Also, cosyn, I pray you to sende me sum Norfoke threde to do a boute my
nekke to ryde with.
[Footnote 40.1: [From Fenn, iii. 146.] John Crane of Woodnorton,
whom we suppose to have been the writer of Letters 121 and 285,
had a wife of the name of Alice, who was apparently a widow in
1457, when she presented to the living of Woodnorton (_see_
Blomefield, iv. 313). But the writer of this was more probably a
daughter, serving in the household of a lady of rank according
to the custom of the times. If so, the date is before John
Crane’s death, which must have happened between 1455 and 1457.]
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