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REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
Thursday. There Thomas of Woodstocke, the king's uncle, was admitted to
exercise the office of constable of England, in right of his wife, one of the
daughters and heires of Humfrey de Bohun, late earle of Hereford, and constable
of England. Henry de Piercie1 was, by the king's consent and writ, authorised
to exercise the place of marshall of England for that time, saving to every one
their right; for that, by reason of the time's shortnesse, the clame which Margaret
daughter and heire to Thomas of Brotherton, late earle of Norfolke, and marshall
of England, laid thereunto could not be discussed."—With various other claims
of less consequence, made at the same time; for which the reader is referred to
Speed himself.
It is highly probably that the figure kneeling is Thomas of Woodstock, high
constable of England. This Thomas was the seventh and youngest son of Edward
the Third, and Brother to John of Gaunt.
John of Gaunt is dressed in dark blue and white y the figure kneeling is in
dark blue and red ; the seat a kind of pink, and the back ground red ; the letter
half blue, and half red, worked on with white, and blue corners, with a gold
edge round the whole.3
1 Or de Percy (so the name was originally written). Percy is a town in Lower Normandy, where
this great family had their place of residence before the Conquest.
2 [The colours of the House of Lancaster. Party coloured dresses were much worn at this period,
and are expressly inveighed against by Chaucer in "The Parson's Tale." Blue and red, in which
colours the kneeling figure is arrayed, were then as now the royal colours of England, and might be
those peculiar to Thomas of Woodstock. The personal livery as it was called of Richard II. was
white and red, and that of the house of York, murrey (or purple) and blue. — Ed.]
3 This is in Nero, D. VI.
REGAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
Thursday. There Thomas of Woodstocke, the king's uncle, was admitted to
exercise the office of constable of England, in right of his wife, one of the
daughters and heires of Humfrey de Bohun, late earle of Hereford, and constable
of England. Henry de Piercie1 was, by the king's consent and writ, authorised
to exercise the place of marshall of England for that time, saving to every one
their right; for that, by reason of the time's shortnesse, the clame which Margaret
daughter and heire to Thomas of Brotherton, late earle of Norfolke, and marshall
of England, laid thereunto could not be discussed."—With various other claims
of less consequence, made at the same time; for which the reader is referred to
Speed himself.
It is highly probably that the figure kneeling is Thomas of Woodstock, high
constable of England. This Thomas was the seventh and youngest son of Edward
the Third, and Brother to John of Gaunt.
John of Gaunt is dressed in dark blue and white y the figure kneeling is in
dark blue and red ; the seat a kind of pink, and the back ground red ; the letter
half blue, and half red, worked on with white, and blue corners, with a gold
edge round the whole.3
1 Or de Percy (so the name was originally written). Percy is a town in Lower Normandy, where
this great family had their place of residence before the Conquest.
2 [The colours of the House of Lancaster. Party coloured dresses were much worn at this period,
and are expressly inveighed against by Chaucer in "The Parson's Tale." Blue and red, in which
colours the kneeling figure is arrayed, were then as now the royal colours of England, and might be
those peculiar to Thomas of Woodstock. The personal livery as it was called of Richard II. was
white and red, and that of the house of York, murrey (or purple) and blue. — Ed.]
3 This is in Nero, D. VI.