^{page v note 1} The Bodleian Library copy of this pamphlet is bound up with a number of seventeenth-century tracts, once the property of Anthony Wood. The Bodleian possesses also another copy of the same date, published without an author's name. Reprints will be found in Somers' Tracts, 4th collection. Vol. I, p. 291Google Scholar, in the Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VII, p. 256Google Scholar, and in Phœnix Britannicus, Vol. I, p. 385.Google Scholar

^{page v note 2} Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Seventeenth Century, Part I, p. 557.Google Scholar

^{page vi note 1} For example, only a careless scribe could have mistaken xxv for xiiij and August for September, infra, p. 7.Google Scholar

^{page vi note 2} Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters, IV, 495.Google Scholar

^{page vi note 3} Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1399–1401, p. 138.Google Scholar

^{page vii note 1} Compare the description in the Modus Tenendi Parliamentum. Early pictures of Parliament are given in Pollard, Evolution of Parliament.

^{page vii note 2} Rot. Parl. III, 384Google Scholar. Plessyngton died in 1393. See article in Dictionary of National Biography.

^{page vii note 3} It is interesting to know that the Lords rose in a body and left the Hall when the news of Tresilian's discovery reached them.

^{page viii note 1} Martin received some of the forfeited possessions of de la Pole in September 1388. Col. Patent Rolls, 1385–9, p. 513Google Scholar. See also Rot. Parl., III, 245.Google Scholar

^{page viii note 2} Rot. Parl., III, 12, 75.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 1} October 1, 1386. Rot. Parl., III, 215.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 2} For the charges against Suffolk see Rot. Parl., III, 216 sq. Knighton, II, 221Google Scholar. Monk of Evesham (ed. Hearne), 75.Google Scholar

^{page 2 note 3} Preconia in MS.

^{page 2 note 4} Rot. Parl., III, 221, 224Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 224–5Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 83 sqq. Statutes of the Realm, 20 Richard II.Google Scholar

^{page 3 note 1} clamdestinis in MS.

^{page 3 note 2} For the charges or articles of the Appellants brought against the king's friends in the Parliament of February, 1388 see Rot. Parl., III, 229–243.Google Scholar

^{page 3 note 3} Article XVII, Rot. Parl., III, 232Google Scholar, cf. Higden, IX, 94.Google Scholar

^{page 3 note 4} Article XXIII. Rot. Parl., III, 232Google Scholar. John of Blois was set free and his ransom given to the Duke of Ireland.

^{page 3 note 5} Articles V and VII. Rot. Parl., III, 230.Google Scholar

^{page 3 note 6} Article VIII. Rot. Parl., III, 230.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 1} Article II. Rot. Parl., III, 230.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 2} Valla in MS.

^{page 4 note 3} Walsingham, II, 161Google Scholar. Articles XVI, XXI. Rot. Parl., III, 231, 232.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 4} Articles XIX, XXIV. Rot. Parl., III, 232, 233.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 5} Article XXII. Rot. Parl., III, 232.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 1} Article XXII. Rot. Parl., III, 232.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 2} Article XI. Rot. Parl., III, 231.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 3} Article XII. Rot. Parl., III, 231.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 4} Foul Oak. Probably a gibbet. Cf. Chaucer's Life Records. Kirk, R. F. G.. Part IV, pp. xl–xli and 305.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 5} Article XXXIII. Rot. Parl., III, 235.Google Scholar

^{page 5 note 6} Article XXVI. Rot. Parl., 234.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 1} Cf. Higden, IX, 104.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 2} Article XXIX. Rot. Part., III, 234Google Scholar. Cf. Knighton, II, 243, 256.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 3} Articles VIII, XXX. Rot. Parl., III, 230, 234Google Scholar. Cf. Walsingham, II, 164.Google Scholar

^{page 6 note 4} Article XXVIII. Rot. Parl., III, 234.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 1} Article XXV. Rot. Parl., III, 233Google Scholar. Cf. Knighton, II, 236–40Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 98–101.Google Scholar

^{page 7 note 2} Robert, archbishop of Dublin.

^{page 7 note 3} The name of John, Bishop of Durham, is omitted.

^{page 7 note 4} August 25, 11 Ric. II (Rot. Parl., III, 233).Google Scholar

^{page 8 note 1} This reading is suggested for pedomnus, pheudomnus, etc., passim in MS.

^{page 9 note 1} Higden, IX, 104–5.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 2} Article XXXIV. Rot. Parl., III, 235.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 3} Higden, IX, 108Google Scholar. Article XXXV. Rot. Parl., III, 235.Google Scholar

^{page 9 note 4} See above, p. 8Google Scholarn., and below passim.

^{page 9 note 5} Higden, IX, 104Google Scholar. This was on Nov. 10, 1387.

^{page 10 note 1} Higden, IX, 105–6Google Scholar. Monk of Evesham, 93.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 2} Voluntas.

^{page 10 note 3} Higden, IX, 107Google Scholar. Walsingham, II, 165–7Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 248.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 4} Knighton, II, 250.Google Scholar

^{page 10 note 5} Higden, IX, 108.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 1} Walsingham, II, 167Google Scholar. Monk of Evesham, 94.Google Scholar

^{page 11 note 2} Radcot Bridge (Dec. 20).

^{page 11 note 3} Article XXXIX. Rot. Parl. III, 235–6Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 111–112Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 251–4Google Scholar. Walsingham, II, 167–8.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 1} Cf. Higden, IX, 113.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 2} Walsingham, II, 171.Google Scholar

^{page 12 note 3} Higden, IX, 114–115Google Scholar. Walsingham, II, 172Google Scholar. Monk of Evesham, 99.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 1} Phendola in MS.

^{page 13 note 2} Higden, IX, 115, 178Google Scholar. Walsingham, II, 173Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 256Google Scholar. The precise nature of the offices held by these clerks is not stated elsewhere.

^{page 14 note 1} Fulthor. Cf. p. 7.

^{page 14 note 2} Feb. 3(Rot. Parl., III, 228Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 118Google Scholar). Evidently a slip.

^{page 14 note 3} Presumably the White Chamber.

^{page 14 note 4} The word seculares is evidently used in the modern sense of laity.

^{page 14 note 5} See Rot. Parl., III, 384Google Scholar. Plessyngton's offence is stated only in general terms in the Dictionary of National Biography.

^{page 15 note 1} See Introduction, p. viii.

^{page 15 note 2} It contained 39 articles, drawn up in French; Higden, IX, 119.Google Scholar

^{page 15 note 3} So also Rot. Parl.

^{page 15 note 4} Feb. 5. Rot. Parl., III, 236.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 1} Feb. 13. Rot. Parl., III, 237Google Scholar. Cf. Higden, IX, 148Google Scholar, where Thursday, February 11, is given. Thursday was the 13th.

^{page 16 note 2} This Monday was Feb. 17. Rot. Parl., III, 238Google Scholar. Cf. Cal. Close Rolls, 1385–9, p. 383.Google Scholar

^{page 16 note 3} Higden, IX, 149Google Scholar. Rot. Parl., III, 238.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 1} Higden and Rot. Part.

^{page 17 note 2} deceptassent in MS., op. cit.

^{page 17 note 3} Knighton, II, 292–3Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 149Google Scholar. Froissart (ed. Kervyn de Lettenhove), XII, 266–72.Google Scholar

^{page 17 note 4} Feb. 19 (Rot. Parl., III, 238).Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 1} Feb. 20 (Rot. Parl., III, 238).Google Scholar

^{page 18 note 2} John Northampton; Mayor of London, 1381–1383.

^{page 18 note 3} Knighton, II, 293.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 1} Higden, IX, 91.Google Scholar

^{page 19 note 2} Rot. Part., III, 240Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 150–1Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 294Google Scholar. Blake and Usk were brought into Parliament on March 3 and judgment was given on March 4.

^{page 19 note 3} Undersheriff, not sheriff, appointed before Oct. 7, 1387. Cal. Letter Books, London, H 316–317.Google Scholar

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^{page 20 note 1} HIgden, IX, 151.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 2} So Rot. Parl., III, 240.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 3} Rot. Parl., III, 241Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 295Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 152.Google Scholar

^{page 20 note 4} Higden, IX, 152–3, 155Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 294Google Scholar. Rot. Parl., III, 241–3.Google Scholar

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^{page 21 note 1} May 7.

^{page 21 note 2} Walsingham, II, 174Google Scholar. York joined in the plea. Higden, IX, 176.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 3} Possibly John de Radyngton, prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

^{page 21 note 4} Burley had imprisoned a number of Kontish men in Rochester gaol during the Peasants' Revolt. See English Historical Review, XIII, p. 511. July, 1898.Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 5} Here is written in the margin in a seventeenth-century hand, “Et sepelitur in Divi Pauli sub latus boreale in choro.”

^{page 21 note 6} Parliament was adjourned from March 20 till April 13 (Rot. Parl., III, 245).Google Scholar

^{page 21 note 7} So also Rot. Parl.

^{page 22 note 1} Rot. Part., III, 243.Google Scholar

^{page 22 note 2} Higden, IX, 179.Google Scholar

^{page 23 note 1} I can find no confirmation of this statement elsewhere. Kennington, within the duchy of Cornwall, was a favourite residence of both Richard II and his father.

^{page 23 note 2} Rot. Parl., III, 244Google Scholar. Knighton, II, 296Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 181–2Google Scholar. The last gives May 30 for Trivet, Elmham and Dagworth.

^{page 23 note 3} Drogheda.

^{page 23 note 4} Col. Close Rolls, 1385–9, p. 515Google Scholar. This assigns three and two leagues as the limit of their wanderings.

^{page 23 note 5} Dublin.

^{page 23 note 6} Col. Close Rolls, 1385, 9. p. 569.Google Scholar

^{page 23 note 7} Ibid., p. 516.

^{page 24 note 1} Viles in MS.

^{page 24 note 2} So Higden, IX, 183.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 3} Walsingham, II, 175Google Scholar. Higden, IX, 154Google Scholar. Prynne (Brevia Parliamentaria Rediviva, pp. 395–7Google Scholar) gives the form of the oath.

^{page 24 note 4} So Higden, IX, 183.Google Scholar

^{page 24 note 5} Ps. 123, 7.