Note 175.2 — INTRODUCTION (continued 4)
Reading edition
Privy Seal dates.
175.3 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 290-1.
176.1 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 293.
176.2 No. 361.
176.3 No. 364. Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 293.
176.4 Chronicle in MS. Cott., Vitell. A. xvi.
177.1 English Chronicle (ed. Davies), p. 77. Hall.
177.2 Letter 366.
177.3 Whethamstede, 417-18. Letter 365.
177.4 Letter 365.
177.5 Letter 366.
178.1 Whethamstede, 422 sq. Engl. Chron. (Davies), 77, 78.
178.2 Hall.
178.3 Letter 369. Compare Fabyan. Whethamstede, who writes with some confusion in this part of his narrative, speaks of a great naval victory won by Warwick on St. Alban’s Day, the 22nd June 1459, over a fleet of Genoese and Spanish vessels, in which booty was taken to the value of £10,000, and upwards of a thousand prisoners, for whom it was difficult to find room in all the prisons of Calais. It is not impossible that this may have been a different action, which took place on the very day, month, and year to which Whethamstede refers it; but the silence of other authorities about a second naval victory would lead us to suppose he is simply wrong in the matter of date. It must be observed that Whethamstede immediately goes on to speak of the Legate Coppini’s arrival in England, which took place in June 1460, as having happened circa idem tempus, and as if it had been in the same month of June, only a few days earlier. This shows great inaccuracy.
179.1 Engl. Chron. (Davies), 78.
179.2 Fabyan, Engl. Chron. (Davies), 80. Parl. Rolls, v. 348.
180.1 Rolls of Parl. vi. 348.
180.2 Not, as Stow supposes, the author of the book on the Constitutions of the Church of England, but probably a nephew or other relation of his. The William Lynwoode who wrote upon the Church Constitutions was Bishop of St. David’s, and died in 1446.
181.1 Engl. Chron. (Davies), 81, 82.
181.2 The Act of Attainder against the Yorkists most untruly says, ‘they took no consideration’ of Garter’s message. See Rolls of Parliament above cited.
182.1 Rolls of Parl. vi. 348-9. Whethamstede, 459-62; Fabyan.
182.2 W. Worc., 479.
183.1 He received his appointment on the 9th October, three days before the dispersion of the Yorkists at Ludlow (Rymer, xi. 436), and, according to one authority (Engl. Chron., ed. Davies, 84), he went over in the same month; but as all agree that Warwick was there before him, it was more probably in the beginning of November.
183.2 Chronicle in MS. Cott., Vitell. A. xvi.
183.3 Fabyan.
183.4 W. Worc., 478; Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 73. One of them was named Roger Nevile, a lawyer of the Temple, and probably a relation of the Earl of Warwick.
183.5 Speed.
183.6 W. Worc.
184.1 Engl. Chron. (Davies), 84, 85; Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 72.
184.2 Letter 399.
184.3 W. Worc. Engl. Chron. (Davies), 85.
185.1 Letter 400.
185.2 See Appendix to Introduction.
185.3 The writer of Letter 378. He was a connection of the Paston family, having married Elizabeth, daughter of John Berney, Esq., another of whose daughters, Margaret, was the mother of Margaret Paston (Blomefield, ii. 182). He had been much engaged in the king’s service in France, and had been treasurer of Normandy before it was lost—a fact which may account for his writing French in preference to English. See Stevenson’s Wars of the English in France, index.
185.4 Engl. Chron. (Davies), 85.
185.5 W. Worc., 479; Fabyan; Stow, 406-7.
186.1 English Chron. (Davies), 85.
186.2 Lambeth MS. 632, f. 255.
186.3 Chron. (Davies), 85; W. Worc.
186.4 His commission from the Pope is dated 7th January 1458[9]—Rymer, xi. 419.
186.5 Brown’s Venetian Calendar, i. p. 91.
187.1 Gobellinus, 161.
187.2 The Yorkists apparently were not sparing of insinuations against the queen. It had been rumoured, according to Fabyan, that the Prince of Wales was not really the king’s son; but the worst that was insinuated was that he was a changeling. But Warwick himself, according to Gobellinus, described the situation to the nuncio as follows:—‘Rex noster stupidus est, et mente captus; regitur, non regit; apud uxorem et qui regis thalamum fœdant, imperium est.’
187.3 See the Pope’s letter to him in Theiner, 423-4.
187.4 ‘The lords crossed the sea on Thursday,’ writes Coppini from London on the 4th July.—Brown’s Venetian Calendar, i. 90.
187.5 Engl. Chron. (Davies), 94.
188.1 It appears by Letter 377 that privy seals were issued in 1459 addressed on the back to certain persons, requiring them to be with the king at Leicester on the 10th of May, each with a body of men sufficiently armed, and with provision for their own expenses for two months. One of these privy seals, signed by the king himself, was addressed specially to John Paston’s eldest son, John, who at this time could not have been more than nineteen years of age. On its arrival, his mother consulted with neighbours whether it was indispensable to obey such an injunction, and on their opinion that it was, wrote to her husband for instructions.
189.1 The articles will be found in Holinshed, iii. 652-3; and in Davies’s Chronicle, 86-90.
189.2 No. 410.
190.1 Letter 415.
190.2 Letter 419.
190.3 Letter 415.
191.1 W. Worc., 483; Fabyan; Rolls of Parl. v. 375.
191.2 W. Worc., 484.
191.3 Rolls of Parl. v. 375-9.
192.1 Though he was taken prisoner at the battle of Northampton, and had ever since been in the power of the victors, he does not appear to have been placed under any kind of restraint. In October, before the Parliament met, he was spending the time in hunting at Greenwich and Eltham.—No. 419.
192.2 Collections of a London Citizen, 208 (Camden Society).
192.3 English Chronicle (Davies), 106; Fabyan; Hall, 249.
192.4 Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 303.
192.5 Collections of a London Citizen, 209.
192.6 No. 419.
193.1 Auchinleck Chronicle, 21. Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vii. 8, 39, 157.
193.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 382.
193.3 W. Worc., 484.