Primary Sources

Question 1

Benets Chronicle

Answer 1

Vicar of Harlinton - Bedfordshire
Copyist of a London chronicler potentially the clerk of the signet
Consistently pro Yorkist

Question 2

Bocking Letters

Answer 2

Written by John Bocking to the Pastons
Bocking was in parliament and therefore privy to events there
Condemns Margaret

Question 3

John Blacman

Answer 3

Biographer of Henry
Personal Chaplain
Fellow of Eton College
Candid about political limitations seeing them as a sign of the kings religious vocation
Called for Henry to be canonised, writing in the reigonof Henry VII

Question 4

Brut Chronicle

Answer 4

Widely distributed, 170 manuscripts, first chronicle to be printed
Written for a mass audience, dramatised

Question 5

Coppini

Answer 5

Sent to England by the Pope in 1559
Agent of the Duke of Milan
Coppini took the madness of the king as a slight on him

Question 6

Crowland Chronicle

Answer 6

Benedictine abbey in Lincolnshire

Critical of those who endangered the abbey, for example Margaret in her progress south

Question 7

English Chronicle

Answer 7

Pro Yorkist, written 1461-71 during the reign of Edward, started after Towton
London centric view
Scathing view of government but does not criticise an anointed king, instead blames council and Margaret
Propoganda, designed for a mass audience

Question 8

Gregory’s Chronicle

Answer 8

Written by Gregory of Shrines company, mayor of London 1451-52
Common place book
Written by Gregory himself

Question 9

Paston Letters

Answer 9

Henry family in Norfolk, the Patons had a conflict with John de la Pole duke of Suffolk but his son fought for Henry at Barner - relatively neutral
Historical record, tries to be as accurate as possible as aimed to inform people about what was going on

Question 10

Rous Roll

Answer 10

Pro Yorkist

Written during the time of Richard III

Question 11

Vergil

Answer 11

Commissioned to write an ‘Anglia history’ by Henry VII
Sympathetic to Lancastrian cause as Tudors wanted to discredit the YorkistsRigorous approach consulting all primary sources including we know the Crowland Chronicle
Valuable as popular opinion 50 years
Limited access to contemporaries
Cannonisation of Henry Vi

Question 12

Jean de Waurin

Answer 12

Burgundian Chronicler visiting England under the services of the Duke of Burgundy therefore would favour York
Collected information orally