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

Note 286.5 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 6)

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[From Fenn, iii. 186.] This letter chronicles the same two deaths as the preceding, and is therefore of the same date.

287.1 A noble was a coin of the value of 6s. 8d. A mark was 13s. 4d. Five marks therefore were equal to £3, 6s. 8d.; but Margaret said she would pay the odd noble, or 6s. 8d., out of her own purse, and not let Paston know but that he had the place for £3. A little artifice for accepting terms which she had doubtless told Newman her husband could never agree to.

287.2 Philip Berney.—See p. 251, Note 1.

287.3 The day of St. Peter and Paul is the 29th of June. The utas or octave of a feast is the eighth day of the feast—that is to say, the seventh day after, which in this case is the 6th of July.

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