Note 135.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 3)
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[From Fenn, iii. 328.] The writer of this letter is Agnes Paston’s daughter Elizabeth, for whose marriage, as we have seen, there had been a good deal of negotiating in past years (see Nos. 93, 94, 236, 250, 252), and who has now become the wife of Robert Poynings. As the 3rd of January, the day on which this letter is dated, was a Wednesday, the year must be 1459. The 3rd of January did not fall on a Wednesday again till 1470, by which time Elizabeth Paston was no longer the wife of Robert Poynings, but his widow, for he was killed at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th Feb. 1461.
Final sentence changed by editor in Errata; see also note 154.3 in Volume II. Original text: . . . by which time Elizabeth Paston and Robert Poynings must have been married several years, as will be seen by No. 126 preceding (vol. ii. p. 154, Note 3).
136.1 Edmund Clere was the second son of John Clere, Esq. of Ormesby, and died in 1463.
136.2 See p. 123.