[Footnote 160-1: [Douce MS. 393, f. 87.] Edmund de la Pole, Earl
of Suffolk, escaped abroad on the 1st July 1499, and proclamations
were issued on the 20th August following (the day on which this
letter was written) against persons leaving the kingdom without a
license. (_See_ my _Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns
of Richard III. and Henry VII._, vol. i. preface p. xl., vol. ii.
p. 377.) It appears that the King was at this time staying at
Godshill, in the Isle of Wight, the place from which this letter
is dated (see _Excerpta Historica_, p. 122).]
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