Note 12.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI
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[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This paper refers to proceedings as late as the fourth year of Henry VI., and therefore cannot be earlier than 1426; but as it mainly relates to outrages committed in the second year of Henry VI., i.e. 1424, we have arranged it under that year.
12.2 This word is omitted in the MS.
14.1 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England.
16.1 These were writs issued on the death of a tenant in capite of the Crown, and directed to the escheators in the different counties in which his lands lay, directing them to inquire by jury what lands he held, and of what value, and who was his nearest heir, and what was the heir’s age.
16.2 Over this word is written ‘va,’ the first syllable of vacat, showing that the passage is cancelled.
16.3 Here is written ‘cat.’—See Note 2.
17.1 Here is written ‘va.’—See p. 16, Note 2.
17.2 A writ against a juror who had been bribed, by which the prosecutor could recover from him ten times the amount of the bribe, dividing the proceeds with the King.
18.1 Here is written ‘cat.’—See p. 16, Note 2, and p. 17, Note 1.