[Footnote 276.2: [From Fenn, iii. 168.] This letter was written
during the life of Philip Berney, most probably in 1452, while
he lay sick of the wounds, of which he afterwards died. _See_
No. 227 further on.]
[Footnote 276.3: A preserve made of quinces. --_See_ Index to
Furnivall’s _Manners and Meals in Olden Times_. In the
ordinances of the household of George, Duke of Clarence,
‘charequynses’ occur under the head of spices, their price being
five shillings ‘the boke,’ or £2, 10s. for 10 lbs.--See _The
Society of Antiquaries’ Collection of Ordinances for the Royal
Household_, p. 103. The word also occurs pp. 455, 471 of same
volume.]
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[Footnote 277.1: Philip Berney.]
[Footnote 277.2: Margery, widow of Sir Edward Hastings of
Elsing, Norfolk, who styled himself Lord Hastings and
Stutvill. --_See_ Blomefield, viii. 112, and ix. 513, 514.]
[Footnote 277.3: An ancestor of Anne Boleyn and Queen Elizabeth.
He was Mayor of London in 1457.]
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