Richard III: His Life & Character, Reviewed in the Light of Recent Research
CHAPTER I
THE AUTHORITIES
The Plantagenet Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Character and position of the accusers . . . . . . . . . . 167 Extravagance of their caricature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Writers in the pay of the Tudors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 The notorious pamphlet by Morton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168-171 Bernard Andre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Polydore Virgil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171-172 Rous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Fabyan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Warkworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Continuators of the Croyland Chronicle . . . . . . . . . . 175-178 Official documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Hall, Grafton, Holinshed, Stow, Buck . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Reaction. Modern authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Miss Halsted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Upholders of the Tudor stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182-183