T F or four decades, Michael Hicks has been CONTRIBUTORS H a figure central to the study of fifteenth- ANNE CURRY E T H E century England. His scholarly output CHRISTOPHER DYER F is remarkable both for its sheer bulk and for the PETER FLEMING Fifteenth diversity of the fields it covers. This extraordinary i RALPH GRIFFITHS f breadth is reflected by the variety of subjects JOHN HARE t covered by the papers in the present volume, e WINIFRED HARWOOD offered to Professor Hicks by friends, colleagues e MATTHEW HOLFORD and former students to mark his retirement from n HANNES KLEINEKE the University of Winchester. Fifteenth-century C E N T U RY royalty, nobility and gentry, long at the heart of GORDON MCKELVIE t h his own work, naturally take centre stage, but his MARK PAGE contribution to economic and regional history, both SIMON PAYLING C XIV in the early part of his career as a research fellow at A.J. POLLARD E the Victoria County History and more recently as JAMES ROSS N director of a succession of major research projects, KAREN STÖBER T is also reflected in the essays presented here. ANNE F. SUTTON U The individual contributions are populated by R some of the major characters of Yorkist England, ESSAYS COVER DESIGN: SIMON LOXLEY Y many of them made household names by PRESENTED TO Professor Hicks’s own writings – King Edward IV XIV MICHAEL HICKS and his mistresses; the Neville earls of Warwick and Salisbury; the Stafford, Herbert, Percy, ME } Tiptoft and de Vere earls of Devon, Pembroke, s is ca Northumberland, Worcester and Oxford – hy as while the themes covered span the full panoply e p l r of medieval life: from treason to trade, warfare He s to widowhood and lordship to law enforcement. ice Ecfroqovumear liHlny gab mrreopgasidoh niirsse t fhtroeo mYpoa Cprkeasrthsa’il rogeen oaiagn rdtao pf rNhoiomcra ml sapnrdeay,d , ksnted to .devreser sthgir llA Worcestershire and the Welsh marches to .d e ta East Anglia. C ro p L roc n A I ,re R w e K rB & ( lle ed dyo Edited by .) 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The Fifteenth Century ISSN 1479–9871 General Editor Dr. linda Clark Assistant Editor Dr. Hannes Kleineke Editorial Advisory Committee Dr. Rowena E. Archer, University of Oxford Professor Christine Carpenter, University of Cambridge Professor Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester Dr. David Grummitt, University of Kent Professor Tony Pollard, University of Teesside Professor Carole Rawcliffe, University of East Anglia Dr. Benjamin Thompson, Somerville College, Oxford Professor John Watts, Corpus Christi College, Oxford The series aims to provide a forum for the most recent research into the political, social, religious and cultural history of the fifteenth century in Britain and Europe. 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ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1986906. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-10-28 20:00:04. CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Contributors x Abbreviations xii Preface xiii Michael Hicks: An Appreciation xv CAROLINE BARRON Disciplinary Ordinances for English Garrisons in Normandy in the Reign of 1 Henry V ANNE CURRY Lords in a Landscape: the Berkeley Family and Northfield (Worcestershire) 13 CHRISTOPHER DYER Hampshire and the Parish Tax of 1428 39 MARK PAGE The Livery Act of 1429 55 GORDON MCKELVIE An Indenture between Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and SirEdmund 67 Darell of Sessay, North Riding, 1435 A.J. POLLARD The Pursuit of Justice and Inheritance from Marcher Lordships to 77 Parliament: the Implications of Margaret Malefaunt’s Abduction in Gower .d in 1438 e vre RALPH GRIFFITHS se r sth The Battles of Mortimer’s Cross and Second St.Albans: The Regional 91 g ir llA Dimension .d PETER FLEMING e ta rop Widows and the Wars of the Roses: the Turbulent Marital History of 103 ro cn Edward IV’s Putative Mistress, Margaret, daughter of Sir Lewis John of I ,re West Horndon, Essex w erB S.J. PAYLING & lle Some Observations on the Householdand Circle of Humphrey Stafford, 117 d yo Lord Stafford of Southwick and Earl of Devon: the Last Will of Roger B .5 Bekensawe 1 0 2 © HANNES KLEINEKE th g iryp o C The Fifteenth Century XIV : Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, edited by Linda Clark, Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1986906. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-10-28 20:00:04. The Treatment of Traitors’ Children and Edward IV’s Clemency in the 131 1460s JAMES ROSS Edward IV and Bury St. Edmunds’Search for Self-Government 143 ANNE F. SUTTON The Exchequer Inquisitions Post Mortem 161 MATTHEW HOLFORD Hams for Prayers: Regular Canons and their Lay Patrons in Medieval 175 Catalonia KAREN STÖBER Production, Specialisation and Consumption in Late Medieval Wessex 189 JOHN HARE A Butt of Wine and Two Barrels of Herring: Southampton’s Trading Links 207 with Religious Institutions in Winchester and South Central England, 1430– 1540 WINIFRED A. HARWOOD Index 229 The Published Works of Michael Hicks, 1977–2015 243 Tabula Gratulatoria 251 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .d e ta ro p ro cn I ,re w e rB & lle d yo B .5 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C The Fifteenth Century XIV : Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, edited by Linda Clark, Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1986906. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-10-28 20:00:04. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Christopher Dyer, Lords in a Landscape: The Berkeley Family and Northfield (Worcestershire) Map 1 Location of Northfield, also showing Berkeley 14 manors in Gloucestershire. Map 2 Plan of Weoley Castle. 20 Map 3 Some Evidence for the Use of Land in Northfield. 24 Map 4 Settlements in Fifteenth-Century Northfield. 30 Map 5 Farms in 1840. 32 Map 6 Early Medieval Settlement in Northfield. 34 Mark Page, Hampshire and the Parish Tax of 1428 Map The County of Hampshire. 52 Winifred A. Harwood, A Butt of Wine and Two Barrels of Herring Map Location of Religious Institutions (Andrew Murdock, 228 APM geo ltd.) .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .d e ta ro p ro cn I ,re w e rB & lle d yo B .5 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C The Fifteenth Century XIV : Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, edited by Linda Clark, Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2015. 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