_Endorsed in a seventeenth-century hand._-- L’ra Joh’is Bokking,
Attorn. in Communi Banco.
[Footnote 84.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter
is quite certain, not only from the circumstance of the 5th May
being a Wednesday in 1456, as mentioned in the beginning, but
also from Ascension Day falling between that and the 8th, the
day on which this letter was written.]
[Footnote 84.2: Ascension Day was the 6th May in 1456.]
[Footnote 84.3: _See_ Nos. 267, 268, etc.]
[Footnote 84.4: Richard Choke, Serjeant-at-law, afterwards Judge
of the Common Pleas.]
[Footnote 84.5: Thomas Lyttelton, the great lawyer, at this time
King’s Serjeant, afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas, famous
for his treatise on _Tenures_.]
[Footnote 84.6: William Jenney.]
[Footnote 84.7: Richard Illingworth, afterwards Chief Baron of
the Exchequer.]
[Footnote 85.1: Sir John Fastolf.]
[Footnote 86.1: A full stop after ‘Quene’ would improve the
grammar of this sentence, but the original is entirely without
punctuation. The writer evidently meant that the Queen and
Prince were at Tutbury, and the Duke of York at Sandal.]
[Footnote 86.2: The foreign merchants. A riot took place about
this time in London, in which the houses of foreigners were
attacked. --_See_ Fabyan’s _Chronicle_; also Brown’s _Venetian
Calendar_, i. 81, 84.]
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