London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

William Cantelowe, alderman of Cripplegate and Billingsgate wards, from the latter of which he was discharged in October, 1461, on the score of old age and infirmity (Journal 6, fo. 81b). He appears in his time to have had financial dealings with the crown, on one occasion conveying money over sea for bringing Queen Margaret to England, and on another supplying gunpowder to the castle of Cherbourg, when it was in the hands of the English. He is thought by some to be identical with the William Cantelowe who afterwards (in 1464) captured Henry VI in a wood in the North of England.—"Three Fifteenth Cent. Chron." (Camd. Soc, N.S., No. 28), Preface, p. viii.

Short English Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), p. 70.

Letter Book K, fo. 287.

-Id., fo. 288b.

Cotton MS., Vitell. A, xvi, fo. 114.

Engl. Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 77.

Fabyan, Chron. (ed. 1811), p. 633; Cf. Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 139.

Journal 6, fos. 138, 138b, 139.

Engl. Chron., 1377-1461 (Camd. Soc., No. 64), p. 78; Cf. Fabyan, p. 633; Holinshed, iii, 249.

Short Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc., N.S., No. 28), p. 71; Chron. of London (Nicolas), p. 140.