In these recent times sprang up between our lord, king Henry the Sixth and Eichard, the most illustrious duke of York, those dissensions, never sufficiently to be regretted, and never henceforth to be allayed: dissensions…
After these times, about the year of the Word made Incar- nate, 1463, the great chieftain of the Turks, Balthasar,®^ also called Mahomet, that enemy to the Cross of Christ, jjist like a fresh Antiochus…
Upon this, the before-named Thomas, seeing that his side was clearly threatened with ill success, and that the present day was likely to prove far from a propitious one for him, followed the advice of…
After these transactions, the king made a speedy voyage with the troops and fifteen hundred ships, and landed at the harbomr of Chef de Caux, at the moul£i of the river Seine whence he proceeded…
INGULPH’S HISTORY OF THE ABBEY OF CROYLAND. As I, Ingulph, by the long-suffering of the Diyine Goodness, abbat of the monastery of Croyland, am bound, by virtue of the duties imposed upon me, to devote…
LONGSTROTHER, JOHN (d. 1471), lord treasurer of England, was a knight of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was a favourite of Henry VI, who transacted business with him connected with his order…
WOODVILLE or WYDVILLE, ANTHONY, Baron Scales and second Earl Rivers (1442?–1483), eldest son of Richard Woodville, first earl Rivers [q. v.], and his wife Jacquetta, duchess of Bedford, was born in or about 1442 (Baker,…
Lord Richard Grey (d. 1483), the younger son of Edward Grey, was made a knight of the Bath on Whitsunday, 1475 (Book of Knights, p. 4). After the death of Edward IV he and his…
Sir Walter Hungerford (d. 1516), youngest son of Robert and Eleanor, was M.P. for Wiltshire in 1477, and, as a partisan in earlier days of the house of Lancaster, obtained a general pardon from Richard…
Sir Thomas Hungerford (d. 1469), the eldest son, lived chiefly at Rowden, near Chippenham. After giving some support to Edward IV and the Yorkists he joined in Warwick’s conspiracy to restore Henry VI in 1469,…