sources: nop

Question 1

Cade’s manifesto

Answer 1

• aiming to build support for rebels, distributed around the south
• increasingly focused more on national problems and less on local problems

Question 2

The Great Chronicle of London

Answer 2

• anonymous author, uses a wide range of soures
• written during reign of Henry VII, favourable
• more vague on events beyond the capital

Question 2

Crowland Chronicle

Answer 2

• written by monks
• didn’t have direct knowledge of outside of the abbey
• more useful for reflecting contemporary opinion

Question 3

Second continuation of the Crowland Chronicle

Answer 3

• written after Henry VII won at Bosworth
• attempts to explain events rather than simply record them
• anonymous but likely a senior civil servant, very well informed of the reigns of Edward and Richard
• criticical of Richard III and his plantation, may have seen Henry VII as a saviour

Question 4

Dominic Mancini

Answer 4

• Italian cleric, humanist
• may have been influenced by hindsight and the need for a dramatic story
• critical of Richard’s usurpation
• likely spoke no English and therefore was more susceptible to propaganda
• never left London
• says when he is unsure of something

Question 5

An English Chronicle

Answer 5

• detailed knowledge of the city
• pro-Yorkist author, hostile to Suffolk and Somerset

Question 6

Thomas More

Answer 6

• humanist
• friend and Lord Chancellor of Henry VIII
• detail of London in Richard’s time
• not trying to write an objective history
• reliant on the Archbishop of Canterbury who was hostile to Richard III

Question 7

Paston letters

Answer 7

• reactions to national events
• reveals social life, local politics

Question 8

Polydore Vergil

Answer 8

• Italian churchman and humanist
• asked by Henry VII to write a history of England, published in 1513 after Henry died
• well-informed and tried to gain first hand sources, criticised myths
• but critical of Richard III and the Yorkists (claimed York started instability)

Question 9

Warkworth’s Chronicle

Answer 9

• most useful for events 1469-71
• northerner, therefore gives a valuable and rare insight into northern affairs when most other chronicles were influenced by southern interests and were hostile to the north

Question 10

John Rous

Answer 10

• wrote the Rous Roll during the reign of Richard III which praised him
• rewrote his account after Henry VII’s accession which created an incredibly hostile portrait of the king as deformed

Question 11

Parliament Rolls

Answer 11

• not word for word, summarise the major issues discussed
• what the king’s government wanted the people to know and justifications for why