These are the best accounts by commoners (and one lord) written for their fellow Englishmen, produced within a few years of the events they describe, and have a particular immediacy.įive of these chronicles recount in detail particular events: The First Battle of St Albans (21-) and The Siege of Bamburgh Castle (June-July 1464) (batttles) The Rebellion in Lincolnshire (March 1470), and The History of the Arrival of King Edward IV (March-May 1471) (campaigns) and The Manner and Guiding of the Earl ofWarwick (22-30 July 1470) (negotiations). The eight chronicles edited here are the principal surviving historical narratives of the Wars of the Roses written in English by men who lived through those wars. The first modern edition of eight contemporary chronicles covering the Wars of the Roses up to the return of Edward IV in 1471.
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