[Footnote 44-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Fenn dates this letter
1479-80, suggesting that it must have been written very soon after
Edmund Paston’s marriage with the widow of William Clippesby, as
it seems to imply that he had not yet carried his bride to pay her
duty to his mother. I do not, for my part, know the date of this
marriage, and I suspect Fenn had no other clue to it than the fact
that William Clippesby, the lady’s first husband, died on the 24th
September 1479; but I presume his widow was still unmarried when
she proved his will on the 18th May 1480 (_see_ Blomefield, xi.
144). I consider, therefore, that the letter must have been
written between the years 1481 and 1484, as Margaret Paston died
in November of the latter year.]
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