[Footnote 160.4: [From Fenn, iii. 86.] The date of this letter
is ascertained by the news contained in the last paragraph of
the fall of Cherbourg, besides other internal evidence.]
[Footnote 160.5: ‘After John Paston had received this letter,’
says Fenn, ‘it seems as if he had sent it to my Lord Oxford, for
on the back of it, in John Paston’s handwriting, is the
following direction: “To the rith worspfull and my rith speciall
lord, my Lord of Oxenford.”’]
[Footnote 160.6: These passages, in which the text is broken by
brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the
original.]
[Footnote 160.7: John Kemp, Cardinal Archbishop of York,
afterwards of Canterbury.]
[Footnote 161.1: These passages, in which the text is broken by
brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the
original.]
[Footnote 161.2: A writ directed to the sheriff for recovery of
possession of things immoveable, whereof yourself or ancestors
have been disseised.--F.]
[Footnote 161.3: Is a commission especially granted to certain
persons for the hearing and determining of causes, and was
formerly only in use upon some sudden outrage or insurrection in
any place.--F.]
[Footnote 161.4: These disturbances among the people were the
remains of Cade’s rebellion, which had been lately
suppressed.--F.]
[Footnote 161.5: Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, fell in
the battle of Northampton in July 1460.--F.]
[Footnote 161.6: These commissions of _oyer_ and _determiner_
were to try those who had been concerned in the late rebellion
under Cade.--F.]
[Footnote 162.1: _See_ Note 1, p. 161.]
[Footnote 162.2: John Hody was at this time Chief Justice of the
King’s Bench.--F.]
[Footnote 162.3: Robert Danvers became a Judge of the Common
Pleas 14th of August 1450.--F.]
[Footnote 162.4: Cherbourg surrendered to the French on the 12th
August 1450. --_See_ Stevenson’s _Reductio Normanniæ_, p. 367.]
[Footnote 162.5: ‘Quære this abbreviated word,’ says Fenn. It is
probably _eme_, meaning uncle.]
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