Note 111.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 2)
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[From Fenn, i. 164.] This letter, as printed by Fenn, bears no date in itself, but in the editorial note at the foot it is dated: ‘Caister, 18th of November.’ Probably this date is expressed in the original, but has been accidentally omitted in the printing. If so, the year in which it was written must be either 1456 or 1457, and most probably the former. In 1455 the Archbishop of Canterbury and my Lord Chancellor were one and the same person, which they evidently are not here; and in 1458 it appears by the Castlecombe MSS. that Sir John Fastolf was in London on the 26th November, so that he is not likely to have been expecting a visit from the Duke of Norfolk at Caister eight days before. On the other hand, if this was written in the year 1456, it must be remembered that Archbishop Bourchier had been just recently discharged of the office of Lord Chancellor, which was given to Bishop Waynfleet on the 11th October, and it is highly probable that the Archbishop had been already spoken to on the subject in his capacity of Chancellor.
111.2 Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop.
111.3 William Waynfleet, Bishop.
112.1 William Waynfleet, the Bishop of Winchester before mentioned.
112.2 On pilgrimage to the famous shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham.