[Footnote 88.2: [From Fenn, i. 12.] The date of this letter will
appear by a foot-note.]
[Footnote 88.3: The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as
‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’]
[Footnote 89.1: 22nd May.]
[Footnote 89.2: The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as
‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’]
[Footnote 89.3: Killed in an engagement with Jack Cade in June
1450.]
[Footnote 89.4: Probably Sir James Butler, son and heir-apparent
of James, fourth Earl of Ormond, who in 1449 was created Earl of
Wiltshire.]
[Footnote 89.5: Wife of John Talbot, the famous Earl of
Shrewsbury.]
[Footnote 89.6: He signalised himself in the wars of Henry VI.
and Edward IV., was a Knight of the Garter, and in November
1470, 10 Edward IV., was slain by the Staffords, perhaps in
revenge for this murder of Richard Stafford.--F.]
[Footnote 90.1: Thomas Porter was sheriff of the counties of
Warwick and Leicester in 26 Henry VI., and died in his year of
office on Monday after Corpus Christi day (27th May 1448), the
day before this letter was written.--Inquisition _post mortem_,
27 Henry VI., No. 13.]
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