[Footnote 145.1: [From Fenn, iv. 206.] What is said here about the
tenants of Hellesden and Drayton, and about Master Philip Lipyate,
leaves no doubt that this letter was written in 1465. It contains,
moreover, a distinct reference to Letter 582.]
[Footnote 145.2: John Flowerdew was instituted to the Rectory of
Drayton on the 15th of March 1461, on the presentation of John
Paston, Esq., and Thomas Howes, Clerk.--F.]
[Footnote 145.3: This means the Rural Dean, who had a district of
ten churches in the country, wherein he exercised a jurisdiction
of great advantage to ecclesiastical discipline, and the sentences
of superior Ecclesiastical Courts were to be executed by him.--F.]
[Footnote 146.1: 5th or 6th of June.]
[Footnote 146.2: 9th of June.]
[Footnote 146.3: No. 582.]
[Footnote 146.4: 23rd of May.]
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