Footnote 1021: See G.T. Lapsley, The County Palatine of Durham, in Harvard Historical Series.[(back)]
Footnote 1022: There are no records in the Official Return for 1536 and 1539, but Calais had been granted Parliamentary representation by an Act of the previous Parliament (27 Hen. VIII., Private Acts, No. 9; cf. L. and P., x., 1086).[(back)]
Footnote 1023: Vols. xii. and xiii. of the L. and P. are full of these attempts.[(back)]
Footnote 1024: For the negotiations with France from 1537 onwards see Kaulek, Corresp. de MM. Castillon et Marillac, Paris, 1885.[(back)]
Footnote 1025: L. and P., XIII., i., 165, 273.[(back)]
Footnote 1026: Is this another trace of "Byzantinism"? It was a regular custom at the Byzantine and other Oriental Courts to have a "concourse of beauty" for the Emperor's benefit when he wished to choose a wife (Histoire Générale, i., 381 n., v., 728); and the story of Theophilus and Theodora is familiar (Finlay, ii., 146-47).[(back)]
Footnote 1027: L. and P., XIII., ii., 77; Kaulek, p. 80.[(back)]
Footnote 1028: Ibid., XII., ii., 1125; XIII., ii., p. xxxi.[(back)]
Footnote 1029: Ibid., XIII., ii., 77.[(back)]
Footnote 1030: Ibid., XII., ii., 1172.[(back)]