I have preyed my Maister Hammond to write yow tydyngges, and smale (?)
lesynges among.
[Footnote 26.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] About the year 1425 the
question of the validity of the Duke of Gloucester’s marriage
with Jacqueline of Hainault was before the Court of Rome. This
letter must have been written in the spring of the year
following, when Parliament was sitting at Leicester. The
original is slightly mutilated at the edge in one place.]
[Footnote 27.1: Prebendary of Lincoln, 1435-9. Died 1439.]
[Footnote 27.2: Jacqueline of Hainault, whom Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, married, pretending that her former marriage with
John, Duke of Brabant, was void by consanguinity. The question
which of the two marriages was valid was at this time before the
Pope.]
[Footnote 27.3: Archbishop Chicheley.]
[Footnote 27.4: Dean of Salisbury, 1435-41. Died 1441.]
[Footnote 27.5: Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, afterwards
Cardinal.]
[Footnote 27.6: LL.D. Prebendary of Hereford about 1433, and of
Lichfield 1432-43.]
[Footnote 27.7: John Paston or Wortes, the writer of the
preceding letter.]
[Footnote 28.1: A lordship in Sprouston was acquired by John
Aslake of Bromholm in 14 Richard II., and seems to have
continued some time in that family. Blomefield notes that a
Walter Aslake, Esq. of Sprouston, had a protection in the 10th
of Henry VI., being in France in the retinue of John, Duke of
Bedford (Blomefield’s _Norfolk_, x. 462). Probably this was the
same Walter Aslak mentioned in No. 6 preceding. --_See_ p. 18.]
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