[Footnote 163.1: [Douce MS. 393, f. 88.] From the similarity of
the contents of this and the two following letters, it is
evident that they belong to the same year; and the mention of
Thomas Denyes, from whom the Earl of Oxford was afterwards
estranged, proves that it must have been before 1454. In the
summer of 1450, there was disaffection in Norfolk, which led to
the issuing of a special commission of _oyer and terminer_ in
September. These three letters may, therefore, have belonged to
that year.]
[Footnote 163.2: ‘This shire’ should be Suffolk, as the Earl
dates from Bury St. Edmunds, but I should think Norfolk was
intended, which the Earl had probably just left on his way up to
London. Compare next number.]
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