Note 271.3 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was evidently written in the beginning of Edward IV.’s reign; and as it appears by No. 458 that Paston had already been dispossessed of Caister, not indeed by the Duke of Suffolk, but by the Duke of Norfolk, as early as the 5th June 1461, we may presume that this letter, dated in May, belongs to that year. The margin of the letter is slightly mutilated, but the words which are lost are obvious, and have been supplied in brackets.