Linda Clark 
The Fifteenth Century XIV 
Essays Presented to Michael Hicks

This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW


For four decades, Michael Hicks has been a figure central to the study of fifteenth-century England. His scholarly output is remarkable both for its sheer bulk and for the diversity of the fields it covers. This extraordinary breadth is reflected by the variety of subjects covered by the papers in the present volume, offered to Professor Hicks by friends, colleagues and former students to mark his retirement from the University of Winchester. Fifteenth-century royalty, nobility and gentry, long at the heart of his own work, naturally take centre stage, but his contribution to economic and regional history, both in the early part of his career as a research fellow at the Victoria County History and more recently as director of a succession of major research projects, is also reflected in the essays presented here.

The individual contributions are populated by some of the major characters of Yorkist England, many of them made household names by Professor Hicks’s own writings – King Edward IV and his mistresses; the Neville earls of Warwick and Salisbury; the Stafford, Herbert, Percy, Tiptoft and de Vere earls of Devon, Pembroke, Northumberland, Worcester and Oxford – while the themes covered span the full panoply of medieval life: from treason to trade, warfare to widowhood and lordship to law enforcement. Equally broad is the papers’ geographical spread, covering regions from Catalonia to Normandy, from Hampshire to Yorkshire and from Worcestershire and the Welsh marches to East Anglia.


Contributors: Anne Curry, Christopher Dyer, Peter Fleming, Ralph Griffiths, John Hare, Winifred Harwood, Matthew Holford, Hannes Kleineke, Gordon Mc Kelvie, Mark Page, Simon Payling, A.J. Pollard, James Ross, Karen Stöber, Anne F. Sutton

Table of Content

Foreword – Caroline Barron

Disciplinary Ordinances for English Garrisons in Normandy in the Reign of Henry V – Anne Curry

Lords in a Landscape: the Berkeley Family and Northfield (Worcestershire) – Christopher Dyer

Hampshire and the Parish Tax of 1428 – Mark Page

The Livery Act of 1429 –

An Indenture between Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and Sir Edmund Darell of Sessay, North Riding, 1435 – Anthony J Pollard

The Pursuit of Justice and Inheritance from Marcher Lordships to Parliament: the Implications of Margaret Malefaunt’s Abduction in Gower in 1438 – Ralph A Griffiths

The Battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St. Albans: The Regional Dimension – Peter Fleming

Widows and the Wars of the Roses: the Turbulent Marital History of Edward IV’s Putative Mistress, Margaret, daughter of Sir Lewis John of West Horndon, Essex – Simon J. Payling

Some Observations on the Household and Circle of Humphrey Stafford, Lord Stafford of Southwick and Earl of Devon: the Last Will of Roger Bekensawe – Hannes Kleineke

The Treatment of Traitors’ Children and Edward IV’s Clemency in the 1460s – James Ross

Edward IV and Bury St. Edmunds’ Search for Self-Government – Anne F. Sutton

The Exchequer Inquisitions
Post Mortem – Matthew Holford

Hams for Prayers: Regular Canons and their Lay Patrons in Medieval Catalonia – Karen Stober

Production, Specialisation and Consumption in Late Medieval Wessex – John N Hare

A Butt of Wine and Two Barrels of Herring: Southampton’s Trading Links with Religious Institutions in Winchester and South Central England, 1430-1540 – Winifred A Harwood

About the author

PETER FLEMING is Professor Emerius, University of the West of England.