FOOTNOTES:
[841] The passage here placed in parenthesis was, we learn from a marginal note, for divers causes omitted from the original letter.
[842] He was esquire to the mayor (Armiger Maioris). After he had served the City faithfully for 20 years, and become incapable of further work, he was, in February, 1420, allowed an annuity of 40 shillings and his clothing or livery of the City in the same manner as the sergeants of the Chamber.—Letter Book I, fo. 238b.
[843] Creil (Oise).
[844] Verneuil.
[845] Meun on the Loire.
[846] The Orleans or Armagnac party (so-called from the Duc d'Armagnac, Constable of France) the deadly enemy of the Dukes of Burgundy.
[847] Samer au bois, near Boulogne.
[848] Cockets or seals delivered to merchants in token of their merchandise having passed the Custom-house.
[849] Sir William Neville, Lord Falconbridge & Earl of Kent.
[850] He had been killed at Barnet.
[851] Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, married to James IV of Scotland.
[852] Printed in Rushworth's Collections.
[853] Derby House, Cannon Row, Westminster, erected in 1598 by William, Earl of Derby. It was surrendered to Parliament temp. Charles I, and was used for Parliamentary Committee meetings and other state purposes.