Oxford Cambridge and RSA - 2025
Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y104/01 England 1377–1455
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Section A
Richard II 1377–1399
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘The influence of de la Pole and de Vere was the main reason for the problems
Richard II faced during the period from 1385 to 1387.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: The Lords offer the king their advice.
That it please the king that his position regarding the revenues and charges on his
exchequer should be reviewed and examined by certain lords with the intention of
making good arrangements about how and by what means his position can be upheld
and what provision shall be taken for his household.
That it please the king to attract to himself good and honourable men of standing and
to associate with them and avoid the company of others because in doing so he will
attract to himself the hearts and loves of his people. In doing the contrary he will
create great peril for himself and his realm.
Lords’ advice about the government of the realm c.1385
Source B: A fragment of a lost chronicle outlines views about de Vere.
Many of the more experienced nobility and senior gentry represented to the king that
the new glory of Robert de Vere, created marquess of Dublin and duke of Ireland,
reflected very badly on the reputation of the English and Irish nations, in that they
were so abused and oppressed by a fellow subject. But king Richard sent them away
without thanks, his nature being against any wholesome advice. He did not fail to
acquaint the duke of Ireland not only with the advice, but also the name of the adviser
which he had childishly discovered. De Vere’s ambition had grown to such heights that
even moderate persons, and more so the haughty, thought it high time to reduce him
in size.
Chronicle, 1386
Source C: A Chronicler describes the situation in the autumn of 1386.
At the time of the parliament the king lingered at Eltham. So the nobles and the
commons came and told the king that he ought to remove the chancellor [Michael de
la Pole] from his position. This angered the king; he ordered them to keep quiet about
these matters and to proceed with the parliament’s business, saying he would not
remove the lowest kitchen boy from his post to please them. The chancellor had
asked the commons for four fifteenths, payable in a year, and the same number of
tenths from the clergy, saying that the king was so much in debt and encumbered by
the burdens of war and his household that he could not otherwise be relieved. But the
lords and commons said that they absolutely did not wish to discuss even the
smallest matter until the king showed himself in parliament.
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Knighton’s Chronicle, 1337–1396
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Friday 6 June 2025 – Afternoon
A Level History A
Y104/01 England 1377–1455
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes
(Verified Question Paper With Mark
Scheme Combined June 2025)
, INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question
numbers must be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer Question 1 in Section A. Answer either Question 2 or Question 3 in
Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an
asterisk (*).
• This document has 4 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
© OCR 2025
OCR is an exempt
[F/506/4252] DC (WW)
Charity Turn over
359017
, 2
Section A
Richard II 1377–1399
Study the four sources and answer Question 1.
1 ‘The influence of de la Pole and de Vere was the main reason for the problems
Richard II faced during the period from 1385 to 1387.’
Use the four sources in their historical context to assess how far they support this
view. [30]
Source A: The Lords offer the king their advice.
That it please the king that his position regarding the revenues and charges on his
exchequer should be reviewed and examined by certain lords with the intention of
making good arrangements about how and by what means his position can be upheld
and what provision shall be taken for his household.
That it please the king to attract to himself good and honourable men of standing and
to associate with them and avoid the company of others because in doing so he will
attract to himself the hearts and loves of his people. In doing the contrary he will
create great peril for himself and his realm.
Lords’ advice about the government of the realm c.1385
Source B: A fragment of a lost chronicle outlines views about de Vere.
Many of the more experienced nobility and senior gentry represented to the king that
the new glory of Robert de Vere, created marquess of Dublin and duke of Ireland,
reflected very badly on the reputation of the English and Irish nations, in that they
were so abused and oppressed by a fellow subject. But king Richard sent them away
without thanks, his nature being against any wholesome advice. He did not fail to
acquaint the duke of Ireland not only with the advice, but also the name of the adviser
which he had childishly discovered. De Vere’s ambition had grown to such heights that
even moderate persons, and more so the haughty, thought it high time to reduce him
in size.
Chronicle, 1386
Source C: A Chronicler describes the situation in the autumn of 1386.
At the time of the parliament the king lingered at Eltham. So the nobles and the
commons came and told the king that he ought to remove the chancellor [Michael de
la Pole] from his position. This angered the king; he ordered them to keep quiet about
these matters and to proceed with the parliament’s business, saying he would not
remove the lowest kitchen boy from his post to please them. The chancellor had
asked the commons for four fifteenths, payable in a year, and the same number of
tenths from the clergy, saying that the king was so much in debt and encumbered by
the burdens of war and his household that he could not otherwise be relieved. But the
lords and commons said that they absolutely did not wish to discuss even the
smallest matter until the king showed himself in parliament.
© OCR Y104/01
2025 Jun25
, 3
Knighton’s Chronicle, 1337–1396
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