[Footnote 282.1: [From Fenn, iv. 294.] This letter must have been
written some time after Sir John Paston had obtained possession of
Caister by virtue of the King’s warrant of the 17th July 1466
(No. 641), and before the Duke of Norfolk laid claim to it again
in 1469. Thus the date is certainly either 1467 or 1468. But in
the latter year Sir John Paston and his brother were both in
Flanders at the marriage of the Princess Margaret to the Duke of
Burgundy; and Daubeney could not have been with them, as he was
when this letter was written, for John Paston the younger says he
had sent him five shillings by Calle’s man. Thus 1467 appears to
be the only year possible.]
[Footnote 283.1: Relic Sunday (the third Sunday after Midsummer
Day) was the 12th July in 1467.]
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