[Footnote 127.1: [From Fenn, iv. 134.] This letter must be later
than the year 1463, as Sir John Paston does not appear to have
been knighted so early as February in that year. But as John
Paston, the father, was at Caister and not at London in the early
part of the year 1464, it cannot be that year. Neither can we
assign it to 1466, the last year of John Paston’s life, as it
appears by a letter written on the 17th February in that year that
although John Paston was in London, his son Sir John could not
have been there for some time before. We are therefore shut up to
the year 1465 as the only possible date for this letter.]
[Footnote 127.2: So in Fenn, but the name ought certainly to be
Daubeney, perhaps spelt Dabeney.]
[Footnote 127.3: Robert Hall. I find that he brought an action in
Trinity term, 3 Edward IV., against John Daubeney of Norwich,
gentleman, and Thomas Boon and Richard Call of Norwich, yeomen,
for having, in conjunction with William Daubeney of Sharyngton,
Norfolk, Esq., unlawfully imprisoned him at Norwich for three
hours on the 20th February, 39 Hen. VI. (1461), until he gave them
a bond of £100 for his ransom.]
[[Unto my maystres, Margageret Paston _text unchanged_]]
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