J. P.

[Footnote 65-1: [From Fenn, iv. 416.] It appears by the contents

that this letter was written about Christmas after the siege of

Caister. An appeal of murder was a process sued by the nearest

relative of a person killed. It was quite independent of any

prosecution for murder by the Crown, and no royal pardon was of

any avail against it; but the appeal had to be brought within a

year and a day of the fact.]

[[... at Norwyche.

_text has “Norwcyche”: corrected from Fenn_]]

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