[453] Beltz, pp. lxi, lxii. Wardrobe accounts, however, are not always reliable.
[454] Rymer, IV. iv. 102; Rot. Parl., iv. 197; Cal. Rot. Pat., 270.
[455] London Chron., 112 and 165.
[456] Rot. Parl., iv. 200.
[457] Ibid., iv. 201. Ordinances, iii. 151, where an additional paragraph decrees that any matter of dispute between any members of the Council is to be submitted to the judgment of the rest.
[458] Rot. Parl., iv. 299.
[459] Rymer, IV. iv. 98.
[460] Chron. Henry VI., 4, 5.
[461] Rymer, IV. iv. 115. It was not long before Gloucester was remonstrating with James for giving support to the French in 1424. Polydore Vergil, 11.
[462] Later in the reign Gloucester complained that this marriage was an insidious attempt by Beaufort to increase the power of his house.