[Footnote 101-1: [From Fenn, ii. 68.] The signature of this letter
is composed of flourishes which were probably devised on purpose
to make it unintelligible. Fenn suggests that the first character
may be taken for an O, and the last for a D; but to our thinking
the resemblance is rather difficult to trace. There is, however,
great probability in his conjecture that the writer was the Earl
of Oxford, and the date just after the battle of Barnet.]
[Footnote 101-2: Margaret, daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of
Salisbury, sister to the late Earl of Warwick, and wife of John de
Vere, Earl of Oxford.--F.]
[Footnote 101-3: Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Howard,
Knight, who was the grandfather of John Howard, first Duke of
Norfolk of that name. She was now the widow of John de Vere, late
Earl of Oxford.]
[Footnote 101-4: John Vescey, Prior of Thetford, from 1441 to
1479.--F.]
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