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CXXII. A Letter from the Queen to William Gastrik or Gaskryk, proposing a match between his daughter and Thomas Fountains, Yeoman of the Crown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Letters of Margaret of Anjou
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Camden Old Series , Volume 86: Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and others. Written in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. , December 1863 , pp. 152 - 154
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1863

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page 152 note a In the Calendar of Inquis. post Mortem, vol. iv. fo. 189, 17 Hen. VI. No. 45, is an inquisition relating evidently to one of the same family, but who is named Edmund Gastryk. From the inquisition itself, however, which I have seen, it is plain that the right name is Gaskryk and not Gastryk.

page 153 note a William Boothe had been Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. Gascoigne, in his Theological Dictionary, calls him “the unworthy Bishop of Coventry,” and says, further, that he “was neither a good grammarian, nor knowing, nor reputed virtuous, nor a graduate of either university.” Boothe was, at one time, Chancellor to the Queen; p. 156, post.