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HISTORICAL COLLECTION to illustrate the times of Henry V, made by Robert Sanderson (d. 1741), Clerk of the Rolls, one of the editors of Rymer's Fædera. It consists of extracts and copies of documents relating chiefly to the French war, the Lollards, etc., taken from the public records in his charge and from Cotton MSS. (some of which have since been lost in the fire of 1731), etc., the references being generally given in the margins. A few earlier and later documents are added. For Sanderson's "History of the Reign of Henry V," in which many of the contents herein are utilized, see Add. MSS. 19979-19984. The contents are: 1. List of the Rolls, Memoranda, and other evidences handed over by William de Burstall, the retiring Keeper of the Rolls, to his successor John de Waltham; 9 Sept. 5 Ric. II [1381]. - Lat. Followed (f. 7) by a note of the appointment of Waltham's successor, John Burton, 24 Oct. 10 Ric. II [1386]. f. 1.

2. Appointment by Owen [Glendower], "Princeps Waliæ," of procurators to negotiate an alliance with Charles VI of France, [Dolgelly, 15 May, 1404]. Copy from Cotton MS. Titus A. iii, f. 32. Imperf. f. 8.

3. Mandate of Thomas [Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury, for prayers in London churches for the Duke of Clarence's expedition against France; 14 Aug. 1412. From the Episcopal Register of Richard Clifford, Bishop of London. Lat. f. 9.

4. Extracts from Coram Rege Rolls relating to John Wyghtlock's conspiracy (cf. Goodwin's History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, 1704, pp. 3, 4), Trinity term, 1 Hen. V [1413]. f. 12.

5. Writs from the Close Rolls, 1 Hen. V, viz., (a) to the sheriffs, "de prioratibus alienigenis in manus Regis resumendis"; 26 Aug. [1413]. f. 24; (b) to John [Mowbray], Earl Marshal, to deliver certain prisoners to the Sheriffs of London; 13 Jan. [1414]. f. 26; (c) to the Constable of the Tower to produce certain prisoners; 16 Jan. [1414]. f. 27.

6. Extracts from the Coram Rege Rolls, Trinity term, 2 Hen. V [1414], recording (a) the livery to Philip [Repingdon], Bishop of Lincoln, of certain prisoners of Leicester, etc., indicted for heresy. f. 28 ; (b) a petition of the Grand Jury, co. Salop, for protection on giving their verdict. f. 29.

7. Extract from the Patent Rolls, viz. grant for life of 20 marks from the customs of Dublin and Drogheda to Robert Vale, lord of Castletown, co. Carlow; 25 June [1414]. See Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 199. f. 31.

8. Extract from the Scotch Roll, viz. indenture of Edward, Duke of York, as Warden of Berwick and of the East Marches towards Scotland; 19 Aug. 2 Hen. V [1414]. Fr. f. 32.

9. Petition of Richard Oldecastell, Constable of Aberystwith, to the King, for the pay of eight extra archers employed in the defence of the castle there against the Lollards; 3 Apr. 3 Hen. V [1415]. Fr. f. 34.

10. Indenture of service of, and instructions for, Gilbert de Umfraville to serve the King in the French wars; 29 Apr. 3 Hen. V [1415]. Fr. f . 35.

11. Petition of ten persons, who served the King when Prince of Wales, for the forfeited goods of a murderer at Canterbury in lieu of wages due to them; 21 May, 3 Hen. V [1415]. Fr. f. 41.

12. Extract from the Fine Rolls, 3 Hen. V, viz. writ to the Commissioners of the English Counties, whose names are given, for the collection on 13 Dec. of tenths and fifteenths due to the Exchequer on 2 Feb.; 7 Nov. 3 Hen. V [1415]. f. 42.

13. Record of the case of William Ward, found guilty of treason but pardoned, and committed to the Ordinary of the Abbot of Westminster "de Lollardria"; [1415]. Lat. Imperf. f. 48.

14. Muster-roll of men-at-arms and archers under [Humphrey], Duke of Gloucester, and others, 4 Hen. V [1416-17]. f. 50.

15. Indenture of service of Thomas Chaucer, esquire, for the King's second expedition to France; 16 May, 5 Hen. V [1417]. Fr. f. 60.

16. Extract from the Close Rolls, 5 Hen. V, viz. writ to collectors of customs and subsidies to publish an ordinance of parliament relating to importation of wool; 26 May, 1417. Lat. and Fr. f. 65.

17. Requests for loans to the Crown addressed to J. de Merbury, esquire, W. Lucy, Knt., the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the Prior of Christ Church, and Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury; 10, 11 July, 6 Hen. V [1418]. Fr. f. 68.

18. Extracts from Cotton MSS., viz. (a) Warrant from Henry V to to meet the body of "oure cosin the [late] Erle of Morteigne" [Edward Holland ?] at Reading, and convey it for burial to Newenham Priory [Newnham, co. Bedf.]; 28 Oct. [6 Hen. V, 1418]. The false date 4 Hen. V which is inserted in the original (Caligula D. v, f. 49, partly burnt) is copied, but corrected, and a reference added to the Norman Roll (see Forty-first Report of the Dep. Keeper of Public Records, 1880, app. p. 718), where there are other warrants on the same subject. f. 72; (b) Letter of Henry V to Pope Martin V, accrediting Card. [Giordano] Orsini; 2 Dec. [1418]. Lat. From the l5th cent. copy in Cotton MS. Tiberius B. vi, f. 69 (slightly burnt). f. 73; (c) Letter of R- P[riour] to [Robert Frye, Clerk of the King's Council], reporting the surrender of Dieppe and other places; Rouen, 10 Mar. [1419]. From the original, already mutilated, but since further damaged by fire, in Cotton MS. Caligula D. v, f. 51. f. 74; (d) Letter of [Sir] J[ohn] Saint-John, Mayor of Bordeaux, to Henry V, warning him against the French, whose desire to treat for peace he doubts; 21 Mar. [1419]. From the original, Cal. D. v, f. 54. f. 76; (e) Musters at Évreux, Rouen, Pont de l'Arche, etc.; 1 Apr. 7 Hen. V [1419]. Fr. From Cal. D. v, but now missing. f. 77 ; (f) Letter of Robert Holme, "regent loffice de vostre con[estable]rie" at Bordeaux, to Henry V, that the revenues of the castle do not enable him to furnish the King's commissioners as ordered; 6 Apr. [1419]. Fr. From the original, Cal. D. v, f. 56 (partly burnt). f. 84 ; (g) Letter of Thomas Barneby [al. Barnaby, Chamberlain of N. Wales, etc.] to [Robert Frye, Keeper of the Privy Seal], announcing the probability of a marriage treaty With France; Hareflieu [Harfleur], Wedn. in Easter week [19 Apr. 1419]. From the original, Cal. D. v, f. 55 (slightly burnt). f. 85 ; (h) Letter of [Gaston de Foix], Captal de Vuech [Buch], to Henry V, announcing his arrival at Vannes, and accrediting his servant Raymond de la Naie; Venes [Vannes], 22 Apr. [1419]. Fr. From the original Cal. D. v, f. 54. f. 86; (i) R Priour (see above, c) to [Robert Frye], that the Dauphin failed to meet Henry at Évreux, but that the two Kings are to meet on the l5th; the Duke of Clarence with 16,000 men will go to meet the Dauphin who threatens disturbance to the conference. La Roche is surrendered with great store of wine. John Holand is dead, who had an archdeaconry in the diocese of Salisbury, but the King will not write to the Bishop of Salisbury to give it to Frye, because he wrote before for Thomas Rotborn [Rudborn] and the Bishop took no heed. Dat. Vernon sur Seyne, 1 May [1419]. From Cal. D. v, but now missing. f. 87 ; (k) Letter of to Henry V, reporting the relief of Mortaigne and capture of a bastille erected before it and garrisoned by French and Scots; 3 May [1419]. From Cal. D. v, but now missing. f. 89; (l) Letter of the Mayor, etc., of Bayonne to Henry V, to be excused from supplying crossbowmen, as the King of Castile is attacking them by sea; 4 May [1419]. Fr. From Cal. D. v, but now missing. f. 92.

19. Extract from Norman Roll, 7 Hen. V, pt. i, membr. 50 dorso (see 42nd Report, app. p. 318), viz. ordinance for the regulation of the coinage in Normandy; Vernon sur Sayne, 8 May [1419]. Fr. f. 93.

20. Extract from Cotton MS. Caligula D. v, viz. letter of R Priour to [Robert Frye] that the meeting of the Kings (see art. 18 i) is postponed, that the ambassadors going to Paris were attacked by the Dauphin's men, etc. ; Vernon, 11 May [ 1419]. Original now lost. f. 94.

21. Extract marked 'bundle 3,' viz. notarial record of an abortive treaty for peace between the Teutonic Order, of the one part, and Ladislas V (Jagello) King of Poland and Alexander al. Witold, Grand Duke of Lithuania, of the other part, negotiated by the papal nuncii Jacopo Palladini, Bishop of Spoleto, and Fernando de Palacios, Bishop of Lugo; 14 May, 1419. Lat. f. 96.

22. Extract from [Coram Rege Roll ?], Mich. 7 Hen. V [1419], concerning the trial and acquittal of John Yonge and others of co. Hereford for treason and lollardry. f. 105.

23. Extracts from Cotton MSS., viz. (a) Ordinances of war issued by Henry V at Mantes and elsewhere, n. d. [circ. 1419 ?]. From a copy (16th-17th cent.) in Julius C. iv, ff. 317-322. Another copy (late l7th cent.) is in Stowe MS. 531, ff. 300-310 b, and a third in the Inner Temple library (Petyt's Collectanea, vol. i, folio, p. 509), from which it is printed by F. Grose in the preface to his Antiquities of England and Wales, new ed., i (1788), pp. 34-46. A Latin version, with variations, is printed in Nicholas Upton's De Studio Militari (ed. Bysshe, 1654), iv, pp. 133-145. f. 111 ; (b) Treasurer's declaration of the revenue and charges of the kingdom; Lambeth, 6 May, 9 Hen. V [1421]. Lat. From the original (?), already mutilated, in Cleopatra F. iii, ff. 170-172. f. 123.

24. Copies of petitions: (a) of James de Berkeley (summoned to parliament in 1421 as Baron Berkeley), nephew and beir male of Thomas, 5th Baron Berkeley (d. 1417), claiming the castle, manors, etc., against the 5th Baron's daughter Elizabeth, wife of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick; n.d.[circ.1421 ?]. Fr. Three copies (two marked "ex original") not mentioned in the Record Office list of petitions (Lists and Indexes, no. 1). ff. 125, 129, 131; (b) of Eleanor, wife of Sir John Mortimer, Knt., to John, Duke of Bedford, and the Council,for more lenient treatment of her husband, imprisoned in the Tower; n. d. [circ. 1423]. Fr. Not in the Record Office list. f. 134.

25. Copy, marked '5 bundle, no. 11,' of an inspeximus by Henry VI of a bull of Pope Eugenius IV, dated 17 Kal. Aug. MCCCCXX[X]V, denying that he has absolved any prince [i.e. the Duke of Burgundy] from oaths made to Henry or his father; 12 Nov. 14 Hen. VI [1435]. Lat. See Rymer's Fœdera (Hague cd.) v, pt. i, p. 21. f. 135.

26. Notes of deeds by which the parliamentary trustees for the sale of Fee Farm Rents conveyed certain rents to George Foxcroft of London, 1651. f. 136.

27. Draft of letter from R[obert] S[anderson] to [Samuel] Molyneux, asking that his services may be represented to the Prince [of Wales, afterwaxds George II]; 6 June, 1716. f. 138. Paper; ff. i + 138. Folio. Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps of Thomas Rodd, the bookseller (Rodd's cat. 1845, no. 195). Phillipps MS. 11523 (sale-cat. 1911, lot 522).