The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 247.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 5)

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[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 156.] This letter has no date, except that it was written on a Friday (feria sexta). It might, perhaps, be a little hazardous to date it Friday the 2nd January 1461, just after news of the defeat and death of the Duke of York reached Norfolk; but this date agrees well with the warning to John Paston to ride to London with all haste for his safety, which can hardly mean anything else than that the Lancastrian party, with their Norfolk supporters (several of whom, indeed, are expressly named here), were now sure to bear rule.

248.1 Magistrum Thomam Howys.

248.2 William Yelverton.

248.3 A contraction perhaps meant for quandam and blurred. If so, it should have been struck out altogether; for the words a me primo (which are an insertion in the margin) make the sense definite.

248.4 Jer. xvii. 18.

248.5 Ps. liii. (liv.) 5.

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