[Footnote 83.1: [From Fenn, iv. 88.] I have found no letters of
Margaret Paston dated from Caister before the year 1463; but I am
inclined to think that this and the letter following both belong
to that year. The latter, being addressed to Sir John Paston, at
least cannot be earlier, and my reasons for believing it to be of
that very year will be seen in the note to it (p. 84, Note 2). It
is just possible that this letter may be of a different date, but
considering that both were written in November, and both of them
certainly between the 12th and the 19th, and that in both Margaret
Paston not only dates from Caister, but speaks of Daubeney as
being with her, the presumption, I think, is pretty strong that
they are of the same year.]
[Footnote 83.2: Cecily, Duchess of York, widow of Richard
Plantagenet, Duke of York, and mother of Edward IV. She died in an
advanced age, at her castle of Berkhamstead, in May 1495, and was
buried near her husband, in the Choir of the Collegiate Church of
Fotheringhay, in Northamptonshire.--F.]
[Footnote 84.1: John Wodehouse, Esq. of Kimberley, son of the
renowned John Wodehouse, Esq., who gained so much honour at the
battle of Agincourt; he died in 1465, and lies buried in Kimberley
Chancel.--F.]
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