Note 27.1 — INTRODUCTION

Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vi. 487, 488.

27.2 Clarendon’s Life, ii. 440.

30.1 ‘Here everything good and virtuous is to be learned; all vice is discouraged and banished. So that knights, barons, and the greatest nobility of the kingdom, often place their children in those Inns of Court; not so much to make the law their study, much less to live by the profession (having large patrimonies of their own), but to form their manners, and to preserve them from the contagion of vice.’—Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliæ (ed. Amos), 185.

30.2 Blomefield’s Norfolk, iii. 126.

30.3 Dugdale’s Origines.

30.4 Blomefield, v. 56.

30.5 Ibid. ii. 257, 285; vii. 217.

30.6 Ibid. viii. 109.

31.1 Blomefield, x. 67.

31.2 See Letter 13.

31.3 Blomefield, vi. 353.

31.4 Ibid. x. 176.

31.5 Ibid. v. 27.

31.6 Ibid. vi. 517.

32.1 No. 25.

32.2 See No. 6. Compare J. Amundesham Annales, 16. In the latter Grys’s Christian name is given as William, and the outrage is said to have taken place on Christmas Day instead of New Year’s Eve.

34.1 Nos. 10, 11, 12. Maziere Brady in his book on the Episcopal Succession, vol. ii. p. 79, gives the following entry from the archives of the Vatican:—

‘Die 10^o kal. Junii 1425, provisum est ecclesiæ Corcagen. in Hibernia, vacanti per mortem Milis (Milonis), de persona Ven. Fratris Johannis Pasten, prioris conventualis Prioratus Bromholm, Ordinis Cluniacensis.’—Vatican.

Also on Sept. 14, 1425, ‘Johannes Paston, Dei gratia electus Korkagen, solvit personaliter 120 florenos auri,’ etc.—Obligazioni.

34.2 Printed in Appendix to this introduction.

35.1 No. 20.

35.2 See No. 47, p. 56.

36.1 No. 7.

36.2 Patent 6th July, 21 Henry VI., p. 1, m. 10.

37.1 Inquis. a. q. d. (arranged with Inquisitions post-mortem), 21 Henry VI., No. 53.

37.2 Letter 62.

37.3 Nos. 194, 195, 196.

38.1 Nos. 63, 87, 93, 128; Blomefield, vi. 479.

38.2 It would appear that he had also an estate at Therfield, in Hertfordshire, as shown by an inscription in the east window of the north aisle of the parish church, in which were portraits of himself and his wife underwritten with the words, Orate pro animabus domini Willelmi Paston et Agnetis uxoris ejus, benefactorum hujus ecclesiæ (Chauncey’s Hertfordshire, 88).

39.1 Blomefield, viii. 127.

39.2 Patent Roll, 4 Henry VI., p. 2, m. 13; Blomefield, viii. 102. A further notice relating to Judge Paston has been given me by Sir James Ramsay in the following memorandum:—‘£432 for arrears of salary due to late William Paston, paid to his executor, John Paston, from parva custuma of the port of London. L.T.R. Enrolled Customs Account of Henry VI. (entry 8 Nov. 37 Hen. VI.—Mich. 38 Hen. VI.)’ in Public Record Office. So the arrears of the judge’s salary were only paid in 1458, fourteen years after his death.

40.1 No. 34.

41.1 Inquisitions post-mortem, 27 Edw. III., No. 28, and 30 Edw. III., No. 42. Blomefield inaccurately makes Maud, whom Sir John Burghersh married, the daughter of Edmond Bacon instead of his granddaughter.—(Hist. of Norf. viii. 127.)

42.1 No. 16. Blomefield gives a somewhat different account, founded doubtless on documents to which I have not had access. He says that Margery, widow of Sir William Molynes, settled her portion of the manor on one Thomas de la Lynde, with the consent of her son Sir William Molynes, who resigned all claim to it.

42.2 According to the inquisition taken on his father’s death (Inq. p. m., 37 Hen. VI., No. 17), he was over thirty in June 1459. If we are to understand that he was then only in his thirty-first year, he could not have been twenty when he first dispossessed John Paston of Gresham. But ‘over thirty’ may perhaps mean two or three years over.

43.1 No. 102.

43.2 No. 79.

44.1 A value probably equal to about £3000 of our money.

44.2 Nos. 102, 135.