Actions against lawlessness in 1475 Crime and Punishment was an ongoing concern for monarchs and their counsellors throughout the middle ages. This was particularly the case when the country was recovering from periods of instability,…
On 21st May 1471 King Henry VI died in the Tower of London. The cause of his death is not known. Following the death of his son in the Battle of Tewkesbury his kingship was…
The flight of Warwick and Clarence to France took place after their complicity in the rebellion that culminated in the Battle of Empingham / Losecote Field. With their intent having been discovered by the king…
ninth year of king Edward, being the year of our Lord, 1469, there arose a great disagreement between that king and his kinsman, Eichard, the most illustrious earl of Warwick ; which was not allayed…
At this period, there happened in our monastery a circom- Btance deserving of everlasting remembrance, which some of the most intelQgent, even, ascribed to a wondrous miracle. The greater bell-tower had been newly built in…
In the same year, also, the duchess, lady Margaret, relict of John, the illustrious duke of Somerset, one who had always proved gracious and favourably-disposed to our monastery, and who, as we have already mentioned,…
The marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville took place in secret with just a handful of witnesses on 1 May 1464. Edward, as King, was expected to marry somebody of royal blood. Marriage was…
In the following year, that most abominable chieftain of the Turks, (of whom we have^ previously made mention, when gpeaking of the destruction of the city of Constantinople), ยป P. 417. A.D. 1463. THE TUEK8…
Just at the same period of time, king Hfenry fled, together with a few of his followers, into ScotlMid, in which country, and in the castles bordering thereon, he lay concealed, in great tribulation, during…
The duke being thus removed from this world, the north- men, being. sensible that the only impediment was now with- ^ An officer of the co.rt of wards, whose daty it was to be preieiit…