Note 146.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 3)
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[From Fenn, i. 38.] The date of this letter is perfectly determined by the events to which it relates.
146.2 4th May.
146.3 30th April.
146.4 2nd May.
147.1 An allusion to Friar Hauteyn’s suit or Oxnead.
147.2 Sent to France to carry succours to the Duke of Somerset, but defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Fourmigni, 15th April 1450.
147.3 Matthew Gough, a celebrated captain in the French war.
148.1 This singular subscription Fenn believes to have been owing to a momentary forgetfulness on the part of the writer, William Lomner, who had been in the habit of acting as Margaret Paston’s secretary in writing to her husband.
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