[Footnote 153.1: [From Fenn, i. 54.] This letter was actually
written in the year 1465; but as the circumstances to which it
relates belong to the year 1450, and are connected with the
memorable insurrection of Jack Cade, we have thought it right,
as Fenn did, to place it under the earlier year.]
[Footnote 153.2: Jack Cade and his followers encamped on
Blackheath on the 11th June 1450, and again from the 29th of
June to the 1st July. Payn refers to the latter occasion.]
[Footnote 153.3: Sir John Fastolf (who is dead at the date of
this letter) left Paston his executor, as will be seen
hereafter.]
[Footnote 153.4: Jack Cade.]
[Footnote 154.1: Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter. During the civil
war which followed, he adhered to the House of Lancaster, though
he married Edward IV.’s sister. His herald had probably been
seized by Cade’s followers, and pressed into their service.]
[Footnote 154.2: Sir John Fastolf had a residence in Southwark.]
[Footnote 154.3: Robert Poynings, who, some years before this
letter was written, had married Elizabeth, the sister of John
Paston, was sword-bearer and carver to Cade, and was accused of
creating disturbances on more than one occasion afterwards.
He was slain at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th Feb.
1461.]
[Footnote 155.1: ‘A kind of mixed grey woollen cloth, which
continued in use to Elizabeth’s reign.’ --Halliwell.]
[Footnote 155.2: A brigandine was a coat of leather or quilted
linen, with small iron plates sewed on. --_See_ Grose’s _Antient
Armour_. The back and breast of this coat were sometimes made
separately, and called a pair.--Meyrick.]
[Footnote 155.3: Milan was famous for its manufacture of arms
and armour.]
[Footnote 155.4: ‘Skye or bluish grey. There was a kind of cloth
so called.’ --Halliwell.]
[Footnote 155.5: Budge fur.]
[Footnote 155.6: ‘Frieze. A coarse narrow cloth, formerly much
in use’ -- Halliwell.]
[Footnote 155.7: The battle on London Bridge was on the 5th
July.]
[Footnote 156.1: Fenn gives this name ‘Rosse’ with two long s’s,
but translates it Rochester, from which I presume it was written
‘Roffe’ for _Roffensis_. The Bishop of Rochester’s name was John
Lowe.]
[[Footnote 154.3: He was slain...
_final sentence added by editor in Errata; see also note 135.1
in Volume III._]]
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