[Footnote 20.1: [From Fenn, iii. 338.] Although there is no
direction upon this letter, it was evidently addressed to the
Duke of Norfolk, as it speaks of ‘your Castle of Framlingham.’
The absence of any written address Fenn accounts for by
supposing the letter to have been enclosed in a cover; but as it
appears that the original contained at least one passage which
was crossed out (_see_ page 341 in Fenn), we may with greater
probability consider it to have been a corrected draft, like the
last, sent to John Paston for his approval. The dispute with Sir
Philip Wentworth and the matters of John Porter and Sir Thomas
Howes, here referred to, both point to the year 1455 as the date
of this letter. --_See_ Nos. 265, 268.]
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