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this entire bill so that it be done’).

    15 The Chapel in the Crag, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, a wayside shrine carved out of the cliff above the River Nidd by John the Mason in thanksgiving for his young son being miraculously saved from falling rock. Henry IV granted permission for the shrine in 1407.

    16 Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace. This nineteenth-century portrait is said to be based on a fifteenth-century original, but is unlikely to have pre-dated Holbein and may be even later. Arundel was vilified for his ‘heretic-burning’ during the Reformation, but this more sympathetic portrayal suggests a revival of his reputation.

    17a Battlefield Chapel, near Shrewsbury, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and founded by Henry IV c .1409 on the site of the battle of Shrewsbury as a house of prayer for the souls of those who had died at the battle.

    17b Statue of Henry IV on the east gable of the church.

    18 Thomas Hoccleve, poet and clerk of the privy seal, presents his Regement of Princes , written in 1410–11, to Henry, Prince of Wales, ‘hye noble and myghtty prince excellent/My lord the prince and my lord gracious’.

    19 Henry IV&s Great Bible, at 63 x 43 cm. the largest illuminated bible made in medieval England. The illuminated initial portrays St Jerome in his study, showing desks similar to the ‘great desk’ on two levels built for the king&s study at Eltham, in which he kept his books.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    Many people have helped me to write this book, some by alerting me to references, some by reading sections, some in fruitful discussions. I hope I have remembered to thank them all at the appropriate point, and if not I apologize.
    I have had the good fortune to spend my career in the Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, surrounded by stimulating friends and colleagues, teaching able and interested students, in an environment which, for a medievalist, could hardly be bettered. I am grateful to them all. In 2013–14 I also spent a year working on this book at Fordham University in New York; thank you to Maryanne Kowaleski and her colleagues for making me so welcome there. I am very grateful to Nora Bartlett for her help in compiling the index. The many librarians and archivists who have helped me during the course of researching this book have also been unfailingly helpful; I would especially like to thank the staff of The National Archives at Kew, London, where the majority of the manuscript research for this book was done.
    Whenever I go to London, I stay with my sister Rosalind in her house in Clapham, where she and her husband Paul invariably greet me with warmth, good food, good wine and good conversation. I have thought many times how much less pleasant my research would have been without their decades of generous hospitality.
    This book is dedicated to Alice, Rachel, Hannah, Paul, Polo, Roxana, Neko, Luna and Cody, in the hope that they will always be safe and happy.
    Chris Given-Wilson
    St Andrews, March 2015

ABBREVIATED REFERENCES
    Titles are given in full in the Bibliography.

    All manuscript references are to documents in The National Archives, Kew, London, unless otherwise indicated.
ANLP
Anglo-Norman Letters and Petitions
Annales
Annales Ricardi Secundi et Henrici Quarti
BIHR
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
BJRL
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Brut
Brut, or Chronicles of England
BL
British Library, London
CAD
Calendar of Ancient Deeds
CChR
Calendar of Charter Rolls
CCR
Calendar of Close Rolls
CDS
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland
CE
Eulogium Historiarum sive Temporis, vol. 3
CFR
Calendar of Fine Rolls
CGR
Calendar of Gascon Rolls
CIM
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous
CIPM
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem
CIRCLE CR
Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, Close Rolls
CIRCLE PR
Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, Patent Rolls
Concilia
Concilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae , 3 vols
CP
Complete