[Footnote 123-1: [From Fenn, iv. 310.] This letter is dated from
Heningham, or Hedingham, one of the places which, as we have seen
in No. 1031, the King was to have visited on his intended journey
northwards in 1489. I have little doubt, therefore, that it was
written in that year. The writer, according to Fenn, was William
Paston, Sir John’s uncle; but it is remarkable that in this same
year William Paston, Sir John’s brother, writes to him from
Heningham, and as the signatures of the two Williams were not very
unlike each other, one may fairly suspect that Fenn has here made
an error. This suspicion is, moreover, confirmed by the fact that
Mautby was the property of Margaret Paston, who died in 1484, and
that it could not possibly have descended to her brother-in-law
William, though her son William may have had an interest in it.]
[Footnote 123-2: Fenn prints the name ‘Hokkys,’ but as the reading
in the modernised version is Cocks, I presume this is a printer’s
error.]
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