[Footnote 82.1: [From Fenn, iv. 128.] In the preceding letter Sir
John Paston seems to have been at home; in Letter 552, we find
that he had left home without leave. It is very probable,
therefore, that the present letter was written in the interval
between them, seeing that the writer complains of Sir John being
kept at home.]
[Footnote 82.2: This Lady Chamberlayne was Anne, daughter and sole
heir of Sir Robert Herling, Knight, by Jane, daughter and heir of
John Gonvile, Esq. Her first husband was Sir William Chamberlayne,
Knight of the Garter, a renowned and valiant soldier, who died in
1462. She was at this time his widow, and inherited from her
father a very considerable fortune.
She afterwards married Sir Robert Wingfield, and after his decease
she became the wife of John, Lord Scroop of Bolton.
By the name of Lady Scroop she founded and endowed a Fellowship in
the College of Gonville and Caius at Cambridge, originally founded
by an ancestor of her Ladyship’s.
She was born in 1426, and was alive in 1502.
At the time this letter was written she must have been nearly
forty years old, when Sir John Paston could not have been much
above twenty.--F.]
[[College of Gonville and Caius
_editor’s error for “Gonville” alone (John Caius was born
in 1510)_]]
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