[Footnote 7.1: [From Fenn, iv. 258.] The mention of Lord Wenlock
in this letter proves that it cannot be earlier than 1461; but if
the writer be, as we have surmised, the ‘old Taverham’ mentioned
by Margaret Paston in No. 489, it is most probably of that year.]
[Footnote 8.1: Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell, so created in
1461.]
[Footnote 8.2: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.]
[Footnote 8.3: William Lumner, of Mannington, in Norfolk.--F.]
[Footnote 8.4: John Wenlock was created Baron Wenlock in 1461 by
Edward IV.; but he afterwards left the York party, and joined that
of Lancaster. He was cleft down with a battle-axe by the Duke of
Somerset for not coming up in time at the battle of Tewkesbury in
1471, whereby that battle was lost.--F.]
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