Note 140.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 3)

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] The writer of this letter was put to death at Calais on the 25th June 1460, having been taken at Sandwich when about to go thither in aid of the Duke of Somerset against the Earl of Warwick. The date cannot be in that year, and how much earlier it may be is quite uncertain, unless we suppose ‘mon petit homme d’armes’ to be Paston’s eldest son, who, as we have seen, was summoned to perform military service in 1459.