Occleve presenting his book to Henry V Finish:Rolled the Order of St George

the Order of St George

18th November 1990

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

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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Occleve presenting his book to Henry V Finish:Rolled the Order of St GeorgeOccleve 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).