The foregoing document is written on a skin of parchment docqueted with the words printed in italics at the head. The following memorandum is also endorsed— ‘xxixº die Novembris anno undecimo apud Westm. lecti fuerunt præsentes articuli coram dominis infra et subscribentibus et ad eosdem Responsiones dabantur secundum quod infra patet, præsentibus dominis infrascriptis.’ There are also other endorsements, but of a later date.
[34.2] [Add. Charter 17,228, B.M.]
[34.3] Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who died in 1439.
[34.4] This title is taken from a contemporary endorsement.
[35.1] John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, the King’s uncle, brother of the late King Henry V.
[35.2] Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England, another uncle of the King, being the youngest brother of Henry V. He was called ‘the Good Duke Humphrey.’
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DALLING’S PETITION[38.1]
1433(?)
Prefixed to this document in Fenn is the following title:— ‘A Petition to the Commons of England against Sir William Paston, Knight, a Judge of the Common Pleas, by William Dalling.’ This heading, however, has been taken from a more modern endorsement. No contemporaneous document, so far as I am aware, gives Judge Paston the designation of knight, or speaks of him as Sir William. In this petition itself he is called simply William Paston, one of the Justices; and although his name occurs frequently on the Patent Rolls, in commissions of the peace, of gaol delivery, and the like, down to the year of his death, the word ‘miles’ is never appended to it.