Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

[939] Sir Thomas Stanley was an officer of the King’s household and King of the Isle of Man (Cotton MS., Vitellius, A. xvi. f. 102^vo). Later he played a subordinate part in the arrest of Gloucester at Bury.

[940] William of Worcester, 461; Eng. Chron., 60.

[941] Ellis, Letters, 2nd Series, i. 107; Lond. Chron., 130; Devon, Issue Roll, 441.

[942] Rymer, V. i. 127; Devon, Issue Roll, 448.

[943] Ordinances, vi. 51; Fabyan, 614; Holkham MS., p. 10.

[944] Brief Notes, 154.

[945] Chron. Henry VI., 31.

[946] Devon, Issue Roll, 448.

[947] Excerpta Historica, 278, Will of Sir John Steward. This, however, does not prove that Eleanor was confined at Calais, as the editor of this will thinks, for Steward or Stiward was one of the two gentlemen appointed to take care of her at Leeds Castle, and in her later confinement.

[948] See Ellis, Letters, 2nd Series, i. 107; Devon, Issue Roll, 441.