[Footnote 114-1: [From Fenn, iv. 440.] In the postscript to the
preceding letter, Sir John Paston intimates his belief that the
two widows who had appealed his brother of the murder of their
husbands had married again, and that thereby the appeals were
abated. It appears by the present letter that this intelligence
was correct as regards one of them.]
[Footnote 114-2: The widow of a tenant in chivalry was called the
Lord’s widow.]
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