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1.50               Conditidional Hisioryt             [chap.

Private
quarrel of
Cromwell
and Suffolk.


sented possibly a small minority in the council; possibly lie
stood alone there; he was an old servant of Heniyj whom the
cardinal had been able to keep in his place, and who was
personally hostile to Gloucester1. Now that the cardinal and
the duke were both gone, he may have envied the rise of a new
minister like Suffolk, or he may thus early have been connected
with the band of men who later on undertook the overthrow of
the dynasty. It seems however certain that private grudges
served to embitter the public quarrel. Lord Cromwell on the
28th of November 1449 charged William Tailleboisj of South
Kyme in Lincolnshire, with an attempt to assassinate him
at the door of the Star Chamber. Suffolk defended Taillebois,
who notwithstanding was accused by a petition of the commons
and sent to the Tower. In the subsequent proceedings against
Suffolk the revenge for his protection of Taillebois formed one
ingredient, and two of the charges brought against him were
based on his attempts to screen the culprit2.

Bibkop
AIoleyns
murdered,
Jan. 1450.


The mischief began during the Christmas holydays. Bishop
Moleyns had gone down to Portsmouth to pay the soldiers who
were going to France, and was there on the 9th of January3

1 Cromwell had been, as we have seen, a councillor in 1422, chamberlain
to Henry VI, and treasurer from 1433 to 1443 ; he became chamberlain
again in 1450. It was at the marriage of his niece to Thomas Neville that
the quarrel of Egremont and the Nevilles broke out; W. Wore. pp. 770,
771. The duke of Exeter sided with Egremont, and the duke of York with
the Nevilles. Cromwell in 1454 exhibited articles in parliament against
the duke of Exeter, and no doubt was then in the York interest. He was
accused of treason in 1455, and on bad terms with Warwick, the two
charging on each other the guilt of the battle of S. Alban’s. He died
however, in 1456. See Paston Letters, i. 293, 344, 345, 376; cf. Ord.
vi. 198.

2 i Et postca dominus de CromweIle reddidit duel Suffolchiae vices suas
in male anno ipsi duci.* During the parliament Cromwell obtained damages
for £1000 against Taillebois from a Middlesex jury; and then i domino de
Cromwell secrete Iaborante dux Suffolchiae per communes in parliamento
de alta et grandi prodɪtione appellatus est ; ’ W. Worcester, pp. [766-769] ;
Hot. Parl. v. 181, 200.

3 Gregory, p. 189, ‘for his Covetysse as hyt was reportyde.’ ‘ Through
the procurement of Hicliard duke of York,’ Stow, p. 387. ‘ Et pacenι
«tiens cum morte recessit atroci,’ Chr. Giles, p. 58. ‘ Inter qαos et amicus
noster Adam Molines secret! τegii signaculi euətos et Iitterarum cultor,
amisso capite truncus jacuit;’ Æneas Sylvius, Opp. p. 445. Æneas had
addressed Moleyns as the king’s first favourite or next to the first ; Epist.
ι8,p. 514: in another letter, Epist. 64, he congratulates him on his style.
See also Epi⅛t. 80. There is a letter of Moleyns to Æneas, Epist. 186.

XVTIi.]             Charges agaιni>t Suffolk.               ɪʒl

murdered by the sailors, the soldiers looking on. In his last
moments he was heard to say something about the duke of
Suffolk, which was understood as a confession of their common
delinquency. Suffolk, probably aware that a formal charge
would be preferred against him, attempted to anticipate it,
and, as he had done before the council in 1447, to put himself
at once on his defence. Accordingly, on the first day of the
Snffoikanti-
• ɪ                                       τ J                                 _ cipates the

session, January 22, 14⅛0, lie made a formal protest before charges laid
the king and lords. He declared in simple and touching
language his services and sacrifices, denied the slander that
was publicly current against him in consequence of the bishop’s
supposed confession, and prayed that, if any one would charge
him with treason or disloyalty1, he would come forth and make
a definite accusation, which he trusted to be able to rebut.

The commons at once took up the gauntlet. On the 26th Thecom-

,         TiTi Iiii         mens de-

they petitioned that, as he had acknowledged the currency of ma∏d his
these infamous reports, he might be put in ward to avoid
inconvenient consequences ; on the 2 7th the lords, acting 011
the
advice of the chief justice, resolved that he should not be
arrested until some definite charge was made ; on the 28th the
commons made the definite charge, and the duke was sent to
the Tower. This first charge was based on the report that he
General
had sold the realm to Charles VII, and had fortified Walling- t⅛⅛m,°f
ford castle as headquarters for a confederacy against the inde-
pendence of .Eneland2. Ten days later the first formal and J,⅛t
set
j                     α                      ∙,                            .            Offoimal

definite impeachment was made ; the chancellor having been charges ;

. x            .          1      ,     1∕∙1∙>1              also °f

changed in the meantime3; and on the γtlι of rebruary car- treason,
dinal Kemp, attended by several of the lords, was sent by the
king to the commons to hear the charge. This elaborate
accusation contained eight counts of high treason4 and mis-
prision of treason : the duke had conspired with the king of
France to depose Henry and place on the throne his own sou

ɪ Rot. Parl. v. 176.

2 lb. v. 176, 177. ‘And also for the dethe of that nobylle prynce the
duke of Gloucester ; ’ Gregory, p. 189.

s The chancellor resigned Jan. 31 : the charges were brought forward on
the 7th of February; Rot. Park v. I77∙

* Rot. Parl. v. 177-119 ; Hall, Chr. pp. 212, 213; Paston Letters (ed.

Gairdner), i. 99-105.



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