No CrossRef data available.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
The last few years have been productive of much new research in the history of the reign of Edward the Fourth. Sir Henry Ellis, in his “Original Letters illustrative of English History, ” laid the foundation of a series of documents, which was followed by some articles in the “Excerpta Historica, ” by Mr. W. H. Black, and more recently has been considerably augmented by the publication of an anonymous history under the able editorship of Mr. Bruce, and another contemporary chronicle published by the Camden Society. To furnish a few additional facts on a period of history, the obscurity of which has been admitted by every writer, a has been my object in the present paper; and I place the results of my researches before the notice of the Society of Antiquaries, under the conviction that its members form the only body in Europe able to judge whether the materials here brought together are valuable additions to this portion of our country's history.
page 127 note a See also a letter from Thomas Hearne to Mr. West, in MS. Lansd. 778, fol. 42, r0, on this subject.
page 127 note b I may remark that, although Edward virtually began his reign some days previously, yet Henry's government did not end, nor Edward's commence, until the 4th of March, and this date is universally adopted in every contemporary document. Another MS. says, that “he went to Westmynster and resseyved his septre and toke his charge on the Wednysday, the iiij. day of Marche.”—MS. Rot. Harl. C, 8, membr. ult.
page 131 note c I here take the opportunity of supplying a minute point of history, which has never yet been given correctly by any author. Speaking of the Earl of Oxford, and his son, Lord Aubrey, the author of Hearne's Fragment says, “They were both taken the xij. day of Feb. 1460–1, and brought to the toure at London, and shortely thereuppon, the xx. day of the same month, bothe the fadir and the son were brought unto the Toure hill, where they suffrid dethe bothe on one day.” Now the fact is that they were taken on the 2nd of February, the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary, that the Earl of Oxford was executed on the 20th, and the son on the 26th, and all in the year 1462. This appears from MS. Arundel (Coll. Arm.) 5, and MS. Rot. Harl. C. 8, membr. ult. The editor of the Gentleman's Magazine (Dec. 1839) in a review of Warkworth's Chronicle, falls into the same error. Edward was not reigning in February 1461.
page 136 note d MS. Harl. 3810. Pars I. fol. ult. r0.
page 136 note e MS. Cotton. Nero, C. IX. fol. 173, v0. 177, v0.—MS. Addit. 6113, and MS. Harl. 543. Printed in Excerpta Historica, p. 227.
History of England, vol. ii. p. 774. See also Hearne's Fragment, p. 296.
page 137 note g History of England, 4th edition, vol. v. p. 189.
page 137 note h Fenn's Letters, vol. ii. p. 4. It is rather singular that Paradin alludes very slightly to this marriage; vid. Annales de Bourgougne, fol. Lyons, 1566, p. 920.
page 137 note i I printed them from a roll in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, but I have since found two copies in the British Museum;—MS. Harl. 543, fol. 166, v0. and Rot. Cotton. IV. 61, which last is rather imperfect. The commencement of them is also transcribed in MS. Ii. 3. 26, in the Public Library at Cambridge, and in a contemporary chronicle recently published by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, under the editorial care of the Rev. J. J. Smith.
page 138 note k The Arundel Chronicle, speaking of Robin of Redesdale, says, “cui associati sunt militi qui peticionarii petentes multa corrigi in regno.” Against these, according to the same authority, King Edward went on the feast of St. Thomas the Martyr.
page 138 note l “In vigilia Sancti Jacobi Apostoli, tempore Regis Edwardi Quarti, fuit bellum apud Banbury inter Anglos et Wallicos in campo vocato Saxon-Felde”— MS. Cotton. Domitian IV. (1469) fol. 256, v0. “Prelium ad Hegecote, seu Danysmore, prope Banburiam, dictum Banbery Feld, seu Hegecote Feld.”—MS. Tanner, Bodl. 2. fol. 104, v0.
page 138 note m MS. Cotton. Domit. No. IV. fol. 256, v0.