[59] Edmund, Earl of March, was the grandson of Philippa, daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, third son of Edward III., and so had a claim to the throne of England as a descendant of that King by an elder line than Henry V., who claimed through John of Gaunt, the younger brother of Lionel, Duke of Clarence.
[60] St. Rémy. 389.
[61] Walsingham, Hist. Angl., ii. 306, 307.
[62] Rot. Parl., iv. 65; Stowe, 346, 347.
[63] Rot. Parl., iv. 66. Probably the Duke of York was made to serve in order to minimise the dynastic aspect of the plot.
[64] Eng. Chron., 40. See also Walsingham, Hist. Angl., ii. 305-307; Redmayne, 41. Certain hitherto unused matter with regard to this conspiracy is to be found in the Deputy Keeper’s Forty-third Report, 579-594.
[65] Rot. Parl., iv. 64.
[66] Gesta, 13; Hardyng’s Journal, 389; Walsingham, Hist. Angl., ii. 307. Cotton MS., Claudius, A. VIII. f. 2, says there were only three hundred and twenty sail.
[67] Elmham, Vita, 35.
[68] For discussion of probable number of army, see Ramsay, i. 200, and Kingsford, 137, note.