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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
It was not my intention to trouble you further on the subject of the death of Richard the Second, until it might be rendered necessary by some remarks, which Mr. Tytler, in a very courteous communication, gave me reason to expect from him, and which, I understand, are still likely to appear. But having been recently favoured by Sir Harris Nicolas with the transcript of an important record connected with that event, I will not any longer defer availing myself of his permission to lay it before the Society. It has been extracted by him from the Minutes of Henry the Fourth's Privy Council, in the British Museum, which I am glad to learn he is now editing for the press, under the authority of the Commissioners of Records.
page 394 note a The date, as Sir Henry Ellis informs me, appears to be in the hand-writing of Sir Robert Cotton. Sufficient reasons, however, have been given by Sir Harris Nicolas, for fixing it very early in the month of February 1400.
page 397 note b Since the above Paper was read to the Society, Sir Harris Nicolas has favoured me with a copy of his Preface to his yet unpublished volumes, in which I find he has remarked that thefact of Henry's seeking his son's alliance with Isabella, has not been adduced with sufficient force. On turning, however, to the Archreologia, vol. xxiii. p. 293 and 4, it will be found that I had not only cited Biondi's notice of this remarkable circumstance, but had urged it as a strong proof that Henrv knew Richard to be dead.