Note 68.2 — INTRODUCTION
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See No. 123. William Worcester says Lord Beauchamp was made treasurer, and Lord Cromwell the king’s chamberlain. Lord Beauchamp’s appointment is on the Patent Rolls. See Calendarium Rot. Patent, p. 294.
69.1 The late Mr. Durrant Cooper, in an interesting paper read before a meeting of the Kent Archæological Society, examined the long list of names given on the Patent Roll of 28 Henry VI., and proved from them that the insurrection was by no means of a very plebeian or disorderly character. ‘In several hundreds,’ he says, ‘the constables duly, and as if legally, summoned the men; and many parishes, particularly Marden, Penshurst, Hawkhurst, Northfleet, Boughton-Malherbe, Smarden, and Pluckley, furnished as many men as could be found in our day fit for arms.’
70.1 These dates were given differently in previous issues of this Introduction. For a rectification of the chronology of the rebellion I am indebted to Kriehn’s English Rising in 1450, pp. 125 and following.
70.2 According to No. 119 of our collection this retreat would appear to have been on the 22nd June, but that date is certainly an error.
70.3 The 18th June is given as the date of Sir Humphrey Stafford’s death in Inquis. post mortem, 28 Henry VI. No. 7.
71.1 W. Worc.—Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles (edited by me for the Camden Soc.), 67.—Chronicle in MS. Cott. Vitell. A. xvi.
71.2 Holinshed, iii. 632.
71.3 I leave this part of the story as it was originally written, though here, too, the chronology seems to require rectification, especially from sources since published, for which the reader may consult Kriehn’s work, p. 129.
72.1 MS. Vitellius A. xvi. fol. 107, quoted by Kriehn, p. 92.
73.1 Inaccurately called Archbishop of Canterbury by Fabyan and others. He was not translated to Canterbury till 1452.
73.2 Hall’s Chronicle. Holy Well was a mineral spring to the north of London, much frequented before the Reformation, when it was stopped up as being considered a place of superstitious resort. A century afterwards it was discovered anew by a Mr. Sadler, from whom the locality is named to this day Sadler’s Wells.
73.3 Some doubt seems to be thrown on Hall’s statement that both prelates crossed the river, as earlier writers say the Chancellor sent pardons under the Great Seal. William Worcester, moreover, makes no mention of the cardinal, but says that the Bishop of Winchester and others of the king’s council spoke with the Captain of Kent. But the ‘Short English Chronicle’ in the Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, edited by me for the Camden Society in 1880 (p. 68), does exactly the reverse, and omitting all reference to the Bishop of Winchester, says: ‘And forthewithe went the Chaunseler to the Capteyne and sessed him and gave him a chartur and his men an other.’
74.1 Hall’s Chronicle.
74.2 See Act of Attainder, 29 Hen. VI. Rolls of Parl. vi. 224.
74.3 Devon’s Issue Rolls, 471. Davies’ English Chron. 67.
74.4 Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles, 68.
75.1 W. Worc. Fabyan. Davies’ English Chronicle (Camden Soc.), 67. Ellis’ Letters, 2nd Series i. 115.
75.2 Ellis, ib. MS. Vitell. A. xvi.
75.3 See document in Appendix to this Introduction; also Devon’s Issue Rolls, p. 472. It would seem as if the entry there dated 5th August ought to have been 5th September, as Parminter does not seem to have been taken even on the last day of August.
75.4 Nicolas’s Proceedings of the Privy Council, vi. 101.
76.1 See No. 131.
76.2 The Battle of Patay.
78.1 See Appendix to Introduction.