[969] Shakespeare, second part of King Henry VI., Act II. Scene iv.

[970]

‘But then he fell into a foul error,

Moved by his wife Eleanor Cobham,

To truste her so men thought he was to blame.’

This is how the incident struck the rhyming chronicler Hardyng, 400.

[971] Ordinances, v. 199.

[972] Ibid., v. 280.

[973] Amundesham, Annales, ii. App. B. 289. We find him at Greenwich in the following year also (Dugdale, Monasticon, ii. 245), and again on another occasion (Beckington Correspondence, ii. 244). See also Rot. Pat., 25 Henry VI., Part i. m. 16.

[974] Inquisitiones, A.Q.D. File 449, No. 1 (June 13, 1442).