JOHN PASTON, K.

[Footnote 155-1: [From Fenn, ii. 112.]]

[Footnote 156-1: William Botoner, otherwise Worcester. He

certainly was alive some years later than this.]

[Footnote 156-2: Sir William Brandon, Knight, was standard-bearer

to the Earl of Richmond, and was slain in Bosworth Field by

Richard III. He was father to Charles Brandon, Duke of

Suffolk.--F.]

[Footnote 156-3: Meaning apparently, as Fenn suggests, ‘I paid her

off, or treated her with unceremonious language.’]

[Footnote 157-1: Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, etc., went to

endeavour to obtain the possession of the Earls of Pembroke and

Richmond, who were detained as prisoners by the Duke of

Brittany.--F.]

[Footnote 157-2: Francis II., the last Duke of Brittany, was born

in 1435, and died in 1488.--F.]

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