Francis Bacon

The Daughter of Time: see the play of the book….

Apr 2, 2025

battles, culture, history, medieval characters, Richard III, The play’s the thing, theatre, Usurpers to throne

Francis Bacon, Henry VII, Josephine Tey, Knutsford Little Theatre, Richard III, Shakespeare, sir thomas more, The Daughter of Time

According to Francis Bacon, Truth is the Daughter of Time. But The Daughter of Time is also the title of a famous book by Josephine Tey which excels in both popularity and standard-bearing for Richard III. Just how many new supporters has it garnered for Richard III since it was first published in 1951? You…
Did Henry VII really fine the Earl of Oxford a huge sum for his loyalty….?

Sep 8, 2024

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry, law

antiques road trip, Battle of Bosworth, Chrimes, Essex, fines, Francis Bacon, hedingham castle, Henry VII, John Earl of Oxford, Sir William Stanley

I recently watched an episode of Antiques Road Trip in which a sequence was set in Hedingham Castle in Essex. It was Series 11, Episode 23, in which art experts Mark Stacy and Thomas Plant travelled through Essex and Suffolk on their way to an auction in Cambridgeshire. I fear I have not been able…
The Countess of Desmond remembered dancing with Richard….?

Feb 7, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, genealogy, sources

Battle of Bosworth, Bernard Andre, Countess of Desmond, dancing, Dromana House, Eltham Palace, essays, Francis Bacon, Henry VII, Inchiquin Castle, Ireland, JSTOR, Mary Agnes Hickson, nathaniel grogan, Richard III, Richard Steele, Robert Sidney, Sir Walter Raleigh, teeth, Thomas More, treachery, University of Exeter

While searching for one thing, yet again I came upon another. This time it was a very interesting essay available on JSTOR. It is titled Lees and Moonshine: Remembering Richard III, 1485-1635 by Philip Schwyzer of the University of Exeter. You can find it here but need to register and give a password. However, for…
MINSTER LOVELL HALL, HOME TO FRANCIS LOVELL VISCOUNT LOVELL

Oct 3, 2020

battles, buildings, religion

attainder, Bosworth, Cecily Duchess of York, Coke family, Cotswolds, executions, Francis Bacon, Francis Viscount Lovell, Henry VII, Jasper “Tudor”, Middleham Castle, Minster Lovell Hall, Oxfordshire, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, River Windrush, Royal Progress, St. Kenelm’s Church, Stoke Field, Wars of the Roses, WE Hampton, William Baron Lovell, William Colyngbourne

Reblogged from sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://wordpress.com/post/sparkypus.com/754 Minster Lovell at sunset @Colin Whitaker Minster Lovell Hall, Oxfordshire lies in beautiful, atmospheric ruins set amongst trees besides the River Windrush in the heart of the Cotswolds. Pevensey describes these ruins to be ‘still the most picturesque in the country’. It was at least…
“THE MEMORY OF KING RICHARD STILL LAID LIKE LEES AT THE BOTTOM OF MENS HEARTS’ Sir Francis Bacon

Jan 22, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, sources

“Tudor” rebellions, Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, Bootham Bar, Earl of Northumberland, Francis Bacon, Henry VII, monk Bar, Northumbrian rebellion, Richard III, Sir Roger Cotam, The Shambles, York, York Guildhall, York House Books

UPDATED POST AT sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-memory-of-king-richard-still-laid-like-lees-at-the-bottom-of-mens-hearts-sir-francis-bacon-2/ Entry from the York City House book…’King Richard late mercifully reigning upon us was thrugh grete treason of the duc of Northefolk and many othre that turned ayenst hyme, with many othre lordes and nobilles of this north parties, was pitiously slain and murdred to the grey hevynesse of this citie’ (1) “The…
BOOK REVIEW

Sep 15, 2019

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, law, religion

“Perkin”, “Princes”, ambition, Archbishop Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, attainder, Battle of Bosworth, Cardinal, Domenico Mancini, Edward IV, Edward of Lancaster, Edward V, Francis Bacon, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, illegitimacy, inheritance, James IV, John Morton, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Master of the Rolls, Milanese Ambassador, Morton’s Fork, Polydore Vergil, rebellion, Richard III, Robert Cecil, Stuart Bradley, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Titulus Regius, Towton, William Cecil, William Lord Hastings, Wydevilles

Stuart Bradley – JOHN MORTON: adversary of Richard III, power behind the Tudors (Amberley 2019) John Morton served the English crown for a almost forty years during one of the most turbulent periods in English history. He wielded considerable influence at the courts of three kings. First, in the Lancastrian household of Henry VI:…
THE DEATH OF HENRY VII

Apr 21, 2019

anniversaries, battles, religion, sources

Arthur “Tudor”, Battle of Bosworth, Clifford Brewer, death, death masks, diseases, Francis Bacon, Henry VII, Henry VIII, John Fisher, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Polydore Vergil, Ralph Holinshed, Reformation, Richmond Palace, Thomas Penn, tuberculosis, Westminster Abbey

UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-death-of-henry-vii/ Henry VII on his deathbed : Wriothesley’s Heraldic Collection Vol 1 Book of Funerals. c Unknown artist’s impression of Tudor being crowned in the aftermath of Bosworth.. It must have seemed surreal to him as he wandered through the dead kings apartments at Westminster that had now,…
Miles Metcalf, or how the city of York defied Henry VII…

Jun 2, 2017

buildings, sources

Archbishop of York, Bosworth, Coventry, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, Exeter, Francis Bacon, Guy Fairfax, Henry VII, John Vavasour, maps, Miles Metcalf, Norwich, Richard Green, Richard III, riots, Sir Thomas Metcalfe, Stoke Field, Tewkesbury, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Middleton, York, York civic records

In a book called The Fifteenth Century – 3: Authority and Subversion, edited by Linda Clark, there is an interesting essay by James Lee entitled Urban Recorders and the Crown in Late Medieval England. I have taken from the article to illustrate the situation of the city of York with regard to the vital position…
The case of the time-travelling Bishop

Mar 14, 2015

religion

“Perkin”, denialists, Francis Bacon, John Leslie, John Speed, trolls

Following our recent post https://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/what-perkin-actually-said/, the eternal troll duRose has assured us that Francis Bacon and John (The Colourblind Cartographer) Speede didn’t actually invent “Perkin”‘s specific accusation against Richard III. No, we are assured that much of Bacon’s manuscript came from John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, who actually lived from 1527-96, whilst “Perkin” was executed…
What “Perkin” (actually) said

Mar 4, 2015

sources, Uncategorized

“Perkin”, denialists, Edward IV, Edward V, Francis Bacon, Isabel of Castile, James IV, John Speed, Lady Catherine Gordon, Latin, Margaret Duchess of Burgundy, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Sir Robert Cotton, Tyburn

Most of us are familiar with the story of “Perkin Warbeck” and the letters he wrote back to the Low Countries. Depending on his identity, his parents hailed from there if he was an impostor or his aunt was Dowager Duchess of Burgundy if he was Richard of Shrewsbury, the former Duke of York and…