Item, yestyrday W. Gornay entryd in to Saxthorp and ther was he kepyng
of a coort, and had the tenaunts attou[r]nyd to him, but er the coort
was all doon, I cam thedyr with a man with me and no more, and ther,
befor hym and all hys feluwschep, Gayne, Bomsted, &c., I chargyd the
tenaunts that they shold proced no ferther in ther coort upon peyn that
myght folle of it, and they lettyd for a seasen. But they sye that I was
not abyll to make my partye good, and so they procedyd ferther; and I
sye that, and set me downe by the stward and blottyd hys book wyth my
fyngyr as he wrot, so that all tenaunts afermyd that the coort was
enterupte by me as in yowr ryght, and I reqwered them to record that
ther was no pesybyll coort kept, and so they seyd they wold.
[Footnote 132-1: [From Fenn, iv. 420.] It appears by a letter of
the 17th February following (No. 798), that at the beginning of
the year 1472 the Pastons were endeavouring to come to an
understanding with the Duke of Norfolk by the intercession of the
Duchess. For further evidence of date, see the next letter.]
[Footnote 132-2: A blank occurs here in Fenn’s left-hand, or
literal copy, which is not explained.]
[Footnote 132-3: This means a gown made of cloth that was never
either coloured or dyed.--F. But according to Halliwell ‘ray’
means striped cloth.]
[Footnote 133-1: This must be the appeal of the two widows, though
one of them is said to have married again. _See_ No. 783.]
[Footnote 133-2: This sentence I wish to have explained.--F.]
[Footnote 133-3: The festival of St. Agnes, the first (and the
most noted of the two), was kept on the 21st of January; her
second festival was on the 28th of the same month, which it is to
be observed was not the octave of the former, but a distinct feast
upon a different occasion, and it is sometimes written ‘Agnetis
Nativitas’; but it was on account of a miracle wrought at her tomb
that this second feast was instituted.--F.]
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