Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

‘For shame and anguishe off whiche jealousy

It toke hym sone after and soo lowe brought hym dawne

That in short while after it caused hym to dye.’

Rawlinson, MS., Classis, C. 813, f. 12^vo.

[1024] Chron. Henry VI., 34.

[1025] Eng. Chron., 63. Cf. Polychronicon, f. 338^vo. Short Eng. Chron., 65, says, ‘And sone after he disseyed, the sykness howe God knoweth.‘

[1026] Lond. Chron., 135.

[1027] Waurin, v. 3. Cf. Hist. Croyland. Contin., i. 521.

[1028] Mathieu de Coussy, 30; Basin, i. 190. The latter adds that a report that he died of natural causes was circulated to disarm suspicion.

[1029] Rot. Parl., v. 226.