2897. HOOKHAM, M. A. The life and times of Margaret of Anjou. 2 vols. London, 1872.

An elaborate but uncritical compilation. For other works on Margaret, see Dictionary of National Biography, 1891, xxxvi. 148 ; and Karl Schmidt, Margareta von Anjou vor und bei Shakespeare, Berlin, 1906.

2898. KIRK, J. F. History of Charles the Bold. Philadelphia, 1863-68; also London, 1863-68.

3 vols.

Of some value for the relations of Edward IV, to France and Burgundy,

2899. *KRIEHN, GEORGE. The English rising in 1450. Strasburg, 1892.

See also No. 2864.

2899a. LEFEVRE-PONTALIS, GERMAIN. Episodes de l'invasion anglaise la guerre de partisans dans la haute Normandie, 1424-29. Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, liv. 475-521, lv. 259-305, lvi. 433-508, lvii. 5-54. Paris, 1893-96.

2900. OMAN, C. W. [C.]. Warwick the kingmaker. London, etc., 1891.

2901. ORRIDGE, B. B. Illustrations of Jack Cade's rebellion, to which are added contributions by W. D. Cooper [No. 2892]. London, 1869. pp. 99.

2902. PERCEVAL, C. S. Inaccuracies in the ordinary accounts of the early years of the reign of Edward IV. Soc. of Antiq. of London, Archæologia, xlvii. 265-94. London, 1883.

2903. ROGERS, W. H. H. The strife of the roses and days of the Tudors in the west. Exeter, etc., 1890.

Biographical sketches.

d. RICHARD III.

Buck, Halsted, Legge, Lodge, Markham, Sharon Turner (History of England during the Middle Ages), and Walpole try to vindicate the character of Richard. The opposite view is presented by Gairdner, Jesse, and Pauli. Gairdner gives the best general account of the reign.

2904. BUCK, GEORGE. The life and reign of Richard III. London, 1646.-Reprinted in White Kennett's Complete History of England, i. 514-77. London, 1706.

The first attempt to prove that Richard was innocent of the crimes imputed to him.

2905. CHURCHILL, G. B. Richard III. up to Shakespeare. Berlin, 1900.

An account of the raw material ready to Shakespeare's hand when he began to write his Richard III.'

2906. GAIRDNER, JAMES. Did Henry VII. murder the princes? English Hist. Review, vi. 444-64, 813-15. London, 1891. An answer to Markham's paper in the same volume (No. 2912).

2907.

*

Life and reign of Richard III. London, 1878; 2nd edition, 1879; new edition, Cambridge, 1898.

The best work on this reign. Takes an adverse view of Richard's character.

2908. HALSTED, C. A. Richard III. 2 vols. London, 1844. An uncritical compilation.

2909. JESSE, J. H. Memoirs of Richard III. London, 1862; new edition, 2 vols., New York, 1894.

2910. LEGGE, A. O. The unpopular king: life of Richard III. 2 vols. London, 1885.

The most elaborate defence of Richard's character.

2911. LODGE, H. C. The last Plantagenet. Scribner's Magazine, xxi. 232-48. New York, 1897.

2912. MARKHAM, C. R. Richard III.: his life and character viewed in the light of recent research. London, 1906.

him.

Acquits Richard III. of all the charges that have been brought against An abstract of the arguments was printed in the English Historical Review, 1891, vi. 250-83, 806-13. See No. 2906.

2913. PAULI, REINHOLD.

schichte. Leipsic, 1869.

Richard III., 24-47.

Aufsätze zur englischen Ge

2914. WALPOLE, HORACE. Historic doubts on the life and reign of Richard III. 1st and 2nd editions. London, 1768.— Supplement. Philobiblon Soc., Miscellanies, vi. London, 1860-61.

This work, which displays much critical acumen, tended to discredit the accepted view of Richard's character,

§ 64. THE CROWN AND THE KING'S COUNCIL.

For the general works on the crown, and the original sources concerning the privy council, see §§ 18, 51.

There is no detailed history of the privy council. The older authorities on this subject have been superseded by Baldwin's studies. See also Maitland, Memoranda de Parliamento (No. 2008), pp. xxxiv.-xlvii., temp. Edw. I.; Plummer's edition of Fortescue's Governance (No. 1873), 294-308, temp. Edw. IV.; and Nos. 2817, 2931, 2959. On the king's secretary, who, as originally keeper of the privy seal, was associated with the council, see L. B. Dibben (No. 2845a).

2914a. *BALDWIN, J. F. The beginnings of the king's council. Royal Hist. Soc., Trans., xix. 27-59. London, [1905].— Antiquities of the king's council. English Hist. Review, xxi. I-20. London, 1906.-The king's council from Edward I. to Edward III. Ibid., xxiii. 1-14. London, 1908.-The privy council of the time of Richard II. American Hist. Review, xii. 1-14. New York, etc., 1906.-The king's council and the chancery. Ibid., xv. 496-508, 744-61. New York, etc., 1910.-Baldwin's completed work on the council has just appeared: The King's Council in England during the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1913.

For his paper on the early records of the council, see p. 440, above.

2915. DICEY, A. V. The privy council. Oxford, 1860; reprinted, London, etc., 1887.

A good short account.

2916. FOSTER, MICHAEL. Report of proceedings on the commission for the trial of the rebels in 1746, to which are added discourses upon a few branches of the crown law [high treason, etc.]. Oxford, 1762; 3rd edition, London, 1792; another edition, 1809.

2917. HALL, HUBERT, and BIRD, S. R. [S.]

Notes on

the history of the crown lands. Antiquary, xiii. 1-6, 85-86, 89-95, 159-62, 194-6. London, 1886.

2918. PALGRAVE, FRANCIS. An essay upon the original authority of the king's council. Record Com. [London], 1834. Valuable,

2919. PALMER, C. F. R. The king's confessors [1256-1450]. Antiquary, xxii. 114-20, 159-61, 262–6, xxiii. 24-26. London, 1890-91.

2920. PEGGE, SAMUEL. 1818.

The royal household, Wm. I.-Edw.
IV., 1-70.

Curialia miscellanea.

London,

The virtues of the royal touch, III53.

2921. STAUNFORD, WILLIAM. An exposition of the king's prerogative. London, 1567; other editions, 1568, 1573, 1577, 1590, 1607.

§ 65. PARLIAMENT AND LEGISLATION.

The best authorities are Pike, the Peers' Reports (No. 2944), Riess, and Stubbs, Constitutional History, especially ch. xx. See also §§ 18, 51; and, for the reign of Henry III., see Shirley, Royal Letters (No. 2113), vol. ii. preface, and Bémont and Prothero (Nos. 2830, 2841).

There is much valuable material relating to parliament and other institutions in the sessional papers of the house of commons, which are cited throughout the present work as 'Parliamentary Papers.' Before 1800 everything which would now be issued as a parliamentary paper was published in the journals or in the London Gazette. In 1800 many reports were collected and published as Reports from Committees of the House of Commons, 1715-1802 (15 vols. and index, London, 1773-1803). regular publication of parliamentary papers of 1801. They form a continuation of the numbered continuously under each session. An index will usually be found in the last volume for the session. There are also various general indexes, the most important of which are the Catalogue of Parliamentary Reports, 1696-1834 (London, 1834); three indexes comprising the years 1801-52, published

began with those Reports, and are

in 1854, which deal with bills, reports of committees, and accounts and papers respectively; and a useful selected list, Catalogue of Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900 (with a few of earlier date), London, [1904], and Supplement, to 1910, London, [1912]. For these and other indexes, see Gross, Bibliography (No. 66), 8-9; Index to Catalogue of Books in the Upper [Bates] Hall of the Boston Public Library (Boston, 1861), 33549, and Supplement (1866), 241-52. See also General Index of the Sessional Papers printed by Order of the House of Lords, 180159 (London, 1859); 1859–70 (London, 1872); 1871-85 (London, 1890). Many of these papers are printed in duplicate in the series of the house of commons.

For peerage cases, see § 69b. On trial of peers, see No. 2969a.

2922. [ALLEN, JOHN.] Annual parliaments and universal suffrage. Edinburgh Review, xxviii. 126-50. Edinburgh, 1817.

2923. BETHAM, WILLIAM. Dignities, feudal and parliamentary. Vol. i. London, 1830.

Ireland, 225-379. Deals mainly with parliamentary history.

2923a. BEVEN, THOMAS. The appellate jurisdiction of the house of lords. Law Quarterly Review, xvii., 155-70, 357-71. London, 1901.

See also J. W. Gordon, The Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords, London, 1905, PP. 46.

2924. BOUTMY, EMILE. La formation du parlement en Angleterre. Revue des Deux Mondes, lxviii. 82-126. Paris, 1885.

2925. CAVE-BROWN, J. Knights of the shire for Kent, 12751831. Kent Archæol. Soc., Archæologia Cantiana, xxi. 198-243London, 1895.

2926. CLIFFORD, FREDERICK. A history of private-bill legislation. 2 vols. London, 1885-87.

2927. [COBBETT, WILLIAM.] The parliamentary history of England [1066-1803]. 36 vols. London, 1806-20.

This work has superseded No. 2939.

2928. COOPER, W. D. The parliamentary history of Sussex. Lewes, 1834.