The Plumpton Correspondence is a rare collection of 250 letters and writings from 1461 to 1552 that have survived to the modern day. The writings contains day-to-day writings of William Plumpton and his family, revealing the daily lives of a medieval family of knightly status who held estates in the Knaresborough area of North Yorkshire.[1]
The writings captured a time of decline in the military function of knighthood as well as the fortunes of the family during the Wars of the Roses, the letters also include numerous correspondence with lawyers on the complexities of the 15th and 16th century legal process. It is of particular value to social historians due to its subject matter.[2]
It was preserved in a manuscript book of copies which passed into the hands of Christopher Towneley by about 1650, and remained among the Towneley manuscripts. It was edited for the Camden Society by Thomas Stapleton in 1838–1839 (under two volumes. The letters illustrated by the editor by extracts from a manuscript in the same collection, the Coucher Book of Sir Edward Plumpton.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ Mount, Toni (2016-05-15). A Year in the Life of Medieval England. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-5240-5.
- ^ "The Plumpton Letters and Papers | British history 1066-1450". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
Further reading
- Joan Kirby (1996). The Plumpton Letters and Papers. Google Books.
- Plumpton, Edward; Stapleton, Thomas (1839). Plumpton Correspondence. A Series of Letters, Chiefly Domestick, Written in the Reigns of Edward IV. Richard III. Henry VII. and Henry VIII. PIMS - University of Toronto. London, Printed for the Camden society
External links
Media related to Plumpton Correspondence at Wikimedia Commons
This page was last edited on 23 July 2023, at 21:16