[517] _Ibid._, ii. 392, 393.

[518] Desplanque, _Projet d'a.s.sa.s.sinat, Preuves_, pp. 57, 59.

[519] For a discussion upon these doc.u.ments, see the above treatise in _Memoires couronnes par l'Academie royale de Belgique_, vol. x.x.xii.; and also Cosneau, _Richemont_, 501, 502; De Beaucourt, ii. 658-660.

[520] Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, ii. 399.

[521] _Ibid._, ii. 399; _Cartulaire_, iv. 418.

[522] _Cartulaire_, iv. 418. A letter written to Mons telling of Gloucester's coming. This corresponds with Eberhard Windeck's report of 4000 men (Windeck, cap. 215, p. 162). Waurin, iii.

125, says 5000. Holkham MS., p. 8, follows Stow in saying 1200. Pierre de Fenin, p. 601, also says 1200. An entry in the _Registre de Mons_ of November 27, 1424, says Gloucester arrived near Mons with between 4000 and 5000 men (_Cartulaire_, iv. 420), but he had then been joined by some of the troops belonging to the Dowager-d.u.c.h.ess.

[523] Waurin, iii. 126; Monstrelet, 562.

[524] Kymer's 'Dietary,' in _Liber Niger Scaccarii_, App. vol. ii.

pp. 551-559.

[525] _Cartulaire_, iv. 418; Waurin, iii. 135; Monstrelet, 564.

[526] Waurin, iii. 135; Monstrelet, 564; Pierre de Fenin, 601.

[527] In October 1424 the Duke of Brabant had written to Mons to announce his intention of resisting Gloucester; _Cartulaire_, iv. 414. Resistance to Jacqueline and her husband was therefore a certainty.

[528] St. Remy, 472.

[529] _Cartulaire_, iv. 419.

[530] _Chron. Henry VI._, 7.

[531] _Cartulaire_, iv. 382, 383.

[532] _Ibid._, iv. 407.

[533] See _Ibid._, iv. 81, 82.

[534] _Ibid._, iv. 419.

[535] _Ibid._, iv. 420.

[536] _Registre de Mons, Cartulaire_, iv. 420.

[537] It is possible that this 'Jan Lorfevre' is none other than the chronicler Jean Le Fevre Seigneur de St. Remy, who was with the English army on the day of Agincourt, but of whom we know nothing more till he reappears in 1430 as an amba.s.sador from Burgundy.

[538] _Particularites Curieuses_, 76, 77; _Cartulaire_, iv. 423; St.

Remy, 472.

[539] _Cartulaire_, iv. 424; _Particularites Curieuses_, 78.

[540] Dynter, iii. 858.

[541] Monstrelet, 564; Waurin, iii. 135.

[542] _Cartulaire_, iv. 425, 426.

[543] _Ibid._, iv. 427.

[544] _Ibid._, iv. 428, 430, 433.

[545] Hal is mentioned by Monstrelet and Waurin, and in an entry in the archives of Valenciennes as an exception to the rule that all the Hainault towns accepted Gloucester's rule; but Hal was in Brabant and therefore was not called on to acknowledge the new governor of Hainault. See Waurin, iii. 135; Monstrelet, 564; _Cartulaire_, iv. 421.

[546] _Cartulaire_, iv. 437, 438. On Jan. 9 Gloucester alludes to this grant as 80,000 pounds tournois; _Cartulaire_, iv. 441.

[547] _Chronique des Pays Bas_, 387.

[548] _Cartulaire_, iv. 428.

[549] _Ibid._, iv. 434. For another protest on the same subject from the citizens of Mons, see _Particularites Curieuses_, 86.

[550] _Particularites Curieuses_, 92.

[551] _Cartulaire_, iv. 431.

[552] _Ibid._, iv. 438-440.

[553] _Ibid._, iv. 436, December 25, 1424.

[554] February 4, 1425, _Particularites Curieuses_, 86.

[555] _Cartulaire_, iv. 448. The letter reached Mons on February 24, 1425.

[556] _Ibid._, iv. 446, 447.

[557] _Ibid._, vi. 295; _Papal Letters_, vii. 29. Martin V. also wrote to the papal nuncios in England to the same effect; _Papal Letters_, vii. 27.

[558] Brabant received the letter on April 29, 1425; Dynter, iii.

866, 867.

[559] Letter to the Bishop of Winchester, dated January 8, 1425, in Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, ii. 416; Dynter, iii. 859.

[560] Pierre de Fenin, 601; Dynter, iii. 859.

[561] Letter as above, Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, ii. 410.

[562] _Ibid._, ii. 411.

[563] Monstrelet, 563, 564; St. Remy, 471.

[564] Stowe MS., 668, f. 32vo; Waurin, iii. 136; Monstrelet, 564.