[Footnote 117.1: [From Fenn, i. 84.] Richard Nevill, Earl of
Warwick, afterwards famous as the ‘King-maker,’ succeeded to the
title in 1449, and this letter is not unlikely to have been
written in that very year. Certainly it is not many years later.
In 1449 and 1450 Warwick was probably in London to attend the
Parliament.]
[Footnote 117.2: ‘The seal of this letter’ says Fenn, ‘is of red
wax, on which is the Bear and Ragged Staff, the badge of this
nobleman, with his motto,--the whole very fair and curious, and
around it is a braid of twine.’]
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