Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

[681] Paston Letters, i. 12-17; St. Albans Chron., i. 16. Aslak does not appear to have been one of the six men executed, for he is spoken of in the Paston Letters as alive after 1427.

[682] St. Albans Chron., i. 16.

[683] Ibid., i. 12-17.

[684] Bibliothèque Nationale MS. français, 2, f. 511. See Appendix A.

[685] Paston Letters, i. 24-26.

[686] Cartulaire, iv. 539-541.

[687] Waurin, iii. 213; Monstrelet, 584.

[688] Ordinances, iii. 211. On March 16, 1426, the Pope’s nephew, Prospero de Colonna, was given permission to hold benefices in England, a concession for which Martin V. had sought Gloucester’s good offices two years earlier; Rymer IV. iv. 119. This was probably a propitiatory offering to Rome.

[689] Cartulaire, iv. 579-582.

[690] Cartulaire, iv. 590-593. Letter dated May 27.