Y pray yow to recomaund me to my cosyn Sir John Scot and all his, in
especiall Mastres Benyngfeld.[279-1]
[Footnote 276-2: [From Fenn, ii. 226.] This letter, Fenn tells us,
was endorsed under the address in a handwriting of the time which
he believed to be Sir John Paston’s--‘Jon Pympe, xvj. die Mar’.,
anno E. 4, 17,’ showing the date at which it was received.]
[Footnote 277-1: _Frau’s_, _i.e._ women. The writer’s pleasantry
in this passage is certainly rather coarse.]
[Footnote 278-1: Perhaps this enigmatical passage may have
reference to the Mrs. Barly mentioned in No. 903.]
[Footnote 278-2: In the modern version, Fenn reads here, ‘any
prized horse of deeds,’ a reading which seems to me questionable.]
[Footnote 278-3: ‘Fort’ in Fenn, which is probably a misprint, as
the word is spelled ‘force’ on the opposite page.]
[Footnote 279-1: Margaret, daughter of Sir John Scot, and wife to
Edmund Bedingfeld.--F.]
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