If the name "The Wars of the Roses" was not coined until the 18th century, what did the English people at the time (or in the decades immediately after) call the conflict?

by American_quack
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English Civil War or Wars of English Succession

The name 'War of the Roses' wasn't popularized until Sir Walter Scott published Anne of Geierstein in the 19th century. Samuel Daniel, a 16th century historian, used the term 'Civil Wars' in his work detailing the conflict: First Four Books of the Civil Wars. So english people of his time called it the "Civil Wars".