Occleve presenting his book to Henry V Finish:Rolled A war veteran in the

A war veteran in the traditional red uniform of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea sits reading from a newspaper to a young boy

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Edward I (1239-1307) was asked to arbitrate on the issue of the succession to the Scottish throne

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Occleve presenting his book to Henry V Finish:Rolled A war veteran in theOccleve presenting his book to Henry V, c1410, (1843). The poems of Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (1368 1450), are contained in the manuscript from which the drawing is taken. Henry appears here as Prince of Wales. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).