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Troubles of Richard III's Reign ("TYRANNY" (Fortescue: …

- - - - Acting aggressively, or forced by the Woodvilles?
        
        Mancini: reacting to actions of the Woodvilles
        
        C. D. Ross: Woodvilles & associates initiated the struggle for power
        
        Seized the royal treasury
        
        Launched the royal treasure fleet under Woodville command
        
        Arranged for an early coronation
        
        Brought EV to London with an army led by Rivers
        
        Devised an interim government largely excluding Gloucester
        
        Richmond: But everyone was so surprised and unprepared
  - - - Mancini: reading back tensions into the previous reign to make events seem inevitable?
      - No contemporary evidence of any hostility before April 1483
    - - 1469 Warwick Manifesto: blames the terrible governance of the realm on the Woodvilles
  - - - Mancini: "If the entire government were committed to one man he might easily usurp the sovereignty"
    - - Idea that EIV had wanted Gloucester as Protector
        
        Mancini: "Men say that in the....will he appointed as protector of his children and realm his brother Richard"
      - Mancini: "His previous career and blameless morals would be a sure guarantee of his good government"
- - - - Wise move politically
  - - - EIV murdered HVI and Clarence
- - - - Lincoln's Sermon
    - - Mancini: "Some...always suspected whither his enterprises might lead"
- - - - MADE TUDOR A POSSIBILITY
    - - Northern "plantation" in the South
        
        Violated "Community of the Shire"
    - - Openly criticised EIV's reign
      - Both EIV and EV declared illegitimate #
- - - - Ruling without consent: King who intervened too thoroughly in this local autonomy/attempted to displace the local county rulers #
  - - - 1484 Parliament
        
        Statute against benevolences
        
        Establishment of the Council of the North
        
        Making of peace with Scotland
        
        Programme of "moral rearmament"
      - In the North as Gloucester
    - - 1483 Rebellions: Northern Plantations # #
        
        Croyland Chronicle: "Distributed among his northern adherents who he placed in every spot throughout his dominions to the disgrace and lasting sorrow of the people in the South who daily longed more and more for the hoped for return of their ancient rulers, rather than the present tyranny of these people"
      - Handling of property
        
        Not just northerners who benefitted/not all closest adherents were northern
        
        Patent Rolls & Signet Docket Book
        
        Large number of grants to c. 40 northerners
        
        Heaviest northern grants in rebellious Southern counties & where HT expected to land
      - Proclamation of HT: "An extreme destroyer of his nobility"
- - - - EIV's Roll
  - - - "They curse him with a fate worthy of his crimes"