#it's also an interesting glimpse into the perception of Jacquetta's importance and prominence during her daughter's queenship

[wonder-worker]

A marginally more structured means of dispute resolution was the appeal to a local powerholder for arbitration. [...] While most arbiters mentioned in accounts of previous resolution efforts were men, there are a few examples in Requests and elsewhere of prominent women being approached for this task. […] An aside in Catesby’s narrative of litigation related how ‘it fortuned that Maister John Ebrall [Eborall]’ had visited Robert Catesby’s hometown of Newenham, Northamptonshire, to preach to the congregation. It turned out that Eborall was then in royal favour, ‘by cause he maried Kynge Edward and Quene Elizabeth [Woodville] toged[er]’ in secret, in 1464. Eborall suggested that Robert ‘make a bill of the seid mater and putt it up to the seid Quene’, and to Earl Rivers and ‘my lady of Bedforde than moder to the seid Quene’.

— Laura Flannigan, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547