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War of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and for more than a century after as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century, fought between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: Lancaster and York. Wikipedia

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The Chronicles of the White Rose of York
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A series of historical fragments, proclamations, letters, and other contemporary documents relating to the reign of King Edward the Fourth ; with notes and illustrations, and a copious index.
English Historical Documents by David C. Douglas
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DA26 .E56

ISBN: 0415143691
Letters and papers illustrative of the wars of the English in France during the reign of Henry the Sixth, King of England, Volume I & 2: [1422-1459] by Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895.; Worcester, William, 1415-1482?
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ISBN: 9781554936946
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Wars of the English in France during the Reign of Henry the Sixth, King of England. by Joseph Stevenson
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Edited by Joseph Stevenson. Pub. by the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls.
Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and others (ebook) by Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI et al.
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Written in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. From a ms. found at Emral in Flintshire. Ed. by Cecil Monro, esq.
Original letters, illustrative of English history by Henry Ellis
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; including numerous royal letters; from autographs in the British Museum, and one or two other collections
Original Letters, Illustrative of English History 2nd ser. by Henry Ellis
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Original Letters, Illustrative of English History 3d ser. by Henry Ellis
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The Paston Letters, A. D. 1422-1509 by James Gairdner
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Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century by Norman Davis
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DA240 .P294

ISBN: 0198125550
The Usurpation of Richard the Third: Dominicus Mancinus ad Angelum Catonem de occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium libellus by Dominicus Mancinus
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection DA260 .M28 1969

ISBN: 0862991358

Translated with an introduction by C.A.J. Armstrong.

The War of the Roses: Greatest Hits

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