[55.4] Reductio Normanniæ, 254.
[56.1] Rolls of Parl. v. 147.
[57.1] Rolls of Parl. v. 143, 171. Even when the new Parliament met at Westminster on the 6th November it was obliged to adjourn to the City of London on account of the unhealthiness of the air. We must remember that Westminster was then little better than a flat muddy island, with a vast extent of marshy land and stagnant pools between Pimlico and the Thames.
[58.1] Æneæ Sylvii Epp. 80, 186.
[58.2] According to his friend, Æneas Sylvius, the mode of death inflicted on him was decapitation. (Opera, 443.)
[58.3] Rolls of Parl. v. 176.
[59.1] W. Worc. Rolls of Parl. v. 200. I find by an entry in the Controlment Roll, 30 Hen. VI., that on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1451, William Tailboys and nineteen other persons belonging to South Kyme, in Lincolnshire, were outlawed at the suit of Elizabeth, widow of John Saunderson, for the murder of her husband.
[60.1] Rolls of Parl. v. 176.
[61.1] So it is stated in the impeachment. According to the inquisition on Suffolk’s death, his son was born on the 27th September 1442, and was therefore at this time only in his eighth year.—Napier’s Historical Notices of Swyncombe and Ewelme, 108.
[61.2] Rolls of Parl. v. 179-182.