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        • Part XVI.6: Index and Notes to the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: Money lent… through Pins.
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    • To Prove A Villain: The Real Richard III
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      • The Murder of the Princes
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    • The Arrivall of Edward IV
      • Part II: Landing through the Reconciliation with Clarence
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      • Part V: The Aftermath of Tewkesbury through the Surrender of the Bastard of Fauconberg
      • Part VI: Endnotes
    • Robert Fabyan: ‘The Concordaunce of Hystoryes’
    • History Play: A Working Bibliography
    • The Song of Ladye Bessyie
    • HOLINSHED’S HISTORY OF KING RICHARD III
    • The Cely Papers
      • Part I: Introduction with Footnotes & Appendix I & II
      • Part II: Letters 1 though 50
      • Part III: Letters 51 through 91
      • Part IV: Letters 92 through 124
      • Part V: Letters 125 through 150
      • Book Six, Chapters 3-12; Glossary
    • Michael Jones, “Philippe de Commynes, Memoirs”
      • Introduction, Further Reading, Manuscript Abbreviations, & Maps
      • Prologue; Book One, Chapters 1-11
      • Book One, Chapters 12-16; Book Two, Chapters 1-9
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      • Book Four, Chapters 5-13; Book Five, Chapter 1
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      • Book Five, Chapters 16-20; Book Six, Chapters 1-2
    • Beth Marie Kosir, “Richard III: A Study in Historiographical Controversy,”
    • Marius, Richard, “The History of King Richard III,”
      • Part Two: Pages 108 through 122
      • Thomas More index
        • The History of King Richard the Third – Sir Thomas More
        • More Myth-Making
        • The Princes: A Dolorous End
        • Part One of Two
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    • Sharon D. Michalove, “The Reinvention of Richard III.”
    • James A. Moore, “Historicity in Shakespeare’s Richard III,
    • Roxane C. Murph, Richard III: The Making of a Legend.
    • Plantagenet, Richard, The Statutes Ordained by Richard Duke of Gloucester, for the College of Middleham
    • Jeremy Potter, “Richard III’s Historians: Adverse and Favourable Views”
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