[Footnote 231-1: [From Fenn, iii. 426.] This letter was wrongly
attributed by Fenn to Edmund Paston, son of the Judge. It is in
the hand of the Judge’s grandson, also named Edmund, and was
written at a time when his mother Margaret was living at Mautby,
where he, the writer, was also at the time, though he expected to
join his brother John, to whom he writes, in the following week.
These circumstances strongly suggest that it was written in 1475,
when Margaret Paston certainly was residing at Mautby, as we find
Edmund Paston with his brother John in London a month later
preparing to go over to Calais. _See_ No. 873. Whitsun Eve in 1475
would be the 13th May.]
[Footnote 231-2: Fenn supposes the person alluded to to be the
priest, James Gloys.]
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