The Ricardian Volume 17 2007

Slain Dogs, the Dead Men and Editorial Constructs
By Alison Hanham and B,M, Cron.
This article re-examines six political poems from the Wars of the Roses period and challenges accepted opinion on such questions as dating and authorial intentions. The authors offer new identifications of 'the dead man' of Yorkist propaganda, the 'Willikin' whose return is anticipated in December 1471 and the 'comely queen' who hails her departure in 'The Lily White Rose'.

Richard III, Tydeus of Calydon and their Boars in the Latin Oration of Archibald Whitelaw, Archdeacon of St Andrews, at Nottingham on 12 September 1484.
By Livia Visser-Fuchs.
An attempt to find out why the Scots ambassador Whitelaw used the figure of Tydeus in his speech before Richard III; with an edition and translation of the speech, and commentary.

Richard III and the Origins of the Court of Requests.
By Hannes Kleineke
Discusses the origins of the Court of Requests, established permanently at Westminster by Cardinal Wolsey in 1519, in the light of Richard's appointment in 1483 of a separate 'clerk of requests', one John Harrington, whose career is explored in detail.

'Al ful of fresshe floures white and reede': The Jewellery of Margaret of York and its Meaning.
By John Ashdown-Hill.

Marcellus Maures alias Selis, of Utrecht and London, a Goldsmith of the Yorkist Kings.
By Anne F. Sutton.
The career of an immigrant goldsmith of talent who supplied Edward IV with jewellery and made items for Richard III's coronation ceremonies. He is placed in the context of the London Goldsmiths' Company of his day.

Diriment Impediments, Dispensations and Divorce: Richard III and Matrimony.
By Marie Barnfield Were Richard and Anne legally married?
If so, why do an Act of Parliament and the Crowland Chronicle both refer to the possibility of a 'divorce' or annulment? Did Richard plan to marry his neice? This article examines these controversies in the light of the canon laws relating to marriage at the time.