[249.1] See the petition printed by Halliwell in his notes to Warkworth’s Chronicle, pp. 47-51.
[249.2] See the proclamation immediately preceding the above petition in the notes to Warkworth’s Chronicle, pp. 46-7.
[249.3] No. 719.
[249.4] No. 714.
[250.1] Contin. Chron. Croyl. pp. 542, 551. There are Privy Seals dated on the 2nd August at Coventry; on the 9th, 12th, and 13th at Warwick; and on the 25th and 28th at Middleham.
[250.2] No. 736.
[250.3] At least William Worcester, in his Itinerary, p. 321, seems to indicate in very bad Latin that the siege began on the Monday before St. Bartholomew’s Day, which in 1469 would be the 21st August. Yet a very bewildering sentence just before would imply that the siege began either on the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin (15th August) or on St. Bartholomew’s Day itself (24th August), and that it lasted five weeks and three days. But we know that the castle surrendered on the 26th September, so that if the duration of the siege was five weeks and three days it must have begun on the 19th August, a different date still. William Worcester’s habit of continually jotting down memoranda in his commonplace books has been of very great service to the historian of this disordered epoch; but his memoranda reflect the character of the times in their confusion, inconsistency, and contradictions.
[251.1] Itin. W. de Worc., 325.
[251.2] No. 720.
[252.1] No. 720.