[Footnote 92.1: [From Fenn, iv. 72.] This letter and the next both
mention assizes at Thetford. The latter, which is dated on
Wednesday, the last (29th) day of February, and which was
certainly written in the year 1464, mention them as being held on
that very day. The present letter, dated on the second Monday in
Lent, says they are _to be_ held on Wednesday following. Now the
second Monday in Lent 1464 fell on the 27th of February, that is
to say just two days before that particular Wednesday on which we
know that the assizes really were held. This alone seems almost
sufficient evidence of the date of the letter. As for the King’s
going up to London, it appears by the dates of the Privy Seals
that on the 9th February he was at Gloucester, on the 16th and
17th at Kimbolton; and it is stated in the next letter that he was
at Waltham on the 27th, which shows that he really was moving
towards the capital. This was not the case in 1462, the year to
which Fenn assigns the letter; nor do I know his authority for
stating that there was a Burgundian Embassy in the beginning of
that year.]
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