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NOTES AND REFERENCES
ABBREVIATIONS

André
“Vita Henrici VII”

Arrivall
Historie of the Arrivall of King Edward IV in England

CSP Milan
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts existing in the Archives and Collections of Milan

CSP Spain
Calendar of Letters, Dispatches, and State Papers relating to Negotiations between England and Spain

CSP Venice
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating to English Affairs preserved in the Archives of Venice

HVIIPPE
Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII, in
The Antiquarian Repertory

Leland:
Collectanea
Leland, John:
Antiquarii de Rebus Brittanicis Collectanea

PPE
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York

Strickland
Lives of the Queens of England

INTRODUCTION

   
1.
 Holinshed

PROLOGUE: “NOW TAKE HEED WHAT LOVE MAY DO”

   
1.
 I have adoped this spelling rather than the more commonly used and anachronistic Woodville, which is not contemporary. The name is spelled Wydeville on Elizabeth’s coffin plate, and it is the way she signed her name. In contemporary sources it is given variously as Wydvil, Wydvile, Wydevile, or Widville.

   
2.
 William Monypenny, Louis IX’s agent in Scotland, cited Scofield in
Life and Reign

   
3.
 
CSP Milan

   
4.
 
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland

   
5.
 
CSP Milan

   
6.
 Vergil

   
7.
 Ibid.

   
8.
 Ibid.

   
9.
 Mancini

  
10.
 Commines

  
11.
 
“Gregory’s Chronicle”

  
12.
 Vergil

  
13.
 More

  
14.
 Hall

  
15.
 More

  
16.
 Ashdown-Hill:
Eleanor, the Secret Queen
suggests that her portraits show her with dark hair, but in the majority she is clearly blond.

  
17.
 
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies

  
18.
 Mancini. For a discussion of this story, see
Chapter 1
.

  
19.
 Waurin

  
20.
 Worcester

  
21.
 Shears

  
22.
 Fabyan

1: “THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS MAID OF YORK”

   
1.
 Much of the medieval palace, including the apartments where Elizabeth of York was born, was reduced to ruins in a devastating fire in 1512, and most of what was left was lost during a second conflagration in 1834. Only Westminster Hall, the crypt of St. Stephen’s Chapel, and the Jewel Tower escaped unscathed. The Palace of Westminster, incorporating the Houses of Parliament, now occupies the site where the medieval palace once stood.

   
2.
 Fabyan. The date is confirmed in Elizabeth’s tomb inscription in Westminster Abbey.

   
3.
 Ibid.

   
4.
 Ibid.; Jenkins

   
5.
 
Calendar of Papal Registers

   
6.
 Tetzel

   
7.
 Ibid.

   
8.
 Daughter of Sir Richard Berners and wife of John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Constable of Windsor Castle.

   
9.
 
A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Island of England

  
10.
 Tetzel

  
11.
 
A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Island of England

  
12.
 Mancini

  
13.
 
A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Island of England

  
14.
 
Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England

  
15.
 Mancini

  
16.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
17.
 Mancini

  
18.
 
CSP Milan

  
19.
 Mancini

  
20.
 
Paston Letters

  
21.
 Monstrelet

  
22.
 Ibid.

  
23.
 
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII

  
24.
 
Paston Letters

  
25.
 When Mary’s coffin was opened in 1810, when a vault was being constructed for the family of George III, her unembalmed body was found to be well-preserved, with long, pale blond hair and blue eyes, which were open, but quickly disintegrated when exposed to the air. Observers could see that she had been beautiful in life.

  
26.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Edward IV, 1467–77; Wardrobe Accounts of Edward the Fourth
, in
PPE

  
27.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Edward IV, 1467–77

  
28.
 
Calendar of Close Rolls: Edward IV; Foedera;
Exchequer Records: Issue Rolls E.403

  
29.
 
A Relation, or rather a True Account, of the Island of England

  
30.
 Cited Brigden. These words were written by Edmund Dudley, who would become one of the foremost advisers to Elizabeth’s future husband.

  
31.
 Civil and Uncivil Life, tract of 1579, cited Scott:
Every One a Witness: The Tudor Age

  
32.
 Dowsing; Hedley; Cloake:
Palaces and Parks of Richmond and Kew
and
Richmond Palace

  
33.
 
Collection of Ordinances; The Babees’ Book

  
34.
 Green

  
35.
 Harris

  
36.
 
Collection of Ordinances; The Babees’ Book; Manners and Meals in Olden Time;
Woolgar

  
37.
 
The Plumpton Correspondence

  
38.
 Brigden

  
39.
 Cited Brigden

  
40.
 
Collection of Ordinances

  
41.
 
Paston Letters

  
42.
 
CSP Milan

  
43.
 
Great Chronicle of London

  
44.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
45.
 Ibid.

  
46.
 Mancini

  
47.
 Jones:
Psychology of a Battle: Bosworth, 1485

  
48.
 When Katherine Parr interceded with Henry VIII to spare the life of her adulterous sister-in-law, he would not do so unless her husband relented.

  
49.
 
CSP Milan

  
50.
 Mancini

  
51.
 Ibid.

  
52.
 
Paston Letters

  
53.
 
Wills from Doctors’ Commons

  
54.
 Okerlund:
Elizabeth Wydeville;
Okerlund:
Elizabeth of York

  
55.
 Harrod

  
56.
 Weightman

  
57.
 
Croyland Chronicle;
Charter Rolls C.53/105

  
58.
 Warkworth

  
59.
 Geoffrey Richardson

  
60.
 
PPE

  
61.
 The Manner and Guiding of the Earl of Warwick at Angers in July and August 1470, from the Harleian MS. 433, in
Original Letters Illustrative of English History

  
62.
 John Neville was to be killed at Barnet in 1471. George Neville could not afford to support his dukedom of Bedford, and was deprived of it in January 1478. He died unmarried in 1483 and was buried in Sheriff Hutton Church, Yorkshire.

  
63.
 Hicks:
Anne Neville

  
64.
 Warkworth

  
65.
 Ibid.; Fabyan

  
66.
 Hall

  
67.
 
Paston Letters

  
68.
 Sharpe, citing records of the Court of Common Council of the City of London in the Guildhall archives.

  
69.
 
Paston Letters

  
70.
 
The Politics of Fifteenth-Century England;
Scofield: “Elizabeth Wydeville in the Sanctuary at Westminster”

  
71.
 Hall

  
72.
 Warkworth

  
73.
 These details are recorded in a letter written by Edward IV to the Lord Privy Seal in 1473; Additional MS. 4614, f. 222

  
74.
 
Calendar of Patent Rolls: Edward IV

  
75.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
76.
 Commines

  
77.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
78.
 
Arrivall

  
79.
 Recovery of the Throne, Royal MSS.;
Political Poems and Songs

  
80.
 
Arrivall

  
81.
 Ibid.

  
82.
 
Political Poems and Songs

  
83.
 
Foedera

  
84.
 
Arrivall

  
85.
 Ibid.

  
86.
 Ibid.

  
87.
 Hall, corroborated by the illustrated version of the
Arrivall
, dating from 1471.

  
88.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
89.
 Ibid.

  
90.
 Mancini

  
91.
 
Arrivall

  
92.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
93.
 Holinshed

  
94.
 He hastened to make peace with Edward IV, but in September was arrested and beheaded.

  
95.
 
Croyland Chronicle

  
96.
 Warkworth

  
97.
 
Arrivall

  
98.
 Warkworth

  
99.
 
Archaeologia

100.
 
CSP Milan

101.
 
Great Chronicle of London

102.
 
Croyland Chronicle

103.
 Cotton MS. Julius B, XII, 317;
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies

104.
 
Rotuli Parliamentorum

105.
 Vergil

106.
 André

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