Table of Contents

Caterpillars of the Commonwealth? Courtiers in late medieval England, Rosemary Horrox; diet and consumption in gentry and noble households - a case study from around the Wash, Christopher Woolgar; Richard II's ordinances of war of 1385, Maurice Keen; Richard II's views on kingship, Simon Walker; Henry IV, the Commons and the recovery of Royal finance in 1407, Edmund Wright; the strange death of Sir John Mortimer - politics and the law of treason in Lancastrian England, Edward Powell; parliamentary restoration - John Mowbray and the Dukedom of Norfolk in 1425, Rowena E. Archer; a disputed mortgate - Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Sir John Gra and the Manor of Multon Hall, S.J. Payling; "The Greatest Man of That Age" - the acquisition of Sir John Fastolf's East Anglian estates, Anthony Smith; friends of the dead - executors, wills and family strategy in 15th-century Norfolk, Philippa Maddern; the stonor circle in the 15th century, Christine Carpenter; the King's goverment and the fall of Pecock, 1457-58, Jeremy Catto; Crown Office and the licensed retinues in the reign of Henry VII, Dominic Luckett; the Earl, the Archbishop and the Council - the affray at Fulford, May 1504, R.W. Hoyle.