[Footnote 233.1: [From Fenn, i. 198.] This letter must have been
written in the year 1460, when the Duke of York came over from
Ireland, his party having been victorious at the battle of
Northampton, and gained possession of the King’s person.]
[Footnote 233.2: The Nativity of Our Lady is on the 8th
September. The Monday following was in this year the 15th.]
[Footnote 233.3: Probably Sir John Fastolf’s place in
Southwark.]
[Footnote 233.4: Cecily, Duchess of York.]
[Footnote 233.5: Afterwards Duke of Clarence.]
[Footnote 233.6: Afterwards Richard III.]
[Footnote 233.7: Afterwards Duchess of Burgundy.]
[Footnote 233.8: The modern version in Fenn reads: ‘And she hath
left here.’]
[Footnote 234.1: James Butler, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond.]
[Footnote 234.2: Paston must have left London and gone to
Norwich not long before the Parliament, which began on the 7th
October; and, as we have already observed, he did not return in
time for its commencement.]
[Footnote 234.3: Redriff or Rotherhithe.]
[Footnote 234.4: Elizabeth, wife of Robert Poynings. --_See_ No.
406, p. 217.]
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