Footnote 302: The Canonists seem to have made some distinction between the first and the second of these sentences.[(back)]
Footnote 303: Consequently he was then, in 1421, as much, as afterwards in 1423, a relapsed heretic, subject to the punishment of death.[(back)]
Footnote 304: The Minutes of Council, 27th May, 1415, record that the King should be advised, as to issuing a commission to the Archbishops and Bishops, to take measures, each in his own diocese, to resist the malice of the Lollards. The King replied, that he had committed the subject to the charge of the chancellor.[(back)]
Footnote 305: It will be remembered, that those who were put to death in 1414, after the affair of St. Giles' Field, were sentenced by the civil courts on a charge of treason.[(back)]
Footnote 306: Pat. p. 5, 1 Henry V.[(back)]
Footnote 307: This refers to the resolution which Henry is said to have made, and to have declared to his men immediately before the battle: That, as he was a true King and knight, England should never be charged with the payment of his ransom on that day, for he had rather be slain.—MS. Cott. Cleop. C. iv.[(back)]
Footnote 308: The two first words of this line are different in the original.[(back)]
Footnote 309: Quede, or quade,—evil, bad.—See Glossary to Chaucer.[(back)]
Footnote 310: In hey,—in haste, speedily.[(back)]
Footnote 311: See Sloane, p. 27. King's, p. 11, b. The same gap between "nominati" and "fratris," &c.[(back)]