you, and that ye take surety matteres here.
Wherefore we wol that ye make boothe the said
Garsdale whiche cometh now hoom be oure leve, and
also Lentwardyn com afore you, and that ye take
seurte soufficeant of bothe the partiees, that
neither of hem shal make ferther poursuyt of
appelle at courte of Rome ner no manere of poursuyt
there or elleswhere as touching the said
contraversee unto oure comynge as before, at whiche
tyme oure entent ys to put the same contraversie to
a goode and rightwyse conclusion, and the said
partie yn rest. And yf any of hem have ye saide
poursuyt of apelle hangyng yn courte that they
abate hit and sende to revoke hit yn al haste, and
that thay make al suche as been thaire attornes or
doeres yn court spirituel or temporel to surcesse.
And we wol ferthermore as touching oure said
college of the Orielle that ye put hit yn suche
governance as semeth to yowre discrecion for to doo
unto oure comyng. And God have you yn his keping.
Yeven under oure signet in oure town of Mante, ye
vii. day of Juyll.
"To ye worshipful fader yn God our right
trusty and welbeloved ye Bisshop of
Duresme oure Chaunceller of England."]
Whilst Henry was occupied by his campaign in France, a (p. 275)
parliament met October 16th, 1419, and voted one-fifteenth, and
one-tenth, and one-half part of them both. In this parliament that
enactment was made on which our authority chiefly rests for believing
the Queen-Dowager, Bolinbroke's widow, to have been guilty of
conspiring her son-in-law's death. The act, after declaring that she
was accused by friar John Randolf, and other credible witnesses, of
having compassed the King's death in the most horrible manner; and
that Roger Colles of Shrewsbury, and Peronell Brocart, lately living
with the Queen, were violently suspected of having been partners in
her guilt; enacted that all the lands, and castles, and possessions,
as well of the Queen as of her accomplices, should be seized for the
King's use, pro
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