Note 303.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV

[From Fenn, iv. 52.] The references to Howard’s conduct, and to John Paston the son being with the King, prove this letter to be of the year 1461. Compare the last paragraph of the letter immediately preceding with the first of this.

304.1 Henry, Viscount Bourchier, who had been created Earl of Essex on the 30th June preceding. The writer had forgotten his new dignity.

304.2 An officer who had the ordering of the dishes, etc.

304.3 John Wykes was an usher of the King’s chamber, and a friend and cousin of J. Paston’s.—F.