV

Calendar of State Papers, Venice

CWE

Collected Works of Erasmus

CWM

Collected Works of Thomas More

EETS

Early English Text Society

GC

Great Chronicle of London

HKW

History of the King’s Works

LP HVIII

Letters and Papers, Henry VIII

LP RIII/HVII

Letters and Papers, Richard III and Henry VII

ODNB

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

PPE Elizabeth

Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York

PROME

Parliament Rolls of Medieval England

SJC

St John’s College, Cambridge

TNA

The National Archives

TRP

Tudor Royal Proclamations

WAM

Westminster Abbey Muniments

PROLOGUE

1. Bennett, Battle of Bosworth , p. 75; Davies, ‘The Wars of the Roses in European Context’, pp. 177, 244.

2. Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History , p. 216.

3. Ross, Edward IV , pp. 36–41.

4. Ross, Edward IV , pp. 84–101, esp. pp. 86, 97–8.

5. Ross, Edward IV , pp. 175–6.

6. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother , p. 58; Memorials , pp. 15–16.

7. Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History , pp. 184–6.

8. Horrox, Richard III , p. 112.

9. Gransden, Historical Writing in England , pp. 315–16, 470–71.

10. Davies, ‘Bishop John Morton’, pp. 4–6.

11. GC , pp. 236–7; ‘The Most Pleasant Song of the Lady Bessy’, p. 33; Jones, ‘ “For my lord of Richmond, a pourpoint … and a palfrey” ’, passim .

12. Arthurson and Kingwell, ‘The Proclamation of Henry Tudor as King of England, 3 November 1483’, passim .

13. Anglo, ‘The British History in Early Tudor propaganda’, passim ; Jones, ‘The Myth of 1485’, p. 95; Horrox, ‘Henry Tudor’s Letters to England during Richard III’s Reign’, pp. 155–8; Griffiths and Thomas, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty , pp. 125–6.

14. Commynes, Memoirs , pp. 354–5, 397–8; see also Griffiths and Thomas, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty , pp. 153–4.

15. Jones, ‘The Myth of 1485’, pp. 85–93.

16. Bennett, Battle of Bosworth , pp. 205–7; GC , p. 238; Entwistle, ‘A Spanish Account of the Battle of Bosworth’, p. 35.

17. Vergil, Anglica Historia , pp. 2–5.

18. Ross, Richard III , p. 225.

19. Davies, ‘Information, Disinformation, and Political Knowledge under Henry VII and early Henry VIII’, passim ; Crowland Chronicle Continuations , p. 185.

20. Horrox, ‘Introduction’, in Horrox, ed., Fifteenth-Century Attitudes , pp. 7–8; Anglo, ‘Foundation of the Tudor Dynasty’, pp. 3–11; Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother , p. 68; Watts, Henry VI , p. 29.

21. The English Works of John Fisher , I, pp. 305–6.

1. NOT A DROP OF DOUBTFUL ROYAL BLOOD

1. Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism , I, p. 428.

2. CSPV , nos. 740, 741; CSPM , no. 525; Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy , p. 137.

3. CSPV , no. 748; CSPM , no. 530.

4. CSPV , nos. 743, 747, 748; CSPM , no. 530.

5. CSPV , nos. 750, 754; CSPM , nos. 536–8.

6. CSPV , no. 754; CSPM , no. 539.

7. CSPV , no. 754; CSPM , no. 539.

8. Arthurson, ‘The Rising of 1497’, passim ; CSPV , no. 755; CSPM , no. 541.

9. Jones and Underwood, The King’s Mother , p. 66; Thurley, Royal Palaces , p. 102.

10. Crowland Chronicle Continuations , p. 195; PROME , XV, 1485 November, item 5.

11. Memorials , p. 39.

12. Gunn and Monckton, ‘Introduction’, in Gunn and Monckton, eds., Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales , p. 1.

13. Leland, Collectanea , IV, p. 204; Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court , pp. 364–5.

14. Chronicles of London , p. 193; The Chronicle of John Harding , p. 550; Plumpton Correspondence , p. 49.

15. Crowland Chronicle Continuations , p. 189.

16. Bennett, Lambert Simnel , pp. 7, 33–40.

17. Vergil, Anglica Historia , pp. 26–7.

18. The Reign of Henry VII , I, p. 185.

19. Currin, ‘To Traffic with War’, pp. 106–31.

20. Mattingly, Renaissance Diplomacy , p. 134.

21. Currin, ‘To Traffic with War’, pp. 106–31; Cavill, The English Parliaments of Henry VII , p. 67.

22. Sutton, Mercery , pp. 325–6; Wroe, Perkin Warbeck , p. 190.

23. TNA E 404/81/1, 1 September 1491; Leland, Collectanea , IV, pp. 179–84.

24. LP RIII/HVII , I, pp. 388–404; Hayward, Dress at the Court of Henry VII , p. 90.

25. Gunn, ‘The Courtiers of Henry VII’, pp. 23–4.

26. Cunningham, Henry VII , pp. 77–9; TNA E 154/2/5, p. 26.

27. Arthurson, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy , p. 112; Wroe, Perkin Warbeck , pp. 117–18.

28. GC , p. 274; PROME , XVI, 1497 January, items 12, 13; Cavill, The English Parliaments of Henry VII , pp. 68–70.

29. Arthurson, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy , pp. 162–7.

30. TRP , pp. 39–40; Arthurson, ‘The Rising of 1497’, pp. 1–18.

31. CSPV , no. 751; CSPM , nos. 548, 550.

32. CSPM , no. 540; CSPS, no. 210; Gunn, ‘The Courtiers of Henry VII’, pp. 36–8; Thurley, Royal Palaces , pp. 102–11.

33. CSPM , nos. 550, 552–3; Jones, ‘Alwyn Ruddock: John Cabot and the Discovery of America’, pp. 231–4; Jones, ‘Henry VII and the Bristol Expeditions’, p. 11; GC , p. 283; Chronicles of London , p. 219.

34. CSPM , no. 553.

35. CSPS , no. 210.

36. AR , I, p. 188; Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber’, pp. 18–29; The Household of Edward IV , pp. 14, 106.

37. Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber’, pp. 25–6.

38. Gunn, ‘ “New Men” ’; CSPS , no. 239.

39. CSPV , no. 743; CSPS , no. 210.

40. Arthurson, ‘The Rising of 1497’, pp. 1–18.

41. Fortescue, On the laws and governance of England , pp. 49–53.

42. Arthurson, ‘A Question of Loyalty’, p. 408.

43. Thurley, Royal Palaces , pp. 75, 139; for Braybroke, see Starkey, ‘The King’s Privy Chamber’, pp. 52–3; CSPM , no. 571; CSPV , no. 768.

44. CSPS , no. 221; Arthurson, The Perkin Warbeck Conspiracy , p. 196; Wroe, Perkin Warbeck , pp. 393–4; Vergil, Anglica Historia , p. 7; A Relation of the Island of England , p. 105.

45. Bentley, Excerpta Historica , pp. 120, 121, 123; The Book of Quinte Essence , pp. 17–19; Armstrong, ‘An Italian Astrologer’, pp. 157–78.

46. Arthurson, ‘A Question of Loyalty’, passim ; Condon, ‘A Kaleidoscope of Treason’, passim .