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

Note 234.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 5)

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[From Fenn, iii. 84.] The date of this letter depends upon the age of John Paston, who, in November 1444, was found to be twenty-three years old. As he is now ‘upon the age of thirty winters,’ this letter was probably written in 1451.

234.2 His name was Laurence Baldewar.

234.3 In 1444, according to Blomefield (Hist. of Norf. iv. 40), a rent-charge out of the manor of Swainsthorp was settled by John and Agnes Paston, the eldest son and the widow of William Paston, the Justice, to find a priest to sing for the soul of the said William in the chapel of our Lady the Great in Norwich Cathedral.

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