[Footnote 107.1: [From Fenn, i. 24.] This letter is assigned by
Fenn to the year 1449, but the true date is 1456, as will be
seen by the footnotes.]
[Footnote 107.2: _See_ p. 84, Note 5.]
[Footnote 107.3: Wager of law was an ancient process by which a
defendant cleared himself in an action of debt. He gave sureties
that on a certain day he would ‘make his law,’ then took oath
that he did not owe the plaintiff anything, as alleged, and
called eleven compurgators to swear they believed him.]
[Footnote 108.1: Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury,
afterwards Cardinal.]
[Footnote 108.2: William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, was
appointed Chancellor in Archbishop Bourchier’s place on the 11th
October 1456.]
[Footnote 108.3: John Talbot, second Earl. He was appointed
Treasurer on 5th October 1456.--_Patent Roll_, 35 Hen. VI., p.
1, m. 16.]
[Footnote 108.4: John Brown. --_See_ William Wyrcestre’s _Annals_
under the year 1468.]
[Footnote 108.5: Afterwards Bishop of Durham, and finally
Archbishop of York.]
[Footnote 108.6: Richard, Duke of York.]
[Footnote 108.7: Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham.]
[Footnote 108.8: The two Bourchiers, viz. Thomas Bourchier,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and Henry, Viscount Bourchier, the
former of whom had been Lord Chancellor and the latter Lord
Treasurer (_see_ Notes 1, 2, and 3 above), were the Duke of
Buckingham’s half-brothers by the mother’s side.]
[Footnote 109.1: The Court had been staying at Coventry.]
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