[Footnote 286.5: [From Fenn, iii. 186.] This letter chronicles
the same two deaths as the preceding, and is therefore of the
same date.]
[Footnote 287.1: A noble was a coin of the value of 6s. 8d.
A mark was 13s. 4d. Five marks therefore were equal to £3, 6s.
8d.; but Margaret said she would pay the odd noble, or 6s. 8d.,
out of her own purse, and not let Paston know but that he had
the place for £3. A little artifice for accepting terms which
she had doubtless told Newman her husband could never agree to.]
[Footnote 287.2: Philip Berney. --_See_ p. 251, Note 1.]
[Footnote 287.3: The day of St. Peter and Paul is the 29th of
June. The _utas_ or octave of a feast is the eighth day of the
feast--that is to say, the seventh day after, which in this case
is the 6th of July.]
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