⁹ Geoffrey Bullough asserts Holinshed to be the main source for Henry V, with some recourse to Hall. Bullough also says, without elaboration, that Shakespeare may have taken ‘minor hints’ from Grafton and Stow. He does not attempt to locate the source of the chantries reference in particular. He does, though, imply that Shakespeare may have been familiar with Caxton’s Brut chronicle, where he could have found the information about the chantries. See Bullough, Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, vol. iv (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1962), 347–75, especially 352–3. In his edition of Henry V (London: Methuen, 1954), J. H. Walter cites Robert Fabyan as a source for the chantries passage, an identification that has been repeated by subsequent editors of the play.

¹⁰ William Caxton, Chronicles of England (London, 1480), sig. U4v.

¹¹ Robert Fabyan, The New Chronicles of England and France, ed. Sir Henry Ellis (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1811), 589.

¹² Stow probably relied on Fabyan for this information. Interestingly, Stow does not mention this detail about the rites for Richard in his description of Henry’s reign in his older historical work, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles published in 1565. Judith H. Anderson has made a convincing case that Shakespeare used Stow’s 1592 Annales later in his career as an important source for Henry VIII. See Anderson, Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1984), 136–42.