Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . iquary and historian, and diedat the council of Basil in 1434. William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was, in 1443,made Marquis, and in 1448 created Duke of was prime minister to Henry VI, and the favour-ite of his queen. Being banished to appease thenational discontent i
Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . iquary and historian, and diedat the council of Basil in 1434. William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was, in 1443,made Marquis, and in 1448 created Duke of was prime minister to Henry VI, and the favour-ite of his queen. Being banished to appease thenational discontent in 1450, he was taken on the sea,and beheaded trial. s Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford, and in 1444Duke of Buckingham, was killed at the battle ofNorthampton in 1460, where he jointly commandedthe royal army with the Duke of Somerset. He wasby his mother great-grandson to Edward III. 9 John Holland restored as Earl of Huntington,in 1416, was afterwards created Duke of Exeter. Hewas Admiral of England, and Constable of the Towerof London. He died in 1447, and was buried in Churcli, near the Tower, As a specimen of the whole, a fac-simile of the con-clusion of these articles, with all the autogi-aphsplaced as they are subscribed to the original parch-ment, is given below. XXIV INTHODUCTION. On the back of this petition, in a hand of the time, is written Falsa Billa Willi Balling tra pliamenttempe pr. Henr. Grey feiodecimo Regis Henr. vjii. By this endorfement the bill appears to have beendeclared a false one, and the petition rejected; it may therefore be supposed that the accusations were ill-grounded. The reason for the charge might be this, that when Sir William was an acting lawyer hereceived general retaining fees from corporations, religious societies, and persons of consequence, to betheir standing counsel, and which possibly might he continued to him after he became a judge, as a markof their respect and as a reward for the good se
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