[Footnote 140.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The writer of this
letter was put to death at Calais on the 25th June 1460, having
been taken at Sandwich when about to go thither in aid of the
Duke of Somerset against the Earl of Warwick. The date cannot be
in that year, and how much earlier it may be is quite uncertain,
unless we suppose ‘mon petit homme d’armes’ to be Paston’s
eldest son, who, as we have seen, was summoned to perform
military service in 1459.]
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