Note 147.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 3)
Reading edition
[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This document is printed from the original draft, in which a great part of the text has been crossed out, and other paragraphs substituted in the margin. The passages thus cancelled are enclosed within brackets with asterisks. Those substituted for them or inserted in a later hand are printed in a parallel column on the right. The passages bracketed without asterisks, and also the dotted spaces, are lost by mutilation.
147.3 The date was originally ‘the xiiij. day of the moneth of June.’
152.1 Or the more part of them.—These words are crossed out. The words ‘before namyd’ are an interlineation substituted for them by the second hand.
152.2 Interlineation by second hand.
152.3 ‘fermors’ inserted in a different hand.
152.4 Interlined by second hand.
153.1 be fore namyd.—These words are an interlineation by another hand.
153.2 be this my will ordeynid to be sold, interlined by another hand.
153.3 after the avyse—tayle.—These words are an interlineation by the second hand.
154.1 with an annversary—note, erased.
154.2 Erased.
156.1 Beaufort.
158.1 See 1 Cor. xiv. 38. The translation of this verse in the Vulgate— ‘Si quis autem ignorat ignorabitur’—conveys a materially different sense from that of our English version.
160.1 The original draft ends with this word at the bottom of the page. Apparently the last few words of the draft were written on a flyleaf, which is now lost.