Footnote 751: Ibid., v., 522; vii., 171.[(back)]
Footnote 752: Thomas Beaufort, afterwards Duke of Exeter, who was Chancellor in 1410-12, and Richard, Earl of Salisbury, who was Chancellor in 1454-5, are exceptions.[(back)]
Footnote 753: L. and P., iv., 6019.[(back)]
Footnote 754: Ibid., v., 1013.[(back)]
Footnote 755: Ibid., v., 805; vii., 232. Chapuys had told him that "all the Parliament could not make the Princess Mary a bastard, for the cognisance of cases concerning legitimacy belonged to ecclesiastical judges"; to which Henry replied that "he did not care for all the canons which might be alleged, as he preferred his laws according to which he should have illegitimacy judged by lay judges who could also take cognisance of matrimonial causes".[(back)]
Footnote 756: L. and P., iv., 5925.[(back)]
Footnote 757: Ibid., iv., 6325.[(back)]
Footnote 758: Ibid., iv., 6385.[(back)]
Footnote 759: The net result at the time was a royal proclamation promising an authorised version of the Scriptures in English "if the people would come to a better mind" (L. and P., iv., 6487).[(back)]
Footnote 760: L. and P., v., App. 7.[(back)]