Volume Ii Part 7 (2/2)

CROMWELL.

H. GLOUCESTRE.

J. EBOR. P. ELIEN.

W. LINCOLN. J. BATHON., Canc. J. ROFFEN.

SUFFOLK. H. STAFFORD.

J. HUNTYNGTON.

The foregoing doc.u.ment is written on a skin of parchment docqueted with the words printed in italics at the head. The following memorandum is also endorsed-- 'xxix die Novembris anno undecimo apud Westm. lecti fuerunt praesentes articuli coram dominis infra et subscribentibus et ad eosdem Responsiones dabantur secundum quod infra patet, praesentibus dominis infrascriptis.' There are also other endors.e.m.e.nts, but of a later date.

[Footnote 34.2: [Add. Charter 17,228, B.M.]]

[Footnote 34.3: Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, who died in 1439.]

[Footnote 34.4: This t.i.tle is taken from a contemporary endors.e.m.e.nt.]

[Footnote 35.1: John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, the King's uncle, brother of the late King Henry V.]

[Footnote 35.2: Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England, another uncle of the King, being the youngest brother of Henry V. He was called 'the Good Duke Humphrey.']

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DALLING'S PEt.i.tION[38.1]

[Sidenote: 1433(?)]

Prefixed to this doc.u.ment in Fenn is the following t.i.tle:-- 'A Pet.i.tion to the Commons of England against Sir William Paston, Knight, a Judge of the Common Pleas, by William Dalling.' This heading, however, has been taken from a more modern endors.e.m.e.nt. No contemporaneous doc.u.ment, so far as I am aware, gives Judge Paston the designation of knight, or speaks of him as Sir William. In this pet.i.tion itself he is called simply William Paston, one of the Justices; and although his name occurs frequently on the Patent Rolls, in commissions of the peace, of gaol delivery, and the like, down to the year of his death, the word 'miles' is never appended to it.

The original commencement of this doc.u.ment has been crossed out. It was in these words:--

Plesit to the righte sage and wyse Communes of this present Parlement, that wher every Justice of the Kyng is sworne that he shulde not take no fees ne reward for to be of councell with noo man, but oonly wyth our Soverayne Lorde the Kyng, and therto thei be swore. And ther is oon Will' Paston, one of the Justice of our Soverayne Lorde in the Comene Place, taketh fees and rewarde.

On the back of the original doc.u.ment is written, in a hand of the time, 'Falsa billa Will'i Dalling, ad Parliamentum tempore quo Henr.

Grey fuit vicecomes ante annum terciodecimum Regis Henr. vj^{ti}.'

Henry Grey was sheriff of Norfolk in 1430, and again in 1433-4. The Parliament referred to must either have been that of 8 Hen. VI.

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