1 All verses from R. T. Davies (ed.), Medieval English Lyrics, Faber & Faber, London, 1963.
2 Seward, Desmond, The Hundred Years War, Constable, London, 1978.
3 Maxwell, Sir Herbert (tr. and ed.), The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346, J. MacLehose, Glasgow, 1913.
4 Thompson, E. M. (tr.), Chronicon Galfridi Le Baker de Swynbroke (facsimile reprint), General Books, Milton Keynes, 2010.
5 Sumption, Jonathan, Trial by Battle, The Hundred Years War I, Faber & Faber, London, 1990.
6 Brie, Friedrich (ed.), The Brut; or the Chronicles of England, K. Paul, London, 1880.
7 Bartlett, Robert, England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000.
8 Soar, Hugh D. H., The Crooked Stick: A history of the longbow, Westholme, Yardley, Penn., 2009.
9 Hewitt, H. J., The Organisation of War under Edward III, Manchester UP, Manchester, 1966.
10 Ibid.
11 Powicke, Michael, Military Obligation in Medieval England, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1962.
12 For the detailed organization of indentured retinues, see N. B. Lewis, The Organisation of Indentured Retinues in Fourteenth Century England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 27, issue 1, Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 2009.
13 Ayton, Andrew and Preston, Philip, The Battle of Crécy, 1346, Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005.
14 Hewitt, op. cit.
15 For a detailed account of the Battle of Morlaix, see Kelly DeVries, Infantry Warfare in the Fourteenth Century, Boydell, Woodbridge, 1996.
16 I have found the most convincing assessment of the size and composition of the 1346 army to be that of Andrew Ayton, ‘The English army at Crécy’, in Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston (eds.), The Battle of Crécy, 1346, Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005.
17 Sumption, Jonathan, Trial by Battle, The Hundred Years War I, Faber & Faber, London, 1990.
18 For an account of how ransom worked, see Michael Prestwich, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages, Yale UP, New Haven, 1996 and Christopher Allmand, The Hundred Years War, Cambridge UP, Cambridge, 1988.
19 Wrottesley, George, Crecy and Calais, Harrison & Sons, London, 1898.
20 Sumption, op. cit.
21 The arguments for and against the ‘traditional’ site are well and meticulously examined by Sir Philip Preston in ‘The traditional battlefield of Crécy’, in Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston (eds.), The Battle of Crécy, 1346, Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005.
22 Maxwell, Sir Herbert (tr. and ed.), The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272–1346, J. MacLehose, Glasgow, 1913.
23 McKisack, May, The Fourteenth Century, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1959.
24 Geoffrey le Baker, Chronicle, quoted in A. R. Myers (ed.), English Historical Documents, vol. 4, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1969.
25 James, G. P. R., A History of the Life of Edward the Black Prince (2 vols.), Orne, Green & Longmans, London, 1839.
26 Barber, Richard, Life and Campaigns of The Black Prince, Boydell, Woodbridge, 1979.
27 Martin, G. H. (tr. and ed.), Knighton’s Chronicle 1337–1396, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1995.
28 Geoffrey le Baker, Chronicle, quoted in A. R. Myers (ed.), English Historical Documents, vol. 4, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1969.
29 De Smet J. J. (tr.), Corpus Chronicorum Flandrensium, Brussels, 1856, quoted in Clifford J. Rogers (ed.), Essays on Medieval Military History, Ashgate, Farnham, 2010.
30 Martin, G. H. (tr. and ed.), Knighton’s Chronicle 1337–1396, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1995.
31 Ibid.
32 Sumption, Jonathan, Trial by Fire, The Hundred Years War II, Faber & Faber, London, 1999.
33 Prestwich, Michael, The Three Edwards: War and state in England 1272–1377, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1980.
34 Brereton, Geoffrey (tr. and ed.), Froissart: Chronicles, Penguin, London, 1978.
35 Preest, David and Clark, James G. (tr. and ed.), The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376–1422), Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005.
36 Preest, David and Clark, James G. (tr. and ed.), The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham (1376–1422), Boydell, Woodbridge, 2005.
37 See Boardman, A. W., Hotspur: Henry Percy, Medieval Rebel, Sutton, Stroud, 2003.
38 Bradmore described the process in a Latin treatise Philomena, which survives (British Library, Sloane Manuscript 2272). He died in London in 1412.
39 Details of retinues from Anne Curry, The Battle of Agincourt, Sources and Interpretations, Boydell, Woodbridge, 2000.
40 Taylor, Frank and Roskell, John S. (tr.), Gesta Henrici Quinti, Oxford UP, Oxford, 1975.
41 Ibid.
42 War Office, Animal Management, HMSO, London, 1933.
43 Mortimer, Ian, 1415: Henry V’s year of glory, Bodley Head, London, 2009.
44 Lancaster, H. O., Expectations of Life: A study in the demography, statistics and history of world mortality, Springer Verlag, New York, 1990.
45 Quoted in Seward, Desmond, The Hundred Years War, Constable, London, 1978.
46 Pernoud, Régine and Clin, Marie-Véronique (tr. Adams, J. duQuesnay), Joan of Arc: Her story, Phoenix, London, 2000.