Richard III Society, The xiv, 217, 256
Richard of Clarence (see Plantagenet, Richard)
Richard of Conisburgh, Earl of Cambridge 15
Riley, H. T. 5
Rochefort, Guillaume de, Chancellor of France 191–2
Rogers, Dr Juliet 257–8
Roper, Sir John 11
Roper, William 10
Rose and Crown Inn, Stony Stratford 77
Ross, Professor Charles 257
Ross, Dr Jean 257–8
Rotherham, Thomas, Archbishop of York 64, 83–6, 88, 91, 93, 97, 99, 101–4, 107, 136, 151, 207
Rous, John 5, 7, 28–9, 31–5, 43, 60, 63, 69, 75–6, 81, 88, 90, 95, 97, 121–4, 129, 133, 142, 158, 168, 171, 193–4, 199–200, 210–11, 215, 218, 223, 225
Royal Collection, The 32
Royal College of Physicians, The 174
Royal Mint, The 89
Roye, Jean de 49
Russell, John, Bishop of Lincoln, Lord Chancellor 4, 59, 64, 90–1, 98, 102, 106, 110–11, 114–15, 135, 145, 187, 214
St Albans, Battle of, 1455 16
St Albans, Battle of, 1461 17
St Albans, Herts 86–7
St George’s Chapel, Windsor 18, 59, 69, 105, 161, 234
St John’s Hospital, Clerkenwell 88, 212
St Leger, Sir Thomas 185, 188
St Martin le Grand, Priory of, London 34, 160
St Osyth’s Priory, Essex 235
St Paul’s Cathedral, London 27, 88, 96, 107, 116, 128, 130, 234
St Paul’s School, London 174
St Pol, Count of 20, 22
St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster 34, 46
Salic Law, The 15, 219
Salisbury, Wilts 108, 185, 187
Sanctuary, The, Westminster Abbey 24–5, 83, 110–11, 144–5, 181, 194–6
Sandwich, Kent 58
Santa Cruz, Prior of 229
Scrope, Lady 25
Sebert, King of the East Saxons 210
Selaby, Co. Durham 141
Serigo, Dr 24, 26
Settlement, Act of, 1484 (see ‘Titulus Regius’)
Settlement, Act of, 1485 221–2
Shaa, Sir Edmund, Lord Mayor of London 81, 112, 115–16, 121
Shaa, Dr Ralph 116–17, 224
Shakespeare, William 11–12, 170, 249
Sheen Palace, Surrey 37, 50
Sheriff Hutton Castle, Yorks 85, 102, 121–2, 173, 200, 214, 219
Sheriff Hutton Church, Yorks 197
Sherwood Forest 214
Shore, Elizabeth 54–5, 65, 100, 104, 107–8, 130, 187
Shore, William 54–5, 187
Shrewsbury, Salop 214
Simnel, Lambert 231–5, 242
Simnel, Richard 235
Simnel, Thomas 235
Sixtus IV, Pope 41
Slaughter, William 140, 142, 158, 160
Society of Antiquaries of London, The 32
‘Song of the Lady Bessy’ 7, 61, 158, 168, 196, 208, 211, 213
Speed, John 11
Stacey, Dr John 44–5
Stafford, 5th Earl of 67
Stafford, Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham 188, 222
Stafford, Henry, 2nd Duke of Buckingham 22, 39, 47–8, 67–9, 71–2, 75–81, 86–8, 90–1, 95–7, 99, 101–2, 104–7, 109–11, 113–16, 121–7, 133, 135, 137, 140, 142–5, 148–9, 151–2, 172, 179–89, 193, 214, 222, 225, 228
Stafford, Sir Henry 153
Stafford, Humphrey, 1st Duke of Buckingham 67
Stafford, Staffs 214
Stallworthe, Simon 98–9, 110–11, 115, 119
Stanley, Thomas, Lord, later Earl of Derby 7, 61–2, 64, 88, 98–9, 102–4, 107, 136, 152, 154, 189, 196, 215, 216, 220, 228, 237
Stanley, Sir William 211, 215–16, 220, 237
Star Chamber, The, Westminster 93, 111
Stephen, King of England 154
Stillington, Robert, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Lord Chancellor 50, 88, 118–21, 137, 202, 220, 223–4, 235
Stoke, Battle of, 1487 226, 234–5, 243
Stonor Letters, The 2
Stonor, Sir William 98, 115
Stony Stratford, Northants 21, 77, 79
Stow, John 31, 97, 144
Stratford, John 23
Strasbourg, France 108
Sudeley Castle, Gloucs 118, 133
Suffolk, Duke of (see de la Pole, John)
Suffolk, Duchess of (see Plantagenet, Elizabeth)
Swynford, Katherine, Duchess of Lancaster 15, 153
Symonds, Richard 231–2
Talbot, Eleanor (see Butler, Eleanor)
Talbot, Elizabeth, Duchess of Norfolk 137, 170
Talbot, Sir Gilbert 236
Talbot, John, Earl of Shrewsbury 118
Talbot, Sir John 118
Tanner, Dr Lawrence E. 255–8
Taunton, Somerset 238
Tetzel, Gabriel 37
Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucs 30, 42, 49
Tewkesbury, Battle of, 1471 26, 30, 94, 150
Tewkesbury, Gloucs 148
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester 67, 165
Thoresby, John 44
Tickenhill Manor, Bewdley, Worcs 40
Tiptoft, John, Earl of Worcester 51
Tirel, Walter 150
‘Titulus Regius’, Act of Settlement, 1484 4, 11, 117–18, 124, 126, 192, 204, 219–20, 222–4
Toulouse, France 6
Tournai, Picardy 236, 241–2
Tours, France 191
Tower Hill, London 239, 245, 247
Tower of London, The 6, 12, 17, 24–5, 27–8, 37, 46, 49, 64, 83, 86, 88–9, 93–4, 99, 102, 105–13, 126, 135–6, 140–4, 147–50, 157–9, 161–4, 169–72, 176, 195, 219, 225, 232–4, 238, 240, 244–5, 250–5, 258
Towton, Battle of, 1461 17, 20, 53, 94
‘Trial of Richard III, The’ (Channel 4) 163, 257
Tudor, Arthur, Prince of Wales 6, 228–9, 232, 235, 246
Tudor dynasty 184, 216, 222–3, 228, 235, 251
Tudor, Edmund, Earl of Richmond 62, 152–3
Tudor, Henry, Earl of Richmond (see Henry VII)
Tudor, Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, later Duke of Bedford 153–4, 180, 185
Tudor, Mary, Queen of France 229
Tudor, Owen 153
Tudor-Craig, Pamela, Lady Wedgwood 179
Twynho, Ankarette 43–5, 49
Twynho, Roger 49
Tyburn, London 44, 188, 239
Tyrell, Sir James 35, 107, 147, 150–1, 155–60, 169–70, 176, 225, 243–9, 253
Tyrell, Mary 170, 245
Tyrell, Thomas 245, 248
Urbino, Italy 7
Urswick, Christopher 11, 180–2
Valera, Diego de 167, 215, 217–18
Vaughan, Sir Thomas (d. 1483) 39–40, 75, 79, 80–1, 85–6, 91, 102, 121–3, 164
Vaughan, Sir Thomas, of Brecknock 187
Vaux, Joan 174
Vaux, Sir Nicholas 174
Vere, John de, Earl of Oxford 154
Vergil, Polydore 2, 4, 7–9, 11, 21, 26, 28, 31–3, 43, 48, 50, 61, 63, 70–1, 78, 99, 102–4, 106–7, 109, 111, 117, 121, 123, 126, 129, 141–2, 147–8, 151, 156, 158, 162, 166, 171, 172, 180–1, 184–5, 188, 194, 200, 206–8, 211–12, 214–17, 223–4, 229, 232, 238, 244, 247
Vienna, Austria 237
Vienne, Archbishop of 2
Wakefield, Battle of, 1460 17
Warbeck, John 241–2
Warbeck, Katherine 241–2
Warbeck, Perkin 231, 236–42
Warenne family 15
Warkworth, John 25, 27–8
Wars of the Roses, The 15–17, 20, 61, 67, 127, 164, 184, 220
Warwick Castle 42, 133, 149–51, 156
Warwick 142
Warwick Guildhall 44
Waterford, Ireland 237
Watling Street 75
Waurin, Jean de 21, 25, 53, 58
Wayte, Elizabeth (see Lucy, Eliza
beth)
Webb, John or Jonathan 251
Welles, Avice 39
Welshpool, Salop 214
Wenlock, Lord 21
Westminster Abbey, London 18, 24–5, 34, 52, 69, 83, 100, 110, 123, 137, 145, 210, 221, 228, 254–6
Westminster Hall, London 128, 137, 203, 205
Westminster Palace, London 25, 37, 42, 45–6, 58, 62, 64, 73, 84, 88, 93, 97, 102, 111, 123, 136, 190, 195, 204, 216, 219
Westmorland, Earl of (see Neville, Ralph)
White Horse Inn, Leicester
White, William 257
Whitelaw, Archibald 31, 129
Whiteside, Mr 254
Whittlebury Forest 21
Wigmore, Edward de 118
Wigmore, Richard 118
William II ‘Rufus’, King of England 150
William of Worcester 29
Williamson, Audrey 172, 176
Willoughby, Sir Robert 219
Winchelsea, Earls of 176–7
Winchester, City of 257
Windsor Castle, Berks 37, 45–6, 137, 141, 235
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 7, 192
Woodstock Palace, Oxon 143
Woodville (see Wydville)
Worcester, City of 152
Wren, Sir Christopher 254
Wright, Professor W. 255–8
Wycliffe, John 131
Wydville, Anthony, Earl Rivers 20, 40–1, 43, 49, 53–4, 58–60, 63, 64, 66, 68–9, 71, 73, 75–81, 85–6, 91–2, 95, 99, 102, 105, 121–3, 141, 143, 160, 164–5, 212
Wydville, Sir Edward 48, 75, 83, 93, 144, 228
Wydville, Elizabeth, Queen of England 19–25, 35, 38–46, 48, 50–5, 57–68, 70–3, 77, 80, 82–5, 88, 90–2, 96, 98, 100–1, 104, 109–11, 117–19, 124, 126, 140, 144–5, 164–5, 168, 173, 176, 178, 181–2, 189–90, 193–4, 195–8, 202–3, 205, 212–13, 222, 224, 228, 230, 232–4
Wydville, Emma de 19
Wydville family 19–20, 22, 39, 41, 43–5, 51, 54–5, 57–8, 60–2, 64–6, 68–70, 72–5, 78–83, 86–7, 92, 96, 101–3, 111, 113, 124, 144–5, 164, 180, 182, 185, 189, 204, 214, 233
Wydville, Joan 20
Wydville, Sir John 20, 24, 44
Wydville, Katherine, Duchess of Buckingham and Bedford 22, 68, 137, 228
Wydville, Lionel, Bishop of Salisbury 22, 83, 108, 144, 155, 185, 188
Wydville, Richard (I) 19
Wydville, Richard (II), Earl Rivers 19–22, 24, 40–1, 44
Wydville, Richard (III) 144, 189, 228
Wydville, William de 19
York, City of 31, 56–7, 70–2, 101–2, 108, 113, 115, 122, 151, 155–7, 159, 166, 185, 200, 216
York Civic Records 31, 72, 122
York, Dukes of (see Edmund of Langley; Plantagenet Richard – 2 entries; Henry VIII)
York, House of 17, 53, 56, 61, 67, 72, 111, 127, 155, 165, 184, 200, 203, 217, 219, 222, 226, 229, 232, 239, 246
York Place, Westminster 84
York Roll, The 5, 32, 34
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