The Boke of Noblesse: Addressed to King Edward the Fourth on His Invasion of France in 1475
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The Boke of Noblesse: Addressed to King Edward the Fourth on His Invasion of France in 1475
Chivalry -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- History -- Edward IV, 1461-1483; Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453
Acre, 11
Actovylle, Raulyn, 8
Africa, 11, 83
Agamemnon, 20, 63
Agincourt, battle of, 16, 28, 32, 45
Ajax, 63, 64
Alencon, duke of 12;
taken prisoner 18;
his redemption 19
Alexander, king, 7
Anjou, the title of, 23
Appius, 60
Appulton, John, his letter to sir John Fastolfe, lvi
Arms (to do) in lists to the utterance, or to certain points, 77
Armonac, earl of, 8, 28, 37
Arras, treaty of, xlix
Arthur, king, 2, 9
---- of Breteyn, 40
Astrology depreciated, viii, 50
Authors quoted:--
de Auriga, Alanus, his Quadrilogus, 25, 27, 33;
Preface iii, vi, vii, ix
Austyn, of the City of God, 57;
---- of Free will, 50;
Bartholomeus, de Proprietatibus Rerum, 2;
Basset, Peter, liii;
Boetius de Consolatione, 3, 21, 50, 52;
Cato, 25, 62, 69;
Chartier, see Auriga
Cicero, of Divination, 50;
---- _see_ Tullius;
Cristina, Arbre de Batailes, 6 _bis_, 27, 30, 31, 54 (her biography
_ib._);
de Diceto, Radulphus, Ymago historiarum, 23;
Dudley's Tree of Commonwealth, vii;
Froissart, 40;
Gildas, 51;
Governance of Princes,liv;
Jeremye the prophet, 79;
Jerome, saint, 76;
Job, 6, 52, 58;
Josephus, liber antiquitatum, 51;
Kayus son, ii, 1;
Livius (Titus, 26, 51, 53, 83;
Machabeus, 42;
Malexander, Walter, 22, 26;
Nennius, 62;
Novius Marcellus, 57;
Orosius de Ormesta Mundi, 51;
Ovid, 26, 33;
Paralipomenon, 56;
Philip, the Acts of King, (the Philippiados), 13;
Pliny the younger, ii;
du Premier-Faict, Laurence, li;
Ptolomy, Centilogie, 51;
_de Regimine Principum_, liv;
Socrates, 69;
Tree of Batailes, iii, liv;
Tullius, 25, 57 _ter_, 58 _bis_, 59, 60, 62, 70;
Vegetius, his book of Chivalry (_de Arte Militari_), 21, 29, 55;
Preface, p. vi.;
Wallensis, Commune loquium, 57;
Worcestre, William of, l, 1
Averaunces, 28
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Baldwin archbishop of Canterbury, 10
Basset, Peter, an historical writer, liii
Bastille of St. Anthoine, victualling of, xi, lx, 68
Beauchamp, sir William, 15
Bedford, John duke of, 15, 17;
wins the battle of Vernelle 18;
and conquers the county of Maine 19;
other victories 28;
statutes of 31;
eulogy on 44;
defended Paris 47;
his payment of wages 72
Benevolence, a voluntary taxation, xvii, xxi
Bituitus, king, 27
Boecius, 52
BOKE OF NOBLESSE, its scope and intention, i;
probable date of its composition, _ib._;
abstract of its contents, i-xvii;
the question of its authorship, l;
other books of the same character, liv;
the MS. described, lv
Bonnet, Honoré, iv
Bordeaux, 42
Bougée, battle of, 17, 44
Bourbon, the bastard of, xxxi, xxxvii, xxxviii, 28
---- the cardinal of, xxxi, xxxvii, xxxix
Brennus, 10
Bretagne, Charles duke of, 13
---- Giles son of the duke of, ii, 5
---- the duke of, protected by king Edward, xl, xli
Bretailles, Louis de, xlii
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