[Footnote 135.1: [From Fenn, iii. 328.] The writer of this
letter is Agnes Paston’s daughter Elizabeth, for whose marriage,
as we have seen, there had been a good deal of negotiating in
past years (_see_ Nos. 93, 94, 236, 250, 252), and who has now
become the wife of Robert Poynings. As the 3rd of January, the
day on which this letter is dated, was a Wednesday, the year
must be 1459. The 3rd of January did not fall on a Wednesday
again till 1470, by which time Elizabeth Paston was no longer
the wife of Robert Poynings, but his widow, for he was killed
at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th Feb. 1461.]
[Footnote 136.1: Edmund Clere was the second son of John Clere,
Esq. of Ormesby, and died in 1463.]
[Footnote 136.2: _See_ p. 123.]
[[Footnote 135.1: Text beginning “Elizabeth Paston” corrected by
author in Errata. Original text:
... by which time Elizabeth Paston and Robert Poynings must have
been married several years, as will be seen by No. 126 preceding
(vol. ii. p. 154, Note 3).]]
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