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
Oldhall, sir William, 19
Orleans; bastard of, 28
---- duke of, 7, 8
---- siege of, 28
Paris, 7, 8, 19;
siege of, 47;
rebellion in, 68;
bastille of St. Anthony, xi, lx, 68;
in the hands of the English, xi
Parliament, the English, as described by Commines, xvii
Passy, dame Christine of, iv;
biographical note upon, 54
Paston, sir John, his library, lix
Peace, the treaty of, in 1475, xxxviii
Philip, king of France, 8
Philip Dieu-donné, 10, 33, 34, 40
Philip of Valois, 12
Picquigny, the royal interview at, xxxvi
de Pisan, Christine, vi
Plantagenet, 2, 23, 52
Poitiers, battle of, 13, 75
Pompeus, 75
Pont l'Arche, the capture of iii, 5
Popham, sir John, 19
Poynings, lord, 28
Prophecies, the English always provided with, xxxix, 50
Publius Decius, 64
Pyrrhus, 55, 60
Radcliff, sir John, 48
Rais, lord, 15
Rempston, sir Thomas, 28
Respublica, 68
Richard emperor of Almaine, 11
Richard the First, 10
Riviers, Anthony earl of, his embassies to the duke of Burgundy, xxv;
his connections with royalty, xxvi. _See_ Scales
Robert, king of Jerusalem, 10
Rochedaryon, 13
Rollo, duke of Normandy, 39
Romans, their wars with Carthage, 26;
the largess of, to make an army to Africa, 83
Rome, 52
Rotherham, archbishop, xxxiii, xxxviii, xxxix
Rouen, 5
Roveraye, battle of, 28, 44
Runcyvale, 15
St. Cloud, battle of, 8
St. Leger, sir Thomas, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxvi
St. Pol, Louis de Luxembourg comte de, brother-in-law to king Louis, and
uncle to queen Elizabeth Wydville, xxviii;
his temporising and treacherous conduct, xxix;
circumstances of his ruin, xxxiv, xl, xliv
Salisbury, Thomas earl of, 17, 19, 28
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Scales, lord, 19;
_see_ Riviers
Sciences, the, vii, 45
Scipio, 61, 62
Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asianus, 66
Scluse, battle of, 12, 36
Senlys, 47
Sensuality, evils of, 22, 33, 52
Sessions, 77, 78
Shire-days, holding of, xv, 77, 78
Shrewsbury, 18
Shrewsbury, earl of, 28 _bis_
Sicily, 83
Smert, John, Garter king of arms, xxvii
Soldiers, on the just payment of, 71
Somerset, Edmond duke of, 28
---- John duke of, 28
Stanley, lord, xxiii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi
Suffolk, William earl of, 17, 28, 45
Surie (Syria), 10, 11
Tancarville, earl of, 12
Thames, the flood of, 82
Tours, 5, 25;
truce of, ii
"Tree of Batailes," a popular work, iii;
its author, editions, and manuscripts, iv;
quoted, vii
Troy, 2, 20, 43, 64
Truces with France, the history of, 34;
truce of Tours, ii
Tryvet, sir John, 15
Tunis, 11
Tunstall, sir Richard, xx, xxiii, xxxii
Ulixes, 21
d'Urfé, seigneur, xxxiii
Valerius Corvinus, 70
Vernelle, battle of, 18, 19, 28, 32 _bis_, 44
Virtues, the iiij principalle cardinall, 7
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