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[696] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 139; _Ordinances_, iii. 271.

[697] _Ordinances_, iii. 272-276.

[698] Waurin, iii. 113, 114.

[699] Pierre de Fenin, 604; Waurin, iii. 212, 213; Monstrelet, 580.

[700] _Cartulaire_, iv. 622-624, July 11.

[701] _Ibid._, iv. 265, July 21.

[702] _Cartulaire_, iv. 635, 636; August.

[703] Monstrelet, 580; Waurin, iii. 212, 213. It is probably to these messengers that the _St. Albans Chronicle_ refers, when it says that about All-Saints'-Day (November 1), 1427, foreign envoys appeared before the Council, a.s.serting that a peace between Burgundy and Jacqueline was a necessity; _St.

Albans Chronicle_, i. 19. The names differ from those of Bedford's emba.s.sy.

[704] _Cartulaire_, iv. 632.

[705] _Ibid._, iv. 638, 639.

[706] Monstrelet, 580; St. Remy, 485; Pierre de Fenin, 604, 605.

[707] _Cartulaire_, iv. 648.

[708] _Ordinances_, iii. 291, 292.

[709] Delpit, _Doc. Fr._, Introduction, p. lxxv, quoting Reg. K., folio 50vo. Cf. Guild Hall Archives.

[710] 'After Christmas and before Easter.' Easter fell on April 20.

[711] The Market 'called the Stokkys' was begun in 1410. Fabyan, 575.

[712] _St. Alban's Chron._, i. 20.

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

[714] Rymer, IV. iv. 147.

[715] ?neas Sylvius, _De Viris Ill.u.s.tribus_, p. 52; Waurin, iii.

177.

[716] Monstrelet, 585.

[717] _Eng. Chron._, p. 59. This legend is copied by Robert Burton in his _Anatomy of Melancholy_. Cf. Shakespeare and Drayton.

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

[719] Hall, 129.

[720] Monstrelet, 585.

[721] Ashmole MS., 59, f. 592.

[722] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 317.

[723] _Ibid._, iv. 326.

[724] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 19.

[725] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 326.

[726] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 326, 327.

[727] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 335. 'Pro defectu justicie superhabundat injuriarum et oppressionum nephanda perversitas.'

[728] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 320, 321.

[729] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 20.

[730] _Ibid._, i. 20-22.

[731] _Rot. Parl._, v. 411; Devon, _Issue Roll_, 407.

[732] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 334.

[733] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 25.

[734] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 25.

[735] _Ibid._, i. 26; Harleian MS., 2256, f. 200vo.

[736] _St. Albans Chron._, i. 31.

[737] _Ibid._, i. 32.

[738] Stubbs, iii. 108.

[739] _Ordinances_, iii. 318; _St. Albans Chron._, i. 33, 34.

[740] Beltz, p. lxv.

[741] _Ordinances_, iii. 323, 324; Rymer, IV. iv. 143.

[742] _Ordinances_, iii. 330-332.

[743] _Ibid._, iii. 339.

[744] Fabyan, 599.