[Footnote 91-1: [From Fenn, ii. 336.] There is a difficulty in
dating this letter only from the address being to Sir John Paston.
It has every appearance of having been written in the year 1486,
when Francis, Viscount Lovel, lay concealed shortly before his
outbreak with Humphrey and Thomas Stafford. But in that case the
prefix ‘Sir’ before John Paston’s name must not be taken as
indicating that he was then a knight; for he was not knighted till
the battle of Stoke in June 1487.
The writer of this letter was the widow of Henry, Lord Fitzhugh,
who died on the 12th June 1472. She was the daughter of Richard
Nevill, Earl of Salisbury, and sister of Warwick the Kingmaker.]
[Footnote 91-2: I find no evidence of any real relationship
between Paston and Lady Fitzhugh.]
[Footnote 92-1: Francis, Viscount Lovel, married Anne, daughter of
Alice, Lady Fitzhugh.]
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