XXIV. Letter containing Intelligence of the Proceedings of the Court and Nobility, at the commencement of the year 1454; accompanied by some Remarks, addressed by Sir Frederic Madden, K.H. F.R.S. F.S.A. to John Gage Rokewode, Esq., Director S.A.
The want of contemporary documents to illustrate the complicated events produced by the feuds of the Yorkists and Lancastrians, during the agitated reign of Henry the Sixth, has been a subject of complaint with more than one of our historians. Every portion, therefore, of information, derived from original sources, which enables us to obtain a clearer insight into the transactions of that period, must be considered as valuable, and should be placed on record. With this view it is, that I beg to lay before the Society, by your hands, the copy of a paper preserved among the Egerton MSS. in the British Museum, No. 914, which contains some notices of circumstances hitherto unknown to our annalists, and is also of considerable interest from the light it throws on the state of the adverse parties at the beginning of the year 1454.