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Lame Fingers Are Yet More Incapable Now). the Attire of the Head Is 218 To RICHARD GOUGH 8 MAY 1788 lame fingers are yet more incapable now). The attire of the head is precisely the same with that of our fourth Henry.s Vertue's account I have transcribed too.6 I was very sure I had seen somewhere an account of Joan of Na­ varre? being suspected by Henry V. I looked into Stowe,8 Hollings- hedQ and Hall,10 but they mention no such thing.11 Nor can I recol­ lect where I found it—but Rapin does touch on it briefly in the place I have set down.12 Still I am positive I have seen rather a fuller ac­ count of it, though I cannot recall where. I hope, Sir, you received the letter13 in which I told you of my im­ perfect negotiation with Lord MonsonJ* about the pictures at Brox- 5. The head-dress is very similar to that put from her, was committed to the cus- in Vertue's engraving of Henry IV 'taken todie of J. Pellam, and by him sent to from a picture at Hampton Court, Here­ the Castle of Leeds in Kent.' HW's copy fordshire' (Paul de Rapin-Thoyras, The of Stow's Annates (now WSL) is Hazen, Cat. History of England, trans. Nicholas Tin- of HW's Lib., No. 610. dal, 3d edn, 1743-7, i. facing 484). HW 9. Holinshed's The Chronicles of En­ mentions this portrait of Henry IV in gland, Scotland, and Ireland, [1587], iii. Anecdotes of Painting, calling it 'an un­ 568, gives this account: 'In this sixt yeare doubted original' (Works iii. 31). Accord­ [of Henry V's reign] . Queene Jone ing to Gough, 'Mr Walpole has a copy of late wife of King Henrie the Fourth, and this portrait, which is very rude indeed' mother in law to this King, was arested (Sepulchral Monuments ii. 71), but no by the Duke of Bedford the King's lieu­ copy is mentioned in HW's Description tenant in his absence, and by him com­ of SH. mitted to safe keeping in the Castell of 6. This is no longer preserved with the Leeds in Kent, there to abide the King's letter. For Vertue's brief comments on the pleasure. About the same time, one Frier resemblance noted by HW, see Walpole Randoll . confessor to the same Society 1931-2, xx. 46. Queene, was taken in the Isle of Gerne- 7. Joan (ca 1370-1437) of Navarre, m. 1 sey. ... It was reported that he had con­ (1386) John V of Brittany; m. 2 (1403) spired with the Queene by sorcerie and Henry IV of England. necromancie to destroie the King.' HW's 8. There is an account of the supposed copy of the 1587 edition is Hazen, op. cit., conspiracy in The Annates, or Generall No. 597. Chronicle of England, begun first by mais- 10. The Union of the Two Noble and ter John Stow, and after him continued lllustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, and augmented . unto the ende of 1548, by Edward Hall (d. 1547). A continu­ this present yeere 1614 by Edmond Howes, ation of Hall's chronicle, up to the end gentleman, 1615, p. 358: 'This yeere of Henry VIII's reign, was published by [1419] Queene Joane mother to the Duke Richard Grafton in 1550. Neither work of Brytaine, and the King's stepmother appears in the SH records. being defamed of some wicked practise, 11. Gough does not mention the con­ by witchcraft, or sorcery, that she had spiracy in his account of Joan in Sepul­ devised the King's death, by the coun- chral Monuments ii. 31, 34. sell of John Randolph Doctor of Divinitie, 12. See the enclosure printed below. of the order of the Fryars minors, . her 13. Missing. confessor, forfeited all her lands and goods 14. John Monson (1753-1806), 3d Bn by Parliament, and having all her servants Monson, 1774. .
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