Richard II

“In the time of Richard II the Royal collegiate chapel of Windsor Castle had, besides service books, thirty-four volumes on different subjects chained in the church, among them a Bible and a Concordance, and two books of French romance, one of which was the Liber de Rose. 5.49”

Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages

“Richard II promised redress of grievances, but Wat Tyler and thousands of others remained encamped to ensure that the king’s pledges were kept.”

Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

“John Gower, the poet, has been by some writers identified with one John Gower, clerk, who by grant from King Richard II held the rectory of Great”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“That he was a man of some standing at court, as well as a writer of acknowledged eminence, may be inferred from his statement in the first version of his "Confessio Amantis", (ll. 43-53), that on one occasion King Richard II recognized him in a boat on the Thames, invited him into the royal barge, and charged him to write some new thing for the monarch's own inspection and delectation.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“Inveterate, its root the same as veteran’s, has a historical sense of “long-standing” but with a sinister connotation: Shakespeare’s Richard II was assured of “no inveterate malice,” and John Milton in 1645 questioned those who “grow inveterately wicked.””

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“It calls on Richard II to select wise consellors, to avoid heavy and oppressive taxation, to abandon sensuality, to restore the laws, and to banish crime.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

“Pontefract Castle, with its gloomy associations of royal murder it was there Richard II had been starved to death reared up before them and then swallowed them up in the twilight.”

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles