[Footnote 171-1: [From Fenn, ii. 42.] Fenn informs us that this
letter is dated on the back in a contemporaneous handwriting,
‘Anno x^o.,’ which seems to mean 10 Edw. IV. This date however, is
certainly erroneous; for in the inquisitions taken on the death of
the Duke of Norfolk, Anne, Lady Mowbray, his daughter and heir,
was found to have been four years old on the 10th December 1476.
She was born, therefore, on the 10th December 1472.]
[Footnote 171-2: Then follows the substance of a conversation
between the Lady of Norfolk and Thomas Davers, wherein she
promises to be a friend to Sir John Paston concerning Caister; but
J. Davers swore J. Paston not to mention her goodwill to any
person, except to Sir John.--F.]
[Footnote 172-1: In the modern version Fenn reads, ‘so that they
that _loved not_, laugh upon me.’]
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