Richard III (36 page)

Chapter Thirteen:
‘THE KING’S ENEMIES BE A-LAND’

1
  Molinet testifies to the numbing fear inspired by Richard: ‘
et n’y avoit prince en Angleterre qui osast susciter guerre ni prendre armes contre lui
’ – ‘and there was no prince in England who dared to make war or take up arms against him’ (
Chroniques
, II, p. 405).

2
  For Sir William Stanley, see
Dictionary of National Biography
.

3
  None the less, Ross regards his handling of his nobility as almost ‘a model exercise of patronage’ (
Richard III
, p. 158). For a precisely opposite interpretation, see Pugh, ‘The Magnates, Knights and Gentry’, p. 114.

4
  For the Stourton family, see Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton,
The History of the Noble House of Stourton
.

5
  For Northumberland’s treachery, see ‘A Castilian Report on English Affairs 1486’, pp. 92–9.

6
  This strange story about a third bastard is only to be found in Peck,
Desiderata Curiosa
, pp. 249–51.

7
  The best account is still Gairdner’s ‘The Battle of Bosworth’. Also valuable is Williams’s
The Battle of Bosworth
, although it contains certain errors. The account in Burne’s
Battlefields of England
is similarly patchy. That in Chrimes’s
Henry VII
is too reliant on Polydore Vergil (whose own reconstruction – only fifteen years after the battle – has a number of serious mistakes).

8
  Molinet,
Chroniques
, ii p. 409.

9
  No doubt this was Blanche Sanglier. He was probably called Robert Watkyns, since a herald-at-arms of this name was attainted in the first Parliament of Henry VII. See Wedgwood,
Register
, pp. 493 and 496.

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