Abstract: ABSTRACTLondon Metropolitan Archives, Archives of the Corporation of London, MS Letter Book K, contains descriptions of Henry VI's royal entries into both Paris (1431) and London (1432). Their placement one after the other in a London Letter Book was likely the work of the city's common clerk, John Carpenter, who was the author of the description of the London entry. The royal entry descriptions' textual contents and manuscript context demonstrate a conscious effort to compare the two events and the king's two capitals, and to promote the city ...
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