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The Deeds of King Henry V, or in Latin Henrici Quinti, Angliæ Regis, Gesta, is a first-hand account of the Agincourt Campaign, and subsequent events to his death in 1422. The author of the first part was a Chaplain in King Henry's retinue who was present from King Henry's departure at Southampton in 1415, at the siege of Harfleur, the battle of Agincourt, and the celebrations on King Henry's return to London. The second part, by another writer, relates the events that took place including the negotiations at Troye, Henry's marriage and his death in 1422.
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The Constitutional History of England by FW Maitland is in Books.
In 1462 Edward IV empowers him to proceed in all cases of treason, 'summarily and plainly, without noise and show of judgment on simple inspection of fact.' A similar patent was granted to Lord Rivers in 1467. They show something very like a contempt for law— the constable is to exercise powers of almost unlimited extent, all statutes, ordinances, acts and restrictions to the contrary notwithstanding. This illegal tribunal, for such we may well call it, came to an end after the accession of the House of Tudor — the king had no need of it; but an evil precedent had been set