[749] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 337; Rymer, IV. iv. 151.

[750] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 338.

[751] _Ibid._, iv. 350.

[752] 8 _Henry VI._, c. 7; _Statutes_, ii. 243.

[753] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 343, 344.

[754] _Ordinances_, iv. 35-38; _Rot. Parl._, v. 416-418.

[755] _Rot. Parl._, v. 415.

[756] _Ordinances_, iv. 12; Devon, _Issue Roll_, p. 44.

[757] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 48-50; _Rot. Parl._, v. 415.

[758] Rymer, IV. iv. 159.

[759] _Ibid._, IV. iv. 160. The commission was approved in Council on April 21. Ordinances, iv. 40, 41.

[760] _Eng. Chron._, 54; _Cal. of French Rolls_, Rep. 48, App. 273.

[761] _Ordinances_, iv. 16.

[762] _Ibid._, iv. 53, 73-75.

[763] _Ibid._, iv. 68; see also Polydore Vergil, 46.

[764] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 367.

[765] _Ordinances_, iv. 79.

[766] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 371.

[767] Polydore Vergil, 45.

[768] Devon, _Issue Roll_, 413.

[769] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 63. The pet.i.tion is printed in the Appendix to _St. Albans Chron._, i. 453-457.

[770] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 61-63vo; Walsingham, _Hist.

Angl._, ii. 282, 283; Redmayne, 24, 25.

[771] Capgrave, _De Ill.u.s.tribus Henricis_, 121.

[772] _Eng. Chron._, 54.

[773] May 17.

[774] Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. f. 37; _St. Albans Chron._, i.

63, 64; _Ordinances_, iv. 107; Devon, _Issue Roll_, 415; Ellis, _Original Letters_, 2nd Series, i. 104, 105; William of Worcester, 455, 456; Cotton MS., Vitellius, A. xvi. f.

93vo.

[775] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 61.

[776] Devon, _Issue Roll_, 412; _Ordinances_, iv. 91. Gloucester also sent one of the judges to put an end to the rebels round Kenilworth and Coventry; _ibid._, iv. 89.

[777] Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. ff. 36vo, 37vo.

[778] Henry was crowned at Paris on December 11, 1431; _Chron. Henry VI._, 13.

[779] _Ordinances_, iv. 100, 101; Rymer, IV. iv. 174, 175.

[780] Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. f. 35.

[781] _Ordinances_, iv. 101; Rymer, IV. iv. 175.

[782] _Ordinances_, iv. 8.

[783] _Ibid._, iv. 105.

[784] _Ibid._, iv. 104; Devon, _Issue Roll_, 414, 415.

[785] Devon, _Issue Roll_, 412.

[786] _Ordinances_, iv. 104-106; Devon, _Issue Roll_, 414, 415.

[787] _Rot. Parl._ iv. 424.

[788] _Chron. Henry VI._, 13.

[789] _Chron. Henry VI._, 13. The entry into London is described in a poem by Lydgate printed at the end of the _London Chronicle_, 235-248. A prose account is to be found in Delpit, _Doc. Fr._, pp. 244-248, No. CCCLx.x.xII., giving the date as February 20. Cf. Fabyan, 603-607.

[790] _Rot. Parl._, v. 433.

[791] Rymer, IV. iv. 176.

[792] _Ibid._, IV. iv. 177.

[793] _Ordinances_, iv. 112.

[794] Ramsay, i. 439.

[795] See Gloucester's indictment of Cardinal Beaufort below, p.

262.

[796] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 389.