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Chronicles of the Revolution 1397-1400 [Enter]
The reign of Richard II
Translated and annotated
by Chris Given-Wilson

This collection of sources covers one of the most controversial and shocking episodes in medieval English history, the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. Contemporaries were sharply divided about the rights and wrongs of both Richard and Henry, and this division is reflected in the texts which form the major part of these sources.

All the principal contemporary chronicles are represented in this collection, from the violently partisan Thomas Walsingham, chronicler of St Alban's Abbey who saw Richard as a tyrant and murderer, to the indignant Dieulacres chronicler, who claimed that the 'innocent king' was tricked into surrender by his perjured barons.

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CONTENTS:
Chronological table
Dramatis personae
Abbreviations
List of plates
Plates

Introduction
Part one: July 1397 to May 1399
 1. Richard II's coup of 1397 according to the monk of Eversham
 2. The king's duplicity according to a Canterbury chronicler
 3. Thomas Walsingham on the tyranny of King Richard
 4. Extracts from the Rolls of Parliament, 1397-99
 5. Two Cistercian views of Richard
 6. The St Albans conspiracy and the Bolingbroke-Mowbray dispute according to a French source
 7. Bolingbroke's exile in Paris, 1398-99

Part two: June to September 1399
 8. Bolingbroke's departure from France
 9. The alliance between Bolingbroke and Orleans, 17 June 1399
 10. Thomas Walsingham's account of the revolution
 11. Bolingbroke's campaign and his meeting with Richard according to the monk of Eversham
 12. Two accounts of Bolingbroke's progress through England
 13. The betrayal and capture of the King according to Jean Creton
 14. Two Cistercian accounts of the perjury of Henry Bolingbroke
 15. An eye-witness account of the revolution from the chronicle of Adam Usk
 16. The 'Manner of King Richard's Renunciation'
 17. The 'Record and the Process'
 18. The protest of the Bishop of Carlisle
 19. The protest of the Percies

Part three: October 1399 to February 1400
 20. The first parliament of Henry IV, October-November 1399
 21. The 'Epiphany Rising' and the death of the King
 22. The 'Epiphany Rising': contrasting fortunes
 23. Rumours and omens of Richard's fate
Appendix A: The Duke of York's army, July 1399
Appendix B: Bolingbroke's army in 1399
Bibliography

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