[[7]] 'As I myself, who wrote this pamphlet, truly know.' This is not in Rastell's version; but in the continuation of Hardyng's Chronicle.
[[8]] Speaking of Polydore Virgil in his Life of Henry VIII. (p. 9), Lord Herbert of Cherbury adds: 'in whom I have observed not a little malignity.' The story of Cardinal Wolsey's ingratitude to Fox owes its parentage to the spite of Polydore Virgil; whom Wolsey imprisoned. It was quite untrue.—Brewer.
[[9]] 'Polydore Virgil committed as many of our ancient manuscript volumes to the flames as would have filled a waggon, that the faults of his own work might pass undiscovered.'—Caius, De Antiquitate Cantabrigiæ (1574), p. 52.
'Polydore caused all the histories to be burnt which by the King's authority and the assistance of his friends he could possibly come at.'—La Poplinière, Histoire des Histoires, ix. 485.
[[10]] The Act of Parliament explaining the title of Richard III. to the crown.
[[11]] Mr. Campbell's Introduction to the Materials for the History of the Reign of Henry VII.
[[12]] Rous was one of the Chantry Priests at Guy's Cliff. He died in 1491, and was buried at St. Mary's, Warwick.
[[13]] One proof of this is that he calls Lord Stanley the Earl of Derby. He was created Earl of Derby by Henry VII.
[[14]] Rerum Anglicarum scriptorum veterum. Tom. i. (Oxoniæ, 1684.)
[[15]] Alia Hist. Croylandensis continuatio, pp. 549-578.