[Footnote 246.1: [From Fenn, iii. 44.] This letter of Agnes
Paston’s refers to the same subject of dispute as the two
preceding, and was probably written after them; but the exact
year is not certain.]
[Footnote 246.2: The half door of her ‘closet’ or pew in
church.]
[Footnote 246.3: ‘To owl,’ says Fenn, ‘may signify to deceive,
as an owler is a person who carries contraband goods in the
night; though I rather think it means in this place to oil, that
is, to smooth to her purpose; but q.?’ The explanation certainly
is not very satisfactory. From the definition of ‘owler’ we
might perhaps conjecture with more probability that ‘to owl’ was
to work in the night time. Did Agnes Paston, to avoid
interruption, set men to build the wall by night?]
[Footnote 247.1: St. Edmund’s day was the 16th November.]
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