The Last White Rose (57 page)

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N
OTES

Overview: The White Rose, 1485–1547

1. R.T. Davies (ed.),
Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology
, London, Faber & Faber, 1963, no. 156.

2. P. Vergil,
The Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil AD 1485–1537
, Camden Society, 1950, p. 9.

3. ‘The spectre of possible rivals, true or false, haunted Henry VII all the days, and maybe the nights, of his life, and inflamed the heated imagination of his son after him; many guilty and innocent heads were to roll so that the Tudors might sleep more easily.’ S.B. Chrimes,
Lancastrians,
Yorkists and Henry VII
, London, Macmillan, 1964, p. 158

4. A. Fletcher and D. MacCulloch,
Tudor Rebellions
, London and New York, Longmans, 1997, p. 116.

5. L. Wooding,
Henry VIII
, London, Routledge, 2009, p. 18.

1. Autumn 1485: ‘this woeful season’

1. Sir F. Bacon,
The History of the Reign of King Henry VII and
Selected Works
, Cambridge, 1998, p. 23. Bacon may not have known of material that has since come to light, but he had read Vergil, Fabyan and Robert André, besides several manuscript sources, and is often a remarkably shrewd interpreter.

2. R. Davies,
Municipal Records of the City of York during the
Reigns of
Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III
, London, 1843, p. 218.

3.
The Paston Letters
, Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1986, 1001.

4.
Memorials of King Henry the Seventh
, Rolls Series, London, 1858, 1, 4–5.

5. Vergil,
op. cit
., p. 8.

6.
Rotoli Parliamentorum (1278–1504)
, London,1767–77, vol. VI, 268–70.

7. Vergil,
op. cit
., p. 144.

8. S. Cunningham,
Henry VII
, London, Routledge, 2007, p. 98.

9. Bacon,
op. cit
., p. 19.

2. Easter 1486: Lord Lovell and the Stafford Brothers

1. Bacon, p. 65.

2.
The Plumpton Correspondence
, OS Old Series (21), London, 1839, p. 48.

3.
Ibid.
, p. 48.

4.
Material for a History of the Reign of Henry VII
, 2 vols, Rolls Series, 1873–7, vol. I, p. 143.

5. C.H. Williams, ‘The Rebellion of Sir Humphrey Stafford in 1486’,
The English Historical Review
, 43 (1928).

6
. LP Hen VII
, vol. I, p. 234.

7. Vergil,
op. cit
., p. 10.

8. E.H. Fonblanque,
The Annals of the House of Percy
, 2 vols, London, [Private Circulation], 1887, vol. I, p. 300.

9. H.T. Riley (ed.),
Ingulph’s Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
, London, 1854, pp. 513–14.

10. Bacon,
op. cit
., p. 20.

11. Coram Rege Rolls, Trin. 1, Hen VII Rex. Rot. 10, quoted in Williams, ‘The Rebellion’, p. 188.

12.
Material
,
op. cit
., vol. I, p. 434.

13. Paston Letters, op. cit., p. 890.

14. J. Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland … 1535–1543, 5 vols, ed. L. Toulmin Smith, London, 1907–10, vol. 5, pp. 75–6.

15. M. Hemmant (ed
.
),
Select Cases in the Exchequer Chamber before
all Justices of England, 1461–1509
,
Selden Society 64, London 1943, vol. II, pp. 115–24

16.
Materials
,
op. cit
., vol. I, pp. 513–14

17.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls,
S.M.O., 22 vols, London, 1911–62: Henry VII, 1485–1509, vol. 22, 842.

18.
Plumpton Corr
,
op. cit
., p. 54

3. Early 1487: Margaret of York

1. E. Hall,
The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families …,
London, 1809, p. 430.

2. Vergil
op. cit
., pp. 14–16.

3. Margaret de la Pole, daughter of Sir John de la Pole, a younger bother of William, first Duke of Suffolk – married Jean de Foix, Earl of Kendal (‘Cumbria’), whose duather Anne became the Queen of Ladislas II of Hungary.
GEC
, vol. VIII, p. 150.

4. W.E.A. Moorhen, ‘The Career of John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln’,
The Ricardian
,
Journal of the Richard III Society
, 13 (2003).

5. H.T. Riley (trans.),
Ingulph’s Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
, 1854, pp. 513–14.

6. L. Attreed,
York House Books
, Stroud, Alan Sutton, 1991, vol. 2, p. 54.

7. Riley,
Ingulph’s Chronicle, op. cit
., p. 514.

8. M. Bennett,
Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke
, Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1987.

9. J.S. Brewer (ed.),
The Book of Howth
, in
Calendar of the Carew
Manuscripts
, 6 vols, London, Public Record Office, 1867, vol. 5, pp.188–9.

10.
Materials
,
op. cit
., vol. 2, p. 273.

11. W.E. Hampton, ‘The Later Career of Robert Stillington’, in J. Petre (ed.),
Richard III:
Crown and People
, London, Richard III Society, 1975–81, pp. 162–8.

12.
York House Books
,
op. cit
., vol. 2, pp. 540–2. 

13. H. Delbruck, Die Nenzeit, vol. IV of Geshicte der Kriegskunst, Berlin, 1920.

14. J. Nichols (ed.),
The Chronicle of Calais in the Reigns of Henry VII
and Henry VIII
, Camden Society, Old Series, 35, London, 1846, p. 1.

15. Vergil,
op. cit
., p. 23.

4. Summer 1487: ‘Stoke Field’

1.
Rot. Parl.
, vol. VI, 397.

2. P.L. Hughes and J.F. Larkin (eds),
Tudor Royal Proclamations
, 3 vols, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1964–9, vol. 1, pp. 12–13.

3.
York House Books
,
op. cit
., vol. 2, p. 570.