In December, he was made Warden of the Scottish Marches, and he was invested with the Garter in the following May.[37] [Footnote 31: _L.

and P._, i., 4871.] [Footnote 32: Fox's own statement, _L.

and P._, iv., 5791.] [Footnote 33: Herbert gives Paolo Sarpi as his authority.] [Footnote 34: G.E.C [okayne], _Complete Peerage_, _s.v._ Cornwall.] [Footnote 35: _L.

and P._, _Henry VII._, Rolls Ser., ii., 374.] [Footnote 36: _Ib._, i., 388-404; _Paston Letters_, iii., 384-85.] [Footnote 37: _L.

and P._, _Henry VII._, ii., 57.] The accumulation of these great offices of State, any one of which might have taxed the powers of a tried administrator, in the feeble hands of a child appears at first sight a trifle irrational; but there was always method in Henry's madness.