[Sidenote: 1447 / OCT. 21, 26]
21 Oct., at London.--Letter from Fastolf to Thomas Howys and John Grene,
desiring them to procure information about one Robert Eccles, cousin and
heir to John Eccles, whom the counsel for the prior of Hickling propose
to call to give evidence about the rent of 25 marks.
1447, [26 Oct.] ‘Thursday byfore S. Symond and Jude,’ 26 Hen. VI. at
Castre. Long letter from Thomas Howys in reply to the preceding, with
the results of searches made in the Bishop’s registry for wills of the
Eccles family, with particulars about various members of the family,
etc.
[For these abstracts I am indebted to Mr. Macray, and also for those
immediately following, which are from the same source.]
[Footnote 80.5: [From MSS. Hickling, 130, 140, in Magd. Coll.,
Oxf.]]
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