[Footnote 49.1: [From Fenn, iii. 18.] The date of this letter is
uncertain. From the fact of John Paston’s residence at Peter
House in Cambridge, it would appear, as Fenn remarks, to have
been written early in his married life, and we know that he was
married as early as 1440.]
[Footnote 49.2: Probably Thomas Wetherby, who was Mayor of
Norwich in 1432-3, is referred to. He took offence at the
Aldermen and Commons of the city for not naming the person he
wished as his successor, and for some years afterwards showed
his hostility by instigating prosecutions against the city,
causing their attorneys to abandon their pleas, and so forth.]
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