[Footnote 331.1: [From Fenn, i. 92.] This and the following
letter could hardly have been written in any year except 1454 or
1455, when the Duke of York was in power. In the former year he
is very likely to have been at his own castle of Sandal on the
19th August, seeing that on the 24th July he was commissioned to
convey the Duke of Exeter to Pomfret Castle.]
[Footnote 332.1: According to Blomefield (vii. 186), Catherine,
widow of John Cokerell of Albergh Wykes in Suffolk, died seised
of the manors of Walcotes and Boles in 6 Henry VI., which she
left, with others, to Catherine, daughter of John Cokerell,
junior, her son, who died before his father. This younger
Catherine died a minor in 10 Henry VI., and the jury knew not
who was her heir. In 29 Henry VI. George Heath of Mildenhall
released to Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, all his rights in
Walcotes and Boles; but in the 18th of Henry VII. Christopher
Conyers and Alice his wife conveyed it to the Heydons. Of its
having been purchased by the Earl of Warwick or having belonged
to the Prior of Walsingham, as stated in the next letter,
Blomefield tells us nothing except that Richard, Earl of
Warwick, presented to the rectory of Snoring Parva in 1460 and
1466.]
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