[Footnote 115-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] There was a general
pardon in the latter part of the year 1471, and both John Paston
and his brother took advantage of it, as appears by the _Pardon
Roll_, 11 Edw. IV., membranes 9 and 25. The date of this letter is
also shown by the answer to it, written by Margaret Paston on the
5th November. Many of the words in this letter are lost by the
mutilation of the original MS., which is full of holes, from
having been exposed at one time to damp. The address is almost
completely lost, but a portion of the word ‘[Ma]rgaret’ is
visible, and a small fragment of an endorsement below in which the
word ‘Paston’ is legible.]
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