[Footnote 48.1: [From Fenn, i. 114.] This letter was written in
1455, at the time of the King’s second attack of illness, which
happened while he was under the control of the Duke of York and
the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury, as mentioned at the end of
the letter. In the latter part of the letter some words are lost
by the decay of the original MS.]
[Footnote 48.2: Here, says Fenn, follows an account of some law
business, etc.]
[Footnote 48.3: Fought in 1403 between King Henry IV. and the
rebel Percies.]
[Footnote 49.1: ‘Nicolas Radford,’ says Fenn in a note, ‘was an
eminent lawyer, and resided at Poghill, near Kyrton.’ In Pole’s
_Description of Devonshire_, p. 219, we find that one Nicolas
Radford dwelled at Upcot in Henry VI.’s time, ‘after whose death
controversy arose betwixt John Radford of Okeford and Thomazin,
sister of the said Nicholas,’ who had married Roger Prous.]
[Footnote 49.2: A hutch was a coffer or chest standing on legs.]
[Footnote 49.3: A flight was ‘a light arrow formed for very long
and straight shots.’ --Halliwell.]
[Footnote 49.4: Archbishop Bourchier.]
[Footnote 50.1: The King was at Hertford, as appears by the
Privy Seals, in August and September 1455, and not improbably in
October also.]
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