Here follows a comparison of Fovent’s version of the charges against the Ricardians with the articles of appeal drafted by the Appellants and copied into the official record of the Merciless Parliament. On the left-hand pages are the charges against the Ricardians as they appear in Fovent’s Historia. On the right-hand pages are the corresponding articles of the appeal from the parliament rolls that Fovent has edited for his Historia. The corresponding text is in bold. For a translation of this passage, see p. 000 above.

Historia

In primis, eorum serpentini oris colloquiis, ambicionibus, adulacionibus, laciuiis verbis, et blandimentis indolem regem obcecarunt in tantum quod omnibus eorum venenosis conspiracionibus et desideriis illaqueatus, ratificando adherebat, putans ipsos omnia disponere pro meliori; dictorumque commissariorum apud Westmonasterium consilia et proposita tanquam pro prodicione abhorrerunt.

[McKisack cites Article XVII. RP, iii, 232.]

Item, rex predictorum blandiciis et simulacionibus amore percussus, eos ac per eos pretextu brogagii recepti eorum affines diversimode ditauit, dando dicto duci Hibernie Johannem Bloys, captiuum heredem Britannie, ut asseruit, ac quibusdam ceteris castra, villas, terras, quibusdam vero iocalia et pecunias que omnia summe extenderunt C.M. marcarum in graue dispen-

Parliament Rolls

Primerement, Thomas, duc de Gloucestr’, conestable d’Engletere, Henry, count de Derby, Richard, count d’Arundell et de Surr’, Thomas, count de Warrewyk, et Thomas, count Mareschall’, appellont et diount qe Alisaundre, ercevesqe d’Everwyk, Robert de Veer, duc d’Irland, et Michel de la Pole, count de Suff’, faulx traitours et enemys du roi et du roialme, veantz la tendresse del age de nostre dit seignour le roi, et la innocencie de sa roial persone, lui firent entendre come pur verite tantz des fauxes choses, par eux countre leaute et bone foi imaginez et controvez, qe entierement eux lui firent de tout a eux doner soun amour et ferme foi et credence, et haier ses loiaux seignours et lieges, par queux il deust de droit plus avoir este governe.