The said Asshcote can counterfete my hand and therfore I drede he wole
stele by sum fals letters suych as he myght gete. I haf wretyn my
servantz theraftir.
[Footnote 317.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 94.] That the year in
which this letter was written was 1454 is evident from its being
dated from the Fleet. _See_ Nos. 239 and 245.]
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