The Adventures of Alianore Audley

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The discovery of Alianore Audley’s Chronicle caused a major stir in academic circles. It threw a new light on the life and times of Richard III, providing answers to a number of previously unresolved questions.

Certain cynical individuals have expressed doubt about the reliability of the Chronicle. However, comparison with other known sources bears out the great bulk of Alianore’s narrative. This is as much as can be said for the Croyland Chronicle, the generally accepted work of authority on the period. Even so unlikely an incident as the capture of Gloucester’s banner by Lord Stanley is recorded in an old ballad. (See Richard III as Duke of Gloucester and King of England, C. A. Halstead, volume 2, p. 67, note 3.)

I have updated some of Alianore’s spellings for the modern reader, and ironed out some of her medieval idioms. Apart from this, the text is exactly as she left it.

I was ten years old in the 34th year of Mad King Harry the Sixth when Lady Tegolin came to my father at his castle of Newport and asked if she could take me as her pupil.

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