[Footnote 102-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was printed
by Fenn in his fifth volume, of which the original MSS. are now
recovered. It was evidently written in April 1471, when the writer
was recovering from the wound he had received at the battle of
Barnet (_see_ No. 774). It is not addressed, but is endorsed in a
later hand, ‘Litera Johannis Paston armigeri matri suæ.’]
[Footnote 102-2: The battle of Barnet was fought on Easter Day,
14th April 1471.]
[Footnote 102-3: A pasture so called, and means the groves, or
lands full of wood.--F.]
[Footnote 102-4: This may signify, in jocular language, if he be
not dead.--F.]
[[Footnote 102-1
... (_see_ No. 774).
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