[Footnote 131.1: [From Fenn, i. 170.] At the date of this
letter Sir John Fastolf must have been in Norfolk, and William
Worcester in London. From the time that the former went into
Norfolk in 1454, till the end of the year 1457, Worcester seems
generally to have resided with him; but in the beginning of 1458
he was in London, and it appears by the Castlecombe MSS. (Add.
MS. 28,208, B.M. pp. 39, 42) that he was holding courts at
Castlecombe in Wiltshire in June and July of that year, and
that, in November of the same year, he and Fastolf were both
together in London. It is probable, therefore, that he was in
London in August, before Fastolf had come up. Indeed, he appears
not to have returned to Norfolk till January following; so that
in August he might quite well have devoted himself to the study
of French in the expectation of a lengthened stay.]
[Footnote 131.2: Thomas de Kirkeby.]
[Footnote 132.1: Apparently William Worcester was examining the
pedigree of the De la Poles, ancestors of the late Duke of
Suffolk, who had disputed with Fastolf the right to the manor of
Dedham.]
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