The Ricardian 2023

The Richard III Society’s annual journal, The Ricardian 2023.

Contents:

Editorial

A Bibliography of the published Writings of Anne F Sutton

Anne F Sutton (1942-2022) by Christian Steer;

An Ambivalent ‘first Yorkist’: Edmund of Langley, Duke of York (d. 1402) by R N Swanson;

Edward IV’s Bishops and Regime Change, 1461-71 by Joel T Rosenthal;

Faction and Fortune’s Wheel: Customers and Controllers in the Port of Bristol, 1461-85 by Margaret M Condon;

Margaret de la Pole (d. 1473) by Robert A Wood;

The Funeral and Obsequies of Sir Ralph Verney, Mercer of London (d. 1478) by Richard Asquith;

John Forde, Mercer, and Early Sugar Refining in London by Wendy R Childs;

Anne of York and her Loyal Yorkist: Sir Thomas St Ledger (ex. 1483) by Lynda Pidgeon;

Wardship. Wealth and Widows in Late Fifteenth Century London by Adele Ryan Sykes;

Richard III’s Commissioners of Array in Hertfordshire by Heather Falvey;

The First Anne Boleyn (d. 1485) by Claire Martin;

‘This Excellent but Ageing Wykehamist’: Hugh Sugar, Treasurer of Wells (d. 1489) by David Lepine;

Margaret St John (d. 1492), Abbess of Shaftesbury by Nigel Ramsay;

Thomas Lynley (d. 1492), Master of Whittington College, and the Practice of Theology by Sheila Lindenbaum;

The Modern Bishop: John Russell, Humanism and Printing by David R Carlson;

Richard Lessy, Dean of Cecily Duchess of York’s Chapel (d. 1498) by J L Laynesmith;

A Much Married Widow: Elizabeth Warde-Nayler-Basset-Stokker-Neville, Lady Bergavenny, of London (d. 1500) by Christian Steer;

The Crimson Satin Dress of Elizabeth of York’s Funeral Effigy in Westminster Abbey by Lisa Monnas and Ina Vanden Berghe;

Abbess Elizabeth Gibbs (d. 1518), the Yorkist Regime and Syon Abbey’s Devonshire Patronage Networks by Virginia Bainbridge;

Notes on Contributors

List of Contributions from The Ricardian: Tant D’Emprises – So Many Undertakings. Essays in Honour of Anne F Sutton, 13 (2003), ed. L. Visser-Fuchs.

Index