ERRATA.

p. xvi. To Note 1. add "The account given of the recapture of Dacq's, &c." from note 2; and note 2, should be "Ibid. p. 28, 29."

pp. 44, 45, 67, 71, 73, 77, 78, for Auxerre" read "Auch."

p. 97, l. 11, for "xx." read " xxvj.”

p. 120. Dele the note to "Viscount of Lomaine," and see ADDITIONAL NOTES.

p. 123. 1. 22. for "39th" read "29th of October."

p. 128. 1. 43. for "windlas" read "windas."

JOURNAL OF BECKINGTON,

SECRETARY TO HENRY VI.

ANNO 1442.

UNE V.

Memorandum.-In the

year of our Lord One thousand CCCC and forty-two, on Tuesday the fifth of June, his excellency my lord, Master Thomas Bekynton, secretary of our Lord King Henry the Sixth, came from Windsor to Henley-uponThames, where he supped, and passed the night. With him there were Mr. William Say, Mr. Ralph Legh, an officer of the catery to our Lord the King, and Thomas Chamberlaine. In the morning, at the second hour, Thomas Daniel came upon the said king's business to my lord the secretary.

VI. Wednesday, my lord rode on horseback to Sutton.

VII. Thursday, to dinner at Abingdon with the lord abbot, where was the Bishop of Salisbury. Supped at Sutton.

VIII. IX. Friday at Sutton, Saturday dined at Sutton, and slept at Bedwin.

X. Sunday, at Bedwin, whither John Water, came upon the king's business.

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June XI. Monday, at the same place, where the aforesaid John Water took his oath.

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XII. Tuesday to Devizes, where my lord spoke with the Lord de Hungerford, and supped and slept with the mayor of the town. To-day Mr. Ralph Legh and John Water returned to the king at Bedwin.

XIII. Wednesday, dined at Beckinton, whither the Lord de Hungerford sent two flagons of wine in bottles. Supped at Wells.

XIV. Thursday, dined at the same place with Mr. J. Bernard. In the afternoon my lord drank with the chanter, and was there installed in the choir for his prebend; supped at Glastonbury with the abbot, who lent his lordship a horse.

XV. Friday, dined at the same place, and slept at Taunton, from whence my lord sent Richard Erle to Basingstoke to M. Robert Roos, and Thomas Chamberlain to Enmore to Edward Hull.

XVI. Saturday, dined with Edward Hull at Enmore, with whom my lord held a conference upon the state of Guienne. With him there were Mr. W. Say, J. Blakeney, and J. Say, and a

1 "Le Vise," in the original, but clearly Devizes, which is just sixteen miles from Bedwin.

2 The following words occur in the original, but to which it is difficult to assign a meaning: "Sejurto viz uno cap."