Note 196.1 — INTRODUCTION (continued 4)
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The deed is dated 7 July 27 Hen. VI., and inrolled on the Close Roll, 29 Hen. VI. m., 39, in dorso.
196.2 Inquisition post mortem, 38 and 39 Henry VI., No. 48.
197.1 See Nos. 376, 377, 379, 380, 383.
197.2 No. 383.
197.3 No. 401.
198.1 No. 387.
198.2 Nos. 391, 393.
199.1 No. 401. It appears by a document inrolled in the Close Roll of 39 Henry VI., m. 13, in dorso, that Worcester on the 28th August 1460 executed a deed making over all his goods and chattels (bona mea et catalla mobilia et immobilia, viva et mortua, ubicumque et in quorumcumque manibus), and all debts due to him from whatever persons, to Henry Everyngham, Esq., Hugh Fenne, gentleman, Henry Wyndesore, gentleman, Robert Toppes, jun., gentleman, and John Bokkyng, gentleman; which deed he acknowledged in Chancery on the 1st September following (see Appendix to this Introduction). Apparently the object of this was to give others an interest in vindicating what he supposed to be his rights.
199.2 No. 391.
199.3 W. Worcester’s Annals.
200.1 Inquis. post mortem, 38 and 39 Henry VI., No. 48.
200.2 No. 423.
200.3 Ibid.
201.1 No. 222 (in vol. ii.).
201.2 No. 543.
201.3 No. 385.
201.4 No. 390.
202.1 No. 386.
202.2 He had probably done so before by authority of Henry VI., for in the beginning of 1460 Friar Brackley writes: ‘A man of my Lord Norfolk told me here he came from London, and there he had commonly voiced that the Duke of Norfolk should, by the king’s commandment, keep his Easter at Caister for safeguard of the country against Warwick and other such of the king’s enemies.’—Vol. iii. p. 212.
202.3 Edward’s reply to another suit preferred by John Paston this same year is an excellent example of this spirit of impartiality. John Paston’s eldest son writes to his father as follows, touching an interview he had had with the Lord Treasurer, the Earl of Essex: ‘And now of late I, remembering him of the same matter, inquired if he had moved the king’s highness therein. And he answered me that he had felt and moved the king therein, rehearsing the king’s answer therein: how that when he had moved the king in the said manor of Dedham, beseeching him to be your good lord therein, considering the service and true part that ye have done and ought to him, and in especial the right that ye have thereto, he said he would be your good lord therein, as he would to the poorest man in England. He would hold with you in your right; and as for favour, he will not be understood that he shall show favour more to one man than to another, not to one in England.’
203.1 Nos. 458, 465.
203.2 This perhaps may be a reason for supposing Letter 630 to have been written in the year 1461, notwithstanding the difficulty mentioned in the preliminary note.