But the factious nobles were far from being terrified with the progress of these public enemies: on the contrary, they founded the hopes of their own future grandeur on the weakness and distresses of the crown: Lancaster himself was suspected, with great appearance of reason, of holding a secret correspondence with the king of Scots: and though he was intrusted with the command of the English armies, he took care that every enterprise should be disappointed, and every plan of operations prove unsuccessful.
* Ryley, p, 560.

Rymer, vol.iii.p.

722.
** Brady vol.ii.p.

122, from the records, App.No.

61.
Ryley p.