[Footnote 28-1: [From Fenn, ii. 16.] The King’s visit to Norfolk
and the creation of Lord Stafford as Earl of Devonshire both fix
the date of this letter as 1469. The writer seems to be the
brother of Anne Hawte, to whom Sir John Paston was engaged, and he
accordingly calls him his brother.]
[Footnote 28-2: Humphrey Stafford, Lord Stafford of Southwick, was
created Earl of Devonshire on Sunday, 7th May 1469; so that the
writer ought to have said, not ‘upon Sunday,’ but ‘upon Sunday
fortnight.’]
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