[Footnote 284.1: [From Fenn, i. 68.] According to Blomefield
(_Hist. of Norf._ iii. 158), Margaret of Anjou, Queen of
Henry VI., visited Norwich in the spring of 1452; but by the
same authority, it would appear that she had returned to
Westminster before the 17th of March in that year, which would
not suit the date of this letter. Besides, John Paston was at
Norwich in April 1452, and dates a letter at Norwich on St.
George’s day, complaining of the assault made upon him at the
door of Norwich Cathedral on Monday before Easter. It is
impossible, therefore, that Margaret Paston could have written
to him from Norwich two days before St. George’s day in that
year. From an undated entry in the Norwich city records, which
bears internal evidence of having been made in the year 1453, it
would appear that the King’s half-brothers, Edmund, Earl of
Richmond, and Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, visited Norwich in that
year.--(_See_ fol. 19 of a volume, entitled _An Old Free Book_,
in the Norwich city archives.) As to the Queen’s visit I find no
direct evidence, but I think it possible she may have come with
_one_ of the King’s brothers, and that the other may have come a
little later.]
[Footnote 284.2: Here (says Fenn) follows some account of money
received, etc.]
[Footnote 284.3: Margaret of Anjou.]
[Footnote 284.4: Widow of Robert Clere, Esq. of Ormesby, who
died in 1446. Fenn says his daughter, but no notice is found of
a daughter of that name, while the widow occurs frequently in
this correspondence.]
[Footnote 285.1: Bailiff.]
[Footnote 285.2: Either Edmund Tudor, who was created Earl of
Richmond about November 1452, or Jasper, who was created Earl of
Pembroke at the same time. They were half-brothers to the King,
being sons of his mother, Catherine, Queen of Henry V., by her
subsequent marriage to Sir Owen Tudor.]
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