Cf. _Excerpta Historica_, 281-390.

[1062] Richard Fox, 118.

[1063] Fabyan, 619.

[1064] Mathieu de Coussy, 30.

[1065] _Polychronicon_, f. 338vo. Whethamstede, i. 182, says much the same thing.

[1066] _Political Songs_, ii. 268. Cf. Leland, _Collectanea_, I. iv.

494.

[1067] Rawlinson MS., Cla.s.sis, C. 813, f. 126.

[1068] His last recorded presence at the Council Board was in June 1443.

[1069] _Chron. Henry VI._, 35; Waurin, iv. 353, 354; _Ordinances_, vi. 89.

[1070] Beaucourt, iii. 10.

[1071] See above, p. 262.

[1072] _Rot. Parl._, v. 335; Whethamstede, i. 181. Cf. Speed, 667.

[1073] Stow, 365, puts this event as the first sign of the breaking up of the Burgundian alliance.

[1074] Shakespeare's Second Part of _King Henry IV._, Act IV. Scene v.

[1075] Waurin, ii. 423.

[1076] Harleian MS., 139, f. 206; _Rot. Pat._, 5 _Henry VI._, Part ii. m. 16.

[1077] For this state of anarchy and distress see Ramsay, ii. 51-53.

[1078] _Rot. Parl._, v. 115.

[1079] _Rot. Parl._, v. 448.

[1080] Polydore Vergil, 72; Holinshed, iii. 211.

[1081] _Chron. Henry VI._, 30.

[1082] _Rot. Pat._, 25 _Henry VI._, Part i. m. 5 and m. 19.

[1083] _Hist. Croyland. Contin._, i. 517.

[1084] Gregory, 188.

[1085] Sandford, _Genealogical History_, 309.

[1086] Whethamstede, i. 179-181. A free translation of the Latin original. For a like opinion, cf. Rastell, 262.

[1087] _Political Songs_, ii. 157, 205.

[1088] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 300, 301.

[1089] _Accounts (Exchequer Q. R.)_, Bundle 515, No. 7.

[1090] _Ancient Correspondence_, vol. lvii. No. 97.

[1091] _Ibid._, vol. xliv. No. 40.

[1092] Holkham MS., p. 27.

[1093] William of Worcester, 463.

[1094] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._ ii. 283.

[1095] _Ibid._, ii. 282.

[1096] Cf. _St. Albans Chron._, i. 31, _et pa.s.sim_.

[1097] See Ashmole MSS., 1796, in the Bodleian Library, a book dealing with astrological subjects, written at St. Albans.

[1098] _Epist. Acad._, 217. It is perhaps worth noticing that when addressing letters to Bedford and Gloucester in support of the candidature of Thomas Chace to the Bishopric of Meath, the University of Oxford dwelt at some length in the letter to Gloucester on the energy with which this man, when Chancellor of the University, had extirpated heresy, but did not allude to this favourable trait in his character to Bedford; _Epist. Acad._, 105. This would seem to imply that Gloucester's orthodoxy was known to be more rigid and unbending than that of Bedford.

[1099] Oriel MS., x.x.xii. f. 1vo.

[1100] Durham MS., C. iv. 3, f. 7.

[1101] _Paston Letters_, i. 24; _Beckington Correspondence_, i. 223.

[1102] Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. 471.

[1103] Wilkins, _Concilia_, iii. 472.

[1104] _Ibid._, iii. 473.

[1105] _Papal Letters_, vii. 36.

[1106] A papal collector was released from the Tower in 1427. _St.

Albans Chron._, i. 16, 17.

[1107] _Ordinances_, iii. 211.

[1108] May 24, 1426. See Creighton's _Papacy_, ii. 158.

[1109] The letters exchanged are to be found in Wilkins's _Concilia_, iii. 471-486. See also Creighton's _Papacy_, ii.

158, 159, and Hook's _Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury_, v. 91-103.