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

Note 213.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 5)

Reading edition

[Add. MS. 34,888, f. 161.] This letter is evidently holograph. The date might be at the very end of the year 1459, after the death of Fastolf and after the attainder of the Yorkists at Coventry; but is more probably in the early part of 1460, between January and May. Indeed, though the language is mysterious, its substance is probably not unconnected with that of the preceding letter.

213.2 William Paston, son of the judge.

213.3 The initials ‘W. W.’ suggest the name of William Worcester; but he was not an Irishman, and before this letter was discovered he was believed to be Brackley’s ‘Colinus Gallicus,’ who, however, is here mentioned as a different person.

213.4 Jerem. vii. 4.

213.5 Referring apparently to Isaiah xxxvi. 6—not ‘the same prophet.’

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