A Selection of Contemporary And Near Contemporary Published Sources
This is a list of the most commonly used sources
for the period that have been published but it is by no means exhaustive.
A number of links have been provided to the
American Branch Website and their on-line library
State Records
British
Library Harleian Manuscript 433 edited
by RE Horrox and PW Hammond. 4 vols.
Calendar
of Charter Rolls
Vol 6 1427-1516. 1927
Calendar of Close Rolls
Edward IV I 1461-68. 1949
Edward IV II 1468-76. 1953
Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III 1476-1485.
1954
Calendar of Fine Rolls
Edward IV 1461-71. 1949
Edward IV Richard III 1471-85. 1961
Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public
Record Office.
Henry VI 1451-61
Edward IV I 1461-67 1897
Edward IV II 1467-77 1899
Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III 1476-1485 1901
Rotuli Parliamentorum edited by J
Strachey & others. 6 vols. 1767-77. Vols 5 an 6 relate to the period.
Text of the Titulus
Regius,
the 1484 Act of Parliament settling the crown on Richard III.
The Parliament
Rolls of Medieval England on CD-Rom
Edited by C Given-Wilson (general editor), P
Brand, A Curry, RE Horrox, G Martin, WM Ormrod, JRS Phillips. Available
from SDE (Scholarly Digital Editions) £50 plus
£2 post and packing. Mail orders to SDE Sales, 31 Guildford Road, Leicester
LE2 2RD or e-mail them
at sales@sd-editions.com
Foreign Archives
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts existing
in the Archives and Collections of Milan edited by AB Hinds.
Vol 1 1385-1618. 1913
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts relating
to English Affairs existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice
and in other libraries of northern Italy edited by R Brown. Vol 1 1202-1509. HMSO
1864
Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers relating
to Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 13 and
Vol 14 1484-92
Calendar of Letters, Despatches and State Papers
relating to the Negotiations between England and Spain preserved in the
Archives of Simancas and elsewhere edited by GA Bergenroth. HMSO 1862.
Vol 1 Henry VII 1485-1509
Local Government Records
York House Books 1461-1490 edited by Lorraine
C Attreed, Stroud 1991
Chronicles & Histories
The Usurpation of Richard III by Dominic Mancini
edited
by CAJ Armstrong. Oxford 1936.
Historie
of the Arrival of Edward IV in England edited
by John Bruce. Camden Society. 1838
Memoires de Philippe de Commynes edited
by J Calmette et G Durville. 3 vols. Classiques de l’historie de France
au Moyen Age. Paris 1924. English
version published by Penguin Books 1972. Edited by Betty Radice
and Robert Baldick.
An English Chronicle of the reigns of Richard
II, Henry IV, V, VI written before the year 1470
edited by John S Davies, Camden Society. Vol 64. 1856
Anchiennes Cronicques d’Engleterre by Jehan
de Waurin edited
by E Dupont. 3 vols. Societé de l’Histoire de France, Paris. 1858-63
Union of the Two Illustre Families of Lancaster
and York by Edward Hall edited by H Ellis. 1809
The New Chronicles of England and France edited
by Henry Ellis. London 1811
The Chronicle of John Hardyng and Continuation
by Richard Grafton edited by H Ellis. 1812
Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History edited
by H Ellis. Camden Society. 1844
Six Town Chronicles of England edited
by R Flenley. Oxford 1911
Historia Regis Henrici Septimi by Bernard André
edited
by James Gairdner. Rolls Series 1858.
The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London
in the Fifteenth Century edited by James Gairdner. Camden Society.
1876. Includes Gregory’s Chronicle
Three Fifteenth-Century Chronicles edited
by James Gairdner. Camden Society. 1880
A chronicle at large, mere History of the affayres
of England by Richard Grafton. 2 vols. London 1809
‘Historical Notes of a London Citizen 1483-88’
edited by RF Green. English Historical Review 1981
A Chronicle of the First Thirteen Years of the
Reign of King Edward IV by John Warkworth edited by JO Halliwell. 1939
Recueil des Chroniques et anchiennes histoires
de la Grande Bretaigne by Jean Waurin
edited by W Hardy and ELCP Hardy, Rolls Series, 1891
Itineraries by William Worcestre edited
by J Harvey. 1969
The
Anglica Historia of Polydore Vergil 1485-1537 edited
and translated by D Hay. Royal Historical Society. Camden Series. Vol
lxxiv 1950
Chronicles
of England, Scotland and Ireland by
Raphael Holinshed. 6 vols. London 1807-8
Tudor Royal Proclamations edited by PL
Hughes and JF Lakin. Vol 1. New Haven 1964
Chronicles of London edited by CL Kingsford.
1905
Chroniques by Jean Molinet 1476-1506
Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire 1470 edited
by JG Nichols. Camden Society. 1847
The
Croyland Chronicle Continuations 1459-1486 edited
by Nicholas Pronay and John Cox. London 1986.
The Rous Roll by John Rous. Introduction
by CD Ross. 1980
Historia Regum Angliae by John Rous
Chronicle by John Stone (1415-71) edited
by WG Searle. Cambridge Antiquarian Society Publications vol 34. 1902
‘The History of King Richard III by Sir Thomas
More’ edited by RS Sylvestre. Vol 2 of the Complete Works. Yale
edition 1963
The Great Chronicle of London edited
by AH Thomas and ID Thornley. London 1936
‘Edward IV’s Memoir on Paper to Charles, Duke
of Burgundy: The so-called “Short Version of the Arrivall”’ edited by
Livia Visser-Fuchs. Nottingham Medieval Studies. Vol XXXVI 1992
Correspondence
Kingsford’s Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483
edited by Christine Carpenter. Cambridge 1996
Paston Letters edited by J Gairdner.
1910. Reprinted by Alan Sutton 1987
Letters of the Kings of England edited
by JC Halliwell. London 1846
Cely Letters 1472-88 edited by Alison Hanham.
Early English Text Society. 1975
Cely
Papers edited
by EH Maldon. Camden Society. Third Series. 1900
Plumpton Correspondence edited by T
Stapleton. Camden Society. 1839
Selections
Materials relating to the reign of Henry VII
edited
by W Campbell. 2 vols. Rolls Series. 183, 1877
Edward IV: a sourcebook by Keith Dockray.
Stroud 1999
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of
the Roses: a sourcebook by Keit Dockray. Stroud 2000
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns
of Richard III and Henry VII edited by James Gairdner. 2 vols. Rolls Series.
1861, 1863
Richard iII: the road to Bosworth field edited
by PW Hammond and Anne Sutton. London 1985
English Historical Documents. Vol 4 1327-1485
edited
by AR Myers. 1969
Sources for the reign of Henry VII edited
by AF Pollard. 3 vols. London 1913
England Under the Yorkists 1460-1485 edited
by ID Thornley. 1921
Songs & Poetry
‘The Song of Ladye Bessiye’ from Bishop Percy’s
Folio Manuscript – Ballads and Romances edited by JW Hales and FJ
Furnivall. Vol 3. 1868
Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse edited
by Alfred W Pollard. 1903. Reprinted 1964.