[Footnote 96.1: [From Fenn, iii. 80.] There is no distinct clue
to the date of this letter; but Fenn throws out a conjecture
which, in default of any better guide, may be accepted as not
improbable, that ‘the Bishop of the other side of the sea’ was
Walter Lyhert, Bishop of Norwich, who in the beginning of 1449
must have been in Savoy, having been sent thither by the King to
persuade the anti-pope Felix V. to renounce his claim to
Nicholas V. for the peace of the Church. This Felix actually did
in the beginning of this year, and Wharton considers Bishop
Lyhert to have been the cause of his doing so (Angl. Sac. i.
418). Fenn, however, dates this letter 1450, on the supposition
that the Bishop would have been still abroad in the beginning of
that year, which is a mistake, as his name appears in the Rolls
of Parliament as a trier of petitions as early as February.]
[Footnote 96.2: Robert Rogers was parson of Thorpe from 1445 to
1476.]
[Footnote 96.3: Court of Rome.]
[Footnote 97.1: Deceive.]
[Footnote 97.2: The first week in Clean Lent means the first
_entire_ week in Lent beginning on a Sunday.]
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