²⁸ On this point, see C. L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913), 70–112, esp. 78, where Kingsford remarks that the high rate of production of copies of the fifteenth-century London Chronicles ‘is sufficient proof that the Chronicles were in great request’. On the prevalence and public nature of these works, see also Mary-Rose McLaren’s The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century: A Revolution in Historical Writing (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002), 3–13 and 140–6.