[961] See _e.g. Cal. Rot. Pat._, 277.

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

[963] _Add. Charters_, 44, 531.

[964] Cotton MS., Nero, D. vii. f. 154 (June 25, 1431).

[965] Bedford described Joan of Arc as 'a disciple and Lyme of the Feend called the Pucelle that used fals enchantements and Sorcerie'; Rymer, IV. iv. 141.

[966] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 118.

[967] _Lond. Chron._, 107; Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 331. See also Harleian MS., 2256, f. 193vo.

[968] Fabyan, 614; Holkham MS., p. 10.

[969] Shakespeare, second part of _King Henry VI._, Act II. Scene iv.

[970] 'But then he fell into a foul error, Moved by his wife Eleanor Cobham, To truste her so men thought he was to blame.'

This is how the incident struck the rhyming chronicler Hardyng, 400.

[971] _Ordinances_, v. 199.

[972] _Ibid._, v. 280.

[973] Amundesham, _Annales_, ii. App. B. 289. We find him at Greenwich in the following year also (Dugdale, _Monasticon_, ii. 245), and again on another occasion (_Beckington Correspondence_, ii. 244). See also _Rot. Pat._, 25 _Henry VI._, Part i. m. 16.

[974] _Inquisitiones_, A.Q.D. File 449, No. 1 (June 13, 1442).

[975] We find Gloucester and Kemp adopting the same att.i.tude with regard to the prosecution of the war in 1443; _Ordinances_, v. 224. Kemp was alienated from the Beaufort counsels by the advent of Suffolk, with whom he could not agree (see Ramsay, ii. 115).

[976] _Ordinances_, v. 266.

[977] Charter printed in Dugdale, _Monasticon_, ii. 244, 245. The transfer was completed, for reference is made to it in 1454; _Rot. Parl._, v. 253.

[978] _Rot. Parl._, v. 56.

[979] Rymer, V. i. 130.

[980] _Ordinances_, vi. 32; cf. Rymer, V. i. 130.

[981] Rymer, V. i. 112.

[982] _Beckington Correspondence_, ii. 177-248.

[983] _Ibid._, ii. 212-215, 244.

[984] _Eng. Chron._, 61. The writ to Gloucester as Warden of the Cinque Ports to observe and proclaim the truce is dated January 2, 1445; Rymer, V. i. 153.

[985] Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, i. 123. See also _Polychronicon_, f. 337; Fabyan, 618; Grafton, i. 624; Holinshed, iii. 207.

[986] Cotton MS., Vitellius, A. xvi. f. 104.

[987] _Polychronicon_, f. 337vo; Fabyan, 617; Holinshed, iii. 207; Stow, 384; cf. _Chronicles of London Bridge_, 275; Carte, _Hist. of England_, ii. 727.

[988] _Rot. Parl._, v. 73.

[989] Polydore Vergil, 69.

[990] Basin, i. 189.

[991] ?gidius, _De Regimine Principium_, III. ii. 15.

[992] Basin, i. 150, says that the subsequent events justified Gloucester's wish to continue the war.

[993] Basin, i. 150, says that Somerset's secrecy was so great, that it is doubtful whether at the end of his campaign his intentions were known even to himself.

[994] Waurin, iv. 351, 352. He says the Bishop of Salisbury was one of this party, but he probably means Moleyns, who was Dean of Salisbury.

[995] For an account of this see T. Gascoigne, _Loci e Libro Veritatum_, edited by J. E. Thorold Rogers (Oxford, 1881), p.

190.

[996] This is the fear ascribed to Gloucester's enemies in Fabyan, 619, and Leland, _Collectanea_, I. ii. 494. _Eng. Chron._, 63, hints at some plan which the common people did not know of as yet, and which Suffolk and his party could not carry out until Gloucester should be out of the way. Basin, i. 189, also suggests that Gloucester's known hostility to the cession of Maine had something to do with his suspicious death.

[997] Mathieu de Coussy, 30; Hall, 209; Polydore Vergil, 71.

[998] _Chron. Henry VI._, 33; Mathieu de Coussy, 30; Whethamstede, i. 179. Cf. Hardyng, 400.

[999] Stevenson, _Letters and Papers_, i. 110, 111.

[1000] _Ibid._, i. 116, 123.

[1001] _Chron. Henry VI._, 33; Waurin, iv. 353.

[1002] Polydore Vergil, 72; Hall, 209; Holinshed, iii. 210, 211; Holkham MS., p. 58.

[1003] _Eng. Chron._, 62.

[1004] _Hist. Croyland. Contin._, i. 521.

[1005] Stubbs, iii. 135. Cf. Carte, _Hist. of England_, ii. 727.

[1006] Gloucester was a member of the Fraternity.

[1007] _Brief Notes_, 150; Richard Fox, 116.

[1008] _Eng. Chron._, 62; _Chron. Henry VI._, 33; _Short Eng.

Chron._, 65; _Lond. Chron._, 135.