Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

[929] Stevenson, Letters and Papers, ii. [586].

[930] Eng. Chron., 56.

[931] Walsingham, Hist. Angl., ii. 249, 250.

[932] St. Albans Chron., i. 50.

[933] Eng. Chron., 57, gives Sunday July 25, but in 1441 Sundays fell on July 16 and 23, and the former seems the more likely day in view of subsequent dates. Moreover, the same chronicler gives July 22 as the date of Eleanor’s subsequent summons before the ecclesiastical commissioners.

[934] The Eve of St. Margaret, July 19; William of Worcester, 460. Eng. Chron., 58, gives July 25.

[935] Eng. Chron., 58; Chron. Henry VI., 30; Rymer, V. i. 110; Gregory 183, 184; William of Worcester, 468; Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. f. 58^vo, Political Songs, ii. 207; Stow, 381. There is considerable doubt as to who Stanley was. In the various chronicles and official documents there is mention of a Sir Thomas Stanley, a Sir John Stanley, and a John Stanley, Esquire. Probably these were two men bearing the same surname, and were both concerned in the matter.

[936] Eng. Chron., 58, 59; Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. f. 59; Lond. Chron., 129; Stow, 381.

[937] Lond. Chron., 129; Cotton MS., Cleopatra, C. iv. f. 59, 59^vo; Gregory, 184; William of Worcester, 460, 461; Stow, 182.

[938] Lond. Chron., 129; Eng. Chron., 59, 60; William of Worcester, 461; Gregory, 184; Fabyan, 614; Stow, 581.