Note 714 — INDEX.
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Footnote 714: Cf. Duchess of Norfolk's letter to John Paston, 8th June, 1455 (Paston Letters, ed. 1900, i., 337), and in 1586 Sir Henry Bagnal asked the Earl of Rutland if he had a seat to spare in Parliament as Bagnal was anxious "for his learning's sake to be made a Parliament man" (D.N.B., Suppl., i., 96).(back)