Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- Sources
11. Item, a Book _de Othea_,[44] text and gloss ... in quires.
Memorandum, mine old Book of Blazonings of Arms.
Item, the new Book portrayed and blazoned.
Item, a copy of Blazonings of Arms and the names to
be found by letter.
Item, a book with arms portrayed in paper....
Memorandum, my Book of Knighthood and the man[ner] of making of
Knights, of Jousts, of Tour[nements], fighting in lists, paces holden
by so[ldiers] ... and challenges, statutes of war, and _De Regim[ine
Principum]_.[45]
[44] A treatise on _Wisdom_. Dr. Gairdiner notes that the name is
derived from the Greek Ὠ θεὰ but was used in the Middle Ages as the
name for the Goddess of Wisdom (_Paston Letters_, vol. ii., p. 335, n.
1).
[45] Thomas Hoccleve (1370?-1449) wrote the _Regement of Princes_,
based on the _De Regimine Principum_ of Ægidius Colonna (see Early
English Text Society, Extra Series, lxxii., 1897).
Item, a new Book of new Statutes from Edward IV.
DEATH OF CLARENCE (1478).
=Source.=--Ingulph's _Chronicles_, pp. 479, 480. (Bohn Edition.)
Now each began to look upon the other with no very fraternal eyes. You
might then have seen (as such men are generally to be found in the
courts of all princes) flatterers running to and fro, from the one side
to the other, and carrying backwards and forwards the words which had
fallen from the two brothers, even if they had happened to be spoken
in the most secret closet. The arrest of the duke for the purpose of
compelling him to answer the charges brought against him happened under
the following circumstances. One Master John Stacy, a person who was
called an astronomer, when in reality he was rather a great sorcerer,
formed a plot in conjunction with one Burdet, an esquire, and one of
the said duke's household; upon which he was accused, among numerous
other charges, of having made leaden images and other things to procure
thereby the death of Richard, Lord Beauchamp, at the request of his
adulterous wife. Upon being questioned in a very severe examination as
to his practice of damnable arts of this nature, he made confession
of many matters, which told both against himself and the said Thomas
Burdet. The consequence was, that Thomas was arrested as well; and at
last, judgment of death was pronounced upon them both, at Westminster,
from the Bench of our lord the king, the judges being there seated,
together with nearly all the lords temporal of the kingdom. Being drawn
to the gallows at Tyburn, they were permitted briefly to say what they
thought fit before being put to death; upon which, they protested their
innocence, Stacy indeed but faintly; while, on the other hand, Burdet
spoke at great length, and with much spirit, and as his last words
exclaimed with Susanna, "Behold! I must die; whereas I never did such
things as these."
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