[Footnote 174.1: [From Fenn, iii. 154.] This letter must have
been written just after the Duke of York came over from Ireland
in 1450, when he demanded that justice should be fairly
administered against persons accused. A Parliament was summoned,
which met on the 6th November, and Sir William Oldhall was
chosen as Speaker.]
[Footnote 174.2: Richard, Duke of York, afterwards Protector,
the father of King Edward IV.]
[Footnote 174.3: The writer was clerk to Judge Yelverton.]
[Footnote 176.1: Sir Miles Stapleton.]
[Footnote 176.2: John Dam actually was returned to Parliament
for the city of Norwich in November 1450.]
[Footnote 177.1: _See_ next No.]
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