ABSTRACT
The Rows Roll gives Edward IV the credit of being “a great builder,” and although the description is one which the compiler of the roll is inclined to apply rather freely, in Edward’s case at least it seems to be fully deserved. Nevertheless, by far the greatest of Edward’s achievements as a builder was a church, though it was a church dedicated to an unusual purpose. As Edward brought back from France so much of Louis XI’s money, he was able, after his return, to hurry on the work at Windsor as much as he wished. Edward probably paid many visits to Oxford as well as to Cambridge. Chamberlain was a person of much less distinction than another Englishman who had visited Milan a few years before he arrived there and who had also carried a letter of introduction from Edward to the Duke of Milan.
