[49] It is hard to say whether the instructions for John Estrete, attributed by Mr. Gairdner to the very beginning of Henry’s reign, are by him or by Richard III. Henry would hardly have promised to make Kildare Deputy for ten years on condition of his going to Court, and the allusions to Edward IV. are more likely to have been made by Richard.—Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII., vol. i. p. 91. The three letters in the Appendix cannot be earlier than 1488.
[50] Writing to Morton or Fox, Octavian says, ‘Profano coronationis pueri in Hiberniâ sceleri, me solo excepto, nullus obstitit manifeste.’ This hardly gives due credit to the Bishop of Clogher.—Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII., vol. i. p. 383. Henry’s letter to Pius II. is at p. 94. ‘Armachanensis’ must be a mistake on the King’s part.
[51] Lambert was crowned May 2, 1487.
[52] Book of Howth, and an account in Carew (followed by Smith), iv. p. 473.
[53] Bacon; Book of Howth; O’Donovan’s Four Masters, ad ann. 1485. The battle of Stoke was fought June 16, 1487.
[54] Henry’s letter to Waterford is in Smith’s Waterford; the letter of the Dublin people in Ware’s Annals.
[55] Sir Richard Edgcombe’s voyage, in Harris’s Hibernica.
[56] Book of Howth; Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII., vol. i. p. 384.
[57] The Earls of Kildare; Harris’s Dublin; Four Masters, ad ann. 1492.
[58] Ware; Gairdner’s Life of Richard III.; Letters of Richard III. and Henry VII., ii. 55.