[423] Lords’ Reports, iii. 856; Ordinances, iii. 3.
[424] Ordinances, iii. 6; Rot. Parl., iv. 169; Rymer, IV. iv. 82.
[425] ‘Ad parliamentum illud finiendum et dissolvendum de assensu concilii nostri plenam commisimus potestatem.’ Ordinances, iii. 7. Stubbs thinks that it is probable that ‘de assensu concilii nostri’ alludes to the last three words, that Gloucester misconstrued the sentence, and that the Council accepted his misconstruction for their own ends (Stubbs, iii. 96, n. 3); but judging from their general attitude to Gloucester it seems more likely that the lords intended to put a check on him all along, else why introduce words which had not occurred before? It is more than possible that they wished Gloucester to accept it in the way Stubbs reads it, and at a later date to construe them to their own advantage. Gloucester’s only chance was to try to preclude this possibility. He threw his stake and lost.
[426] Walsingham, Hist. Angl., ii. 345.
[427] Ibid., ii. 345, 346.
[428] Rymer, IV. iv. 82; Rot. Parl., iv. 170.
[429] Hardyng, 390.
[430] Delpit, Doc. Fr., No. CCCLXVII. p. 233.
[431] Rot. Parl., iv. 171, 172.
[432] Lords’ Reports, v. 192.