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Some aspects of English representation at the Council of Basle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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In several papers already published I have attempted to provide an account of English relations with the Council of Basle and of the English role within the Council; in the course of these studies I have also tried to identify as many as possible of the Englishmen who can be traced at Basle during this period. There is room, however, for a few further observations, and I trust that these will prove a useful supplement to my earlier work.
Of the two delegations that went to the Council from England, the first arrived early in 1433 and stayed only a few months, the second went in 1434 and was present for about a year until mid-1435. Both were despatched from England as the result of missions from the Council to this country led by Gerardo Landriani, the Bishop of Lodi. On each occasion the king’s council resolved to send representatives to Basle and the Convocation of Canterbury then decided likewise.
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Page No 219 Note 1 ‘The First English Delegation to the Council of Basel’, JEH, xn, no. 2 (Oct. 1961), 167-96; ‘The Second English Delegation to the Council of Basel’, ibid. xvii, no. 1 (Apr. 1966), 29-64; ‘England, the Pope, and the Council of Basel, 1435-1449’, Church History, xxxiii, no. 3 (Sept. 1964), 248-78; and Reunion, vi, no. 62 (June 1965), 3-28. Many of the matters touched upon in the present paper are treated at greater length, with citation of sources and relevant authorities, in the above articles. This paper is devoted to the English at Basle, to the exclusion of the Normans, Gascons, and Irish; on the last mentioned, see ‘Ireland and the Council of Basel’, Irish Ecclesiastical Record, cvii, no. 6, 5th ser. (June 1967), 374-87.
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Page No 220 Note 6 Cf. when Pertrich (Partriche), the Chancellor of Lincoln, was granted letters of protection, Dec. 1432; ibid.
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Page No 225 Note 3 PRO C115/A 3, f. ccxlviii. There is a copy or draft of a similar, although shorter and perhaps incomplete, royal letter, also like the above mentioned in English, in British Museum Cotton Cleopatra E III, f. 66a; this has the date ‘13 H6’ (Sept. 1434-Aug. 1435) added. The English had applied unsuccessfully to be allowed to form a ‘nation’ in Nov. 1434. ‘The Second English Delegation to the Council of Basel’, JEH, xvii, no. 1, 49-50.
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Page No 226 Note 2 Concilium Basiliense, ii-vi. Lists of incorporations will also be found in Cardinal John of Segovia’s history of the Council in Monumenta Conciliorum Generalium XV Saeculi, ii and iii; but these sometimes appear to be based on the minutes published by Haller; they also contain frequent mistakes in proper names.