Note 157.1 — INTRODUCTION (continued 4)
Reading edition
No. 270.
157.2 Ibid.
158.1 Rymer, xi. 361.
158.2 Ibid. 362, 363.
159.1 Rymer, xi. 363.
159.2 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 234-8.
159.3 On the Patent Roll, 33. Hen. VI. p. 19 d., is a commission dated 5th May, for keeping watch on the coast of Kent against invasion.
159.4 Rolls of Parl. v. 280-1.
160.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 280-1.
160.2 No. 282.
161.1 No. 283. Rolls of Parl. v. 281-2.
162.1 John Crane, writing from Lambeth on Whitsunday, three days after the battle, says, ‘at most six score.’ No. 285. Another authority says, ‘60 persons of gentlemen and other.’ English Chronicle, ed. Davies, p. 72.
162.2 Nos. 283, 284, 285.
162.3 No. 284.
162.4 No. 283.
162.5 No. 285.
163.1 No. 299.
164.1 No. 288.
164.2 Nos. 294, 295.
164.3 No. 291.
164.4 No. 295.
165.1 See Rymer, xi. 366.
165.2 No. 287.
165.3 No. 303.
165.4 No. 303. See also a brief account of the same affair in W. Worcester’s Itinerary, p. 114.
165.5 Jenkins’s History of Exeter, p. 78.
166.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 285. It may be observed that the bishopric was at this time vacant, and the dean, whose name was John Hals, had received a papal provision to be the new bishop, but was forced to relinquish it in favour of George Nevill, son of the Earl of Salisbury, a young man of only three-and-twenty years of age. Godwin de Præsulibus. Le Neve’s Fasti. Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 265.
166.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 285.
166.3 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 262.
167.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 285-7.
167.2 Ibid. v. 288-90.
167.3 Ibid. 321.
167.4 No. 322.
168.1 No. 322.
168.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 321.
168.3 Ibid. 300. A more sweeping bill for this purpose, which was rejected by the Lords, states that the revenue was so encumbered ‘that the charge of every sheriff in substance exceedeth so far the receipt of the revenues thereof due and leviable to you (i.e. the king), that no person of goodwill dare take upon him to be sheriff in any shire, for the most party, in this land.’ Ibid. 328. Additional illustrations of this fact will be found in Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 263-4, 272-3, and Preface lxxv-vi.
168.4 Nos. 334, 345, 348.
169.1 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 287.
169.2 Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 70 (edited by me for the Camden Society): Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 248-9.
169.3 Lambeth MS. 211, f. 146 b.
170.1 Lambeth MS. 211, f. 147. Rymer, xi. 383.
170.2 Lambeth MS. 211, f. 148. This letter is dated 24th August 1456.
170.3 Rymer, xi. 383.
171.1 Nos. 330, 331.
171.2 No. 334.
171.3 No. 331.
171.4 No. 348.
171.5 Tutbury was one of the possessions given to her for her dower. Rolls of Parl. vi. 118.
172.1 Fabyan.
172.2 No. 345.
173.1 No. 348.
173.2 Accounts of the pageants shown before Queen Margaret at Coventry are noticed as contained in the earliest Leet Book of the City. See Historical MSS. Commission Report I., 100.
173.3 Privy Seals in Public Record Office.
173.4 No. 356.
173.5 Patent Roll, 35 Hen. VI. p. 1 m. 16 d. (26 Nov.); m. 7 d. (19 May).
173.6 Ibid. p. 2 m. 5 d. (29 Aug.).
173.7 Ibid. (18 July).
174.1 No. 356. There are Privy Seals dated at Hereford between the 1st and the 23rd of April.
174.2 No. 356. By the 4th of May the king had left Hereford and gone to Worcester, from which he proceeded to Winchcombe on the 10th and Kenilworth on the 13th. (Privy Seal dates.)
174.3 English Chronicle (Davies), 74. Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 70, 71, 152-3. Contin. of Monstrelet, 70, 71.
175.1 De Coussy, 209.