Information respecting Eleanor of Castile and her Memorials is widely
scattered. Examination of the references will give an excellent
introduction to the study of the social history of an interesting
period. The attempt to do this cannot be made in this place, but the
following references will indicate the sources from which these notes
are derived, and afford the writer an opportunity of expressing his
great obligation to the work of others on the subject.
(1) THE EARLY CHRONICLES, especially—
_Rishanger, William of_, at St. Albans; Rolls Series, by H. T.
Riley.
_Wykes, Thomas_, Monk of Osney; Rolls Series, by Luard.
_Hemingburgh, Walter of_; English Historical Society. H. C.
Hamilton.
_Dunstable, Annals of_; Rolls Series, by Luard.
_Walsingham, Thomas of_, a St. Albans Monk, writing in the
fifteenth century, quotes the earlier Chronicles in the
_Historia Anglicana_; Rolls Series, by Riley.
(2) General historical information may be referred to in:—
_Rymer_, “Fœdera,” Record Edition.
_Gough, Henry_, “Itinerary of King Edward I.”
_Ramsey, Sir J. H._, “Dawn of the Constitution,” a careful
detailed account of the period.
(3) SPECIAL REFERENCES:—
“Liberationes factæ per Executores Dominæ Alianoræ Consortis
Edwardis Regis Angliæ primi.”
These Rolls have the following reference numbers in the Record
Office;—
“King’s Exchequer Accounts, 352/27, 353/1, 353/9, 353/19”, and
have been transcribed with a most useful introduction in the
volume entitled “Manners and Household Expenses of England,”
presented to the Roxburghe Club by Beriah Botfield, 1841, edited
by T. Hudson Turner. A photograph showing a specimen of these
Rolls may be seen in the Souvenir of the St. Albans Pageant,
1907.
“Vetusta Monumenta.” Plates vii, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, and
corresponding letterpress.
_Hunter, Rev. Joseph_, “On the Death of Eleanor of Castile,”
“Archæologia,” vol. xxix, page 167, 1842.
_Abel, John_, “Memorials of Queen Eleanor,” published by the
author, 1864.
_Scott, George Gilbert_, “Gleanings from Westminster Abbey,”
Oxford and London, 1863.
_Lethaby, W. R._, “Westminster Abbey and the King’s Craftsmen,”
London, 1906, gives much original and suggestive information.
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