The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 96.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 2)

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[From Fenn, iii. 80.] There is no distinct clue to the date of this letter; but Fenn throws out a conjecture which, in default of any better guide, may be accepted as not improbable, that ‘the Bishop of the other side of the sea’ was Walter Lyhert, Bishop of Norwich, who in the beginning of 1449 must have been in Savoy, having been sent thither by the King to persuade the anti-pope Felix V. to renounce his claim to Nicholas V. for the peace of the Church. This Felix actually did in the beginning of this year, and Wharton considers Bishop Lyhert to have been the cause of his doing so (Angl. Sac. i. 418). Fenn, however, dates this letter 1450, on the supposition that the Bishop would have been still abroad in the beginning of that year, which is a mistake, as his name appears in the Rolls of Parliament as a trier of petitions as early as February.

96.2 Robert Rogers was parson of Thorpe from 1445 to 1476.

96.3 Court of Rome.

97.1 Deceive.

97.2 The first week in Clean Lent means the first entire week in Lent beginning on a Sunday.

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