[Footnote 78.3: [From Fenn, iv. 130.] John Paston’s eldest son
appears to have been knighted in the course of the year 1463. The
earliest notice which I find of him as knight is in a writ dated
11th July, 3 Edward IV., entered on the Coram Rege Roll of Trinity
term, 3 Edward IV. This letter is not unlikely to have been
written about that time, as it appears by a subsequent letter
(No. 550) that Sir John Paston remained for some time at home in
Norfolk, when the friends of the family thought he ought to be
abroad in the world.]
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