[Footnote 281.1: [From Fenn, iii. 324.] The beginning of this
letter refers to building operations, which I presume to be the
same as those to which the next letter relates, and therefore of
the same date. They were probably at Caister Castle.]
[Footnote 281.2: Large beams.]
[Footnote 281.3: Draught chamber. A
withdrawing-room.--Halliwell.]
[Footnote 281.4: Cowntewery must mean his counter, desk, or
board to sit and write, etc., at.--F.]
[Footnote 282.1: Probably a member of the Berney family (_see_
Sir John Fastolf’s letter of the 28th January 1451). Philip
Berney, as will be seen by No. 217, was disseised of the manor
of Rockland Tofts during the year 1452.]
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