LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. JAMES ROSS is Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on the late medieval nobility, kingship and political society. JAMES ROSS is Reader in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester, UK. He has published extensively on the late medieval nobility, kingship and political society. Malcolm Vale is emeritus fellow in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of the later Middle Ages.

• A Rich Old Lady getting Power: Maud, Countess of Oxford, and the De Vere Estates, 1371-1413JAMES ROSS The Adoption of the English Language by Henry VSAMUEL LANE The Origins and Development of the Body Corporate in Late Medieval EnglandEDWARD POWELL 'The Principal Place of Honour about the Person of the Queen'. Margaret of Anjou and Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk: the Making of a FriendshipDIANA DUNN 'Broken by Age and Reduced by Poverty': Care for the Elderly in Late Medieval AlmshousesCAROLE RAWCLIFFE Butlerage and Prisage: a Cinderella Tax? The Bristol EvidenceMARGARET CONDON From the Welsh Marches to the Royal Household: the Leominster Riots of 1487 and Uncertain Allegiances at the Heart of Henry VII's RegimeS.J. PAYLING and SEAN CUNNINGHAM Burials and Memorialization at the Command of Henry VIIRALPH GRIFFITHS Justice, Good Ladyship and the Queen's Council in Late Medieval England, 1450-1550LAURA FLANNIGAN The 'Last Yorkist' Revealed? Richard de la Pole, Charles, duc de Bourbon, and a Contentious Panel Portrait of the 1520sANTHONY GROSS Imperial Echoes: English Gascony and British India. A Preliminary SurveyMALCOLM VALE