By James G. Clark, David Preest
Translated through David Preest with advent and notes by means of James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is without doubt one of the such a lot finished and vibrant chronicles to outlive from medieval England. Walsingham was once a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the ideal repository of public files, and for this reason good positioned to watch the political machinations of this era at shut hand. additionally, he knew the monarchs and plenty of of the nobles for my part and is ready to supply insights into their activities unrivaled by means of the other authority. it's this chronicle, transmitted via renowned Tudor histories, that educated the various significant dramas of Shakespeare's heritage cycle. masking virtually fifty years, the narrative offers the main authoritative account of 1 of the main turbulent sessions in English heritage, from the final years of Edward III (1376-77) to the untimely loss of life of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the various dramas of this era in bright aspect, together with the Peasants' rebel (1381), the deposition and homicide of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh insurrection of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they're dropped at lifestyles the following during this new translation.
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153 In the same period the antiquarian John Stow and other scholars began to collaborate on a translation of the earliest scandalous recension of the text, working directly from the surviving manuscripts. 155 These first two editions of the chronicle do not appear to have enjoyed a wide circulation and were never reprinted; it is likely that Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences read Walsingham only at second or third hand through the writings of those – such as Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed and John Stow – who had worked directly from the manuscript copies.
4 This allegation, of particular concern to a clerical commentator such as Walsingham, does not appear in other contemporary accounts. 5 Both Bury and Lyons were London merchants and had both served terms as the city’s sheriff (1349–50, 1374–5), with Bury also being mayor in 1364–5 and 1373–4. C. M. Barron, London in the Later Middle Ages. Government and People, 1200–1500 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 138, 143, 271, 303, 331–3. Like Latimer, both were accused of profiting from the recent English campaigns in France.
But Sir Robert Bealknapp, the king’s chief justice in the Court of Common Pleas, replied to them rather tactlessly and said, ‘Sirs, butlers perform many duties. Some draw off the wine, some bring it to the banquet, some pour it out when it has been brought, some carry it to the guests sitting around the hall, while yet others wash up the vessels concerned, namely the pots, the ewers and the bowls. ’ When the citizens heard this, they at once angrily replied that it was not their duty to wash the dishes, and that they had better dishes of their own than he did, which they wanted to test out on his head.