[Footnote 94.1: [From Fenn, iii. 408.] Fenn thinks this was
written about 1460, but I do not see on what evidence. From the
reference to Gresham, I should rather suppose it belongs to
1449. By the subscription, it would appear that the writer was
very near the time of lying in; but we cannot tell the exact
date of the birth of any of her children. Lord Molyns
dispossessed John Paston of the lordship of Gresham on the 17th
of February 1448. After repeated remonstrances on the subject to
no purpose, Paston went and took up his quarters there again on
the 6th October 1449, and succeeded in keeping possession till
the 28th January 1450, when the place was attacked, in his
absence, by Lord Molyns’ men, who undermined the walls, and
drove out Paston’s wife. The ‘errands about Gresham’ probably
refer to the time of Lord Molyns’ first occupation.]
[Footnote 95.1: No notice is taken elsewhere of John Paston
having a brother named Harry.]
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