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Rh and Suffield in Buckinghamshire, and to apply their endowments to the building of a new chantry and hospital at Windsor in which he himself proposed to be buried, and where he intended to erect a shrine over the relics of Henry VI. Even in view of the future translation to Westminster it seems evident that there was no intention of abandoning the idea of the chantry, etc., at Windsor, for in 1494 and the following years various Papal Bulls granted the indulgences of the Scala Sancta to the proposed building.

There were, moreover, difficulties in the way of the proposed translation to Westminster, and Mr. Leonard Smith, in an interesting article on the Canonization of Henry VI in the Dublin Review states these as follows. "In 1498 a controversy arose before the Privy Council, between the Abbot of Chertsey, the Dean of Windsor, and the Abbot of Westminster as to who was entitled to the possession of the relics which it was now proposed to exhume a second time. Each of the rival claimants appeared in person, with documents and witnesses to make good his claim. The Abbot of Chertsey for his part affirmed that he