This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWFor four decades, Michael Hicks has been a figure central to the study of fifteenth-century England. His scholarly output is remarkable both for its sheer bulk and for the diversity of the fields it covers. This extraordinary breadth is reflected by the variety of subjects covered by the papers in the present volume, offered to Professor Hicks by friends, colleagues and former students to mark his retirement from the University of Winchester. Fifteenth-century royalty, nobility and gentry, long at the heart of his own work, naturally take centre stage, but his contribution to economic and regional history, both in the early part of his career as a research fellow at the Victoria County History and more recently as director of a succession of major research projects, is also reflected in the essays presented here. The individual contributions are populated by some of the major characters of Yorkist England, many of them made household names by Professor Hicks's own writings - King Edward IV and his mistresses; the Neville earls of Warwick and Salisbury; the Stafford, Herbert, Percy, Tiptoft and de Vere earls of Devon, Pembroke,Northumberland, Worcester and Oxford - while the themes covered span the full panoply of medieval life: from treason to trade, warfare to widowhood and lordship to law enforcement. Equally broad is the papers' geographical spread,covering regions from Catalonia to Normandy, from Hampshire to Yorkshire and from Worcestershire and the Welsh marches to East Anglia. Contributors: Anne Curry, Christopher Dyer, Peter Fleming, Ralph Griffiths, JohnHare, Winifred Harwood, Matthew Holford, Hannes Kleineke, Gordon McKelvie, Mark Page, Simon Payling, A.J. Pollard, James Ross, Karen Stöber, Anne F. Sutton

Foreword - Caroline BarronDisciplinary Ordinances for English Garrisons in Normandy in the Reign of Henry V - Anne CurryLords in a Landscape: the Berkeley Family and Northfield (Worcestershire) - Christopher DyerHampshire and the Parish Tax of 1428 - Mark PageThe Livery Act of 1429 - An Indenture between Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and Sir Edmund Darell of Sessay, North Riding, 1435 - Anthony J PollardThe Pursuit of Justice and Inheritance from Marcher Lordships to Parliament: the Implications of Margaret Malefaunt's Abduction in Gower in 1438 - Ralph A GriffithsThe Battles of Mortimer's Cross and Second St. Albans: The Regional Dimension - Peter FlemingWidows and the Wars of the Roses: the Turbulent Marital History of Edward IV's Putative Mistress, Margaret, daughter of Sir Lewis John of West Horndon, Essex - Simon J. PaylingSome Observations on the Household and Circle of Humphrey Stafford, Lord Stafford of Southwick and Earl of Devon: the Last Will of Roger Bekensawe - Hannes KleinekeThe Treatment of Traitors' Children and Edward IV's Clemency in the 1460s - James RossEdward IV and Bury St. Edmunds' Search for Self-Government - Anne F. SuttonThe Exchequer Inquisitions Post Mortem - Matthew HolfordHams for Prayers: Regular Canons and their Lay Patrons in Medieval Catalonia - Karen StoberProduction, Specialisation and Consumption in Late Medieval Wessex - John N HareA Butt of Wine and Two Barrels of Herring: Southampton's Trading Links with Religious Institutions in Winchester and South Central England, 1430-1540 - Winifred A Harwood