Note 88.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 2)
Reading edition
[From Fenn, i. 12.] The date of this letter will appear by a foot-note.
88.3 The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as ‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’
89.1 22nd May.
89.2 The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as ‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’
89.3 Killed in an engagement with Jack Cade in June 1450.
89.4 Probably Sir James Butler, son and heir-apparent of James, fourth Earl of Ormond, who in 1449 was created Earl of Wiltshire.
89.5 Wife of John Talbot, the famous Earl of Shrewsbury.
89.6 He signalised himself in the wars of Henry VI. and Edward IV., was a Knight of the Garter, and in November 1470, 10 Edward IV., was slain by the Staffords, perhaps in revenge for this murder of Richard Stafford. —F.
90.1 Thomas Porter was sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester in 26 Henry VI., and died in his year of office on Monday after Corpus Christi day (27th May 1448), the day before this letter was written.—Inquisition post mortem, 27 Henry VI., No. 13.