Note 13.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI
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[From Fenn, i. 80.] There is no doubt about the date of this letter. The King fell ill at Clarendon in the autumn of 1453, and remained in a state of utter imbecility during the greater part of the year 1454, so that in March a deputation from the House of Peers, sent to communicate with him on the death of his Chancellor, Cardinal Kemp, was obliged to report that they had been utterly unable to obtain from him any answer or sign that he understood the least thing said to him. It appears from this letter that his recovery was about Christmas, when he heard for the first time of the birth of his son fourteen months before, and of the death of Cardinal Kemp nine months before.
13.2 Dec. 27.
13.3 John Kemp, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury.
13.4 William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.
13.5 Robert Botyll, prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
14.1 See vol. ii. p. 84, Note 2.
14.2 Probably the Prior of Bromholm.
14.3 See p. 12, Note 3.
14.4 Sir John Heveningham married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Reedesham. Unless he married a second time, this Elizabeth was now his widow.