[Footnote 148-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter cannot be
later than the year 1493, as Sir Roger Townsend died on the 9th
December in that year (Inq. p. m. 10 Hen. VII., No. 170). Moreover
the will of Elizabeth Clere of Ormesby was proved, according to
Blomefield, on the 6th March 1492-3. But as Sir John Paston’s
eldest son was only born in 1478, the date is not likely to be
many years earlier.]
[Footnote 148-2: Sir Robert Clere of Ormesby.]
[Footnote 148-3: Probably his first wife Anne, daughter of Sir
William Hopton. His second was Alice, daughter of Sir William
Boleyn.]
[Footnote 148-4: Townsend.]
[Footnote 148-5: Sir Henry Heydon.]
[Footnote 148-7: Elizabeth, widow of Robert Clere of Ormesby, the
father of Sir Robert. She was the daughter of Thomas Owydale,
Uvedale, or Dovedale, of Tacolneston, in Norfolk.]
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