Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

[601] Ordinances, iii. 169. The date of this gift is May 22, 1425.

[602] See the tone of Bedford’s letter to the Pope urging the divorce of Jacqueline from the Duke of Brabant. Stevenson, Letters and Papers, ii. 388, 389.

[603] See Ashmole MS., 59, ff. 57-60, where Lydgate voices the universal sympathy for Jacqueline, and also the action of the London women below.

[604] Commonly called Lord Cobham, because both his father and grandfather had been summoned to Parliament, though he himself never was. See Nicolas, Historic Peerage, and G. E. C., Peerage, under his name. He is possibly the Reginald Cobham who commanded part of Gloucester’s retinue in 1417, and served under him in the Côtentin.

[605] Monstrelet, 571; Chron. Henry VI., 7.

[606] Harleian MS., 2256, f. 198^vo. Mons had already petitioned Burgundy to take Jacqueline under his protection, that is, assume control over her. Cartulaire, iv. 465.

[607] Monstrelet says June 13, an obvious mistake. Cartulaire, iv. 475.

[608] Monstrelet, 573: Waurin, iii. 182, 183. In a letter written to Jacqueline from Calais, on his homeward journey, he had promised her to return to Hainault speedily. See Particularités Curieuses, 112.

[609] Waurin, iii. 183.

[610] Monstrelet, 574; St. Rémy, 477.