Note 45.1 — INTRODUCTION

Stevenson’s Wars of the English in France, i. 132.

46.1 Rymer, xi. 53.

46.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 73. That Gloucester secretly disliked Suffolk’s policy, and thought the peace with France too dearly bought, is more than probable. At the reception of the French ambassadors in 1445, we learn from their report that Henry looked exceedingly pleased, especially when his uncle the French king was mentioned. ‘And on his left hand were my Lord of Gloucester, at whom he looked at the time, and then he turned round to the right to the chancellor, and the Earl of Suffolk, and the Cardinal of York, who were there, smiling to them, and it was very obvious that he made some signal. And it was afterwards mentioned by———— (blank in orig.), that he pressed his Chancellor’s hand and said to him in English, “I am very much rejoiced that some who are present should hear these words. They are not at their ease.”’—Stevenson’s Wars of the English in France, i. 110-11.

47.1 An interesting and valuable account of the death of Duke Humphrey, from original sources, will be found in The Hall of Lawford Hall, pp. 104-13.

48.1 Rymer, xi. 173.

48.2 See Stevenson’s Wars of the English in France, ii. [639] to [642].

48.3 Rymer, xi. 97, 108, 151, 182, 189, etc.

49.1 Stevenson’s Wars, ii. [714, 715].

49.2 Stevenson’s Wars, i. 198. See also a letter of the 18th Feb. 1448, of which an abstract is given in vol. ii. of the same work, p. 576.

50.1 Chron. de Mat. de Coussy (in Buchon’s collection), p. 34.

50.2 Rymer, xi. 199, 204. Stevenson’s Wars, i. 207.

51.1 Basin, Histoire de Charles VII. etc. i. 150-1.

51.2 Hist. Croylandensis Continuatio in Fulman’s Scriptores, p. 519.

51.3 Basin, i. 192.

52.1 Stevenson’s Wars, ii. [592].

53.1 Stevenson’s Wars, i. 473; ii. 573.

53.2 Stevenson’s Reductio Normanniæ, 406.

53.3 Ibid. 402.

53.4 Ibid. 406.

54.1 Stevenson’s Wars, i. 275, 278, etc.

55.1 Reductio Normanniæ, 251.

55.2 Ibid. 503.

55.3 ‘Eodem anno [26 Hen. VI.], Rex visitans boreales partes Angliæ usque Donelmense monasterium, quasi omnes domini et alii plebei illius patriæ in magna multitudine quotidie ei in obviam ostendebant, quare, concilio habito, minus formidabant interrumpere trugas inter ipsum et Regem Scotiæ prius suis sigillis fidelitatis confirmatas; sed posterius hujus trugarum interruptio vertebatur Anglicis multo magis in dispendium quam honorem, quia recedente Rege Scoti magnam partem Northumbriæ bina vice absque repulsu destruxerunt, et juxta Carlele erant ex Anglicis capti et interfecti ad numerum duorum millium; et sic tandem Rex Angliæ cum ejus concilio pro saniori deliberatione cum damnis ad pacem inclinare reducitur.’—Incerti Scriptoris Chronicum (Ed. Giles), Hen. VI. p. 36.

55.4 Reductio Normanniæ, 254.

56.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 147.

57.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 143, 171. Even when the new Parliament met at Westminster on the 6th November it was obliged to adjourn to the City of London on account of the unhealthiness of the air. We must remember that Westminster was then little better than a flat muddy island, with a vast extent of marshy land and stagnant pools between Pimlico and the Thames.

58.1 Æneæ Sylvii Epp. 80, 186.

58.2 According to his friend, Æneas Sylvius, the mode of death inflicted on him was decapitation. (Opera, 443.)

58.3 Rolls of Parl. v. 176.

59.1 W. Worc. Rolls of Parl. v. 200. I find by an entry in the Controlment Roll, 30 Hen. VI., that on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1451, William Tailboys and nineteen other persons belonging to South Kyme, in Lincolnshire, were outlawed at the suit of Elizabeth, widow of John Saunderson, for the murder of her husband.

60.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 176.

61.1 So it is stated in the impeachment. According to the inquisition on Suffolk’s death, his son was born on the 27th September 1442, and was therefore at this time only in his eighth year.—Napier’s Historical Notices of Swyncombe and Ewelme, 108.

61.2 Rolls of Parl. v. 179-182.

62.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 182.

62.2 Ibid.

63.1 Rolls of Parl. v. 183.

63.2 Ibid.

64.1 Rymer, xi. 268.

64.2 W. Worc. 468, 469.

64.3 English Chronicle, ed. Davies, p. 69.

65.1 Paston Letters, Nos. 120, 121.

65.2 Even the passage above referred to would probably be an illustration of this if the original letter were examined. As we have reprinted it from Fenn, it stands thus: ‘Right worshipful Sir, I recommend me to you, and am right sorry of that I shall say, and have so wesshe this little bill with sorrowful tears that uneathes ye shall read it.’ The words in italics would probably be found to be an interlineation in the original, for though they stand at the beginning of the letter, they were clearly written after it was penned, and the only reason why they were inserted was to excuse the illegibility of the writing.

66.1 Contin. of Croyland Chronicle, p. 525.

66.2 Wright’s Political Poems (in Rolls series), ii. 232.

66.3 Ibid. 222, 224.

68.1 Berry’s narrative in Stevenson’s Expulsion of the English from Normandy, 336. Wars of the Engl. ii. [360]. Paston Letters, No. 120.