Treason: Aiding the Duke of Somerset’s return to the Lancastrian fold
In this letter from John Paston the youngest to his father, Sir John Paston, the flight of the Duke of
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Contemporary view on the readeption
Edward IV is portrayed as a usurper, oppressor and destroyer of the rightful king and noble blood of the realm
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1475 Will of King Edward the Fourth
King Edward IV wrote a will prior to the departure of the English army from Sandwich for the French campaign
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Philippe Commines on the Causes of the Wars of the Roses
Causes of the Wars of the Roses as described in the Memoirs of Philippe de Commines. Commines was a writer
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Justifications of Yorkist actions, 1459, by the Earl of Warwick
In the immediate aftermath of the battle of Blore Heath the Earl of Warwick issued a series of articles that
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