Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

[949] Hall, 202. See also ‘Lament of the Duchess of Gloucester,’ a contemporary ballad, ‘A word for me durst no man say,’ Political Songs, ii. 206.

[950] Rymer, V. i. 110.

[951] Lansdowne MS., i. f. 79.

[952] Sloane MS., 248. See App. A.

[953] William of Worcester, 461.

[954] Fabyan, 614.

[955] Cotton MS., Julius, B. ii. ff. 68^vo, 75. Randolph seems to have had considerable connection with Gloucester, and to have been one of his literary followers. There still exists amongst a collection of astrological tables certain ‘Canones pro tabulis ejus (i.e. Humphrey) astronomicis secundum Fratrem Randolfe’; Sloane MS., 407, ff. 224-227.

[956] Eng. Chron., 60.

[957] Political Songs, ii. 205.

[958] Rawlinson MS., Classis, C. 813, ff. ll^vo, 12, a sixteenth-century collection of songs, but this one by internal evidence was evidently written by a contemporary.