[1] [2] [3] It was further conteined in that bill, that as the same Bagot rode on a daie behind the duke of Nor|folke in the Sauoy stréet toward Westminster, the ruke asked him what he knew of the manner of the duke of Glocester his death, and he answered that he knew nothing at all: but the people (quoth he) doo say that you haue murthered him. Wherevnto the duke sware great othes that it was vntrue, and tha [...] he had saued his life contrarie to the will of the king and certeine other lords, by the space of thrée wéeks, and more; affirming withall, that he was neuer in all his life time more affraid of death, than he was at his comming home againe from Calis at that time, to the kings presence, by reason he had not put the duke to death. And then (said he) the king appoin|ted one of his owne seruants, and certeine other that [page 512] were seruants to other lords to go with him to see the said duke of Glocester put to death, swearing that as he should answer afore God, it was neuer his mind that he should haue died in the fort, but onelie for feare of the king, and sauing of his owne life. Ne|uerthelesse, there was no man in the realme to whom king Richard was so much beholden,The duke of Aumarle ac|cused. as to the duke of Aumarle: for he was the man that to fulfill his mind, had set him in hand with all that was doone a|gainst the said duke, and the other lords. There was also conteined in that bill, what secret malice king Richard had conceiued against the duke of Hereford being in exile, whereof the same Bagot had sent in|telligence vnto the duke into France, by one Roger Smart, who certified it to him by Piers Buckton, and others, to the intent he should the better haue re|gard to himselfe. There was also conteined in the said bill, that Bagot had heard the duke of Aumarle say, that he had rather than twentie thousand pounds that the duke of Hereford were dead, not for anie feare he had of him, but for the trouble and mischéefe that he was like to procure within the realme.