caligas, ocreas, calceos: foot-gear for walking, riding and indoor use respectively.
[p. 15]. dominus Ricardus Tunstall. Sir Richard Tunstall of Thurland in Westmorland (or Lancashire) appears frequently in the Patent Rolls etc. of Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VII. Under Edward IV his lands are naturally granted to other people and he is attainted. In 1470, at Henry's restoration, he is 'king's chamberlain' (Cal. Pat. R. p. 227). Under Henry VII he is in favour and holds many important posts.
An entry in William Worcester's Annals (Rolls, Wars of the English in France, ii. pt. 2 [785]), wrongly printed, is of interest here. Under 1464 he writes: "Mense Julii, dolo cujusdam monachi Abendoniæ, rex Henricus in comitatu Lancastriæ capitur per quendam Johannem Talbois et Ricardum Tunstalle milites, ibidem captus evasit. Dictusque rex Henricus una cum monacho Thoma Mannyng et Bedone doctore ... versus Londoniam adducebatur etc." We should certainly read 'et Ricardus T. miles ... evasit.'
Tunstall was afterwards taken in Wales by Lord Herbert, and confined in the Tower, but soon pardoned (Warkeworth's Chron. Camd. Soc. p. 43).
Another entry (Three Fifteenth Cent. Chronicles, Camden Soc. p. 80) says:
"Kynge Harry was take in the northe contre, and ii doctors with him, the whiche wer called Doctor Mannynge and Doctor Beden, the whiche were all thre brought to London."
On the whole episode see Sir J. H. Ramsay, Lancaster and York, ii. 316.
What follows in the text is Tunstall's story. Blacman adds that he himself witnessed a similar occurrence.
[p. 17]. I do not know that the four nobles or the three great lords who were pardoned can be certainly identified. Nor is it plain whether the first of the two men who wounded him attacked him when confined in the Tower.
[p. 18]. isti p̄r̄iales. Blacman intends a word of the sense of 'parricidiales.' But either he or the printer has gone wrong.