1415: Henry V's Year of Glory (97 page)

4.
Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, p. 517.

5.
Nicolas (ed.),
Testamenta Vetusta
, i, pp. 189–90.

6.
Spinka (ed.),
Letters
, p. 206.

7.
Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, pp. 517–19. Also today Henry renewed his licence for the chapter of Chichester Cathedral to elect a new bishop. He probably suggested they elect his humble nominee, Stephen Patrington, at the same time. See
CPR
, p. 338.

8.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 489.

9.
Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, p. 519.

10.
CCR
, p. 215 (dated Winchester). The ports were Sandwich, Lynn, Melcombe, Southampton, Great Yarmouth, Chichester, Plymouth, Fowey, Bristol, Bridgewater, St Botolph’s town (Boston), Kingston upon Hull, Newcastle upon Tyne, Dover and Dartmouth.

11.
Loomis (ed.),
Constance
, pp. 253–5.

12.
The other lords named were the bishops of Norwich and Chester, the duke of York and the earls of Huntingdon and March. Note that there was no bishop of Chester in 1415; however, Langley was almost certainly there, as he had led previous embassies to France, and had greeted the ambassadors on their arrival.

13.
Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, pp. 519–21. The French text, which I have otherwise used here, states that the archbishop referred to ‘your two kingdoms’ which seems most unlikely; the Latin ‘both kingdoms’ is original and to be preferred.

14.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, pp. 502–3.

15.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 416.

16.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, pp. 503–4.

17.
CPR
, pp. 301–2 (York), 341 (murder), 407 (shipbuilding). The ship was probably not the famous
Grace Dieu
, the largest ship of the middle ages, as this was commissioned the following year from William Soper.

18.
CPR
, p. 342. This commisison was actually dated Portchester; but given the distance from Winchester to Portchester (18 miles), it is unlikely that Henry himself rode to and from the castle before the morning.

19.
Spinka,
John Hus at the Council of Constance
,
pp. 224–5.

20.
Hus’s last letters appear in Spinka (ed.),
Letters of John Hus
, pp. 207–11.

21.
The account of Hus’s death is taken from Spinka,
John Hus at the Council of Constance
, pp. 225–34, and Loomis (ed.),
Constance
, pp. 133–4.

22.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, pp. 504–5. Note the claim made by two others of the embassy that this was not Fusoris’s first meeting with the king, he having spent two hours with him the previous afternoon. Fusoris denied this. See p. 505, n. 6.

23.
Most of this passage comes from Wylie but this specific point is in Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, p. 525.

24.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, pp. 505–6.

25.
Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, pp. 522–5.

26.
Johnes (ed.),
Monstrelet
, i, pp. 329–30.

27.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 60.

28.
Loomis (ed.),
Constance
, pp. 256–7.

29.
Kirby (ed.),
Signet Letters
, p. 197 (Bordeaux);
CPR
, p. 348 (Fife).

30.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 511.

31.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 507.

32.
Gesta
, p. 17; Wylie,
Henry V
, i p. 512.

33.
CCR
, pp. 206 (Calais), 216 (
Trinity Royal
), 219 (Venetians).

34.
CCR
, pp. 216 (sergeants), 223 (Wakeryng), 225 (Bordiu), 232 (Rochford).

35.
CPR
, p. 351 (both Loddyngton and crown).

36.
Kirby,
Signet Letters
, p. 161.

37.
Nicolas,
Agincourt
, appendix, p. 66.

38.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 498.

39.
Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 126.

40.
CCR
, pp. 277–8.

41.
Loomis (ed.),
Constance
, pp. 55, 258.

42.
See Gray’s letter of confession in Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 161–3, and Scrope’s letter,
ibid
. p. 169. For the relationship between Lucy and Gray, see
ibid
. p. 187. Gray later claimed that Scrope and Arundel had both agreed to support the earl of March three years earlier; but this was probably an attempt to spite Arundel when Gray was facing trial, as Arundel was one of the king’s closest friends and his loyalty was never in doubt.

43.
Foedera
, ix, p. 287.

44.
Perfect King
, p. 283. The petition is SC 8/332/15711.

45.
CPR
, p. 359.

46.
This is Hamulton as transcribed by Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 163. The confession states that Gray came there that day. But he woke up at Southampton, so had reached Southampton on the night of the 20th and it was at Southampton that Cambridge and Gray plotted together (
ibid
., p. 182).

47.
Testamenta Vetusta
, i, p. 192.

48.
Their commissions were drawn up on the 25th, and their instructions on the 28th. See
Foedera
, ix, pp. 293–7.

49.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 94.

50.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 164.

51.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 169.

52.
John Wakeryng, keeper of the privy seal, was probably at Waltham with the chancellor (
CPR
, p. 350).

53.
CCR
, p. 224. Thomas was Henry Beaufort’s stepfather and guardian as well as his cousin.

54.
CPR
, p. 350. As with many of the other similar grants being made at this time, Henry stated that if the money was not repaid within the year, the recipients might dispose of the tabernacle as they saw fit, provided they give the king a month’s notice.

55.
CPR
, p. 356.

56.
Barker,
Agincourt
, p. 77; Wylie,
Henry V
, i, pp. 520–1.

57.
Monstrelet
, i, p. 331.

58.
Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 77.

59.
CCR
, p. 278 dates this to 24 June.
Foedera
, ix, p. 289 dates it to 24 July, not 24 June; Curry in
Agincourt
, p. 74, follows the July dating. I presume
the July date is more likely to be correct, as men were not mustering in June and so were not likely to have need to complain of molestation.

60.
Foedera
, ix, p. 288.

61.
CPR
, p. 358. Also today Henry dictated a signet letter to the keeper of the privy seal telling him to draw up a licence for the convent of St John the Baptist, Godstow, to elect a new abbess. See Kirby,
Signet Letters
, p. 161.

62.
CPR
, p. 328.

63.
Otway-Ruthven,
Medieval Ireland
, pp. 348–9.

64.
Henry’s first will, in Latin, appears in
Foedera
, ix, pp. 289–93. His second, in English, is in Nichols (ed.),
Royal Wills
, pp. 236–43. The apparent antipathy to Thomas is strengthened in this second will, of 1417, in which he bequeathed the duchy of Lancaster to be divided between his two younger brothers, missing out Thomas entirely. For Henry’s third will, see P. and F. Strong, ‘The Last Will and Codicils of Henry V’,
EHR
, xcvi, pp. 79–102.

65.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 164–5.

66.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 169–70.

67.
Fears
, pp. 206–7.

68.
See Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 172–3. Cambridge admitted Scrope knew nothing of the cry of usurper, nor of the plan to give battle with men of the north.

69.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 493.

70.
Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 80. Other royal business conducted today includes Henry’s grant of permission for Janico Dartasso to reside in England for life and to continue to receive the annuities granted him there by the king and his father and Richard II, regardless of any laws requiring him to live in Ireland if he enjoyed an income from those parts. A similar grant was made on Henry’s orders to the Irishman, Philip Natervyle. See
CPR
, p. 356. Today also Henry waived any royal rights in the advowson of a Norfolk church so that Thomas Beaufort could grant it in its entirety to the priory of St Cross and St Mary, Wormingay, to endow a vicar to pray for his soul (
CPR
, p. 349).

71.
Vaughan,
John the Fearless
, p. 212.

72.
CPR
, p. 344; Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 76.

73.
S&I
, p. 443.

74.
Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 80.

75.
The original is printed in Bellaguet (ed.),
Chronique du Religieux
, v, pp. 526–30. See also Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 493; Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 51; Nicolas,
Agincourt
, appendix pp. 5. The last is a very erratic translation. The same letter appears dated 5 August in Waurin, pp. 179–80 and Monstrelet, i, pp. 331–2.

76.
CPR
, p. 353.

77.
Foedera
, ix, p. 297.

78.
Foedera
, ix, p. 298.

79.
Kirby,
Signet Letters
, p. 161;
CPR
, pp. 356–7.

80.
CPR
, p. 358. The trustees were Thomas Beaufort, Lord Fitzhugh, Sir John Rothenhale, and Robert Morton.

81.
CCR
, p. 223. The names were John Yate corviser, John Snowhite corviser, and Christopher Horylade of Derby, all of whom had been arrested in the Southampton area.

82.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 165.

83.
Wylie,
Henry V
, ii, pp. 97–8.

84.
Vaughan,
John the Fearless
, p. 204; Barker,
Agincourt
, p. 59; Curry,
Agincourt
, p. 109; Wylie,
Henry V
, ii, pp. 99–100.

85.
Johnes (ed.),
Monstrelet
, i, p. 332.

86.
EHD, p
. 210; Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 157;
Chronica Maiora
, pp. 404–5.

87.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, p. 170

88.
Issues
, p. 342.

89.
Wylie,
Henry V
, i, p. 530.

90.
PROME
, 1415 November, item 9;
CPR
, p. 409. The lords were the Earl Marshal and the earls of
Salisbury, Suffolk and Oxford, Lord Zouche, Lord Camoys, Lord Fitzhugh and Sir Thomas Erpingham. The justices were William Lasingby and Robert Hull.

August

1.
Hutton,
Rise and Fall
, p. 44.

2.
Mortimer, ‘Richard II and the Succession to the Throne’, pp. 333–4.

3.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 167–71.

4.
The first version appears in Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 166–7; the second on pp. 172–3.

5.
Pugh,
Southampton Plot
, pp. 166–7, 172–3.

6.
CPR
, p. 331 (Grawe);
CPR
, p. 365 (More); C 53/185, nos 10 & 11 (Joan). Those mentioned as witnesses were ‘Henry, archbishop of Canterbury; our very dear uncle, the bishop of Winchester, our chancellor; Thomas bishop of Durham; Richard bishop of Norwich; Thomas duke of Clarence, John duke of Bedford, and Humphrey duke of Gloucester our very dear brothers; Edward our very dear kinsman, duke of York; Edmund earl of March; Thomas earl of Arundel our treasurer; and Richard earl of Warwick our very dear kinsman, Sir Henry Fitzhugh our chamberlain; Sir Thomas Erpingham, our steward of the household; and John Wakeryng keeper of the privy seal’. Note, Erpingham had been replaced as steward on 24 July, so this grant must have originally been made and witnessed before then, and was simply engrossed or sealed today.