[Footnote 205.1: [From Fenn, iii. 134.] The evidence on which
this letter has been assigned to the year 1451 will be seen in a
footnote.]
[Footnote 205.2: This is supplied by the Editor, there being no
address in the MS. itself.]
[Footnote 205.3: Alfonso V.]
[Footnote 205.4: Francis Sforza, one of the most able and
successful generals of the time. He was a soldier of fortune, of
peasant origin, and succeeded to the Duchy of Milan by his
marriage with Bianca Maria, natural daughter of Philip Maria,
the preceding Duke, whose interests he had at one time opposed
as general of a league formed by the Pope and the Venetian and
Florentine Republics against the Duchy.]
[Footnote 205.5: Albert, surnamed the Prodigal, brother of the
Emperor Frederic III.]
[Footnote 205.6: Philip the Good.]
[Footnote 205.7: Sir John Fortescue.]
[Footnote 205.8: A commission of _oyer and terminer_ for Kent
and Sussex was issued in December 1450 to Richard, Duke of York,
Lord Bourchier, Sir John Fastolf, and others.--Patent Roll, 29
Hen. VI. p. 1, m. 16 _indorso_.]
[Footnote 206.1: Sir John Fastolf, whose servant Bocking was.]
[Footnote 206.2: Sir Thomas Tuddenham.]
[Footnote 206.3: An outcry.]
[Footnote 206.4: _See_ p. 196.]
[Footnote 206.5: Elsewhere mentioned as bailiff of Swaffham.]
[Footnote 206.6: Tuddenham and Heydon.]
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