Dictionary of national biography Volume 39 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Earl of Oxford, Lord Scales, and others, he had been entrusted with a commission of oyer and terminer to inquire into the wrongs and violences that prevailed in Norfolk(i"6.p. 145). He met his "uncle of York" at Bury St. Edmunds on Thursday, 15 Oct., and, after being together until nine o"clock on Friday, they settled who should be knights of the shire for Norfolk in the parliament summoned for 6 Nov. (ib. p. 160). Only one of their nominees, however, was returned. A week after the meeting at Bury Norfolk ordered John Paston to join him at Ipswich on 8 Nov. on his way to parliament, " with as many cleanly people as ye may get for our worship at this time" (ib. p. 162). About 18 Nov. he and York arrived in London, both with a "grete multytude of defensabylle men," and he supported his kinsman in the fierce struggle with Somerset which ensued (gregory, p. 195; Will. Worc. p. 770). In March 1451 he held sessions of oyer and terminer at Norwich, and in July he and York were ordered to meet the king at Canterbury (Paston Letters, i. 123, 216; Ramsay, Lancaster and York, ii. 146). He does not appear, however, to have joined York in his futile armed demonstration of February 1452 (wavrin 1447-71, D. 265; Paston Letters, i. cxlviii, 232). et he thought it necessary to take advantage of tho king"s Good-Friday amnesty, and sued out a pardon on 23 June (ib. i. lxxxiii). At the instance of Somerset and Queen Margaret he dismissed some of his advisers " who owed good will and service unto the Duke of York and others" (ib. pp. 243, 305). In Norfolk, where he declared his intention of bearing "the principal rule and governance next the king, and was addressed as "your Highness" and" Prince and Sovereign next our Sovereign Lord" (1455), his interests were in some cases opp... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 39 (Sir Leslie Stephen)