[Footnote 146.1: [From Fenn, iv. 38.] This letter is referred by
Fenn to the beginning of Edward IV.’s reign, but on a careful
examination I think it must be earlier, as William Jenney’s
proceedings, even in the first year of Edward IV., were by no
means friendly to John Paston. The Lord Scales here mentioned
must therefore be the Lord Scales of Henry VI.’s time, who was
murdered in July 1460, and the letter, having been written in
August, cannot be later than 1459. In that year, as will be seen
by Letter 377, John Paston’s eldest son had already begun active
life, and I am inclined to think that it is the precise year in
which the present letter was written. John Paston, the second,
was at that time not more than nineteen years of age, and we
hear nothing of his doings earlier. The manor of Sporle was
inherited by John Paston, senior, from his father the judge.]
[Footnote 147.1: Thelveton, near Diss, in Norfolk.]
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