[Footnote 1-1: [From Fenn, ii. 270.]]
[Footnote 1-2: Joan, sister to Henry, Duke of Buckingham, was the
second wife of Sir William Knevet, Knight, of Bokenham Castle, in
Norfolk.--F.]
[Footnote 1-3: Elizabeth, widow of John Mowbray, Duke of
Norfolk.--F.]
[Footnote 1-4: Agnes Paston, grandmother to Sir John, presented
Thomas Everard to the Rectory of Oxnead in 1475, and in 1479, she
again presented William Barthulmew, so that the Duke of Suffolk
either did not attempt to disturb her right; or at least did not
succeed, if he endeavoured to do it.--F. It will be seen by No.
935 that before presenting William Barthulmew she presented Dr.
Richard Lyncoln.]
[Footnote 2-1: A word at this time, implying a friend, or intimate
acquaintance, who really slept in the same bed. _See_ Steevens’
Shakspeare, _Henry V._ Act ii. Sc. 2.--F.]
[Footnote 2-2: John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, had been for several
years a prisoner in the Castle of Hammes, in Picardy. He became a
favourite of Henry VII. and died in the reign of Henry VIII.--F.]
[Footnote 3-1: St. Bartholomew’s Day is the 24th August. ‘The day
_next_ St. Bartholomew’ should be the 25th, unless the writer
meant to say ‘next before.’]
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