[Footnote 103-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter
is nearly as indefinite as that of the last, but it certainly lies
between the year 1487, when Sir John Paston was knighted, and
1489, when William Brews died. If the latter part of the letter
refers to the levying of a subsidy, in which the Bishop of Chester
may have been one of the King’s agents, the date is probably about
the end of the year 1488. Sir Thomas Brews, the writer’s husband,
died in 1482.]
[Footnote 104-1: The Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield were often
called Bishops of Chester before the foundation of the modern
Bishopric of Chester by Henry VIII. John Hales or Halse was Bishop
of Coventry from 1459 to 1490.]
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