This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotisgives full and graphic accounts of the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, and the subsequent executions of his assassins; translated from a lost Latin narrative by John Shirley, it is edited from the only full text that has survived. Warkworth's Chronicle, usually ascribed erroneously to John Warkworth, master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, is a frequently-cited source for events in the Wars of the Roses between 1461 and 1473, and gives a contemporary assessment of the supposed murders of Edward, Prince of Wales, and of Henry VI by Richard of Gloucester.Professor LISTER M. MATHESONteaches at Michigan State University.
| Preface | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| I | The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis | 1 |
| App | The Death of James I in the Prose Brut | 57 |
| II | "Warkworth's" Chronicle: The Chronicle Attributed to John Warkworth, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge | 61 |
| III | "Warkworth's" Chronicle: The text of University of Glasgow Hunterian MS. 83, collated with Peterhouse, Cambridge, MS. 190 | 93 |
| Bibliography | 125 | |
| Glossaries | 133 | |
| Persons and Places Named in the Texts | 147 |
Overview
This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotisgives full and graphic accounts of the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, and the subsequent executions of his assassins; translated from a lost Latin narrative by John Shirley, it is edited from the only full text that has survived. Warkworth's Chronicle, usually ascribed erroneously ...