Note 26.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI
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[From Paston MSS., B.M.] About the year 1425 the question of the validity of the Duke of Gloucester’s marriage with Jacqueline of Hainault was before the Court of Rome. This letter must have been written in the spring of the year following, when Parliament was sitting at Leicester. The original is slightly mutilated at the edge in one place.
27.1 Prebendary of Lincoln, 1435–9. Died 1439.
27.2 Jacqueline of Hainault, whom Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, married, pretending that her former marriage with John, Duke of Brabant, was void by consanguinity. The question which of the two marriages was valid was at this time before the Pope.
27.3 Archbishop Chicheley.
27.4 Dean of Salisbury, 1435–41. Died 1441.
27.5 Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, afterwards Cardinal.
27.6 LL.D. Prebendary of Hereford about 1433, and of Lichfield 1432–43.
27.7 John Paston or Wortes, the writer of the preceding letter.
28.1 A lordship in Sprouston was acquired by John Aslake of Bromholm in 14 Richard II., and seems to have continued some time in that family. Blomefield notes that a Walter Aslake, Esq. of Sprouston, had a protection in the 10th of Henry VI., being in France in the retinue of John, Duke of Bedford (Blomefield’s Norfolk, x. 462). Probably this was the same Walter Aslak mentioned in No. 6 preceding.—See p. 18.