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Published March 2025. The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.

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Late Medieval Books, Warkworth's Chronicle 1467

Warkworth's Chronicle 1467 is in Warkworth's Chronicle.

And in vij. yere1 of Kynge Edwarde, Sere Thomas Cooke, Sere Jhon Plummere, knyght, and aldermenne of Londone, and Humfrey Haward and other aldermen were arested, and treasoune surmysed uppone them, whereof they were acquyte, but they lost grete goodes to the Kynge, to the valowe of xl, Ml, marke or more, and diverse times in dyverse places of England, men were arestede for treasoune, and some were putt to dethe, and some scaped,

Note 1. And in vij. yere. An anonymous scribbler says, that in this year there was, throughout England, a hurricane (vehementissimus ventus) which lasted for more than thirty-six hours. — MS. Arundel. Mus. Brit. 220. fol. 279, vº.