[44] Exch. Accts. (Q.R.), Bdle. 53, No. 23.
[45] ‘Tenggemouth.’
[46] Port of origin not given.
[47] Exch. Accts. (Q.R.), Bdle. 54, No. 14.
[48] The large ship is the Trinity; there was a Christopher of Dartmouth in 1440 also of 400 tons.
[49] Considering that the lists of Elizabeth’s reign are much more nearly complete.
[50] The Debate between the Heralds of France and England. Lond. 1870. Assigned to 1458-61, and supposed to have been written by Charles, Duke of Orléans, for twenty-five years a prisoner here and therefore qualified by opportunity to form an opinion.
[51] Bishop Stubbs (Const. Hist. iii, 268) says ‘The French administration of the Duke of Bedford was maintained in great measure by taxing the French, rather than by raising supplies from England.’ This may be true of the civil administration but there are innumerable warrants for the whole reign directed to the English Exchequer for the Payment of English and French captains who undertook to provide bands of men-at-arms or archers.
[52] Roll of Foreign Accounts, No. xiv.
[53] Roll of Foreign Accounts, No. x.