The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[291] Ramsay, ii. 343; Oman, Warwick, 189. Oman says Olney in Northamptonshire.

[292] "Item XII^o die Augusti eodem anno dominus le revers (Lord Rivers), tune thesaurarius Anglie, fuit decollatus apud Gosford grene, et dominus Johannes Wodvyle, filius ejus, similiter" (Leet Book, 346).

[293] Leet Book, 354.

[294] Ramsay, ii. 350.

[295] Corp. MS.; see below, p. 152.

[296] Leet Book, 355. Troops went from Coventry to support Edward in 1469 and 1470. On both these occasions the men took 12d. a day. But the next year, when the Lancastrians were ruling and a war with Burgundy was in prospect, only 6d. a day was given to the soldiers. Was the Lancastrian cause and war with Burgundy popular then?

[297] The square brackets enclose words which are missing in the MS. The records were hastily written at the time, and are much mutilated (Leet Book, 358).

[298] Welles, leader of the revolt in Lincolnshire.

[299] Jasper Tudor, half-brother to Henry VI.

[300] Thomas Neville, natural son of Lord Fauconberg.