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Here is something to cheer. A little article, part of which deals with the truth about Richard III. And yes, Josephine Tey’s “Daughter of Time” gets a long mention too.
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Talbot Country
“Lambert Simnel”, Alton Towers, Battle of Bosworth, Bess of Hardwick, bigamy, Bridgnorth, Castillon, destruction of records, Duchess of Norfolk, Earls of Shrewsbury, Edward Grey Lord Lisle, Edward IV, Edward V, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Wydeville, evidence, executions, Fotheringhay, France, funicular railways, George Duke of Clarence, George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Henry VI, Henry VII, heraldic symbols, Hex, house arrest, House of York, Hundred Years War, illegitimacy, Jeanne d’Arc, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, Lady Elizabeth Talbot, London, Lord Protector of the Realm, Margaret d’Anjou, Mary Stuart, memorials, Pontefract, pre-contract, pubs, Ralph Shaa, Richard III, Robert Stillington, secret marriage, Shropshire, Simon Stallworth, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Staffordshire, Talbot hound, Talbot Monument, Talbots, The Shrewsbury Book, Titulus Regius, Tutbury castle, Wingfield ManorThere is a pub in Bridgnorth, near where I live. Well, let’s be honest, there’s about a hundred. If you have ever been to Bridgnorth, aside from the Severn Valley Railway, the funicular railway from Low Town to High Town and the remains of the slighted castle, which lean at a greater angle than the…
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SIR THOMAS MORE , A MAN FOR ALL REASONS: SAINT OR SINNER?
“Perkin”, “Princes”, “The History of King Richard III”, “Tudor” Despotism, “Tudors”, Alan Grant, Anthony Woodville, Archbishop of Canterbury, bigamy, Bishop of Norwich, Carmeliano, Carthusian Monastery, Colet, Domenico Mancini, Dr. Horsey, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth Wydeville, Erasmus, executions, Fabyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Greek, Hanseatic League, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heresy, Horace Walpole, humanism, Hunne Case, John Morton, John Rous, Kincaid, King’s Bench, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lambeth Palace, Latin, law, Lollards, London Charterhouse, Lord Chancellor, Lutheran texts, More, New Inn, Oxford University, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Ackroyd, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Reformation, renaissance, Richard III, Richard Sylvester, saints, Sallust, sanctuary, satire, Sir John Harrington, Stony Stratford, Tey, The Daughter of Time, Thomas Wolsey, Threadneedle Street, Tillyard, Utopia, William Roper‘Not exactly the horse’s mouth’ In Josephine Tey’s spellbinding novel ‘The Daughter of Time’, Detective Inspector Alan Grant has a reputation for being able to spot a villain on sight. Whilst in hospital with a broken leg, Grant is idly flipping through some old postcard portraits to while away the time. He turns over a…
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While researching fourteenth-century Northamptonshire, I happened upon Sir John Stanley (1350-1414). “Stanley’s father was Master-Forester of the Forest of Wirral, notorious for his repressive activities. Both Stanley and his older brother, William (who succeeded their father as Master-Forester), were involved in criminal cases which charged them with a forced entry in 1369 and in the…
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JOHN HOWARD, DUKE OF NORFOLK – HIS WEDDING GIFTS…
“Beloved Cousin”, Admiral of England, Anne Crawford, Battle of Bosworth, Catherine Moleyns, Earl Marshal, High Sheriffs, High Treasurer, John Ashdown-Hill, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, John Norris, Knights of the Garter, Margaret Chedworth, marriages, ODNB, Paston Letters, Richard III, stained glass, Stoke-by-Nayland, Tendring HallUPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/06/21/john-howard-duke-of-norfolk-his-wedding-gifts/ JOHN HOWARD, PAINTING OF A STAINED GLASS IMAGE FORMERLY AT TENDRING HALL OR SOUTH CHAPEL, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND CHURCH, NOW LOST. John Howard, what a colossus of a man – Admiral of England, member of the King’s Council, Earl Marshal, Knight of the Garter, Treasurer of the Royal Household,…
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Thanks to the Mortimer History Society, I now know that Heidelberg University have digitised 3000 medieval and early modern documents forming the Biblioteca Palatina, and made them accessible online. See here.
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A 19th-century description of Bosworth Field that is definitely pro-Richard….!
Ambion Hill, Atherstone, Battle of Bosworth, Blue Boar Inn, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Oxford, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Leicester, Lord Ferrers, Richard III, Simons Street, Sir Bryan Sandford, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir John Cheney, Sir John Savage, Sir Richard Clarendon, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir Robert Brackenbury, Sir Simon Digby, Sir William Conyers, Sir William Stanley, Soar, St. Nicholas’ Cathedral, Sutton Cheney, Thomas Earl of Surrey, Thomas Featherstone, Thomas Lord Stanley, West Bridge, William BrandonThe following rather flowery but decidedly pro-Richard account of Bosworth is taken from an 1838 publication called ‘Legends of Leicester, in the olden time’, by Thomas Featherstone. London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane. C. Tilt, Fleet Street. J.G. Brown, Leicester. You will find it here I have copied the text as faithfully as I can,…
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Well, we are accustomed to incorrect reports about historic events, such as Richard III’s remains being tossed into the River Soar, and Henry “Tudor” being both “the Lancastrian heir” and “Earl of Richmond”. And that Richard III “poisoned” his queen, Anne Neville. Tradition abounds with these things, but today I came upon one I hadn’t…
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We do not suffer a great many earthquakes in the United Kingdom, but there have been some, occasionally quite considerable. Our main sphere of interest on this site is the time of Richard III, and while I was investigating another earthquake, from the previous century, I happened up information about an earthquake of 1480:- “.…
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