Dr Hannes Kleineke

Editor, House of Commons, 1461-1504

hkleinek@histparl.ac.uk

Current Research/Role

I am the Editor of the 1461-1504 Commons section, having joined the History in 1997. I am particularly interested in the day to day workings of the medieval parliament, including the logistics of its holding and its clerical organisation. My biographical work at the History of Parliament has focused primarily on the representatives of the south-western counties of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire and the parliamentary boroughs within these counties, as well as London’s ‘hinterland-county’ of Middlesex. These have included a range of pirates and other unsavoury characters, but also more prominent figures, such as the Yorkist earl of Devon, Humphrey Stafford of Southwick, several Speakers and members of the leading county families of Arundell and Courtenay.

Research Interests

My research interests include the political, legal and administrative history of late medieval England, particularly of the south-west of England in the fifteenth century. In chronological terms, the main focus of my work lies in the second half of the century, especially the reign of Edward IV. Together with Professor Matthew Davies I co-directed the AHRC-funded Londoners and the Law project, based at the Centre for Metropolitan History of the IHR. A version of the project database is now accessible through British History Online.

In the last few years I have produced edited calendars of the pardon rolls of the Yorkist monarchs, published by the List and Index Society, and available through their website.

I am a Convenor of the Late Medieval Seminar at the IHR, and serve as Book Reviews Editor of Parliamentary History and Assistant Editor of The Fifteenth Century. I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. 

You can visit my Academia page here.

Publications

Books

Pardons Rolls of Richard III (Kew: List and Index Society, 2022) [edited].

Pardon Rolls of Edward IV and Henry VI, 1462-83 (3 vols, Kew: List and Index Society, 2019-21) [edited]. 

The Yorkist Age (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013) [co-edited with C. Steer].  

The Chancery Case between Nicholas Radford and Thomas Tremayne: the Exeter Depositions of 1439 [edited] (Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2013)

The Fifteenth Century X: Parliament, Personalities and Power: Papers Presented to Linda Clark (The Fifteenth Century X) (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011) [edited]. 

Edward IV (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).

Parliamentarians at Law: Select Legal Proceedings of the Long Fifteenth Century Relating to Parliament (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) [edited]. 

The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St. Paul’s, 1479-97 (Donington: London Record Society, 2004) [co-edited with S. R. Hovland]. 

Chapters in Books

‘Hiding in Plain View: the foundation of the chantry of William, Lord Hastings, and a “lost” dean of St George’s, Windsor’, in E. Roger and K. McQuillian (eds.), Scribbled in Haste at Windsor: A collection of essays about St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle (Windsor: St George’s College,  2024), 40-64

‘England, 1461: Predominantly Provincial Perspectives on the early months of the reign of Edward IV’ in L. Clark and P. Fleming (eds.), The Fifteenth Century XVIII: Rulers, Regions and Retinues (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020), pp. 81-92.

‘Parliaments and Procedures’, in L. Clark (ed.), The History of Parliament: The Commons 1422-61 (7 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), i. pp. 64-114.

‘Parliamentary Elections’, in L. Clark (ed.),  The History of Parliament: The Commons 1422-61 (7 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), i. pp. 219-73.

‘Parliamentary Wages’, in L. Clark (ed.), The History of Parliament: The Commons 1422-61 (7 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), i. pp. 295-308.

‘Taxation, Borrowing and Resumption’, in L. Clark (ed.), The History of Parliament: The Commons 1422-61 (7 vols, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), i. pp. 522-49.

‘Lettice Oo? Queen Isabella’s Accidental Apothecary’, in L. Clark and E. Danbury (eds.), ‘A Verray Parfit Praktisour’: Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 85-98.

‘The prosecution of counterfeiting in Lancastrian England’, in M. Allen and M. Davies (eds.), Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: University of London Press, 2016), pp. 213-26.

‘The Turbulent Fifteenth Century’, in P. Seaward (ed.), The Story of Parliament: Celebrating 750 Years of Parliament in Britain (London: St James’s House & History of Parliament Trust, 2015), pp. 25-6.

‘Some Observations on the Household and Circle of Humphrey Stafford, Lord Stafford of Southwick and Earl of Devon: The Last Will of Roger Bekensawe’, in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2015), pp. 117-29.

‘Some Parliamentary Material in the early Records of the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery’, in C. Jones (ed.), Institutional Practice and Memory: Parliamentary People, Records and Histories. Essays in Honour of Sir John Sainty (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. 212-28.

‘Civic Ritual, Space and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century Exeter’, in F. Andrews (ed.), Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2011), pp. 165-78,

‘The East Anglian Parliamentary Elections of 1461’, in H. Kleineke (ed.), The Fifteenth Century X: Parliament, Personalities and Power – Papers Presented to Linda Clark (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011), pp. 167-87,

‘Sources for Representative Institutions’, in J. T. Rosenthal (ed.), Understanding Medieval Primary (London and New York: Routledge, 2011).

‘Civic Ritual, Space and Conflict in Fifteenth-Century Exeter’, in F. Andrews (ed.), Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages (Donington: Shaun Tyas,, 2011), pp. 165-78.

‘Poachers and Gamekeepers: Four 15^th-Century West-Country Criminals’, in P. Dalton and J. Appleby (eds.), Outlaws in Medieval and Early Modern England: Crime, Government and Society, c.1066-c.1600 (London and New York: Routledge, 2009). 

‘The Schoolboy’s Tale: A Voice from pre-Colet St. Paul’s School’, in M. Davies and A. Prescott (eds.),  London and the Kingdom: Essays Presented to Caroline M. Barron (Donington: Shaun Tyas 2008), pp. 146-59.

‘“þe Kynges Cite” – Exeter in the Wars of the Roses’ in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century VII: Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in the Late Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007), pp. 137-56,

‘The household and daily life of the dean of St. Paul’s in the later middle ages (with particular reference to Dean Worsley)’, in D. Kenne, A. Burns and A. Saint (eds.),  St. Paul’s: London’s  Cathedral (London: Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 67-68. [with S.R. Hovland]

‘Morton’s Fork? Henry VII’s “Forced Loan” of 1497’, in L. Visser-Fuchs (ed.), Tant d’Emprises: So Many Undertakings. Essays presented to Anne F. Sutton (Upminster: Richard III Society, 2003), pp. 315-27.

‘Why the West was wild: Law and Disorder in Fifteenth Century Cornwall and Devon’, in L. Clark (ed.), The Fifteenth Century III: Authority and Subversion (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003). 

‘Lady Joan Dinham: a Fifteenth-century West-country matriarch’ in T. Thornton (ed.), Social Attitudes and Political Structures in the Fifteenth Century (Stroud: The History Press, 2000), pp. 69-87.

Journal Articles

‘Death in Fleet Street: the demise of John Lowther, knight of the shire for Westmorland, in the parliament of January 1380’, Parliamentary History 43:2 (2024), pp. 153-65

‘The Secretary, his Wife, their Son, and her Father: New Discoveries about John Kendale, Secretary to Richard III’, The Ricardian 34 (2024), pp. 33-8.

‘James Statham was (probably) late: Some new Evidence for the City of Exeter’s armed Contingent (not) at Bosworth’, The Ricardian 30  (2020), pp. 169ff.

‘“Finding a few ships in readiness, they embarked”: the earl of Warwick’s escape from Dartmouth, April 1470’, The Ricardian 29 (2019), pp.  35-48.

‘Just Another Day in Chancery Lane: Disorder and the Law in London’s Legal Quarter in the Fifteenth Century’, Law and History Review 35:4 (2017), pp. 1017-47 [with J. Ross]. 

‘The Records of the Common Law as a Source of the Medieval Medical History of England’, Social History of Medicine 30:3 (2017), pp. 483-99.

‘The Library of John Veysy (d. 1492), Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Rector of St James, Garlickhythe, London’, The Library 17:4 (2016), pp. 399-423.

‘Thomas Hutton, Clerk of Richard III’s Parliament’, The Ricardian 26 (2016), pp. 19-30.

‘A Note on the Early Career of Dominic de Serego, physician to Queen Elizabeth Woodville’, The Ricardian 26 (2016), pp. 121-6.

‘The Medicines of Katherine, duchess of Norfolk, 1463-71’, Medical History 59:4 (2015), pp. 511-24,

– ‘Robert Bale’s Chronicle and the Second Battle of St Albans’, Historical Research 87:238 (2014), pp. 744-50.

‘Baldwin Hyde, clerk of the Readeption Parliament’, Parliamentary History 33:3 (2014), pp. 501-10 [with E. C. Rodger]

‘A Note on the Early Career of Sir Edward Woodville’, The Ricardian 24 (2014),pp.  87-91.

‘The Children in Richard III’s Care: New References. A Lawsuit between Peter Courteys, Keeper of Richard III’s Great Wardrobe, and Thomas Lynom, Solicitor of Richard III, 1495-1501’, The Ricardian 24 (2014), pp. 31-62 [with A. F. Sutton and L. Visser-Fuchs]. 

‘Canonical Books: the library of John Austell (died 1499)’, The Ricardian 21 (2011), pp. 61-6.

‘The Five Wills of Humphrey Stafford, earl of Devon’, Nottingham Medieval Studies 54 (2010), pp. 137-64,

‘A Letter relating to the Crisis of 1468’, The Ricardian 20 (2010), pp. 73-9.

‘A Disputed Election to Richard III’s Parliament’, The Ricardian 19 (2009), pp. 32-49 [with C. Moreton]. 

‘Edward IV: The Theatre of Monarchy’, History Review 63 (2009), pp. 7-12.

‘The Payment of Members of Parliament in the Fifteenth Century’, Parliamentary History 26:3 (2007), pp. 281-300. 

‘Richard III and the Origins of the Court of Requests’, The Ricardian 17 (2007), pp. 22-32.

‘Gerhard von Wesel’s Newsletter from England, 17 April 1471’, The Ricardian 16 (2006), pp. 66-83.

‘Lobbying and Access: The Canons of Windsor and the Matter of the Poor Knights in the Parliament of 1485’, Parliamentary History, 25:2 (2006), pp. 145-59. [The Parliamentary History Prize Essay, 2005]. 

‘The Widening Gap: The Practice of Parliamentary Borough Elections in Devon and Cornwall in the Fifteenth Century’, Parliamentary History 23:1 (2004), pp. 121-35. 

‘Alice Martyn, Widow of London: An Episode from Richard’s Youth’, The Ricardian 14 (2004), pp. 32-6.

‘The Commission De Mutuo Faciendo in the Reign of Henry VI’, English Historical Review 116:465 (2001), pp. 1-30. 

‘Carleton’s Book: William FitzStephen’s “Description of London” in a late fourteenth-century common-place book’, Historical Research 74:183 (2001), pp.117-26. 

‘English Shipping to Guyenne in the mid-15th Century: Sir Edward Hull’s Gascon voyage of 1441’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 85:4 (1999), 472-76.‘The Reburial Expenses of Sir Thomas Arundell’, The Ricardian 11 (1998), pp. 288-96.

Specialisms: Fourteenth Century, Fifteenth Century, Political History, Parliamentary History, History of Devon and Cornwall, Book History.