In the Introduction in Volume I., will be found a document entitled
‘A remembrance of the worshipful kin and ancestry of Paston, born in
Paston in Gemyngham Soken.’ This paper, which was printed in the preface
to vol. v. of the original edition, p. xliv., appears to have been
composed during the lifetime of John Paston by some one who owed the
family no good will, not unlikely by Sir William Yelverton. The contents
agree very well with the imputation made on John Paston, for which he
was imprisoned in 1465, that he was a bondman to the King. The original
of this document I have not met with.
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