Note 318.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was written in a year in which the morrow of All Souls’ Day (i.e. the 3rd November) fell on Tuesday. The Dominical letter of the year must therefore be D. This was the case in 1461, and no other year will suit a letter addressed to John Paston, junior. For if we go back there is no earlier year in which D was the Dominical letter till we come to 1450, when John Paston, junior, was only ten years old; and if we go forward the next is 1467, which was after John Paston the father’s death.