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I. PRINTED BOOKS
Documents and Original Letters
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Rotuli Parliamentorum. London, 1767-77. Comprises Petitions, Pleas, and Proceedings in Parliament, 1278-1503. Rot. Parl.
Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council (1386-1542). Ed. by Sir H. N. Nicolas. London, 1834-37. Ordinances.
Rotuli Scotiae in Turri Londiniensi asservati. London, 1814-19. Rot. Scot.
Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londiniensi. London, 1802. This calendar only contains excerpts from the Patent Rolls. The new calendars published do not as yet include the important periods of the Duke of Gloucester’s life. Cal. Rot. Pat.
Issues of the Exchequer. Collected by Frederick Devon. London, 1837. Devon, Issue Roll.
Calendar of Norman Rolls:—
For the year 1417. Rotuli Normanniae, vol. i. (all published). Ed. by T. D. Hardy. London, 1835. Rot. Norm.
For the year 1418 and onwards. Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. Nos. 41 and 42. Appendices. London, 1880, 1881. Cal. of Norman Rolls.
Calendar of the French Rolls. Reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. Nos. 44 and 48. Appendices. London, 1883, 1887. Cal. of French Rolls.
Catalogue des Rolles Gascons, Normans et Français. By Thomas Carte. London, 1743. Certain selections from these rolls only. Carte.
Reports of the Lords’ Committees touching the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm. London, 1829. Lords’ Reports.
Foedera Conventiones Litterae et cujuscumque Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et alios. Collected by Thomas Rymer. Third ed. by George Holmes. ‘Hagae comitis apud Joannem Neaulme.’ 1745. Miscellaneous documents illustrative of English History. Rymer.
Memorials of London. Extracts from the early Archives of the City of London, 1276-1419. By H. T. Riley. London, 1868. Memorials of London.
Collection Générale des Documents Français. Publiés par Jules Delpit. Paris, 1847. Documents drawn mainly from the Archives of the City of London. Delpit, Doc. Fr.
Testamenta Vetusta. By Sir Harris Nicolas. London, 1868. A collection of Ancient Wills, from Henry V. to Elizabeth inclusive. Test. Vetust.
Excerpta Historica. Ed. by Samuel Bentley. London, 1831. Miscellaneous documents, collected from various sources; published originally in four parts during 1830, but unfortunately discontinued owing to a lack of support. Excerpta Historica.
Rechnungen über Heinrich von Derby’s Preussenfahrten, von Dr. Hans Prutz. Leipzig, 1893. Accounts of Henry’s Treasurer. A similar volume has been edited by the Camden Society by Lucy Toulmin Smith. Prutz.
Ordinances for the Government of the Household, Liber Niger Domus Regis Edwardi quarti. London, 1790. Ordinances of the Household.
Preuves de l’Histoire de Bourgogne. In vol. iv. of Histoire Générale de Bourgoyne par Urbain Plancher. Dijon, 1781. Plancher, Preuves.
Particularités Curieuses sur Jacqueline de Bavière, Comtesse de Hainaut. Première Partie ed. by A. D. No. 7 des Publications de la Société des Bibliophiles de Mons. Mons, 1838. Extracts from the Register of the City of Mons. Particularités Curieuses.
Cartulaire des Contes de Hainaut. Vols, iv., v., vi. Bruxelles, 1889-96. Collections des Chroniques Belges inédites. A collection of documents taken from the various city registers and other sources. Cartulaire.
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Jakobäa von Bayern. In Abhandlungen der Historischen Classe der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Band x. Munich, 1867. Erste Abtheilung (1401-26), pp. 1-112. Zweite Abtheilung (1426-36), pp. 205-336. A miscellaneous collection of extracts from documents and chroniclers. Beiträge.
Aus der Kanzlei Kaiser Sigismunds. Urkundliche Beiträge zur Geschichte des Constanzer Concils. Herausgegeben von J. Caro in Archiv für Oestreichische Geschichte. Vol. 59. Vienna, 1880. Contains some documents relating to Sigismund’s visit in England.
Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae. By David Wilkins. London, 1737. A collection of letters and documents relating to ecclesiastical matters. Wilkin’s, Concilia.
Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, illustrating the History of Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters. Vol. vii. London, 1906. Papal Letters.
Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the English in France during the reign of Henry VI. Ed. by J. Stevenson. Rolls Series, No, 22. London, 1861-64. Stevenson, Letters and Papers.
Registrum Abbatiae T. Whethamstede. Ed. by H. T. Riley. Rolls Series, No. 28. London, 1872-73. Whethamstede.
Munimenta Academica. Ed. by Henry Anstey. Rolls Series, No. 50. London, 1898. Documents illustrative of Life and Studies at Oxford. Munimenta Acad.
Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (Registrum F.) Ed. by H. Anstey. (Oxford Historical Society.) Oxford, 1898. Epist. Acad.
The Paston Letters. Ed. by J. Gairdner. London, 1872-75. Paston Letters.
Official Correspondence of Thomas Beckington. Ed. by G. Williams. Rolls Series, No. 56. London, 1872. Beckington Correspondence.
Æneae Sylvii Piccolominei, Opera quae extant omnia. Basel, 1851. Æn. Sylv., Opera.
Leonardi Bruni Aretini Epistolarum, Libri viii. Ed. by Lorenzo Metus. Florence, 1741. Leonardi Bruni Epistolae.
Original Letters illustrative of English History. Ed. by Sir Henry Ellis. Three Series. London, 1825-45. Ellis, Letters.
The English Historical Review:— Eng. Hist. Review.
Vol. x. 1895. Correspondence of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Ed. by Bishop Creighton.
Vol. xix. 1904. Correspondence of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Ed. by Mario Borsa.
Vol. xx. 1905. Correspondence of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester. Ed. by W. L. Newman, D. Litt.
Archivio Storico Lombardo. Vol. x. Anno xx. Milan, 1893. Pier Candido Decembri e L’Umanesimo in Lombardia, da Mario Borsa. Contains some original letters printed in an appendix. Archivio Lombardo.
Veterum scriptorum et monumentorum amplissima collectio. Ed. by Martène and Durand. Paris, 1724-33. Amplissima Collectio.
Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. London. Various dates. Cited under the Number of their Report. Hist. MSS. Rep.
Political Poems and Songs. Ed. by Thomas Wright. Rolls Series, No. 14. London, 1861. Polit. Songs.
Contemporary Chroniclers who wrote in England
Annales Henrici Quarti Regis Angliae. In H. T. Riley’s Johannis de Trokelowe Chronicon and others. Rolls Series, No. 28. London, 1886. Annales Henrici Quarti.
Incerti Scriptoris Chronicon Angliae de regnis trium regum. Lancastrensium. Ed. by John Allen Giles. London, 1848. Certainly not all by the same author. The Chronicle of Henry V.’s reign stops at 1416, and is the same as the Gesta Henrici Quinti below. The most valuable of the three is the Chronicle of Henry VI.’s reign, probably written by a contemporary and a cleric, and therefore having numerous references to church matters.
1st chronicle, 3rd chronicle Chron. Henry IV. Chron. Henry VI.
Gesta Henrici Quinti. Ed. by Benjamin Williams. London, 1850. The first part of this Latin Chronicle down to 1417 was written by a chaplain in Henry’s army, being the same chronicle as Nicolas translated at the end of his ‘Battle of Agincourt.’ The continuation is by some other chronicler, and is largely borrowed from Elmham. Gesta.
A ‘Chronique de Normandie’ is printed at the end of this chronicle, and is attributed to George Chastellain by the Editor, though this has been denied. It is, however, obviously written by a contemporary. Chronique de Normandie.
Vita et gesta Henrici Quinti Anglorum Regis, by Thomas de Elmham. Ed. by Thomas Hearne. Oxford, 1727. Elmham was a monk of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, of which he was treasurer in 1407, and ultimately became Prior of Lenton, Notts. He died some time during the reign of Henry VI. The attribution to him of this chronicle is doubted. Elmham, Vita.
Titi Livi Foro-Juliensis Vita Henrici Quinti. Ed. by Thomas Hearne. Oxford, 1716. Written at the suggestion of the Duke of Gloucester by an Italian attached to his household. The chronology is not always quite accurate. Livius.
Wilhelmi Wyrcester Annales Rerum Anglicarum, 1324-1491. In Hearne’s Liber Niger Scaccarii. Vol. ii. Oxford, 1774. App. ix. excerpti Gilbert Kymeri. Dietarium de Sanitatis Custodia. William of Worcester.
Historia Anglicana, by Thomas Walsingham. Ed. by H. T. Riley. Rolls Series, No. 28. London, 1864. Walsingham was one of the St. Albans Chroniclers, and wrote about 1430. Walsingham, Hist. Angl.
Ypodigma Neustriae, by Thomas Walsingham. Ed. by H. T. Riley. Rolls Series, No. 28. London, 1876. Walsingham, Ypodigma Neustriae.
Chronica Regum Angliae, by Thomas Otterbourne. Ed. by T. Hearne. 1732. A very brief record of events. Otterbourne.
Annales Monasterii S. Albani a J. Amundesham. Ed. by H. T. Riley. Rolls Series, No. 28. London, 1870. Contains—
(1) ‘Chronicon Rerum Gestarum in Monasterio S. Albani,’ by an unknown author. It covers the years 1421-31. St. Albans Chron.
(2) Annales of Amundesham. Amundesham was Prior of Gloucester Hall at Oxford. His Annales extend to the year 1440. Amundesham, Annales.
Historiae Croylandensis Continuatio. Printed by Thomas Gale in vol. i. of Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Veteres. Oxford, 1604. An unknown chronicler of the monastic house of Croyland. Hist. Croyland. Contin.
Memorials of Henry V., King of England. Ed. by C. A. Cole. London, 1858. Contains—
(1) Vita Henrici Quinti. Roberto Redmano Auctore. Redmayne wrote in the early part of the sixteenth century. Redmayne.
(2) Elmhami Liber Metricus de Henrico Quinto. Elmham, Liber Metricus.
Liber de Illustribus Henricis, by John Capgrave. Ed. by F. C. Hingeston. Rolls Series, No. 7. London, 1858. Capgrave was an inmate of the Augustinian monastery of Lynn in Norfolk, and was a friend of the Duke of Gloucester. Capgrave, De Illustr. Hen.
Chronicle of England, by John Capgrave. Ed. by F. C. Hingeston. Rolls Series, No. 1. London, 1858. The Chronicle does not go further than the year 1417. Capgrave, Chron. of Eng.
The Historical Collections of a London Citizen. Ed, by James Gairdner. Camden Society, 1876. Contains—
(1) Poem on the Siege of Rouen, by John Page. The author was present at the siege. John Page.
(2) Lydgate’s verses on the Kings of England.
(3) William Gregory’s Chronicle of London. Begun by Gregory, but probably continued by another writer. Gregory.
A Chronicle of London from 1089-1483. London, 1827. One of the series of London Chronicles of which Gregory’s Chronicle is another. Lydgate’s poem on the Battle of Agincourt is printed in the Appendix. Lond. Chron.
Chronicles of London. Edited, with an Introduction, by C. H. Kingsford. Oxford, 1905. [See Manuscript Authorities, British Museum, p. 472.]
An English Chronicle of the Kings’ reigns from Richard II. to Henry VI. Ed. by J. S. Davies. Camden Society, No. 64. London, 1856. Contains—
(1) A Chronicle founded on the English Chronicle called the Brut by an unknown author who must have died between 1461 and 1471. It was used by Stow in his ‘Annals.’ Eng. Chron.
(2) An account of the Parliament of Bury held in 1447 and the death of the Duke of Gloucester, by Richard Fox of St. Albans, who wrote it probably within a few months of the events recorded. Richard Fox.
Three Fifteenth-century Chronicles. Ed. by James Gairdner. Camden Society. London, 1880. Contains—
(1) A Short English Chronicle. Written probably Short Eng. Chron. about the time when it ends, 1465. Not very full till Jack Cade’s Rebellion.
(2) Historical Memoranda in the handwriting of John Stow. Evidently copies of the original documents. Stow Memoranda.
(3) Brief Notes in a late fifteenth-century hand. Probably written by a monk of Ely. Brief Notes.
(4) A Short Latin Chronicle. By an unknown compiler who lived in the time of Henry vi. and Edward iv. Brief Lat. Chron.
The Chronicle of John Hardyng, with the continuation of Richard Grafton. Ed. by H. Ellis. London, 1812. Hardyng was a servant of the Percys, and after Shrewsbury of Sir Robert Umfravile, whom he accompanied in the Agincourt campaign. Hardyng.
A Latin Journal of the 1415 campaign is inserted in the above at the end of the reign of Henry v. Hardyng’s Journal.
Caxton’s edition and continuation of Higden’s Chronicle ‘In the Abbey of Westminster ... Accomplished the V day of August the yere ... MCCCCLXXX.’ Higden died in 1370. The continuator was probably not Caxton. Higden.
Polychronicon. Imprented in Southwerke for John Rey, 1527. An English Chronicle founded on the ‘Brut,’ and brought up to date. Polychronicon.
Contemporary Foreign Chroniclers
Chroniques de Enguerrand de Monstrelet. Ed. Buchon. Paris, 1826-27. A Burgundy in sympathy, Monstrelet continued the Chronicles of Froissart. He died in 1453. Monstrelet.
Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne, a present nomme Engleterre, par Jehan de Waurin. Ed. by Sir Will. Hardy. Roll Series, No. 39— Vol. ii. 1399-1422. London, 1868. Vol. iii. 1422-1431. London, 1874. Vol. iv. 1431-1447. London, 1884. Vol. v. 1447-1471. London, 1891. Waurin copies much from Monstrelet. He was present at Agincourt, and also was an eye-witness of Gloucester’s inroad into Flanders in 1436. Waurin.
Chronique des Ducs de Burgoyne, par Georges Chastellain, Ed. Buchon. Paris, 1827. A Burgundy chronicler very hostile to England. He possesses a far more literary style than the other chroniclers of the time who wrote in French. He lived from 1403 to 1475. Chastellain.
Mémoires de Pierre de Fénin. Ed. Buchon. Paris, 1838. A native of Artois who died in 1433. Pierre de Fénin.
Chronique du Religieux de Saint Denys. Ed. by M. L. Bellaguet. Collection de Documents inédits sur l’Histoire de France. Paris, 1852. A contemporary French chronicler whose work comprises the years 1380-1422. St. Denys.
Chronique de Jean Le Fevre Seigneur de St. Rémy. Ed. Buchon. Paris, 1838. Le Fevre was in the English army at Agincourt. His chronicle has much in common with those of Monstrelet and Waurin, from whom he often seems to quote. St. Rémy.
Chroniques de Mathieu de Coussy. Ed. Buchon. Paris, 1838. An Hainaulter who wrote in the fifteenth century. Mathieu de Coussy.
La Chronique Normande de P. Cochon. Ed. M. Vallet de Veriville. Paris, 1859. Cochon.
Chronique des Pays Bas de France, d’Angleterre et de Tournai, in vol. iii. of Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre. Brussels, 1856. A very brief chronicle of events. Chronique des Pays Bas.
Histoire de Charles VI., by Jean Juvenal des Ursins. Paris, 1850. This author lived from 1388 to 1473. Des Ursins.
Historiarum de Rebus A. Carlo Septimo Francorum Rege et suo tempore in Gallia gestis, by Thomas Basin. Ed. J. Quicherat. Paris, 1855. Basin was born in 1412. He visited England on an embassy to the Duke of York, where he also came in contact with the chief English nobles such as Suffolk, Somerset, and Talbot. Basin.
Chronica Nobilissimorum Ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae ac Regum Francorum, auctore Magistro Edmundo de Dynter. Ed. by P. F. X. de Ram. Brussels, 1854-57. Dynter was private secretary to John of Brabant, and therefore a valuable authority on the history of the Jacqueline marriage. Dynter.
Das Leben König Sigmunds von Eberhard Windeck. Uebersetzt von Dr. von Hagen. Leipzig, 1886. Windeck was Sigismund’s secretary, and accompanied him to England. Windeck.
Later Chroniclers
The Customs of London, otherwise called Arnold’s Chronicle. London, 1811. First published about 1502. Arnold’s Chron.
The New Chronicles of England and France, by Robert Fabyan. Ed. by Henry Ellis. London, 1811. Fabyan was a Londoner, who died about 1511. Fabyan.
The English History of Polydore Vergil, from an early translation. Ed. by Sir Henry Ellis. Camden Society, 1844. Polydore was a native of Urbino, and was born in the latter half of the fifteenth century. He came to England as a subcollector of Peter’s Pence in 1502. Polydore Vergil.
The Pastime of People (1529), by John Rastell. Ed. by T. F. Dibdin. London, 1811. Rastell.
Hall’s Chronicle, from Henry IV. to Henry VIII. London, 1809. Originally published in 1548. Based on documents, and especially useful for the proceedings in the Parliament of 1426. Edward Hall died in 1547. Hall.
Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed. London, 1808. Holinshed published his Chronicles in 1557. Holinshed.
The History of Great Britain, by John Speed. London, 1611. Speed lived from 1550 to 1629. Speed.
Annales, or A General Chronicle of England, begun by John Stow, and continued down to 1631 by Edmund Howes. London, 1631. Stow died in 1605 before his Chronicle was published. Stow.
Miscellaneous Authorities
The Governance of England, by Sir John Fortescue. Ed. by C. Plummer. Oxford, 1885. Plummer’s Fortescue.
Ægidii Columerae Romani De Regimine Principum Libri Tres. Romae, 1607. Egidius was tutor to Philip le Bel of France when he was Dauphin, for whom this treatise was written. Ægidius, De Regimine Principum.
England and France in the Fifteenth Century, ‘The Debate between the heralds of France and England,’ attributed to Charles, Duke of Orleans. Translated by H. Pyne. London, 1870. Supposed to have been written by the Duke of Orleans while a captive in England. Heralds’ Debate.
De Viris Illustribus, by Æneas Sylvius Piccolomineus. Strasburg, 1842. Records of certain celebrities of his time by Pope Pius II. Æneas Sylvius, De Viris Illustribus.
De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, by John Leland. London, 1774. Leland, Collectanea.
Antient Funerall Monuments of Great Britain and Ireland, by John Weever. London, 1767. Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments.
History from Marble, by T. Dingley. Camden Society, 1867. History from Marble.
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Fourth edition. By the Rev. E. Pratt, N.D. London. Foxe.
Monasticon Anglicanum, by Sir William Dugdale. 6 vols. London, 1819. Dugdale, Monasticon.
Britannia, by William Camden. Translation and additions by Richard Gough. London, 1789. Camden’s Britannia.
Anglia Sacra, by Henry Wharton. London, 1691. A collection of biographies of the Archbishops and Bishops of the English Church. Wharton, Anglia Sacra.
The State of the Church and Clergy, by William Wake. London, 1703. Wake.
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, by W. F. Hook. London, 1867. Hook.
History of the Abbey of St. Albans, by the Rev. Peter Newcome. London, 1793-95. Newcome.
Projet d’Assassinat de Philippe le Bon par les Anglais, par M. H. Desplanque. In Mémoires Couronnés par l’Académie Royale de Belgique. Vol. 32. Brussels, 1867. Desplanque, Projet d’Assassinat.
Das Bundniss von Canterbury, by Jacob Caro. Gotha, 1880. Caro, Bundniss von Canterbury.
Lives of Nottinghamshire Worthies, by Cornelius Brown. London, 1882. W. H. Stevenson’s article on Ralph, Lord Cromwell.
Statutes of the Order of the Bath, with Introductory Essay by John Anstis. London, 1725. Anstis, Order of the Bath.
The Register of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Ed. by John Anstis. London, 1724. Anstis, Order of the Garter.
Memorials of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, by George Frederick Beltz. London, 1841. Beltz.
Historical Tracts, by Joseph Hunter. No. 1. ‘Agincourt.’ 1850. Contains a list of the commanders and their escorts taken from an old Muster Roll. Hunter’s Hist. Tracts.
History of the Battle of Agincourt, by Sir H. N. Nicolas. London, 1832. Contains Muster Rolls of the English Army in an Appendix. Nicolas, Agincourt.
Chronicles of London Bridge, by an Antiquary. London, 1827. Now known to be by Richard Thompson. Chronicles of London Bridge.
The Baronage of England, by William Dugdale. London, 1675-76. Dugdale.
The Historic Peerage of England, by Sir H. N. Nicolas. London, 1887. Nicolas, Peerage.
The Official Baronage of England, by James E. Doyle. London, 1886. Doyle.
A Genealogical History of the Kings of England from 1066-1677, by Francis Sandford. In the Savoy, 1677. Sandford, Genealogical Hist.
Books Illustrating the History of Literature
The Middle-English Translation of Palladius De Re Rustica. Ed. by Mark Liddell. Berlin, 1896. Palladius.
Vite di Uomini Illustri del Sec. XV., scritte da Vespasiano da Bisticci. Florence, 1859. The compilation of the famous fifteenth-century Florentine bookseller. Vespasiano.
Scriptorum Illustrium majoris Brytanniae Catalogus Auctore Joanne Baleo. Basle, 1559. Bale.
De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea, by John Leland. London, 1774. Leland, Collectanea.
Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, by John Leland. Oxford, 1709. Leland, Commentarii.
Relationum Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis Joannis Pitsei Tomus Primus (all published). Paris, 1619. Pits.
Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, by Thomas Tanner. London, 1748. Tanner, Bibl. Brit.
Die Wiederbelebung des Classischen Alterthums, von Georg Voigt. Berlin, 1881. Voigt.
Geschichte der Classichen Litteratur in Mittelalter, von A. H. L. Heeren. Göttingen, 1822. Heeren.
Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais, by J. J. Jusserand. Paris, 1894. London, 1895.
History of English Poetry, by Thomas Warton. Ed. by W. Carew Hazlitt. London, 1871. Warton.
De Studiis Literariis Medislanensium, Auctore Joseph Antonio Saxio. Milan, 1729. Sassi, De Studiis Literariis.
Historia Literario-typographica Mediolanensis, Auctore Joseph Antonio Saxio. Milan, 1745. Sassi, Historia Literario-typographica.
Della Letteratura Veronese al cadere del Secolo XV. e Delle sue opere a stampa. Per il Conte Giovanni Battista Carlo Giuliari. Bologna, 1876. Giuliari.
Renaissance in Italy, by John Addington Symonds. London, 1901.
Studji sulle Opere Latine del Boccaccio, by Attilio Hortis. Trieste, 1879. Hortis.
Cent Dix Lettres grecques de François Filelfe. Translation et notes de Emile Legrand. Paris, 1892. Cent Dix Lettres grecques.
Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale, par Léopold Delisle. Paris, 1868.
Romania, edited by Paul Meyer and Gaston Paris, vol. xv. Paris, 1886. Romania.
Article Les Manuscrits Français de Cambridge, by P. Meyer.
The Athenæum Journal, November 17, 1888. Article on a manuscript translation of Palladius ‘De Re Rustica’ in the Library of Earl Fitzwilliam at Wentworth-Woodhouse. Athenæum.
A Catalogue of Editions of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, printed in the fifteenth century. By Henry W. Chandler. Privately printed (twenty-five copies). Oxford, 1868.
Early Dedications to Englishmen by Foreign Authors and Editors in Bibliographica, by W. D. Macray. Vol. i. Part III. London, 1895. Bibliographica.
Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions. Ed. by E. A. Bond, E. Maunde Thompson, and C. J. Warner. Second Series. London, 1889-94.
The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford, by Anthony Wood. Edited and translated by J. Gutch. Oxford, 1786. Fasti Oxoniensis. Appendix volume to above. Oxford, 1790. Wood, History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford.
Annals of the Bodleian, by W. D. Macray. Second edition. Oxford, 1890. Macray, Annals of Bodleian.
Pietas Oxoniensis, in memory of Sir Thomas Bodley, Knight. October 1902.
A History of the University of Oxford to the year 1530, by H. C. Maxwell-Lyte. London, 1886.
Froissart. Étude Littéraire sur le 14me siècle, par M. Kervyn de Lettenhove. Paris, 1857.
The Italian Renaissance in England, by Lewis Einstein. New York, 1902. Einstein.
Modern Histories and Biographies
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Lancaster and York, by Sir James Ramsay. Oxford, 1892. Ramsay.
The Constitutional History of England, by Bishop Stubbs. Oxford, 1878. Stubbs.
The History of England, 1377-1485, by C. Oman (vol. iv. of The Political History of England). London, 1906.
Geschichte von England, von Dr. R. Pauli. Gotha, 1858.
The History of England during the Middle Ages, by Sharon-Turner. London, 1853. Sharon-Turner.
General History of England (to 1654), by Thomas Carte. London, 1747-55. Carte, Hist. of Eng.
Biographical History of England, by J. Granger. London, 1775.
Henry V., by C. L. Kingsford. New York, 1894. Kingsford.
Henry of Monmouth, by the Rev. J. Endell Tyler. London, 1838. Tyler, Henry of Monmouth.
Jakobäa von Bayern und Ihre Zeit, von France von Löher. Nordlingen, 1869. Löher, Jakobäa von Bayern.
A Mediæval Princess. Jacqueline, Countess of Holland. By Ruth Putnam. London, 1904. Putnam, A Mediæval Princess.
Histoire de Charles VII., par Gaston Du Fresne de Beaucourt. Paris, 1881-91. De Beaucort.
Le Connétable de Richemont, par E. Cosneau. Paris, 1886.
Geschichte Kaiser Sigmunds, von Joseph Aschbach. Hamburg, 1838-45. Aschbach.
A History of the Papacy, by Bishop Creighton. London, 1897. Creighton’s Papacy.
Monographs on Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. xxviii.
An excellent article on the life of Gloucester.
Bilder aus Alt-England, von R. Pauli. Gotha, 1860.
Contains a short popular account of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.
Serapeum, vol. vi. Leipzig, 1845. Article by E. G. Vogel, ‘Erinnerungen an einige verdientsvolle Bibliophilen des vierzehnten und funfzehnten Jahrhunderts,’ pp. 11-16.
A good short sketch of Gloucester, especially with regard to his patronage of literature.
Episodes in the career of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and his first Duchess, and their connexion with the Abbey of St. Albans, by G. R. Wright. In the Journal of the British Archæological Association. London, 1871.
Slight and incorrect.
Transactions of the St. Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archæological Society, 1903-1904.
Humphrey of Gloucester, by Mrs. Maude C. Knight.
Memoirs of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (As they relate to the Story of Mr. Phillips’s Tragedy of that Name; and proper to be Bound up with it). London: Printed for Thomas Corbett, at Addison’s Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar; And sold by T. Payne, near Stationers’-Hall, 1723. Price 6d.
A curious little pamphlet of 32 pages, but totally devoid of historical value.
II. MANUSCRIPT AUTHORITIES
British Museum
Stowe MS., 668.
Heraldic and some other Collections, including the letters exchanged between the Dukes of Gloucester and Burgundy.
Cotton MS., Claudius, A. viii.
(1) ‘A Chronicle of King Henry v.’ The last part of a much longer chronicle, probably a continuation of the Brut.
(2) A schedule of the charges of the Monastery of St. Albans for making the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and for perpetual masses for his soul.
Cotton MS., Claudius, D. i.
Letters written by Wheathampsted, Abbot of St. Albans.
Cotton MS., Nero, D. vii.
Register of enrolments in the Fraternity of the Abbey of St. Albans.
Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii.
A London Chronicle extending from 1189 to 1432, and probably written about 1435.
Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv.
Among other items contains a London Chronicle, written in three different fifteenth-century hands, and covering the years 1414-43.
Cotton MS., Vitellius, A. xvi.
A London Chronicle, in three different hands, and written at three different periods, covering the years 1399-1516, though up to 1440 it is almost identical with the two chronicles above.
These three chronicles all bear a strong affinity to Lond. Chron. and Gregory. (See Printed Books. Contemporary Chroniclers who wrote in England.) Since the references have been taken for the present work, all three, with the exception of the earlier part of Vitellius, A. xvi., have been printed in ‘Chronicles of London,’ ed. by C. L. Kingsford. Oxford, 1905. The references to the folios of the MSS. have been retained, as thereby the various authorities can be distinguished, and their verification does not necessitate recourse to the MSS., as Mr. Kingsford has marked the folios in the margin to the text of his edition. An excellent discussion of the dates of compilation and the relationship between these and other London Chronicles is to be found in Mr. Kingsford’s introduction.
Harleian MS., 139.
A collection of documents relating to the County of Chester.
Harleian MS., 2251.
Collection of poems, including some by Lydgate.
Harleian MS., 2256.
The Chronicle known as the Brut, continued down to the capture of Joan of Arc.
Lansdowne MS., 874.
Heraldic Notes and Drawings, by H. St. George and Nicholas Charles, Lancaster-Heralds. Dated 1610.
Lansdowne MS., 1.
Burghley Papers.
Arundel MS., 34.
‘Registrum Abbatiae S. Albani. Register of Lands, Tenements, etc.’, by John Wethampstede and Thomas Rameyge, Abbots of St. Albans.
Arundel MS., 66.
A collection of astrological and prophetical documents.
Additional MS., 34,360.
Collection of poems, including Lydgate’s ‘Epitaphium Ducis Gloucestrie.’
Additional MS., 15,664.
Topographical Collections.
Additional MS., 26,784.
Various documents.
Additional MS., 29,729.
Collection of poems, including some by Lydgate.
Additional MS., 4608.
Collection of documents relating to the reign of Henry VI.
Sloane MS., 407.
Astronomical tables and calculations of the fifteenth century.
Additional Charters, 44,531.Papal Bull.
Bodleian Library
Bodley MS., 263.
‘The Falls of Princes,’ by John Lydgate.
Bodley MS., 3618 (M. Museo, 119).
Works by Pietro del Monte and Lapo da Castiglionchio, bearing dedicatory epistles to the Duke of Gloucester.
Bodley MS., 2143 (Auct. F., v. 27).
Leonardi Bruni’s dedication to the Duke of Gloucester, prefixed to his translation of Aristotle’s ‘Politics.’
Rawlinson MS., Classis, C. 813.
Collection of Songs.
Rawlinson MS., Classis, C. 398.
Richard Rede’s Chronicle.
James MS., 30.
Various Collections.
Tanner MS., 196.
Monastic Collections.
Ashmole MS., 59.
Collection of Poems, including one on Jacqueline of Hainault, by Lydgate.
Ashmole MS., 784.
Notes on Churches, by Ashmole.
Ashmole MS., 856.
Collection of Tracts and Documents, by Ashmole.
Ashmole MS., 1109.
Miscellaneous Collection, by Ashmole.
Ashmole MS., 1121.
Heraldic Collections, by Ashmole.
Ashmole MS., 1137.
Heraldic Collections, by Ashmole.
Hearne MS., Diary.
The diary of the famous antiquary and editor, Thomas Hearne, who became Assistant Librarian of the Bodleian Library in 1712.
Twyne Collectanea.
Notes by the antiquary, John Twyne.
Record Office
Patent Rolls.Cited as Rot. Pat.
Duchy of Lancaster Records.
Chancery Inquisitiones Post Mortem, 25 Henry VI., No. 26.Cited as Inq. P.M.
Inquisitiones Ad Quod Damnum, 20-22 Henry VI.Cited as Inq. A.Q.D.
Ancient Correspondence, vols. xliii., xliv., lvii.
Ancient Petitions.
Roman Transcripts (Stevenson), vol. v.
Chester Roll, 1-20 Henry VI.
Minister’s Accounts, Bundle 893.
Accounts, etc., Exchequer Queen’s Remembrancer.
Miscellaneous Rolls.
Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer Foreign Accounts.Cited as L.T.R. Foreign Accounts.
Durham University Library
Durham MS., C. iv. 3.
A copy of Pier Candido Decembrio’s Translation of Plato’s ‘Republic,’ containing a letter addressed by the Duke of Gloucester to the Archbishop of Milan.
Biblioteca Mediceo-laurenziana, Florence
Cod. Laurentiano, Plut., lxiii. 30.
Lapo da Castiglionchio’s Translation of Plutarch’s ‘Life of Artaxerxes,’ together with a dedicatory epistle addressed to the Duke of Gloucester.
Cod. Riccardiano, 827.
A letter-book of Pier Candido Decembrio. Some of these letters have been printed in the English Historical Review, vol. xix.
In a Private Library
MS. in a Private Library.
A Latin Translation of Boccaccio’s ‘Corbaccio,’ by Antonio di Beccaria, containing a dedicatory epistle to the Duke of Gloucester.
The owner of this MS. does not wish his name to be published, but he has kindly allowed a photograph of the dedicatory epistle to be taken, and this is now in the possession of the present author.
Holkham Hall
In a MS. belonging to Lord Leicester there is contained, amongst other entries in a seventeenth-century hand, a life of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, entitled ‘The Historie of the high borne Renowned and most illustriously noble Prince Humphrie, commonly called The good Duke of Gloucester, by J. C. Philopatris.’ J. C. stands for John Cooper, and the whole compilation is a mere copying of sixteenth-century chroniclers, and has no historical value. It has been referred to in the notes more as an indication of its scope than as an authority.
Cited as Holkham MS.
N.B.—Various Manuscripts, which originally formed part of the Duke of Gloucester’s Library, are alluded to and quoted in the text. These are described in detail in Appendix A., and are therefore not enumerated here.
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