[Footnote 275.1: [Douce MS. 393, f. 85.] The date of this letter
may, with great probability, be attributed to the year 1461. It
certainly cannot be later, as the writer was executed for high
treason in February 1462. He was found to have been
corresponding with Margaret of Anjou for the restoration of
Henry VI., but the discovery must have been much later than May
1461. Sir John Howard, who, for his services to the House of
York, was afterwards made Duke of Norfolk, appears to have had
great influence just after the accession of Edward IV., which he
used in a very overbearing manner; and we have already seen, by
the last letter, that the Earl of Oxford’s servant, Thomas
Denyes, was at this very time suffering much persecution at his
hands.]
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