Note 160.4 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 3)
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[From Fenn, iii. 86.] The date of this letter is ascertained by the news contained in the last paragraph of the fall of Cherbourg, besides other internal evidence.
160.5 ‘After John Paston had received this letter,’ says Fenn, ‘it seems as if he had sent it to my Lord Oxford, for on the back of it, in John Paston’s handwriting, is the following direction: “To the rith worspfull and my rith speciall lord, my Lord of Oxenford.”’
160.6 These passages, in which the text is broken by brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the original.
160.7 John Kemp, Cardinal Archbishop of York, afterwards of Canterbury.
161.1 These passages, in which the text is broken by brackets or dots, are indicated by Fenn as illegible in the original.
161.2 A writ directed to the sheriff for recovery of possession of things immoveable, whereof yourself or ancestors have been disseised. —F.
161.3 Is a commission especially granted to certain persons for the hearing and determining of causes, and was formerly only in use upon some sudden outrage or insurrection in any place. —F.
161.4 These disturbances among the people were the remains of Cade’s rebellion, which had been lately suppressed. —F.
161.5 Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, fell in the battle of Northampton in July 1460. —F.
161.6 These commissions of oyer and determiner were to try those who had been concerned in the late rebellion under Cade. —F.
162.1 See Note 1, p. 161.
162.2 John Hody was at this time Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. —F.
162.3 Robert Danvers became a Judge of the Common Pleas 14th of August 1450. —F.
162.4 Cherbourg surrendered to the French on the 12th August 1450.—See Stevenson’s Reductio Normanniæ, p. 367.
162.5 ‘Quære this abbreviated word,’ says Fenn. It is probably eme, meaning uncle.