[Footnote 89.5: [From Fenn, i. 278.] By the mention of Sir John
Paston it is evident that this letter was written after 1463, but
of course the date cannot be later than 1466, in which year John
Paston the father died, to whom the letter is addressed. It
appears also to have been written shortly after the death of James
Sevenoke, Abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, which Fenn, I know
not on what authority, says occurred in 1463. Even the new edition
of Dugdale does not give the date; but Fenn’s date is in all
probability right.]
[Footnote 91.1: This last paragraph is crossed out in the original
MS.]
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