⁶ Evidence for this practice can be seen, for instance, in the case of John Estbury, who had founded an almshouse in Berkshire. Upon his death in 1507, the poor men who found comfort there were required to say daily prayers in church to his memory, and also to go to his tomb every day to recite additional prayers. See Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400—c.1580 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1992), 328. See also Alan Kreider, English Chantries: The Road to Dissolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979), 67, for more on the role of the poor in chantry intercessory practices.

⁷ See Kreider, English Chantries, especially 1–71.

⁸ Most of these chronicles emphasize that this was done by Henry out of a sense of piety and remorse over the death of Richard. Juliet Barker suggests that publicly parading Richard’s body to a new tomb at Westminster worked also to quell conspiracy theories that Richard still lived. See Barker, Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle (London: Little, Brown, 2005), 74–5.