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England in the Later Middle Ages

First published in 1913 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

This edition first published in 2018 by Routledge

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ISBN 13: 978-1-138-60545-9 (hbk)

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A History of England

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

G ENERAL E DITOR : S IR CHARLES OMAN, K.B.E., F.B.A.

VOLUME III

ENGLAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

A HISTORY OF ENGLAND

IN EIGHT VOLUMES

EDITED BY SIR CHARLES OMAN

I. E NGLAND BEFORE THE N ORMAN C ONQUEST . By Sir C HARLES O MAN , K.B.E., M.A., F.B.A., AU Souls College, Oxford.

[Ninth Edition.

II. E NGLAND UNDER THE N ORMANS AND A NGEVINS . By H. W. C. D AVIS , M.A., LL.D., C.B.E., late Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford.

[Thirteenth Edition.

III. E NGLAND IN THE L ATER M IDDLE A GES . By K ENNETH H. V ICKERS , M.A.

[Sixth Edition.

IV. E NGLAND UNDER THE T UDORS . By A RTHUR D. I NNES , sometime Scholar of Oriel College, Oxford. Revised by J. M. H ENDERSON , M.A., Lecturer in British History in the University of Aberdeen.

[Eleventh Edition.

V. E NGLAND UNDER THE S TUARTS . By G. M. T REVELYAN , O.M., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

[Twenty-First Edition.

VI. E NGLAND UNDER THE H ANOVERIANS . By Sir C HARLES G RANT R OBERTSON , M.A., LL.D., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

[Fourteenth Edition.

VII. E NGLAND SINCE W ATERLOO . By Sir J. A. R. M ARRIOTT , M.A., Honorary Fellow, formerly Fellow, Lecturer and Tutor in Modern History, of Worcester College, Oxford.

[Thirteenth Edition.

VIII. M ODERN E NGLAND , 18851945. By Sir J. A. R. M ARRIOTT .

[Fourth Edition.

England in the Later Middle Ages

By

KENNETH H. VICKERS, M.A.

Principal of University College, Southampton, Formerly Professor of Modern History in the University of Durham

With Four Maps

This book was first published November 20th, 1913 It has been reprinted six times

Seventh edition, 1950

CATALOGUE NO. 3373/U

Introductory Note

BY THE GENERAL EDITOR

I N England, as in France and Germany, the main characteristic of the last fifty years, from the point of view of the student of history, has been that new material has been accumulating much faster than it can be assimilated or absorbed. The standard works of the 19th-century historians need to be revised, or even to be put aside as obsolete, in the light of the new information that is coming in so rapidly and in such vast bulk.

The series of which this volume forms a part is intended to do something towards meeting the demand for information brought up to date. Individual historians will not sit down, as once they were wont, to write twenty-volume works in the style of Hume or Lingard, embracing a dozen centuries of annals. It is not to be desired that they shouldthe writer who is most satisfactory in dealing with Anglo-Saxon antiquities is not likely to be the one who will best discuss the antecedents of the Reformation, or the constitutional history of the Stuart period. But something can be done by judicious co-operation. In the thirty-four years since the first volume of this series appeared in 1904, it would seem that the idea has justified itself, as the various sections have passed through many editions and revisions varying from six to sixteen.

Each is intended to give something more than a mere outline of one period of our national annals, but they have little space for controversy or the discussion of sources. There is, however, a bibliography annexed to most of the series, which will show the inquirer where information of the more special kind is to be sought. Moreover, a number of maps are to be found at the end of each volume which, as it is hoped, will make it unnecessary for the reader to be continually referring to large historical atlasestomes which (as we must confess with regret) are not to be discovered in every private library.

The general editor and his collaborators have been touched lightly by the hand of time. All regret the too early decease of our colleague Henry Carless Davis, sometime Regius Professor of Modern History in this University, who wrote the second of the eight volumes of the series. He had several times revised his contribution. Most of us survivors continue to do the same from time to time, as the pen (or sometimes the spade) produces new sources of information. Naturally the spade is particularly active for the purveying of fresh material for the first of our volumes, and the pen (or the press) for the two last. Information must be kept up to date, whatever the epoch concerned, even though it is known that much undiscovered evidence may yet be forthcoming in the near future.

C. OMAN

O XFORD , 1 st April, 1937

Preface

I HAVE to acknowledge my great indebtedness to Mr. L. Stampa both for reading through the greater part of the MS. of this book and suggesting emendations and alterations and for his invaluable help in the preparation of the maps. I should add that in constructing the map of Northern England and Scotland I got much help from Professor Touts similar map in Vol. III. of the Political History of England, and that my map of England during the Wars of the Roses owes a similar debt to the map in Dr. Pooles Historical Atlas of Modern Europe.

The necessity of compressing a very important period, covering 213 years, into five hundred pages, has caused much to be left out which I should have liked to see inserted. The original manuscript has been cut down by some 100 pages from the shape in which it left my hands.

I should like to add my warmest thanks for Professor Omans kindness and consideration to me throughout the preparation of the book.

The book has been thoroughly revised for the second edition and the account of the Battle of Bannockburn has been entirely rewritten in the light of recent research.

K. H. V.

A RMSTRONG C OLLEGE ,

N EWOASTLE-ON -T INH

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