Note 130.3 — INTRODUCTION (continued 3)
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W. Worc. In an almanac of that time I find the following note, which dates the beginning of the king’s illness on the 10th of August:—‘In nocte S. Laurentii Rex infirmatur et continuavit usque ad Circumcisionem Anni 1455, in p. . . .’ (?) (a word unintelligible at the end). MS. Reg. 13, C. 1.
131.1 W. Worc.
131.2 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 140-2, 147-9, 154-5.
132.1 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 163-5.
132.2 Patent Roll, 32 Hen. VI. m. 20. See Appendix to this Introduction.
132.3 No. 230.
133.1 No. 235.
133.2 Ibid.
134.1 No. 235.
135.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 238-9.
135.2 No. 235.
135.3 Rolls of Parl. vi. 295.
136.1 No. 235.
136.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 238-9.
137.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 239-40.
137.2 Ibid. 240.
138.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 240.
138.2 Ibid. 241.
139.1 Nos. 124, 240.
140.1 Nos. 238, 239.
141.1 No. 239.
141.2 No. 244.
141.3 Apparently Agnes Denyes had taken sanctuary at Westminster before her imprisonment. The manner in which Denyes here speaks of her daughter gives us reason to believe that she was a widow before he married her.
142.1 Nos. 240, 245.
143.1 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vol. vi. preface, pp. clxxviii.-ix.
143.2 Rolls of Parl. 240-1.
144.1 Rolls of Parl. 241.
146.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 242.
146.2 Ibid. 243.
146.3 Rolls of Parl. 244-5.
146.4 No. 249.
147.1 No. 247.
147.2 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 174.
147.3 Rymer, xi. 351. Carte’s Gascon and French Rolls.
147.4 Rolls of Parl. v. 252.
148.1 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 178, 193-7. Nos. 247, 249.
148.2 Printed from the original in MS. Cott., Vespasian F. xiii. fol. 35.
149.1 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 207.
150.1 Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 217, 218.
150.2 No. 254.
150.3 The manor of Mauteby, which came to John Paston by his marriage, was only three miles distant from Caister.
150.4 No. 260.
151.1 Nos. 309, 310.
151.2 Nos. 340, 350, 351, 385, 386, 387.
151.3 No. 125.
151.4 Nos. 160, 161.
151.5 No. 272.
151.6 No. 332.
152.1 Nos. 258, 259.
152.2 Add. MS. 28,208, B.M.
152.3 Stevenson’s Wars, ii. [519], sq.
152.4 ‘Stellæ versificatæ pro anno 1440 ad instantiam J. Fastolfe militis.’ MS. Laud., B. 23 (according to the old pressmark).
152.5 Letter 370.
152.6 In previous editions it was here remarked:—‘This French zeal appears to have excited the contempt of some of his acquaintances—among others of Friar Brackley, who nicknamed him Colinus Gallicus.’ The discovery of additional letters, formerly published in a Supplement, but now incorporated with the series, seems to show that this was an error, or at all events very doubtful. It is clear from Letter 404 that a certain ‘W. W.’ and Colinus Gallicus were different persons (see vol. iii. p. 213, note 3), and the references to ‘W. W.’ at p. 230 as the knight’s secretary and one of his executors remove any doubt that we might otherwise entertain that he was William Worcester. But a new difficulty arises from that identification, that Friar Brackley calls ‘W. W.’ an Irishman, which William Worcester was not; and the references at p. 220 of the same volume would imply that he was really an Irishman in nationality, and also a one-eyed man of dark visage. Such may have been Worcester’s personal appearance; but why was he called an Irishman?
It is with some hesitation that I hazard a new conjecture as to the person nicknamed Colinus Gallicus; but on comparing the different passages where that nickname occurs, I am inclined to think it was meant for Judge Yelverton.
153.1 Itin. 368.
153.2 Tanner’s Bibliotheca. See also a notice of William Worcester in Retrospective Review, Second Series, ii. 451-4.
154.1 No. 97.
154.2 Scrope’s History of the Manor of Castle Combe, pp. 264-283. The MSS. formerly at Castle Combe, to which Mr. Scrope refers in this work, have since been presented by him and Mr. Lowndes, the present lord of the manor, to the British Museum. One of them we have reprinted in No. 97.
154.3 She is not unlikely to have been the lady mentioned in No. 97. ‘Fauconer’s daughter of London, that Sir Reynold Cobham had wedded.’ This I find need not have been, as I have stated in a footnote, the widow of Sir Reginald Cobham of Sterborough, who died in 1446; for there was an earlier Sir Reginald Cobham, whose widow Elizabeth was married to William Clifford as early as 1438. (Inquisitions post mortem, 16 Hen. VI. No. 31.) Thus there is the less difficulty in attributing Letter 97 to a much earlier date than that assigned to it by the endorsement.
155.1 Letter 94.
155.2 No. 93.
155.3 No. 94.
156.1 See No. 374.
156.2 Nos. 236, 250, 252.
156.3 We ought not to leave unnoticed one fact in the relations of Scrope and Fastolf which is much more creditable to both of them than the disputes above mentioned. In the year 1450, Scrope translated from the French and dedicated to Sir John, ‘for his contemplation and solace,’ a work entitled Ditz de Philosophius (Sayings of Philosophers), of which the original MS. is now in the Harleian Collection, No. 2266. That Fastolf was a real lover of literature, and encouraged literary tastes in those about him, there can be no question.