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- APPENDIX A
SOURCES OF THE PLAY
The principal source of the main plot of this play
is the 1587 edition of The Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by Raphael Holinshed. Sam
uel Daniel's poem, The Civill Wars of England
(1595), or its source, may well have had some influ
ence. Several incidents in the comic plot are taken,
apparently, from the play The Famous Victories of
Henry V, first acted in 1588, licensed in 1594, and
published in 1598.
Holinshed's Chronicle
According to Holinshed, the Earl of Northumber
land was pardoned by the king after the battle of
Shrewsbury in 1403. But in 1405 when 'the king
was minded to haue gone into Wales against the
rebels that vnder their cheeftane Owen Glendower
ceassed not to doo much mischeef against the Eng
lish subiects/ he was 'further disquieted' by a 'con-
spiracie put in practise against him at home by the
Earle of Northumberland who had conspired with
Richard Scroope, Archbishop of Yorke, Thomas
Mowbraie earle marshall,' and others. 'The Kingaduertised of these matters left his iournie into Wales
and marched with all speed toward the north parts.
Also Rafe Neuill earl of Westmerland, that was not
farre off, together with the lord lohn of Lancaster,
the king's sonne, being informed of this rebellious
attempt, assembled togither such power as they might
make . . . made forward against the rebels, and
coming into a plaine within the forrest of Galtree
caused their standards to be pitched downe in the
like sort as the Archbishop had pitched his ouer
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