Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Crown and the Royal Family in Later Medieval England 2. The King's Court during the Wars of the Roses: Continuities in an Age of Discontinuities 3. The English Realm and Dominions and the King's Subjects in the Later Middle Ages 4. Wales and the Marches in the Fifteenth Century 5. The Sense of Dynasty in the Reign of Henry VI 6. Queen Katherine of Valois and a Missing Statute of the Realm 7. Henry Tudor: The Training of a King 8. Public and Private Bureaucracies in England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century 9. Patronage, Politics and the Principality of Wales, 1413-1461 10. William Botiller: A Fifteenth-Century Civil Servant 11. Gruffydd ap Nicholas and the Rise of the House of Dinefwr 12. Gruffydd ap Nicholas and the Fall of the House of Lancaster 13. A Breton Spy in London 14. William Wawe and his Gang 15. The Trial of Eleanor Cobham: An Episode in the Fall of Duke Humphrey of Gloucester 16. The Winchester Session of the 1449 Parliament: A Further Comment 17. Richard of York and the Royal Household in Wales, 1449-1450 18. Duke Richard of York's Intentions in 1450 and the Origins of the Wars of the Roses 19. The King's Council and the First Protectorate of the Duke of York, 1450-1454 20. Local Rivalries and National Politics: The Percies, the Nevilles and the Duke of Exeter, 1452-1454 21. The Hazards of Civil War: The Mountford Family and the Wars of the Roses Index