Mr Legge in The Unpopular King, vol. I. p. 156, says that Richard must have entertained these pious intentions ‘before the death or even the impeachment of Clarence, since they received the sanction of Parliament’ (the italics are Mr Legge's) ‘on the 16th of January, 1478. The death of Clarence occurred more than a month later.’ Mr Legge is not very careful in the use of his evidences. The Parliament only met on the 16th January, 1478. The Commons elected their Speaker next day, and the business of the session only commenced on Monday the 19th. At what date the Parliament was dissolved does not appear, and neither do I know positively on what precise day it gave its sanction to Richard's projects—or rather (which is a somewhat different thing) passed an Act to enable him more easily to carry out one such project at a place nowhere named in the Act (see Rotuli Parliamentorum vi. 172). But that one project, being expressly stated to be for a college with a dean and twelve priests, was distinctly the Barnard Castle project, which clearly was somehow connected with the death of Clarence, who had previously owned half the lordship. Perhaps, from the place not being named, and also, perhaps, from the fact that the Duke of Clarence is named in the Act, we may infer that the Duke at that time was alive; but assuredly the Act was not passed, as Mr Legge would have us believe, a month before his death.