[647] Gregory, 160; Fabyan, 596.

[648] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 296.

[649] _Ibid._

[650] _Ibid._, iv. 297.

[651] _Ibid._, iv. 298.

[652] He had accompanied Gloucester to Hainault.

[653] We find him at variance with Gloucester later. See below, pp.

230, 234.

[654] He resigned the treasurership at the same time that Beaufort resigned the chancellorship, after the judgment.

[655] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 72vo-74; Arnold's _Chron._, 287, 288; Hall, 130, 131; Fabyan, 597. There is a copy of these articles also in the MSS. of the Inner Temple, MS. 538, 17, f. 45vo; _Hist. MSS. Rep._, xi. App. VII. p. 238.

[656] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 74, 75vo; Hall, 132.

[657] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. f. 68vo.

[658] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 76, 77vo; Hall, 132, 133.

[659] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. f. 76.

[660] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. f. 78; Hall, 133.

[661] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 78-80; Hall, 132, 133. Arnold's _Chron._, 288-295, also gives the whole account. Holkam MS., pp. 30-32.

[662] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 298, 299; Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff.

80-86; Hall, 135, 136; Arnold's _Chron._, 296-300.

[663] _Eng. Chron._, 54.

[664] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 299, says March 13 for Beaufort and March 18 for Bath. _Ordinances_, iii. 212, 213, says March 16.

[665] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 299. March 16, Rymer, IV. iv. 119.

[666] _St. Alban's Chron._, i. 8, 9.

[667] _Chron. Henry VI._, 9; Hall, 138

[668] _Rot. Scot._, ii. 256; Rymer, IV. iv. 121.

[669] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 11. Exeter died in the last days of 1426. After the obsequies at St. Paul's his body was taken to Peterborough and buried there. See Harleian MS. 2256, f. 199.

[670] _Ordinances_, iii. 327-329; _Rot. Parl._, v. 409, 410.

[671] _Ordinances_, iii. 239, 240; _Rot. Parl._, v. 410.

[672] _Ordinances_, iii. 240, 241.

[673] Beaufort was about to accompany Bedford to France and to go on a pilgrimage. See below, p. 192.

[674] _Ordinances_, iii. 242; _Rot. Parl._, v. 410, 411.

[675] _Ordinances_, iii. 195, 196.

[676] _Lond. Chron._, 115; Fabyan, 597; _Chron. Henry VI._ 9; Short, _Eng. Chron._, 59, 60; Harleian MS., 2256, f. 199vo.

[677] Wharton, _Anglia Sacra_, i. 800.

[678] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 12, 13.

[679] _Ibid._, i. 13.

[680] _Ordinances_, iii. 267.

[681] _Paston Letters_, i. 12-17; _St. Albans Chron._, i. 16. Aslak does not appear to have been one of the six men executed, for he is spoken of in the _Paston Letters_ as alive after 1427.

[682] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 16.

[683] _Ibid._, i. 12-17.

[684] _Bibliotheque Nationale MS. francais_, 2, f. 511. See Appendix A.

[685] _Paston Letters_, i. 24-26.

[686] _Cartulaire_, iv. 539-541.

[687] Waurin, iii. 213; Monstrelet, 584.

[688] _Ordinances_, iii. 211. On March 16, 1426, the Pope's nephew, Prospero de Colonna, was given permission to hold benefices in England, a concession for which Martin v. had sought Gloucester's good offices two years earlier; Rymer IV. iv.

119. This was probably a propitiatory offering to Rome.

[689] _Cartulaire_, iv. 579-582.

[690] _Cartulaire_, iv. 590-593. Letter dated May 27.

[691] Dynter, iii. 480; Monstrelet, 586; Waurin, iii. 223.

[692] _Cartulaire_, iv. 598-601.

[693] _Ibid._, iv. 601.

[694] _Ibid._, iv. 614.

[695] Rymer, IV. iv. 128.