[1010] Ramsay, ii. 73, says, 'Gloucester made a show of resistance, a crowning act of folly, of which his adversaries made the most.' I can find no authority to justify this statement. [1011] _Chron. Henry VI._, 33; _Lond. Chron._, 135, says 'he mekely obeied' when put under arrest. [1012] _Brief Notes_, 150. [1013] _Chron. Henry VI._, 33. [1014] Richard Fox, 116. [1015] _Rot. Parl._, v. 128. [1016] The ruins of St. Saviour's Hospital can still be seen on the road leading from Bury to Thetford. [1017] Richard Fox, 116, 117; _Eng. Chron._, 62, 63; Gregory, 188; _Chron. Henry VI._, 33, 34; Hardyng, 400; William of Worcester, 464; _Lond. Chron._, 135; _Brief Notes_, 150; Stow, 386; _Hist. Croyland. Contin._, i. 521; _Short Eng. Chron._, 65. An entry on the verso of the last folio of Lincoln MS., 106, records the death of Gloucester. Holinshed, iii. 211. [1018] _Brief Notes_, 150; Fabyan, 619. [1019] _Brief Notes_, 150, erroneously states that he was buried here. The site of this Franciscan monastery can still be traced about half a mile outside Bury St. Edmunds on the Thetford road. Lewis, _Topographical Dictionary_, i. 659. [1020] Richard Fox, 117, 118. [1021] Mathieu de Coussy, 31, is the only contemporary writer to lay stress on this. CHAPTER VIII SOME ASPECTS OF GLOUCESTER'S CAREER In spite of the circumstantial story which records the events of the last few days of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, there hangs over the manner of his death a cloud which no existing evidence can entirely remove. Was he murdered, or was his death the result of natural causes? Such is the question to which the circumstances surrounding his last days give rise. Of contemporary chroniclers who give their opinion the Englishmen mostly agree in a quiet acceptance of the idea that arrest and disgrace so worked on an already weakened frame, that some kind of seizure was followed by collapse and death. Richard Fox, who gives the most detailed account of the tragedy of Bury, never for a moment suggests foul play, whilst Wheathampsted, the friend and follower of the dead man, clearly states that he died of sickness brought on by grief at his arrest.[1022] Hardyng carries this theory still further by describing the disease of which the Duke died as a sort of 'parlesey,' stating that he had been similarly attacked before,[1023] but an anonymous chronicler of Henry VI.'s reign, while describing the illness much in the same way as Fox and Hardyng--a paralysis of both mind and body--does not hesitate to hint fairly broadly that the disease did not take its origin from the natural state of the Duke's health.[1024] The author of the _English Chronicle_ reserves judgment. The truth about Gloucester's death, he declares, is not yet known, but he quotes the