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Richard Caudray (c. 1390–1458) was an English cleric. He was a clerk of the king's council, a chancellor of Cambridge University, and dean of the College of St. Martin le Grand, London. He was Henry V's secretary in France. As a Westminster secretary, he would have had various literary connections, such as to John Hethe, John Offord, and Thomas Hoccleve; he was also a personal friend of John Shirley.

He is likely the author of the Libelle of Englyshe Polycye.

References

1. McSheffrey, Shannon (2018). "Richard Caudray (ca. 1390–1458): Fifteenth-Century Churchman, Academic, and Ruthless Politician". Medieval Prosopography. 33: 167–180. ISSN 0198-9405. JSTOR 26630022.
2. Sebastian Sobecki, “The Handwriting of Fifteenth-Century Privy Seal and Council Clerks,” Review of English Studies 72/304 (2021): 253–79, at 257–63.
3. Sobecki, Sebastian (2024-07-01). "Quo vadis, Adam Pinkhurst? Scripts, Scribes, and the Limits of Paleography: A Response Essay". Speculum. 99 (3): 780–804. doi:10.1086/730765. ISSN 0038-7134.
4. Sobecki, Sebastian (2019), "Parting Shots: Richard Caudray's Libelle of Englyshe Polycye", Last Words, Oxford University Press, pp. 101–126, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198790778.003.0003, ISBN 978-0-19-879077-8, retrieved 2024-07-12

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