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28
   Sutton, ‘Sir Thomas Cook’, p. 101–02.

29
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Provenance’, p. 89 n. 87.

30
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, ‘Provenance’, p. 89; Hicks, ‘Case of Sir Thomas Cook’, p. 94.

31
   Sutton, ‘Sir Thomas Cook’, p. 89–90.

32
   E.W. Ives, ‘Markham, Sir John (b. after 1399, d. 1479)’,
ODNB
, 2004.

33
   ‘Household of Queen Margaret of Anjou’, p. 141; Kendall,
Richard the Third
, p. 79. Kendall also increases the fine from 8,000 marks to a whopping £8,000.

34
   Hicks, ‘Case of Sir Thomas Cooke’, p. 95–96; Crawford,
The Yorkists
, p. 83.

35
   Holland, ‘Cook’s Case’, p. 29; Hicks, p. 96.

36
   Holland, ‘Cook’s Case’, pp. 34–35.

4    Murder at Coventry
 

  
1
   
Great Chronicle
, p. 208.

  
2
   
Crowland
, p. 115.

  
3
   Weightman, p. 37, 39; Lander,
Government and Community
, p. 245; Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 60.

  
4
   Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 60; Michael Hicks, ‘Neville, George (1432–1476)’,
ODNB
, 2008.

  
5
   For what follows, see
Excerpta Historica
, pp. 171–222.

  
6
   Anglo, ‘Anglo-Burgundian Feats of Arms’, p. 275.

  
7
   Anglo, ‘Anglo-Burgundian Feats of Arms’, p. 282.

  
8
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, pp. 424–25, 428–29.

  
9
   Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 60.

10
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 430.

11
   Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 265.

12
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 443; Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 265.

13
   For what follows see Phillipps, pp. 327–38; Marche, vol. III, pp. 106–07;
Excerpta Historica
, 223–39.

14
   
PL
, no. 330, part I, p. 539.

15
   
PL
, no. 330, part I, p. 539.

16
   
PL
, no. 236, part I, p. 396.

17
   Marche, vol. III, p. 199.

18
   
PL
, no. 330, part I, p. 539; Michael K. Jones, ‘Beaufort, Edmund, Styled Third Duke of Somerset (c.1438–1471)’,
ODNB
, online edition, May 2009.

19
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 481.

20
   Kleineke, pp. 95–96.

21
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 454;
Anales Rerum Anglicarum
, pp. 789–90;
Great Chronicle
, p. 207.

22
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, pp. 481–82.

23
   Hicks,
Wars of the Roses
, p. 190.

24
   Dockray, ‘Yorkshire Rebellions’, p. 255; Ashdown-Hill, ‘Walsingham’, p. 4.

25
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 482–83.

26
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 492; Ashdown-Hill, p. 14.

27
   Dockray, ‘Yorkshire Rebellions’, pp. 252–54; Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 65; Hicks,
Warwick
, pp. 275–76.

28
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 493–95;

29
   Warkworth, p. 46–51.

30
   Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 71; R.A. Griffiths, ‘Herbert, William, First Earl of Pembroke (c.1423–1469)’,
ODNB
, January 2008.

31
   Michael Hicks, ‘Stafford, Humphrey, Earl of Devon (c. 1439–1469)’,
ODNB
, January 2008.

32
   Rosemary Horrox, ‘Fogge, Sir John (b. in or before 1417, d. 1490)’,
ODNB
, January 2008.

33
   Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 80.

34
   Pollard,
Warwick
, p. 65.

35
   For what follows see Lewis, pp. 100–04; Ross,
Edward IV
, pp. 130–32.

36
   For what follows see Harrod, pp. 32–36.

37
   Lewis, p. 101; Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 132; Warkworth, pp. 6–7.

38
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 497 n. 4; Waurin, vol. 5, p. 580.

39
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 493; Waurin, vol. 5, p. 580.

40
   
Coventry Leet Book
, p. 346; Waurin, vol. 5, p. 580.

41
   Moreton, p. 64.

42
   TNA: KB 27/836 m. 61d.

43
   
History of the County of Derby
, vol. 2, pp. 80–81.

44
   Eton College Archives: ECR 60/3/2; Waurin, vol. 5, p. 581.

45
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 498 n. 2.

46
   Milan, 16 August 1469, no. 173.

47
   Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 277.

48
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, pp. 500–01.

49
   Kleineke, p. 99.

50
   Kleineke, pp. 99–100; Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 135.

51
   Moreton, p. 63–65.

5    Witchcraft and Sorcery
 

  
1
   
CPR
, 1467–77, pg. 190.

  
2
   Sutton, ‘Sir Thomas Cook’, p. 103.

  
3
   For Joan, see ‘Captivity of a Royal Witch’.

  
4
   For Eleanor see Griffiths,
King and Country
, pp. 233–52; Freeman, ‘Sorcery at Court’.

  
5
   Sutton, ‘Sir Thomas Cook’, p. 103; Pascual, ‘Jaquetta of Luxembourg’, p. 85.

  
6
   Warkworth, p. 7; TNA: KB 27/836 m. 61d.

  
7
   Leland, ‘Witchcraft and the Woodvilles’, p. 272.

  
8
   
Rotuli Parliamentorum
, vol. VI, p. 232. This source gives the date as 20 January;
CPR
, 1467–77, pg. 190 gives the date as 19 January.

  
9
   
CPR
, 1467–77, pg. 190.

10
   
Rotuli Parliamentorum
, vol. VI, p. 232. Thomas Wake does not seem to have suffered for his role in accusing the duchess or in murdering her husband and son; he died in 1476. Hampton, ‘Roger Wake of Blisworth’, p. 156.

11
   PROME, January 1485, item 1 [5]. The issue of whether Elizabeth might have used astrology to forecast Richard’s death, as hinted at in a letter by the soon-to-be king, will be dealt with in Chapter 11.

12
   Hughes,
Arthurian Myths and Alchemy
, p. 196.

13
   Pascual, ‘Jacquetta of Luxembourg’, p. 87.

14
   Sutton and Visser-Fuchs,
Richard III’s Books
, pp. 224–25, 236,

15
   Hughes,
Arthurian Myths and Alchemy
, pp. 172–73; Rous,
Rous Rolls
, no. 18.

16
   
Coventry Leet Book
, p. 393.

17
   Fabyan, p. 654.

18
   Hampton, ‘Witchcraft and the Sons of York’, pp. 173–75.

19
   Carson, p. 118.

20
   Freeman, ‘Sorcery at Court and Manor’, p. 346.

21
   Freeman, ‘Sorcery at Court and Manor’, p. 346, 349, 350.

6    Exile and Sanctuary
 

  
1
   
PL
, no. 245, part I, p. 410.

  
2
   Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 280.

  
3
   Moreton, ‘Anthony Woodville’, pp. 64–65.

  
4
   Warkworth, p. 9.

  
5
   TNA: KB 27/836 m. 61d; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 522.

  
6
   Hicks,
Warwick
, pp. 287–89.

  
7
   Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 287; Scofield,
Edward IV
, pp. 521, 526–27.

  
8
   TNA: KB 27/836 m. 61d.

  
9
   Ross,
Edward IV
, p. 146

10
   Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 530 (citing Lettres de Louis XI, IV, 131).

11
   Hicks,
Warwick
, p. 296.

12
   Haward, p. 179; Ross,
Edward IV
, pp. 152–53;
Coventry Leet Book
, pp. 358–59. Edward’s younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, probably arrived in Holland at a later date. Visser-Fuchs, ‘Richard Was Late’, pp. 616–17.

13
   Sharpe,
London and the Kingdom
, vol. III, pp. 385–86;
Chronicles of London
, p. 182; Warkworth, p. 13;
PL
, no. 345, part I, p. 564.

14
   
Original Letters
, second series, vol. I, pp. 141–42.

15
   Scofield, ‘Elizabeth Wydevile in the Sanctuary at Westminter, 1470’, p. 91; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. I, p. 546.

16
   
Chronicles of London
, p. 183; Scofield,
Edward IV
, vol. 1, p. 546; Hicks,
Edward V
, p. 54.

17
   
CPR
1467–1477, p. 228.

18
   Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, p. 52–54; Calmette and Perinelle, pp. 321–23.

19
   Hammond,
Battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury
, p. 58;
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, pp. 2–3.

20
   Haward, p. 179.

21
   
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, p. 17.

22
   Kleineke, ‘Gerhard von Wesel’s Newsletter’, p. 80;
Anchiennes Chroniques
, vol. III, p. 211;
Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV
, p. 34.

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