Note 23.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI

[From Fenn, iii. 178.] This is a copy of the memorial drawn up by the Duke of York and the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury just before the first battle of St. Albans, which the Duke of Somerset and his friends would not allow to be presented to the King. Although this copy is without date, the original was dated at Ware, the 21st May.—See Rolls of Parl. v. 281, where the whole document is cited.

24.1 Fenn states that on the margin of the MS., in a hand nearly coeval with the letter itself, is written, ‘Memorandum quod dict’ literæ (?) Dominorum direct’ Archiepiscopo Cant. est apud . . . . .’ What followed is lost, the paper being torn. The letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, however, will be found quoted at full length in the Rolls of Parliament, v. 280-1.