[Footnote 13.1: [From Fenn, i. 80.] There is no doubt about the
date of this letter. The King fell ill at Clarendon in the
autumn of 1453, and remained in a state of utter imbecility
during the greater part of the year 1454, so that in March a
deputation from the House of Peers, sent to communicate with him
on the death of his Chancellor, Cardinal Kemp, was obliged to
report that they had been utterly unable to obtain from him any
answer or sign that he understood the least thing said to him.
It appears from this letter that his recovery was about
Christmas, when he heard for the first time of the birth of his
son fourteen months before, and of the death of Cardinal Kemp
nine months before.]
[Footnote 13.2: Dec. 27.]
[Footnote 13.3: John Kemp, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury.]
[Footnote 13.4: William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.]
[Footnote 13.5: Robert Botyll, prior of the Order of St. John
of Jerusalem.]
[Footnote 14.1: _See_ vol. ii. p. 84, Note 2.]
[Footnote 14.2: Probably the Prior of Bromholm.]
[Footnote 14.3: _See_ p. 12, Note 3.]
[Footnote 14.4: Sir John Heveningham married Elizabeth, daughter
of Sir John Reedesham. Unless he married a second time, this
Elizabeth was now his widow.]
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