_On the top of this letter, in a different hand, is written:_--
Prove ontrouthe in the Undir-Sherif, or that he dede othir wise thanne
your counsell avysid hym, and Paston shall demene hym accordyng.
[Footnote 41.1: [From Fenn, iii. 128.] At the date of this
letter, William Worcester and his master, Sir John Fastolf, were
both at Caister, though the latter was thinking of going up to
London. This, being in July, cannot have been before 1455. Fenn
supposes the pardon to Poynings to have been on account of his
participation in Cade’s rebellion, and accordingly dates this
letter ‘about 1451.’ But Poynings was accused of raising
disturbances in 1453 and 1454. The reversal of Sir William
Oldhall’s outlawry was in 1455; for we have seen in No. 287 that
he was obliged to remain in sanctuary for some little time after
the battle of St. Albans. It appears by an _inspeximus_ on
Patent Roll, 34 Hen. VI., m. 16, that he presented a petition to
the King in Parliament on the 9th July, 33 Hen. VI. (1455),
setting forth how he had served the King in France, and yet had
been pronounced a traitor by the Parliament of Reading in 31
Hen. VI., but that his outlawry had been reversed in the King’s
Bench.]
[Footnote 41.2: Thomas Howes.]
[Footnote 41.3: _Quindena Johannis_, or on the quinzaine of St.
John, _i.e._ 8th July, the 15th day from St. John the Baptist’s
day.]
[Footnote 41.4: Sir John Fastolf.]
[Footnote 41.5: Robert Poynings. --_See_ vol. ii. p. 154, Note
3.]
[Footnote 41.6: Ralph, Lord Cromwell. He was accused of treason
by a priest named Robert Colynson.--See Nicolas’s _Privy Council
Proceedings_, vi. 198.]
[Footnote 41.7: Probably Edmund, Lord Grey of Ruthin; but there
were at this time also a Lord Grey of Codnor and a Lord Grey of
Wilton.]
[Footnote 42.1: The day of the Nones.--F.]
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