[Footnote 5.1: [From Fenn, iv. 252.] This letter and the next are
placed here merely for convenience. The two are evidently some
years apart in point of date, and nothing is quite clear about the
date of either, except that the latter must have been written in
the reign of Edward IV., and of course before the death of John
Paston in 1466. This, which is several years earlier than the
other, was almost certainly written in the reign of Henry VI. The
writer was probably the ‘old Taverham’ mentioned by Margaret
Paston in the last letter.]
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