Meche odyr thyng I can telle an I had lesur. Recomande me to my suster
Margeth [and] my cosyn Elizabeth Clyr, I pray yow.
[Footnote 329.2: [From Fenn, i. 72.] The date of this letter is
fixed by the fact referred to in Note 3, and by Sir John
Fastolf’s going into Norfolk, which, though delayed a little
later than is here projected, certainly did take place in 1454.
See another letter of William Paston further on, dated 6th
September.]
[Footnote 329.3: Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter. On the 24th July
the Duke of York was charged by the Privy Council to convey him
to Pomfret Castle. --_See_ Nicolas’s _Privy Council Proceedings_,
vi. 217.]
[Footnote 329.4: Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, who was
committed to the Tower in the end of the year 1453. --_See_ p.
290, Note 1.]
[Footnote 329.5: Stephen Scroope, Sir John Fastolf’s ward, son
of Lady Fastolf, by her former husband.]
[Footnote 329.6: John Prisot, Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas.]
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