[Footnote 303.1: [From Fenn, iv. 52.] The references to Howard’s
conduct, and to John Paston the son being with the King, prove
this letter to be of the year 1461. Compare the last paragraph
of the letter immediately preceding with the first of this.]
[Footnote 304.1: Henry, Viscount Bourchier, who had been created
Earl of Essex on the 30th June preceding. The writer had
forgotten his new dignity.]
[Footnote 304.2: An officer who had the ordering of the dishes,
etc.]
[Footnote 304.3: John Wykes was an usher of the King’s chamber,
and a friend and cousin of J. Paston’s.--F.]
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