[Footnote 218: Henry Peyto was mayor in 1423. The Peto family came from Chesterton.] [Footnote 219: Kingsford, _Early Biographies of Henry V._, in _Eng. Hist. Rev._, xxv. 78. Although Stow's _Chronicle_, where this story first occurs, was not published until 1570, the author relied on early authority ultimately derived, it seems, from the Earl of Ormond, who died 1452.] [Footnote 220: See Solly-Flood, "Henry V. and Judge Gascoigne," _Trans. R. Hist. Soc._, iii. 49; Harcourt, "The Two Sir John Fastolfs," _Ib._ 3rd Ser. iv. 47; Kingsford, _Henry V._, 80-93. The Gascoignes subsequently settled at Oversley, Warwickshire.] [Footnote 221: Two versions are printed, and there are at least seven in MS. For the former, see Fordun _Scoti-chronicon_ (ed. Hearne). V. App.; Dugdale, _Warw._ (1730), i. 147-53; for MS. versions, see British Museum Harl. MSS. 6,388 (a compilation of several previously existing copies made in 1690 by Humphrey Wanley); Add. MSS. 11,364; Birmingham Free Library, _Warw._, MSS. 115,915 (see _Athenæum_, No. 4328); Coventry Corp. MSS. A. 37, A. 43, A. 48. An eighteenth-century version in the hands of Mr Eynon of Leamington has relatively correct dates. See also Solly-Flood, _op. cit._, 50-1.] [Footnote 222: Sharp, _op. cit._, 205.] [Footnote 223: Sharp, _Antiq._, 205; _Leet Book_, 96-7.] [Footnote 224: Thompson, _Hist. Leicester_, 78.] [Footnote 225: _Proc. Privy Counc._, iv. 89; Ramsay, _Lanc. and York_, i. 437.] [Footnote 226: _Leet Book_, 83.] [Footnote 227: _Ibid._] [Footnote 228: The surety for the loan "might not be gotten without great cost," and the different emissaries of the citizens spent, one 40s., one 13s. 4d., and another £6, 2s. 2d. in journeys to London, Boston, and Sandwich about this business (_Ib._ 86).] [Footnote 229: _Leet Book_, 119-20.] [Footnote 230: _Ib._, 129-30.] [Footnote 231: _Ib._, 174.] [Footnote 232: _Leet Book_, 152. The total cost of these presents (exclusive of the 50 marks and the cup), with the carriage, was £12, 15s. 4d. In addition to this, the expenses of officers and all the worthy men, riding to Fullbrook, amounted to 29s. 6d.] [Footnote 233: _Ib._, 138.] CHAPTER X _The Red and White Rose_