[Footnote 72-1: [From Fenn, ii. 292.] This is a holograph letter
of Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk, the sister of Edward IV. There
can be little doubt that the Lord Chamberlain referred to is the
Lord Hastings who has been very frequently mentioned in this
correspondence; and if so, the letter cannot be later than 1483,
as he was beheaded in that year on the 13th June, by order of the
Protector Richard, Duke of Gloucester. We may therefore place it
for convenience among the letters of Edward V.’s time, though
undoubtedly it may be a few years earlier. Facsimiles of the
original, both back and front, are given by Fenn. It is endorsed
in the hand of John Paston, the younger (certainly not in that of
his brother Sir John, as Fenn supposed)--‘Littra Ducisse Suff.’]