The Innsbruck Corpus of English Letters from 1386 to 1688

(prepared by ICAMET, i.e. THE INNSBRUCK COMPUTER ARCHIVE OF MIDDLE
ENGLISH TEXTS, 1994)

Part 1: The 15th Century (1386-1500) (74 letters)



Note: For the exact bibliographical identification of the letters and
   for the mode of compilation cf. the separate database "lettsurv.txt".


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chambers, R.W. und Marjorie Daunt, ed. A Book of London English 1384-1425.
     Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.
Davis, Norman, ed. Paston Letters. Clarendon Medieval and Tudor Series: Oxford: 
     Clarendon Press, 1958.
Hanham, Alison, ed. The Cely Letters, 1472-1478. Published for the Early
     English Text Society. London, New York, Toronto: OUP, 1975.
Kingsford, Charles L., ed. The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483. BdII. 
     Camden Third Series, 30. London: Camden Society, 1919.
Moore, Stuart A., ed. Letters and Papers of John Shillingford, Mayor of
     Exeter 1447-50. London: Camden Society, 1871.
Raine, James, ed. The Correspondence, Inventories, Account Rolls and Law
     Proceedings of the Priory of Coldingham. Surtees Society, 12. London: 
     Nichols, 1841.
Williams, George, ed. Memorials of the Reign of King Henry VI. Official
     Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton, Secretary to King Henry VI.,
     and Bishop of Bath and Wells, vol. II. London: Longman/Trübner, 1872.


CONTENT

CHAMBERS/DAUNT, A BOOK OF LONDON ENGLISH:
1. A petition of the folk of Mercerye (1386)
2. Littera Anglicana Regi directa per Maiorem & Aldremannos & c. (1417)
3. Responcio eiusdem littere (1418)
4. Responcio littere precedentis (1418)
5. Responcio littere precedentis (1419)
6. Littera missa per Maiorem & Aldremannos domino Duci Bedfordie (1424)
7. Littera domini Regis Maiori & Aldremannis missa (1417)
8. Littera domini Regis Maiori & Aldermannis missa (1418)
9. Littera domini Regis Maiori & Aldermannis Ciuitatis Londonie (1418)
10. Littera missa Maiori, Aldermannis, & Comunibus Ciuitatis Londonie pro
    Victualibus mittendis Domino Regi in obsidione ante Rothomago iacenti
    & c. (1418)
11. Littera domini Regis missa Maiori Aldermannis & Comunibus (1419)
12. A lettre from the kyng to the Mair, Aldremen and Comunes (1419)

DAVIS, PASTON LETTERS:
13. William Paston I to William Worstede, John Longham, and Piers Shelton
    (1426)
14. William Paston I to the Vicar of the Abbot of Cluny (1429)

RAINE ABOUT THE PRIORY OF COLDINGHAM:
15. cxxii. Letter from Sir David Home (1440)
16. cxxvii. Letter from Sir David Home (1440)
17. clv. Letter from Sir David Home (1442)
18. cxxxvi. Litera directa domino de hales (1441)
19. cxxxvii. Litera directa Alexandro Home (1441)
20. cxxxviii. Litera directa David Home (1441)
21. cxxxix. Litera directa comiti d'Angus (1441)
22. cxl. Litera directa domino de Hayles (1441)
23. clxiv. Litera directa magistro Roberto Rolston (1444)

WILLIAMS, CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS BEKYNTON:
24. Letter to the king (1442)
25. In Anglicis. Litera missa secrete per ambassiatores (1442)
26. In Anglicis litera Regi per Ambassiatores missa de misero statu
    Acquitaniae (1442)
27. Bishop Bekynton to Edmund, Duke of Somerset (1447)

MOORE, LETTERS AND PAPERS OF JOHN SHILLINGFORD:
28. Shillingford to his fellows at Exeter (1447)
29. ---------------"--------------------- (1447)
30. Shillingford to Dowrish (1447)
31. Instructions from Shillingford to his deputy (1447)

DAVIS, PASTON LETTERS:
32. Agnes Paston to Edmond Paston I (1445)
33. --------------"---------------- (1451)
34. --------------"---------------- (1451)
35. Agnes Paston, Memorandum (1458)

RAINE, THE PRIORY OF COLDINGHAM:
36. clxxii. Litera missa domino Thomae Nessbitt priori de Coldyngham
    (1447)
37. clxxxiv. Litera domino Willielmo laxe capellano londinii commorati
    directa (1451)
38. cxcvii. Litera prioris dunelmensis (1456)
39. cxcviii. --------"---------------- (1456)

DAVIS, PASTON LETTERS:
40. Margaret Paston to John Paston I (1465)
41. ----------------"--------------- (1465)
42. ----------------"--------------- (1465)
43. ----------------"--------------- (1465)
44. ----------------"--------------- (1465)
45. ----------------"--------------- (1465)

RAINE, THE PRIORY OF COLDINGHAM:
46. Richard Byllingham (1467)
47. ---------"-------- (1467)

KINGSFORD, THE STONOR LETTERS AND PAPERS:
48. Elizabeth Stonor to William Stonor (1476)
49. -----------------"---------------- (1476)
50. -----------------"---------------- (1476)
51. -----------------"---------------- (1476)
52. -----------------"---------------- (1476)
53. -----------------"---------------- (1476)

HANHAM, THE CELY LETTERS:
54. Richard Cely the elder to George Cely (1477)
55. -----------------------"------------- (1477)
56. -----------------------"------------- (1477)
57. -----------------------"------------- (1477)
58. -----------------------"------------- (1478)
59. -----------------------"------------- (1478)
60. -----------------------"------------- (1478)
61. -----------------------"------------- (1478)
62. -----------------------"------------- (1478)
63. Richard Cely the younger to George Cely (1479)
64. -------------------------"------------- (1479)
65. -------------------------"------------- (1480)
66. -------------------------"------------- (1480)
67. -------------------------"------------- (1480)
68. -------------------------"------------- (1480)
69. -------------------------"------------- (1480)
70. William Cely to George Cely (1487)
71. -------------"------------- (1487)
72. William Cely to Richard and George Cely (1487)
73. -------------"------------------------- (1487)
74. -------------"------------------------- (1482)