[899] Rot. Parl., iv. 502.

[900] Ibid., iv. 496-499.

[901] Ordinances, v. 56.

[902] Ibid., v. 80.

[903] Rot. Parl., v. 438, 439: Cal. Rot. Pat., 280.

[904] Rot. Scot., ii. 303. Rymer, V. i. 17, gives date as 1437.

[905] There is a hint of a gift in 1435; Epist. Acad., 114. The first important gift of one hundred and twenty vols. is in 1439; Epist. Acad., 117-119.

[906] Lydgate’s Prologue to The Falls of Princes.

[907] Ordinances, iv. 132.

[908] Cal. Rot. Pat., 280; Dugdale, ii. 199.