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Licence

A Weir(d) Myth-take (1): The Legend of Joan of York

Feb 10, 2018

anniversaries, genealogy

Arthur, Clare Rolls, Ivar the Boneless, Jabba the Hutt, Licence, poetry, Richard III, sources, Stephen Hawes, Weir

After the time of long barrenness, God first send Anne, which signifyth grace, In token that at her heart’s heaviness, He as for barrenness would from them chase. Harry, Edward, Edmund, each in his place Succeeded; and after twain daughter came Elizabeth and Margaret, and afterwards William. John after William next born was, Which both…
The “Lincoln Roll” and the desperate sandbagging of the Cairo residents

Oct 1, 2014

heraldry

“Perkin”, Canterbury, Catherine de Valois, denialists, Durose, Earl of Lincoln, Edmund de la Pole, Edward IV, Licence, Lincoln Roll, Parliament, Pavia, Richard de la Pole, Richard III, shrine, Thomas Penn

You have probably heard of the “Lincoln Roll”. It resides at the John Rylands Institute of the University of Manchester. It shows the strength of the de la Pole claim to the throne (John of Lincoln being of that family) and the weakness of the “Tudor” claim, having been featured in Dr. Thomas Penn’s BBC2…