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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2010
page vi note a At fol. 107 commences a catalogue of “Certaine thinges that passe by the kynges signet from the iiijth day of Jullye the furst yere of Kynge Rycarde iijd.”
page vi note b Edward the Fifth was born on the feast of All Souls the 2d Nov. 1470, in the sanctuary at Westminster, the king his father being then in Flanders. (See communications from Sir Frederic Madden and Mr. W. H. Black in the Gentleman's Magazine for June and Sept. 1832, in correction of various misstatements on this point.) He was consequently in his 13th year at the period of his father's death. He was created Prince of Wales upon the 26th July, 1471, and the ceremony of his investiture is in the MS. Cotton. Vespasian, C. x.f. 217. In the same month an oath was taken by his uncle the duke of Gloucester and other lords assembled in parliament to accept him, if he survived his father, “as true, veray, and righteous king of England.”
page vi note c Ryvers had filled this office from the prince's childhood, having received the appointment when the prince's household was first set up, on the 27th Sept. 1473. The king's directions for the prince's education, addressed on that occasion to carl Ryvers and the bishop of Rochester, are printed in the Collection of Household Ordinances, published by the Society of Antiquaries 1790, 4to. p. 27*, and again more fully in Halliwell's Letters of the Kings of England, vol. i. p. 136. (Mr. Halliwell there gives the name of Russell to the bishop, but the prince's preceptor was Russell's predecessor in the see of Rochester—Alcock, afterwards bishop of Worcester, and president of the prince's council.) So far as the accomplishments of learning went, the prince is supposed to have done credit to his instructors. Rous describes him as of “mirabilis ingenii, et in literatura pro tempore suo optimè expeditus.” Sir Thomas More says of both the brothers, that they “had as many gifts of nature, as many princely virtues, and as much goodly towardness, as their age could receive.”
The following particulars of the constitution of the prince of Wales's officers are not generally known, and will be found corrective of much confusion which has arisen on the subject. They are derived from the MS. Sloane 3479, which is an enlarged copy of Sir John Doddridge's History of the Principality of Wales. On the 26th June, 1471, when the prince was nine months old, he was by charter created Prince of Wales; and the king, by letters patent, dated on the 8th July following, ordained the queen, the archbishop of Canterbury, George duke of Clarence, Richard duke of Gloucester, Robert Stillington the bishop of Bath and Wells (and chancellor), Lawrence Booth bishop of Durham, Anthony earl Ryvers, the abbat of Westminster (Thomas Millyng) chancellor t o the prince, William Hastings knight lord chamberlain to the king, Richard Fynes lord Dacres steward to the said prince, John Fogge, John Scotte, knights, Thomas Vaughan chamberlain to the prince, John Alcock and Richard Forster to be of council unto the said prince, giving unto them, and every four of them, with the advice and express consent of the queen, large power to advise and counsel the said prince, and the nomination of his officers when they should happen to become void or that the parties were insufficient, the said authority to continue until the prince should accomplish his age of 14 years.
By another charter in English bearing date 10 Nov. anno regni sui 13, (1473) earl Ryvers was appointed governor of the person of the prince, and to have the education and the instruction of him, in all virtues worthy his birth, and to have the government and direction of his servants.
On the 25th Feb. 1482–3, the king addressed to the council of the prince of Wales a code of “ordynances concerning our said sonnes person,” and in the prefatory letter thereto those persons are thus enumerated: “Edward by the grace of God king of England and Fraunce, and lord of Irelande, To the right reverend ffaders in God the bisshop of Worcestre [John Alcock] president of the conseil of our dearest first-begottyn sonne Edward prince of Wales, due of Cornewail, erle of Chester, Marche, and Pembroke ; the bisshop of Saint Davies [Richard Martin] his chauncellor; our right entierlie beloved Richard Greyc knight his counseillour, sonne to our derrest wief the Quene; Antonye erle Revieres hir brother and Governour to our said sonne; Sir Thomas Vaghan knighte his chamberlayne; sir William Stanley knight, stuard of his hous-hould; Sir Richard Crofte knight his tresourer; and Richard Hunt (lege Haute) squier countroller of his houshold.” MS. Sloane 3479, f. 53 b ; where the ordinances follow, being the same as printed by Mr. Halliwell, but with several additional articles. The time of the prince's retirement to bed was altered from 8 o'clock to 9.
page viii note page a Chron. Croyland. continuatio.
page viii note page b See pp. 1–3, 5, 11, 15, 18.
page ix note page note a Sir Thomas Fulford was son of sir Baldwin, a celebrated Lancastrian captain, beheaded at Bristol in 1461. In 1471, after taking sanctuary at Westminster, he escaped thence, and having been met by a fellowship of three score men, which afterwards increased to one or two hundred, he went down into Devonshire, “and there he hath stricken off sir John Crocker's head, and killed another of the Courtenays, as men say.” (Letters of sir John Paston, 15th and 29th Sept. 1471.) He was therefore a man well prepared for any daring enterprise.
page ix note page b Page 2.
page ix note page c Page 3.
page ix note page d Page 1.
page ix note page e Page 2.
page ix note page f “In whiche fore sayd passe tyme the niarquys of Dorset, broder unto quene Elizabeth, that before was fled, escapyd many wonderfull daungers, both aboute London, Ely, and other places, whereof to wryte the maner and circumstaunce wolde aske a longe and great leysour.” So writes Fabyan: whether any narrative of the marquess's adventures is preserved I have not discovered. He is said to have taken sanctuary: possibly that was at Ely. At the time of the duke of Buckingham's insurrection Holinshed states that “Thomas marques Dorset came out of sanctuarie, where since the beginning of king Richard's daies he had continued, whose life by the onelie helpe of sir Thomas Lovell was preserved from all danger and perill in the troublous world,” and “gathered togither a great band of men in Yorkeshire.” After that rising he probably fled with the other disaffected nobles to the court of Britany. King Richard offered for his apprehension (among others) 1000 marks in money or 100l. land. (Foedera, xii. 204).
page x note page a Sir Edward Wydeville had shared in the prosperity of his family. In 1474 he was one of the challengers in the jousts held at the creation of Richard duke of York; and in Feb. 1479 he was proposed as a candidate for the order of the Garter by the duke of Suffolk. In the same year he was made keeper of Portchester castle. In 1480 sir Edward Wydeville and sir James Radcliffe, “knyghtes for the body of oure souverain lorde the kyng,” conducted the duchess of Burgundy across the seas when she came to visit her brother (Nicolas, Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV. p. 165). In 1483 he was with the bishop of Rochester ambassador or commissioner to negociate a marriage between his brother Anthony earl Ryvers and the princess Margaret of Scotland (Rymer, xii. 171). The earl left him by his will such lands as had belonged to the lady Scales his first wife. In the proclamation issued by king Richard III. shortly before the landing of the earl of Richmond, the name of sir Edward Wodevile accompanies those of Piers bishop of Exeter, Jasper earl of Pembroke, and John earl of Oxford, who had taken themselves to the obeisance of the duke of Britany. On the accession of Henry VII. he was appointed governor of the Isle of Wight, and that office he retained until his death. He was slain at St. Albin in Britany in July 1488, having been in the same year elected a knight of the Garter, but not installed. Hall characterises him as “a valiant captain and a bold champion.” (Chronicle, edit. 1809, p. 439.) He died without issue. Dugdale, in his Baronage, vol. ii. p. 231, has attributed part of the history of sir Edward Wydeville to an imaginary uncle of the same name; and he is followed in this division of sir Edward into two persons by Mr. Baker in his pedigree of Wydeville, Hist, of Northamptonshire, ii. 166. That pedigree, it may be remarked, is not only confused in some of its earlier generations (see the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. i. p. 160), but must be further incorrect in making Anthony earl Ryvers leave a widow, afterwards remarried to sir John Neville, a natural son of an earl of Westmerland. The lady in question,—Mary, daughter and heir of sir Henry FitzLewes, is mentioned by Dugdale (Baronage, ii. 233) as a wife of the earl; but very shortly before his death he was contemplating the ambitious alliance with a princess of Scot-and which is alluded to in the earlier part of the present note.
page xi note a In his poem on the History of Richard the Third, published in 1845, Mr. Turner states that he had then devoted his attention to the history of this period for fifty-three years.
page xi note b See “Extracts from the Municipal Records of the City of York, during the Reigns of Edward IV., Edward V. and Richard III. 1843.” 8vo.
page xii note a This remark is made upon the presumption of the trut h of the old charge against Hastings, that he was cognizant of the intended execution of Ryvers and Grey: but perhaps it may be said that no proof of the lord chamberlain's guilt in that respect has been ascertained, and that the length of time which Ryvers is now known to have survived Hastings (as noticed in p. xv.) tends to exculpate the latter.
page xii note page b History of England during the Middle Ages, Third Edition, 1830, vol. iii. p. 388.
page xiii note a Rot. Parl. vi. 240.
page xiii note b The writ addressed to the archbishop of Canterbury is preserved in his register at Lambeth, and is printed in Nichols's Royal and Noble Wills, 4to. 1780, p. 347. The city of York received a writ for the same day, and, contrary t o all former precedent, it was required to send four citizens instead of two: Davies's York Records, p. 146.
page xiii note c Rot. Pat. Edw. V. in dorso.
page xiv note a Rot. Pat. Edw. V. in dorso.
page xiv note b Mr. Sharon Turner imagined that the duke of Gloucester deprived lord Hastings of the office of lord chamberlain, and was himself appointed to it: and remarks, “The loss of this dignity may have combined, with Buckingham's superior favour, to incline Hastings to unite himself with the party of the queen.” But this is altogether a mistake, and a confusion of two offices. Gloucester was already, and had been for some years, great chamberlain of England: Hastings was chamberlain of the king's household. Had be been required by the new monarch to surrender that office, it would probably have been to make way for sir Thomas Vaughan.
page xiv note c It remains in the Pictorial History of England, published in 1839, vol. ii. p. 121, though corrected by Mr. Sharon Turner in 1823, first edit. iii. 464.
page xv note a In the Excerpta Historica, 1831, will be found very interesting memorials of the career of lord Ryvers, collected by the late sir Harris Nicolas.
page xv note b In the notes to the Poems of Lewis Glyn Cothi, printed for the Cymmrodorion, or Royal Cambrian Institution, in 1837,8vo. the editor the Rev. John Jones, M.A. of Christchurch, Oxford, (Tegid,) at pp. xxviii. 44, and in a pedigree, identifies sir Thomas Vaughan with the son and heir of sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, co. Brecon, by Cecily, daughter of Thomas ab Phylip Vychan, heiress of Talgarth, in the same county; but Jones, in his History of Brecknockshire, vol. iii. p. 506, and Sir Samuel R. Meyrick, in his notes to Lewis Dwnn's Visitations of Wales, printed for the Welsh MSS. Society, 1846, 4to. vol. i. pp. 42, 106, state the chamberlain of the prince of Wales to have been the youngest illegitimate son of sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, by an illegitimate daughter of a prior of the monastery of Abergavenny, called Prior coch, or the redheaded ; and add that he was the father of Henry Vaughan, whose son Thomas relinquished the name, and, calling himself ap Harry, or Parry, became comptroller of the household to queen Elizabeth, and master of the court of wards and liveries. (See Lodge's Illustrations of British History, i. 302.) This latter account is probably to be preferred; and in that case we may consider the courtier to be the same Thomas Vaughan, an esquire for the king's body, who, having married Alianor, the widow of sir Thomas Browne, under-treasurer of the household to Henry VI. enjoyed in 1464 lands which had belonged to his wife's late husband in the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and London. (Rot. Parl. v. 534.) This Alianor was the daughter and coheir of sir Thomas Arundel of Bechworth, Surrey, brother to John lord Maltravers, and was, through her eldest son, the progenitrix of the Brownes of Bechworth, baronets, and through her third, sir Anthony, of the viscounts Montagu (see the Topographer and Genealogist, 1853, vol. ii. pp. 318, 335, 337). On the 4th Feb. 1470, Thomas Vaughan esquire, treasurer of the king's chamber, was one ofthe commissioners sent to deliver the garter to Charles duke of Burgundy. (Rymer, xi. 651.) In 1471 he was appointed chamberlain to the prince, and in Sept. 1472, at Windsor, he carried the royal child (being then 22 months old) to welcome Louis de Bruges seigneur dela Gruthuyse. (Archasologia, xxvi. 277.) In 1478 William Herbert second earl of Pembroke appointed him his attorney-general. (Notes to Lewis Glyn Cothi, p. 44.) There is still standing in Westminster abbey, in the chapel of St. Paul, a monument to the memory of sir Thomas Vaughan, consisting of a recessed canopy, and a table-tomb within it, with space at its west end for a chantry priest. The slab was inlaid with brass plates : and the inscription, which is imperfect in Dart and the more recent histories of Westminster abbey, is thus given in Camden's Reges, Reginæ, Nobiles, et alii in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterii sepulti. 1606. 4to. p. 60:—
In capella Sancti Pauli.
In obitum Thomæ Vaughan militis.
Orate pro anima Thomas Vaughan Militis quondam Camerarii et Thesaurarii Cameræ Edwardi Quarti ac Camerarii Principis primogeniti dicti Regis, requiescat in pace. [Amen.]
Aymer & a tander.
The brass effigy remains, excepting the knight's feet : with one of the two shields of arms ; this is charged with, Quarterly : 1 and 4, a saltire ; 2 and 3, three fleurs-de-lis, over all a bend engrailed. Six scrolls at the sides, which probably contained the motto given by Camden, are all gone. The inscription, which ran round the verge, in its remaining portion has between each word alternately a rose and a sun, but the knight does not wear the livery collar of his royal master. See an engraving in G. P. Harding's Antiquities in Westminster Abbey, 1825, PI. IX.
page xvi note a The arrest of sir Richard Haute, or “Hawte,” is mentioned by Fabyan, and by Speed. He is not named by the Croyland chronicler or by Rous, by Holinshed or Stowe, by Hume or Sharon Turner. Sir T. More converted his name into Hawse, and is followed by Rapin, Henry, Lingard, and the Pictorial History of England. Miss Halsted has changed it both into Hurst and Croft (vol. ii. pp. 54, 55, 73, confusing him with his predecessor in office Sir Richard Croft, mentioned in p. viii. ante). Sir Richard Haute's identity is satisfactorily determined by the Visitation of Kent, where he is distinguished in the family pedigree as “securi percussus castello Pontefracti 1 Edw. 5, jussu regis Richardi 3.” He was the son of William Haute of Bishopsbourn or Hautsbourn esquire, by Jane (called in the Visitation Matilda), daughter of Richard Wydeville esquire, soror Richardi comitis de Ripariis, ac amita Elizabethæ reginæ, spouses regis Edwardi quarti. (MS. Harl. 1431, fol. 4.) The marriage settlement of his father and mother is preserved among the Harleian charters, and has been published in the Excerpta Historica, 1831, p. 249: and therein his mother's name appears as “Jah'n doughter of Richart Wydeville esquyere of the counte of Kent,” and his father as “William Haute esquyer of the said counte.” It is dated on the 18th July, 7 Hen. VI. 1429, and the marriage was to take place at Calais; where sir Richard Wydeville, the lady's brother, afterwards the first earl Ryvers, was then lieutenant. In 1482 Richard Haute esquire was comptroller of the household of the prince (see before, p. viii.); but before the death of Edward the Fourth he had been knighted, and apparently advanced to the post of treasurer, then vacated by sir Richard Croft, who afterwards had an annuity of 20 marks granted him by Richard III. (MS. Harl. 433, art. 665.) Sir Richard Haute is twice mentioned in the will of his cousin Anthony earl Ryvers, first in reference to some evidences in his possession, and secondly as one of his proposed executors. (Excerpta Hist. pp. 247, 248.) He married the widow of Robert Darcy esquire, by birth a Tyrrell, and had issue. (Visitation.) Richard Haute esquire of Ightham in Kent was attainted 1 Ric. III. and his attainder reversed 1 Hen. VII. (Rot. Parl. vi. 245, 273.)
page xvii note a In the Mirrour for Magistrates, another name, Clapham, is introduced:— “you must imagine that he (earl Ryvers) was accompanyed with the lord Richard Graye, and with Hautt and Clappam, whose infortunes he bewayleth after this manner.” Mirrour for Magistrates, 1563, fol. lxxxvii, v. The writer, it will be observed, omits the name ofVaughan, for which “Clappam” may not improbably be a misprint.
page xviii note a This is printed in the Excerpta Historica, 1831, 8vo.
page xviii note b See in the Gentleman's Magazine for Oct. 1844, p. 378, a letter from Mr. Davies, in which he corrects a misreading of the MS. Harl. 433, whereby Mr. Sharon Turner and Miss Halsted, in her Life of King Richard III., had converted “the lord Richard's beriall” into an imaginary tutor of prince Edward, named “lord Richard Bernall.”
page xix note a MS. Cotton. Faustina, B. vm. f. 4b.
page xix note b Originally this passage stood with the name of “the earl Rivers” heading the list. (Edit. 1819, iii. 573.) Dr. Lingard altered it only by omitting that name in the text; and in a note modified his statement thus:— “Cont. Croyl. 567. More asserts repeatedly that these murders occurred on the same day as that of lord Hastings. This may be true of the others, but is not correct as to lord Rivers, who was indeed put to death at Pontefract, but a few days later, and by command of the earl of Northumberland. Rouse, 214.” Dr. Lingard then refers to the earl's will.
page xx note a Proceeding a step further, Miss Halsted has positively stated that the speech was delivered by the new monarch himself. (Life of Richard III. vol. ii. p. 43.)
page xx note b Hist, of England, Fifth Edit. 1849, vol. iv. p. 234.
page xxi note a The Speech itself is so curious, both as a political and a literary monument of the time, that it has been thought desirable to append it to the present Preface, together with that which the same dignitary a few months after addressed to the parliament of Richard III.
page xxi note b The Croyland historian says that the coronation was fixed to take place at the feast of saint John the Baptist: perhaps not meaning precisely the day of the feast. Simon Stallworthe, (a servant of the lord chancellor,) when he wrote on the 9th June the letter printed in the Excerpta Historica, p. 16, expected that it would be solemnised on that day fortnight, that is, the 23d. Those summoned to receive knighthood on the occasion were required to be in attendance on the 18th (see p. xxxii).
page xxi note c “Yt is thought there shalbe xx thousand of my lorde protectour and my lord of Bukyngham men in London this weike, to what intent I knowe not, but kepe the peas.” Letter of Simon Stallworthe, dated the 21st June, printed in Excerpta Historica, 1831, 8vo. p. 17. This Stallworthe was a servant of lord chancellor Russell, and, like his master, was at a loss to tell to what issue the protector's proceedings were tending.
page xxi note d This public demonstration of his assuming the royal dignity is described by the Croyland historian. He was supported on the right hand and the left by the duke of Suffolk and the lord Howard, then or soon after declared duke of Norfolk.
page xxii note a The supersedeas was received by the sheriffs of York on the 21st of June. York Records, p. 154.
page xxii note b See p. xlix.
page xxiii note a York Records, p. 144. Miss Halsted imagined that she had found evidence of the alleged funereal ceremonies at York : “The interval [since the King's death] had been passed by this prince [Richard] in travelling from the Scottish borders to York, in commanding requiems to be solemnised there and in other large towns (MS. Harl. 433, fol. 176) for the repose of the soul of Edward IV.” &c. But the entry of the MS. Harl. 433, to which the lady refers, belongs not to 1483 but to 1484.
page xxiv note a John Rous has a passage to this effect: stating that after imprisoning king Edward, Richard bestowed all his property on Henry duke of Buckingham, who then distributing his livery of Stafford knots, boasted that he had as many of them as Richard Neville earl of Warwick once had of Raggid Staves.
page xxiv note b In like manner, the successful rivalry of Hastings to Ryvers in respect to the office of lord deputy of Calais—then, on the authority of Commines, the “best preferment in Christendom,” had made them perpetual foes.
page xxv note a See pp. 19, 20. Miss Halsted, Life of Richard III. vol. ii. pp. 26, 47, has given to the earl's appointment an undue importance, as having been the immediate price of his adherence to the duke of Gloucester on his accession to power, a point which she was led to urge the more strongly from having mistaken its date as the 1st, instead of the 10th, of May.
page xxv note b See p. 15.
page xxv note c Page 3. Mr. Sharon Turner has erroneously termed this office “the chancellorship of the marches of Wales.”
page xxv note d Page 4. Mr. Sharon Turner states that lord Howard was also made admiral of England (iii. 402), but such was not the fact. The duke of Gloucester, who had been Lord Admiral for some years, continued so during his nephew's reign; after he became king, he conferred the office upon lord Howard. Mr. Turner mistook the date of his appointment.
page xxvi note a The duke of Gloucester himself held the like appointment in the Northern parts, which gave him an official residence at Pontefract castle. (Plumpton Correspondence, p. 26.) There probably was born his natural son John de Pountfreit (also called John of Gloucester), on whom he conferred the great preferment of captain of Calais.. (See Rymer's Foedera, and the MS. Harl. 433.)
page xxvi note b Both these patents are printed in Rymer's Fædera. A long memoir of this first duke of Norfolk of the long line of Howard was written by sir Harris Nicolas for the History of Western Sussex, and printed in that work, Rape of Bramber, pp. 188—194. Where, however, at p. 181, the biographer expresses dissent from Mr. Sharon Turner in regard to the motives which led lord Howard “to abandon the interests of the widow and children of his royal benefactor [Edward IV.], and to identify himself with the ambitious schemes of the Protector,”—considering that the opinion of Mr. Sharon Turner, that Howard's defection may be attributed to resentment at Edward having appointed the marquess of Dorset to supplant him as constable of the Tower, and to his interests clashing with those of the young Duke of York, “is not warranted by facts,”—a little further consideration would probably have led to another conclusion. Anne Mowbray, the daughter and heir of John duke of Norfolk, had been married to the infant duke of York in 1478, and the prince was in consequence created duke of Norfolk, earl Warren, Surrey and Nottingham, earl marshal and marshal ofEngland, and lord of Segrave, Mowbray, and Gower. The heiress died before 1482, when the lords Howard and Berkeley became the coheirs of the Norfolk estates; but there would have been no hope for their rights of inheritance so long as Edward the Fourth and his son the duke of York lived. This circumstance clearly supplies the motive of the lord Howard's adherence to the usurper.
page xxvii note a Sir Richard Radclyffe, it will be remembered, was one of those who fell with his master upon the field of Bosworth. A biographical note respecting him will be found in Davies's York Records, p. 148. See also Notes and Queries, 1854, vol. vi. p. 475.
page xxvii note b Sir Robert Radclyfle commanded the fleet which attended upon the English invasion of Scotland in June 1482, when Gloucester himself headed the land forces.
page xxvii note c Page 3.
page xxvii note d Page 17.
page xviii note a As, for example, the grant of the Virgership of Windsor castle, at p. 25, was first ordered on the 10th of May, p. 2. The letters patent passed the seal on the 24th : see p. xxix.
page xxix note a This circumstance may by many readers be considered too obvious to require mention; but I allude to it because Mr. Sharon Turner, although as a lawyer he might be expected to be well informed on such a point, when discussing the young king's probable liberty or seclusion, speaks of “his public acts signed on some days in the Tower, and on others at Westminster;” adding in a note, “There are six royal acts dated from Westminster, in the months of May and June, 12 Rym. 180, 7. These imply that Edward went from the Tower to meet his council at Westminster, as occasion required.” (Third edit. iii. 402 : and see the same argument much amplified by Miss Halsted, moresuo, vol. ii. p. 64.) Now, as all those six documents are entries from the Patent Roll, and letters patent were not signed by the king but sealed by the chancellor, it is an error to suppose that they imply such movements on the king's part.
page xxix note b Kendale was afterwards secretary to Richard III. when King. A long note upon his several offices and preferments will be found in Davies's York Records, p. 164 : to which it may be added that late in life he became grand prior of the order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, having been previously Turcopellier of Rhodes, in which character the first English medal was struck with his portraiture. (See the Archseologia, xxvii. 172.)
page xxxiii note a This document, now the Addit. Charter, No. 5987, was purchased of T. Rodd 11 Feb. 1843, having come from Mr. G. Baker's sale, Lot 14. A similar document was possessed by Thane the bookseller, and he engraved from it the autograph of the protector placed under the portrait of Edward V. in his “Autography.”
page xxxiii note b The first of which is engraved in Plate 4, and the two latter in Plate 2, of Fac-similes of Autographs, by J. C. Smith, edited by J. G. Nichols, 4to. 1829.
page xxxiv note a Of which other specimens will be found in the work last mentioned, Plates 2, 3, 4. A book in the Harleian collection, No. 49, being the romance of Tristan de Leonnois, is inscribed—
Iste liber constat Micardo Duci Ghucestrie.
and on the same page is written
Sans remevyr
Elyzabeth.
The latter is certainly the autograph of the queen of Henry VII. but the former inscription is probably not the autograph of Richard.