[Footnote 72.2: [From Fenn, iii. 32.] This letter must have been
written in February 1445, as it appears from the contents that
William Paston was dead, but had been alive in the preceding
Lent.]
[Footnote 72.3: John Partrick of Swathfield was Vicar of Paston,
from 1442 to 1447.--F.]
[Footnote 72.4: William Paston, the Judge.]
[Footnote 72.5: Landmarks. ‘Dolestones’ are still spoken of in
Norfolk in this sense. --_See_ Latham’s Edition of Johnson’s
_Dictionary_.]
[Footnote 72.6: On the 6th July 1443 a licence was granted to
William Paston to enclose a portion of the highway at Paston,
and another at Oxnead, on his making two other highways in place
thereof.--_Patent Roll_, 21 Henry VI. p. 1, m. 10.]
[Footnote 73.1: Stansted Church in Suffolk.--Dame Agnes had
possessions in that parish.--F.]
[Footnote 73.2: These tidings relate to our foreign
transactions, the giving up of Maine, Truces, &c. &c. on the
King’s marriage, which had taken place in November.--F.]
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