[Footnote 3.2: [From Fenn, iii. 376.] This letter must have been
written during one of the periods of the Duke of York’s
ascendency, and on a comparison of possible years I am inclined
to assign it to 1454. The date 1460, to which Fenn ascribes it,
would have been highly probable but for the fact that John
Paston, who was returned to Parliament in that year, does not
appear to have arrived in London even on the 12th October, so
that probably he had not left Norwich on the 6th.]
[Footnote 4.1: Thomas Bourchier.]
[Footnote 4.2: Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.]
[Footnote 4.3: John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, in whose household
R. Southwell had an appointment.--F.]
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