[186.3] Chron. (Davies), 85; W. Worc.
[186.4] His commission from the Pope is dated 7th January 1458[9]—Rymer, xi. 419.
[186.5] Brown’s Venetian Calendar, i. p. 91.
[187.1] Gobellinus, 161.
[187.2] The Yorkists apparently were not sparing of insinuations against the queen. It had been rumoured, according to Fabyan, that the Prince of Wales was not really the king’s son; but the worst that was insinuated was that he was a changeling. But Warwick himself, according to Gobellinus, described the situation to the nuncio as follows:—‘Rex noster stupidus est, et mente captus; regitur, non regit; apud uxorem et qui regis thalamum fœdant, imperium est.’
[187.3] See the Pope’s letter to him in Theiner, 423-4.
[187.4] ‘The lords crossed the sea on Thursday,’ writes Coppini from London on the 4th July.—Brown’s Venetian Calendar, i. 90.
[187.5] Engl. Chron. (Davies), 94.
[188.1] It appears by Letter 377 that privy seals were issued in 1459 addressed on the back to certain persons, requiring them to be with the king at Leicester on the 10th of May, each with a body of men sufficiently armed, and with provision for their own expenses for two months. One of these privy seals, signed by the king himself, was addressed specially to John Paston’s eldest son, John, who at this time could not have been more than nineteen years of age. On its arrival, his mother consulted with neighbours whether it was indispensable to obey such an injunction, and on their opinion that it was, wrote to her husband for instructions.
[189.1] The articles will be found in Holinshed, iii. 652-3; and in Davies’s Chronicle, 86-90.