[Footnote 234.1: [From Fenn, iii. 84.] The date of this letter
depends upon the age of John Paston, who, in November 1444, was
found to be twenty-three years old. As he is now ‘upon the age
of thirty winters,’ this letter was probably written in 1451.]
[Footnote 234.2: His name was Laurence Baldewar.]
[Footnote 234.3: In 1444, according to Blomefield (_Hist. of
Norf._ iv. 40), a rent-charge out of the manor of Swainsthorp
was settled by John and Agnes Paston, the eldest son and the
widow of William Paston, the Justice, to find a priest to sing
for the soul of the said William in the chapel of our Lady the
Great in Norwich Cathedral.]
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