Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Prince: The Finances of ‘the young lord Henry’, 1386–1400
- 2 Henry V's Establishment: Service, Loyalty and Reward in 1413
- 3 Henry V, Lancastrian Kingship and the Far North of England
- 4 Henry V's Suppression of the Oldcastle Revolt
- 5 Religion, Court Culture and Propaganda: The Chapel Royal in the Reign of Henry V
- 6 ‘Par le special commandement du roy’. Jewels and Plate Pledged for the Agincourt Expedition
- 7 Henry V and the Cheshire Tax Revolt of 1416
- 8 Henry V and the English Taxpayer
- 9 Henry V, Flower of Chivalry
- 10 War, Government and Commerce: The Towns of Lancastrian France under Henry V's Rule, 1417–22
- 11 Writing History in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Goodwin's The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth (1704)
- Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
11 - Writing History in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Goodwin's The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth (1704)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of a Prince: The Finances of ‘the young lord Henry’, 1386–1400
- 2 Henry V's Establishment: Service, Loyalty and Reward in 1413
- 3 Henry V, Lancastrian Kingship and the Far North of England
- 4 Henry V's Suppression of the Oldcastle Revolt
- 5 Religion, Court Culture and Propaganda: The Chapel Royal in the Reign of Henry V
- 6 ‘Par le special commandement du roy’. Jewels and Plate Pledged for the Agincourt Expedition
- 7 Henry V and the Cheshire Tax Revolt of 1416
- 8 Henry V and the English Taxpayer
- 9 Henry V, Flower of Chivalry
- 10 War, Government and Commerce: The Towns of Lancastrian France under Henry V's Rule, 1417–22
- 11 Writing History in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Goodwin's The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth (1704)
- Index
- York Medieval Press: Publications
Summary
Few will know of Thomas Goodwin, author of The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, &c., whose ‘Nine Books’ or chapters, each broadly covering a regnal year, was published in London in 1704. He was the son of another Thomas Goodwin, a leading divine of his day, regarded as one of the founding fathers of Congregationalism, who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford (before resigning at the restoration of the monarchy in 1660) and, as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, had been in attendance at the Protector's deathbed. Thomas (the younger), born about 1650, received part of his education in the Low Countries, and later became a non-conformist minister whose main contribution was the foundation of a school at Pinner, in Middlesex, where future ministers received their training. He was also responsible for editing his father's writings, which appeared in a number of volumes. In 1695 he published A Discourse on the True Nature of the Gospel, and nine years later, ironically perhaps since it was the work of a man whose father had been associated with the abolition of monarchy, came the book on Henry V.
Short as it was, an earlier article on the younger Goodwin published in the original Dictionary of National Biography in 1890 had made reference to the book. Regrettably, it does not feature in either the longer entry or its appended list of ‘sources’ published in the more recent Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a curious omission which denies Goodwin his right to be considered an early contributor to the historical reputation of the Lancastrian king.
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- Henry VNew Interpretations, pp. 273 - 288Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013