[Footnote 88.1: [From Fenn, iv. 156.] The date of this letter is
abundantly evident, first from the circumstance that the 26th of
January (the morrow of St. Paul) was a Thursday, and secondly,
from the mention of the King’s going into Gloucestershire. In
January 1464 Edward IV. was at Northampton, and on the 9th of
February he was at Gloucester.]
[Footnote 88.2: John Greenfield. He and the two next named were
made serjeants-at-law in November 1463.]
[Footnote 88.3: John Catesby. He was appointed Judge of the Common
Pleas in 1481.]
[Footnote 88.4: Richard Pygot.]
[Footnote 88.5: William Nottingham. He was appointed Chief Baron
of the Exchequer in 1479.]
[Footnote 88.6: Humphrey Starkey. He was made a serjeant in 1478.]
[Footnote 88.7: William Jenney was made a serjeant in 1463, and a
Justice of the King’s Bench in 1481.]
[Footnote 88.8: John Markham, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench,
and Robert Danby, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, both
appointed in 1461.]
[Footnote 88.9: Thomas Lyttelton, the famous lawyer, was created a
serjeant in 1453, and appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in
1466. He died in 1481, aged seventy-nine, as Fenn here tells us in
a footnote; but Foss, in his _Judges of England_, says nothing of
his age.]
[Footnote 89.1: George Neville, now Bishop of Exeter, but soon
after the writing of this letter translated to York.]
[Footnote 89.2: The Utas or Octave of a feast is the seventh day
after it.]
[Footnote 89.3: Clement Paston, brother to John Paston.]
[Footnote 89.4: This relates to the disputes concerning Sir John
Fastolf’s will.]
[[on Saterday or on Moneday next
_text has “Saterday on on Moneday”: corrected from Fenn_]]
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