Footnote 512: L. and P., v., 609, 817.[(back)]
Footnote 513: Ibid., vi., 446.[(back)]
Footnote 514: Chronicon Angliae, Rolls Ser., p. 92, s.a., 1376; D.N.B., xxix., 421. This became the orthodox Lancastrian theory (cf. Fortescue, Governance of England, ed. Plummer, pp. 352-55).[(back)]
Footnote 515: Stubbs, Const. Hist., iii., 58. This Act was, however, repealed before the end of the same year.[(back)]
Footnote 516: Professor Maitland has spoken of the "Byzantinism" of Henry's reign, and possibly the objection to female sovereigns was strengthened by the prevalent respect for Roman imperial and Byzantine custom (cf. Hodgkin, Charles the Great, p. 180).[(back)]
Footnote 517: Ven. Cal., ii., 1287. Buckingham's end was undoubtedly hastened by Wolsey's jealousy; before the end of 1518 the Cardinal had been instilling into Henry's ear suspicions of Buckingham (L. and P., iii., 1; cf. ibid., ii., 3973, 4057). Brewer regards the hostility of Wolsey to Buckingham as one of Polydore Vergil's "calumnies" (ibid., vol. iii., Introd., p. lxvi.).[(back)]
Footnote 518: L. and P. of Richard III. and Henry VII., i., 233.[(back)]
Footnote 519: See detailed accounts in L. and P., iii., 1284, 1356. Shakespeare's account in "Henry VIII." is remarkably accurate, except in matters of date.[(back)]
Footnote 520: L. and P., iii., 386.[(back)]
Footnote 521: Ibid., ii., p. 1461.[(back)]