James Ross, Project Director for the Chamber Books Project and Senior Lecturer at the University of Winchester, examines the two sales of the wardship of Elizabeth Trussell. Elizabeth Trussell had a lasting impact on two comital families in the early sixteenth century. Yet, little of this impact was of her doing. As the heiress to […]
The Maundy Coins of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. The name Maundy is derived from the Latin word ‘mandatum’, meaning commandment. As written in John 13.34, Christ told his followers, ‘mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem sicut dilexi vos ut et vos diligatis invicem’ or, in […]