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

Note 107.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 2)

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[From Palmer’s Foundacion and Antiquitye of Great Yermouthe, p. 61.]

107.3 ‘xxj.o,’ as printed by Palmer, but the ‘o’ no doubt should be ‘s.’

108.1 So the date is given in the book from which this letter is copied, but the year is certainly wrong, as the writer did not go to reside at Caister till 1454. The date indeed would have been suspicious apart from this, as the mode of dating is quite unusual in these letters. Probably in the original MS. (which the Editor has not seen) ‘1449’ was inserted after ‘Julie’ in a later hand.

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