Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester at his castle of Pleshey, 1397.


Arrest of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, at his castle of Pleshey, 1397. The duke is taken by armed guards to a boat to Calais, while King Richard II rides off with his courtiers. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's "Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV," George Routledge, London, 1868.


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