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during Parliament. The king yielded, and the duke was 

 committed. 



On Jan. 31, Stafford was discharged of the office of Chan- 

 cellor, and Kemp. Archbishop of York, substituted. On Feb. 7, 

 the Commons presented their charges, eight in number, with a 

 preamble in which they state that through Suffolk's means 

 Normandy and Guienne, Anjou and Maine had been lost. 

 The first article charges Suffolk with an attempt, in conjunction 

 with certain French lords, to dethrone the king, by inviting 

 Charles of France to land in England, with the ultimate view 

 of making his own son king in Henry's room. They state that 

 Suffolk had procured the wardship of Margaret, daughter and 

 heir of John, Duke of Somerset (subsequently married to Owen 

 Tudor, and mother of Henry VII), with the intention of 

 marrying her to his son, on the ground that she was next heir 

 to the English crown, supposing the king had no issue, and 

 they allege that since his arrest Margaret had been married 

 to the duke's son. (He actually married a daughter of the 

 Duke of York.) 



The second count charges Suffolk with having released the 

 Duke of Orleans, one of the captives of Agincourt, from prison, 

 eleven years before, and having stimulated Charles of France to 

 attack Normandy, where the Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord 

 Falconbridge were captured and held to ransom. The third 

 charges him with transferring Anjou and Maine to the queen's 

 father and the king's great enemy, thereby causing the loss of 

 Normandy. The fourth with having disclosed the king's 

 counsel at a given place and time to Dunois the Bastard of 

 Orleans and others, and thereby effecting the loss of France 

 and Normandy. The fifth with having disclosed the condition 

 of the French fortresses to Charles. The sixth with having 

 prevented peace between Charles and Henry, and having 

 bragged of his influence at the French court. The seventh 

 with having failed to forward the supplies which had been 

 granted for the war; and the eighth with having aided and 

 abetted certain of the king's enemies, and having discouraged 



