Humphrey Duke of Gloucester Part 13

[352] Rymer, IV. iii. 179; Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 335.

[353] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 123.

[354] _Ibid._, iv. 107.

[355] _Ibid._, iv. 107, 117.

[356] Stubbs, iii. 90. Ramsay, i. 228, thinks that money was asked for but refused. See Wake, 355.

[357] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 125.

[358] _Ibid._, iv. 124, 127, 128.

[359] London Chron., 188; Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 336; Elmham, _Vita_, 296.

[360] _Gesta_, 148.

[361] _London Chron._, 164, 165.

[362] _London Chron._, 162; Gregory, 139, calls him 'ovyr seer'; _Short English Chron._, 57, calls him 'surveour'; Fabyan calls him 'overloker' and gives a long description of the feast, 586-588; Holinshed, iii. 125, calls him overseer.

[363] _London Chron._, 162-165; _Short English Chron._, 57; Gregory, 139.

[364] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 337; Waurin, ii. 344; Elmham, _Vita_, 300-1.

[365] Elmham, _Vita_, 304; St. Remy, 454; Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 339.

[366] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 339.

[367] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 129.

[368] See above, p. 38.

[369] See Chastellain, 69. As a rule the Cods (Kabbeljan) were the citizen party, and the Hooks (those who were to catch them) consisted of n.o.bles.

[370] St. Remy, 453.

[371] For the causes of quarrel between John of Brabant and Jacqueline see Chastellain, 69.

[372] Chastellain, 69; see also Monstrelet, 497.

[373] According to another chronicler, this was Lewis Robsart 'per Lodowic.u.m Robishert voluntarie de ducta' (_Chron. Henry VI._, 6). A certain 'Lewis de Robstart' was left by Henry as his representative with Catherine between the Convention of Troyes and his marriage (St. Remy, 443). Also a certain 'Lodovico Robersart' was an executor of Henry V.'s will (_Rot. Parl._, iv. 172), and this man was also a supervisor of the Duke of Exeter's will (_Testamenta Vetusta_, i. 210).

Lewis Robsart had indented for men in the 1415 campaign (L.

T. R., _Foreign Accounts, 10 Henry V._). This almost looks as if Henry had helped to engineer the flight. On the other hand, there is a possibility that the chronicler quoted above mistook the Christian name, for in 1424 we shall find Sir John Robsart accompanying Gloucester and Jacqueline to St.

Albans (_St. Alban's Chron._, i. 8), and admitted to the confraternity of the monastery at this time (Cotton MS., Nero, D. 7, f. 147); also a Sir John Robsart was naturalised on October 20, 1423 (Rymer, IV. iv. 103). There was a John de Robsart whom we have seen serving under Gloucester in the Cotentin expedition. If this is the man who brought Jacqueline over, the inference is that Gloucester was partly responsible for her flight to England. A Sir Lewis Robsart also took part under Gloucester in the fighting before Cherbourg, so in either case the Duke's complicity seems possible.

[374] Chastellain, 70.

[375] St. Remy, 453.

[376] _Ordinances_, ii. 241.

[377] Rymer, IV. iv. 8.

[378] Chastellain, 70, 71.

[379] Waurin, ii. 356; _Ordinances_, ii. 291; Rymer, IV. iv. 34.

[380] Letters discovered at Lille seem to prove that Henry not only encouraged Jacqueline to flee to England, but also favoured her marriage with Gloucester as a help towards his policy of strengthening his position in France. See Beitrage, i. 48.

[381] Miss Putnam (_Mediaeval Princess_, p. 86) suggests that Gloucester had met Jacqueline on the way home from Dordrecht.

Leopold Devilliers in the preface to vol. iv. of _Cartulaire_, p. xxvi, says, 'Leur liaison remontait l'Epoque ou ils s'etaient vus en France pour la premiere fois,' but he does not say when this hypothetical meeting took place.

[382] Rymer, IV. iv. 24, 25.

[383] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 320. In theory three archers went to every man-at-arms, but this was often exceeded. In Henry IV.'s wars in Wales, and later in the French wars, there were often as many as four or five archers to each man-at-arms.

[384] See _Cal. of French Rolls_, Rep. 44, App. 624-635.

[385] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 320.

[386] _Cal. of French Rolls_, Rep. 44, App. 624; Rymer, IV. iv. 27.

[387] Rymer, IV. iv. 27. Miss Putnam (_Mediaeval Princess_, 89), following Loher (Beitrage, i. 48), says that Gloucester sailed on the day that his pa.s.sport was granted--a fortnight before Henry--and that this was arranged in order to remove him from the attractions of Jacqueline. There is no evidence that Gloucester sailed before Henry. Others, _e.g._ the Earl of March, got their pa.s.sports at this time, and it seems likely that they were given them merely because the embarkation was beginning.

[388] June 10. Elmham, _Vita_, 308; _Gesta_, 153; St. Remy, 445; Monstrelet, 503; Waurin, ii. 348; Chastellain, 79. The French chroniclers all give it as St. Barnabas Day, June 11.

[389] Walsingham, _Hist. Angl._, ii. 340; cf. Add. MS., 4003, quoted in Ramsay, i. 295. The French chroniclers give 4000 men-at-arms and 24,000 archers; St. Remy, 455; Chastellain, 79.

[390] Chastellain, 79.

[391] Monstrelet, 503.

[392] Chastellain, 79.

[393] Elmham, _Vita_, 309.

[394] Delpit, _Doc. Fr._, p. 231, No. CCCLXIII.; Monstrelet, 504.

[395] _Rot. Parl._, iv. 320. Gloucester's men were arrayed on July 13. _Cal. of Norman Rolls_, Rep. 42, App. 427.

[396] Chastellain, 80.

[397] Elmham, _Vita_, 311.

[398] _Rot. Scot._, ii. 228-230.

[399] Elmham, _Vita_, 310, 311; _Gesta_, 153; Chastellain, 94.