[1239] I presume from the way this man is alluded to without comment or explanation that he had come from Alfonso, or at least that through him the two friends had become acquainted by letter.

[1240] Eng. Hist. Review, x. 102, 103. Letter of Gloucester to Alfonso V. of Aragon.

[1241] This MS. is said to be now in the library of Holkham Hall. See Roscoe, Life of Lorenzo de Medici (London, 1846), 64, 485.

[1242] Æn. Sylv., Opera, 602, Epist. cv.

[1243] Beckington Correspondence, i. 223, et passim.

[1244] Rot. Parl., iv. 314.

[1245] See Giuliani, Della Letteratura Veronese, 66; Warton, iii. 51; Voigt, ii. 258.

[1246] Royal MS., 5, F. ii.

[1247] ‘Postquam, serenissime princeps, ex peregrinatione mea redii, quam in visendo hac tua clarissima patria suscipam, etc.’ Royal MS., 5, F. ii. f. 92.

[1248] King’s College, Cambridge, MS., 27, f. 3.