[Footnote 22.1: [From Fenn, iv. 108.] The date of this letter must
lie between the years 1461 and 1466. The writer’s husband, who is
spoken of as dead, was put to death in June 1460, and John Paston,
the person addressed, died in May 1466.]
[Footnote 22.2: Assize is a writ directed to the sheriff of the
county for recovery of the possession of things immovable, whereof
yourself or ancestors have been dispossessed.--F.]
[Footnote 22.3: Edmund Rous was second son of Henry Rous, Esq. of
Dennington, in Suffolk, the ancestor of the present Earl of
Stradbroke.]
[Footnote 22.4: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.]
[Footnote 22.5: Walter Gorges, Esq., married Mary, the daughter
and heir of Sir William Oldhall, and was at this time Lord of the
Manor of Oldhall, in Great Fransham. He died in 1466. His son and
heir, Sir Edmund Gorges, afterwards married a daughter of Sir John
Howard, Knight, the first Duke of Norfolk of that family.--F.]
[Footnote 22.6: John Curde was Lord of the Manor of Curde’s Hall,
in Fransham.--F.]
[Footnote 23.1: Elizabeth Mundeford was the widow of Osbert
Mundeford, Esq. of Hockwold, in Norfolk, and was daughter of John
Berney, Esq., by which means she was aunt to J. Paston.--F.]
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