[Footnote 73-1: [From Fenn, ii. 314.] Sir John Howard was created
Duke of Norfolk on the 28th June 1483, and was killed in the
battle of Bosworth on the 22nd August 1485. This letter seems to
have been written in October 1483, when it first became known that
a series of insurrections were about to take place in different
counties, of which the Duke of Buckingham was the principal
leader. It was on the 12th October, just two days after this
letter was written, that King Richard himself at Lincoln heard of
Buckingham’s intended treason.]
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