[Footnote 92-2: [From Fenn, ii. 338.] The date of this is quite
certain from the subject to which it refers, as well as from the
fact of John Paston being at the time Sheriff of Norfolk and
Suffolk. Francis, Viscount Lovel, was one of the principal
adherents of Richard III., and was attainted after the accession
of Henry VII. in 1485. For some time he lay concealed, but in the
spring of 1486 he attempted to raise an insurrection along with
Humphrey and Thomas Stafford, who had broken out of their
sanctuary at Colchester. He is said to have been drowned in the
Trent in 1487, in endeavouring to escape after the battle of
Stoke. But according to another story he lived in concealment for
some time after.]
[Footnote 93-1: Margaret, daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of
Salisbury, and sister of Richard, the great Earl of Warwick, was
the first wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford.--F.]
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