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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
On the brow of a hill situate about a mile to the north of the market town of Newbury in Berkshire stand the picturesque ruins of Donnington Castle. The castle derives its name from the little village of Donnington, which is linked with the adjoining hamlet of Shaw in the parochial designation of Shaw-cum-Donnington—a rural district, divided from the parish of Speen by the tiny river Lamborne, which, to use the quaint expression of Sylvester,
in haste doth run
To wash the feet of Chaucer's Donnington.
page 459 note a Du Bartas's Works and Weeks, Third Day of the Week, Sylvester's Trans, p. 24.
page 459 note b 9 Rich. II. Cal. Rot. Pat. 213.
page 459 note c Grose's Antiquities of Berkshire, p. 5.
page 459 note d 20 Edward I. Cal. Rot. Chart, p. 122.
page 460 note a , Grose, ut supra, p. 8Google Scholar.
page 460 note b Camd. Britan. i. 216.
page 460 note c 11, 12, and 13 Rich. II. Cal. Rot. Chart, p. 191.
page 460 note d Johannes de Lovell, Ricūs le Scrop et Ricus Abberbury a conciliis Regis. 14 Rich. II. Cal. Rot. Pat. 221. Also Holinshed, edit. 1807, ii. 793.
page 460 note e 16 Rich. II. Cal. Rot. Pat. p. 226.
page 460 note f Nichols's Royal Wills, p. 159.
page 461 note a Godwin's English Archæologist's Handbook, p. 259.
page 461 note b Ashmole's Antiquities of Berkshire, vol. ii. 285.
page 461 note c Evelyn's Forest Trees, fol. London 1664, p. 83.
page 462 note a Lives of Eminent Men, &c, by John Aubrey, ii. 284.
page 462 note b Poems off Chaucer, Aldine edit. i. 81-2.
page 463 note a See transcripts from the Issue Roll of grants of Chaucer's Pension in Notes to Sir Harris Nicolas's accurate and valuable Life of Chaucer prefixed to the Aldine edition of the poet's works, i. 120–137.
page 463 note b Godwin's Life of Chaucer, ii. 523.
page 464 note a See this fine fully set out in the Appendix.
page 464 note b Mr. Furnival impugns the relationship between Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Chaucer (Notes and Queries, vol. ix. 381–3.) Sir Harris Nicolas, however, after discussing the question very dispassionately, deems the traditional belief to be well founded (see his Life of Chaucer before referred to, pp. 60 and 96).
page 464 note c Sir H. Nicolas's Life of Chaucer, ut supra, pp. 108–112, and Fuller's Worthies, List of Sheriffs of Berks and Oxon.
page 465 note a Godwin, indeed, in his Life of Chaucer, ii. 523, supposes that the Queen to whom one of the oaks was dedicated was Ann of Bohemia, but as her demise took place on the 7th of June 1394 this supposition falls to the ground, and brings down some large fragments of hypothesis with it.
page 466 note a Lysons's Berkshire, i. 227, 282.
page 466 note b Froissart's Chronicles, ch. cxxi.
page 466 note c Archæologia, xxxiv. 42.
page 466 note d 3 Henry V. No. 2.
page 466 note e Sir Harris Nicolas's History of the Orders of British Knighthood, i. 59.
page 466 note f Inquisitio post mortem 3 Henry V. No. 42.
page 466 note g Historic Peerage, p. 418.
page 466 note h The dates of the subsequent part of this narrative are taken generally from the Chronological Index to Knight's History of England, compiled by H. C. Hamilton, Esq., of Her Majesty's State Paper Office.
page 467 note a Camden's Eemains, p. 208.
page 467 note b Leland's Itinerary, ii. 33 (Hearne's edit.)
page 467 note c See the Inquisitions on their respective deaths set forth by Sir H. Nicolas in his Life of Chaucer, p. 141.
page 469 note a English Chronicle of the Eeigns of Eichard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., written before the year 1471, published by the Camden Society, pp. 62, 63.
page 469 note b This petition is set forth in the Paston Letters, edited by Gairdner, i. 99. (Arber's reprints.)
page 470 note a English Chronicle of the Keigns of Richard II., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., written before the year 1471, published by the Camden Society, pp. 68, 69.
page 470 note b Drayton's Poems, fol. ed. pp. 140, 141.
page 470 note c Latimer, who was the great exponent of the popular feeling, more deeply steeped in anti-prelacy, lays the chief blame upon Cardinal Beaufort: “There was a byshop of Winchester in King Henry the VI. days. Thys bishop was a great man borne, and did beare such a stroke that he was able to shoulder the Lorde Protector. Well, it chaunced yat the Lorde Protectoure and he fell out, and the byshoppe would beare nothying at all with him but played me the Satrapas so that the Eegente of Fraunce was fain to be sent for from beyond the seas to set them at one and to go betwene them. For the bysshoppe was so able and readye to buccle with the Lord Protectoure as he was with him. * * * * This Protectoure was so noble and godly a man that he was called of everye man the good duke Humfrey. * * * * Upon thys the bishop (who was made Cardinall at Calise—these Romish hats never broughte good into Eng-lande) goeth me to the quene Katherin [Margaret] the kinges wife—a proude woman and a stout, and perswaded her that if the Duke were in such authority styl, and lived, ye people wold honor him more then they did the king and ye kyng should not be set by, and so between them, I cannot tell how it came to pas, but at S. Edmundesbury in a parliament the good Duke Humfrey was smothered.—Latymer's II. Sermon before Kyng Edward VI. p. 23, 15 March, 1549.
page 471 note a Paston Letters, No. 91, i. 121 (Arber's edition).
page 471 note b William Lonmer's Letter to John Paston, dated 5th May, 1450, which thus commences:.—“Ryght worchipfull Sir, I recomaund mee to yow, and am right sory of that I shalle sey, and have soo wesshe this litel bille with sorwfulle terys, that on ethes ye shalle reede it.”—The Paston Letters, No. 93, i. 124 (Arber's edition).
page 471 note c Nicolas's Historic Peerage, p. 459 n.
page 471 note d An engraving of the splendid tomb of Alice Duchess of Suffolk is given in Gough's Sepulchral Monuments.
page 472 note a Lord Bacon's Henry VII. sub anno. Historic Peerage, ut supra.
page 472 note b Diary of Kichard Symonds (published by the Camden Society), p. 143.
page 473 note a 37 Henry VIII. c. 18.
page 473 note b Edward VI.'s Diary, published in the Appendix to Burnet's History of the Eeformation.
page 473 note c See Eoyal Grant, 24th April, 5 Edward VI. Eot. Pat.
page 473 note d Miss Aikin's Life of Queen Elizabeth, i. 138.
page 473 note e Nichols's Progresses, i. 254.
page 474 note a Rot. Pat. 42 Elizabeth, pt. 19, m. 32.
page 474 note b Dugd. Monast. Angl., vi. pt. 2, pp. 753, 754 (edition 1830)
page 474 note c Symonds's Diary, p. 143 n. and 152.
page 475 note a Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, lib. vii. s. 207 et seq., ii. 178 (Oxf. edition); and Lysons's Berkshire, i. 356, 357.
page 475 note b For the subsequent narrative the principal authorities are Symonds's Diary, 142–149, and Clarendon, lib. viii. s. 150–164.
page 477 note a Symonds, p. 142–161.