1. Jer. 6:14, “Curabant contritionem filiae populi mei cum ignominia, dicentes ‘Pax! Pax!’ Et non erat pax.”
2. “Propter ingentem in constantissimos cadentem metum”: C. C., 170. Our Anonymous, admittedly writing after 22 August 1485, called the petition wholly fraudulent. By the same token, it was then safe to do so.
3. To adopt the neat expression of Dunham and Wood in “The Right to Rule.”
4. “In hoc parliamento confirmatum est regnum domino regi, tanquam sibi debitum non ex uno sed ex multis titulis, ut non tam sanguinis quam victoriae bellicae conquaestusque jure rectissime populo Anglicano praesidere credatur. Fuerunt qui consultius aestimabant verba ejusmodi silentio potius quam edicto committi.” (C. C., 194.) Chrimes discounted this evidence that a debate had occurred because he took confirmatum est to mean “formally conferred by the Act of Settlement” ( Chrimes S. B. , Henry VII [London, 1972], 50 and n. 5). But what was substantiated in speeches and what became enshrined in a statute might be two different things.