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iv The P R E F A G E.
have been really held in the 23d Year, and in p. 114. note f. mentionedthis Duke, with (bine Explanations thereon.
23 as it is entred for 14 Hen. c. p. iz6. In this Place Mr. Aßmolehath inferted the following Memorandum. “ That the old French Re-<f gifter makes it 24 H. 6. which I (meaning himfelf) the rather believefC for Truth, becaufe that which in the next Page is put for the 24th*' Year, hath no Mention of the Feaft at all, but only of a Chapter in“ J u ty” The Editor by a note in p. 127. had referred to his Intro-duction, wherein he had fhcwn that this Feaft muft be held in the 24thYear, and having Jikcwife fixed the preceeding Feaft to the 23d Year,it muft of Courfe follow, that the focceeding Feaft muft have been inthe 24th Year. But then as to Mr. Aßmole' s Opinion, touching theChapter held in July , (which is only his own Conjecture, for he doth notquote the Authority of the French Regifter for the Date of it,) This Colledorhath given his Reafons, that this Chapter thus entred in p. 12.9. to beheld in July 24 H. 6. muft have been certainly held in the 23d Year.Sec the Introd. p. 38.
27 H. C, p. 137. Meflire Johan. Faßolf, is added in Reg. Chari, f. zc h.which the Editor had guefled in the note fubjoined to that Page.
28 H. 6. p. 140. Le Conte de Shrowesbury , is added Reg. Chart, f. zj.and the Editor had remarked the Omiflion of him, and others in thatfolio note X.
In this Year the Black-Book differs from the Regißr. Chariac. touchingthe Stalls, to which the eleded Knights were defigned.
Black-Book
Rex Arragonum in fidem Comitis a Averentiæ, Rex Poloniæ in locumDucis h Quinberiæ, Dux Bromifwychiæ ad federn Vucis c Southfolciæ. —Dominus autem Ryvers &c. cujus enßs ac Galea cum annexis &c. propenfafunt per i Gul. Bobden Armigerum & ipfi Veneris 1 proximo in fedem fuamcollocatus.
Regißrum Chartaceum.
a Dc Meflire fob. Robeffért , & l’efìal de Countede Averence remaignant void.b Qÿtynbre.c Suffolk*
à Bowden Efq; & le lieraud Gytnne,t Et apres il fuft enflallez vendredi le xxx jourd’OElober devant prime per Meffire William Craj-jord.
The Colledor had indeed inferted fûch Notes upon the Defignationsto thefe Scalis, as he could gather from Mr. Aßmole's printed Hiftory,and feme Mss. which are placed in p. 142, and had given his Opinion,touching the King of Arragon in his Introd. p. 1 8 o, 1 81, 182, 183.
32 H. C. p. 152. The Black-Book faith Sigifmundi fides remanßt ad-huc vacua, nec adimpleta Comitis Salopiæ, to which the Reg. Chart, f. z 8 b.added neqi Domini Willughby, The Editor p. 153. note e. conjedured (as’tis there worded) that there was then a Vacancy in the Stall, to whichSir Edward Hull had been eleded. Now this Sir Edward was in 31 H c.eleded to the Stall of this Lord Willoughby, fee p. 15 1, and he beingfiain foon afterwards at the Battle of Chaßillon before his Inftallation, feeîntrod. p. 48, the Conjedurc was rightly made in Words that exprefs