[Footnote 61.1: [From Fenn, iii. 26.] ‘From a memorandum,’ says
Fenn, ‘on the back of this letter, dated in April 1444, it is
probable that it was written on the 30th of January 1443.’ Did
Fenn mean the 30th of January 1443-4? In the side-note
immediately below the letter, he dates it in his usual exact
manner, ‘Wednesday, 30th of January 1443, 22 H. vi.’ But
unfortunately there is an error here. January in the 22d year of
Henry VI., means January 1444 according to the modern
computation, or 1443 in the style formerly in use, by which the
year was reckoned from the 25th of March. But the 30th of
January was a Wednesday in 1443, only according to the modern
computation of the year,--that is to say, it was a Wednesday in
the year 1442-3, not in 1443-4. I imagine, however, that the
‘30th of January’ should have been ‘29th of January,’ and that
Fenn really meant 1443-4, corresponding with the 22nd year of
Henry VI.; for the memorandum to which he refers is a draft
agreement, dated on Passion Sunday, 22 Hen. VI., A.D. 1444.]
[Footnote 61.2: The celebrated Sir John Fortescue.]
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