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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