Letter to Mr. Drummond (10 November 1710), quoted in Gilbert Parke, Letters and Correspondence, Public and Private, of The Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Visc. Bolingbroke; during the Time he ...

Even when contemplating their own deaths, the two cousins inhabited different worlds. Richard II’s will, written in the ...

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England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

The others, including Henry Bolingbroke, soon to be Henry IV, were exiled. Henry received written guarantees from Richard that when John of Gaunt died, Henry would inherit his estates. Gaunt died ...

1812: British forces defeat US forces attempting to invade Canada at the Battle of Queenstown Heights. 1860: The oldest surviving aerial photo is taken from a balloon of Boston, Massachusettes.

In 1398 he was banished by Richard II but returned in 1399 to head a revolt and be accepted as king by Parliament. He was succeeded by his son Henry V. He had difficulty in keeping the support of ...

[14] In 1394 Gaunt appointed Sir John Pelham (d.1429) as constable of Pevensey. Pelham supported Gaunt's banished son, Henry Bolingbroke, when the latter returned from exile to claim his inheritance ...

Tyrant and usurper: the last wills of Richard II and Henry IV give rare insight into the medieval monarchs who wore the crown. The English noble and a major figure during the reign of Henry IV died on ...

In “A Voyage to the Demerary,” Henry Bolingbroke described the typical plantation in Demerara-Essequibo as a “curious mixture of European industry, arithmetic, and frugality, with a Caribbee ...

Residents in a historic village are determined to save their last pub after two others were lost. The Black Horse Inn in Old ...