[Footnote 146.1: [From Fenn, i. 38.] The date of this letter is
perfectly determined by the events to which it relates.]
[Footnote 146.2: 4th May.]
[Footnote 146.3: 30th April.]
[Footnote 146.4: 2nd May.]
[Footnote 147.1: An allusion to Friar Hauteyn’s suit or Oxnead.]
[Footnote 147.2: Sent to France to carry succours to the Duke of
Somerset, but defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of
Fourmigni, 15th April 1450.]
[Footnote 147.3: Matthew Gough, a celebrated captain in the
French war.]
[Footnote 148.1: This singular subscription Fenn believes to
have been owing to a momentary forgetfulness on the part of the
writer, William Lomner, who had been in the habit of acting as
Margaret Paston’s secretary in writing to her husband.]
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