Footnote 106: King Richard II. Act v. scene 3.
Boling.—"Can no man tell of my unthrifty son?"
Percy.—"My Lord, some two days since I saw the Prince," &c. [(back)]
Footnote 107: The commons at the same time, of their own free will, offered to pay as much as they had formerly paid to King Richard.[(back)]
Footnote 108: An exception by name is made of Owyn Glyndowr, and also of Rees ap Tudor, and William ap Tudor. These two brothers, however, surrendered the Castle of Conway, and William with thirty-one more received the royal pardon, dated 8th July 1401. Pardons in the same terms had been granted on the 6th May to the rebels of Chirk; on the 10th, to those of Bromfield and Oswestry; on the 16th, to those of Ellesmere; and, upon June 15th, to the rebels of Whityngton.[(back)]
Footnote 109: The original, in French, is preserved in the British Museum.—Cotton, Cleop. viii. fol. 117 b. [(back)]
Footnote 110: The original is here imperfect. [(back)]
Footnote 111: See Ellis's Original Letters, second series, vol. i. p. 8.[(back)]
Footnote 112: Lingard places the site of Owyn's victory over Lord Grey on the banks of the "Vurnway." [(back)]
Footnote 113: The Monk of Evesham reports that Lord Grey was released about the year 1404, having first paid to Owyn five thousand marks for his ransom, and leaving his two sons as pledges for the payment of five thousand more. The same authority informs us that Edmund Mortimer espoused the daughter of Owyn with great solemnity. The Pell Rolls (1 Henry V. June 27) leave us in no doubt as to the fact of that marriage. [(back)]
Footnote 114: This nobleman, John Charlton, Lord Powis, died on the 19th of October following, and was succeeded by his son Edward, who, on the 5th of August, (probably in 1402 or 1403,) applied to the council for a reinforcement.—Min. of Coun. [(back)]