[Footnote 278.1: [From Fenn, iii. 162.] This letter is certainly
not earlier than 1451 or later than 1453; for it was written
some time after Lady Boys became a widow, which was in December
1450 (_see_ p. 198), and before Sir John Fastolf’s removal from
London into Norfolk, which, as will be seen hereafter, was in
the autumn of 1454. Probably the true date is 1452, for in the
summer following, owing to Gurney’s utter inability to pay his
rent, we find Agnes Paston urging her son seriously to look out
for another tenant for Orwellbury.]
[Footnote 278.2: The modernised version in Fenn reads ‘at
home.’]
[Footnote 279.1: _See_ p. 248, Note 2.]
[Footnote 279.2: Holm Hale. --_See_ p. 248.]
[Footnote 279.3: Geoffrey Boleyn. --_See_ p. 277, Note 3.]
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