[Footnote 80.2: [From Fenn, iv. 250.] John Mowbray, Duke of
Norfolk, the writer of this letter, succeeded his father in the
dukedom in November 1461, being at the time only seventeen years
of age. A year afterwards, in November 1462, we find him living at
his castle of Holt in Denbighshire, where he proposed to spend
Christmas (_see_ No. 532), but before that season came he was sent
for by the King to serve against the Scots (No. 533). I am
inclined to think this letter was written in the August of 1463;
for although the Duke was again living at Holt in March following,
it seems probable that he would have visited his chief family seat
at Framlingham in the meanwhile. John Paston, the youngest, who
was attached to his household, was certainly at home with his
family in the latter part of this year (_see_ No. 560).]
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