Note 41.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI
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[From Fenn, iii. 128.] At the date of this letter, William Worcester and his master, Sir John Fastolf, were both at Caister, though the latter was thinking of going up to London. This, being in July, cannot have been before 1455. Fenn supposes the pardon to Poynings to have been on account of his participation in Cade’s rebellion, and accordingly dates this letter ‘about 1451.’ But Poynings was accused of raising disturbances in 1453 and 1454. The reversal of Sir William Oldhall’s outlawry was in 1455; for we have seen in No. 287 that he was obliged to remain in sanctuary for some little time after the battle of St. Albans. It appears by an inspeximus on Patent Roll, 34 Hen. VI., m. 16, that he presented a petition to the King in Parliament on the 9th July, 33 Hen. VI. (1455), setting forth how he had served the King in France, and yet had been pronounced a traitor by the Parliament of Reading in 31 Hen. VI., but that his outlawry had been reversed in the King’s Bench.
41.2 Thomas Howes.
41.3 Quindena Johannis, or on the quinzaine of St. John, i.e. 8th July, the 15th day from St. John the Baptist’s day.
41.4 Sir John Fastolf.
41.5 Robert Poynings.—See vol. ii. p. 154, Note 3.
41.6 Ralph, Lord Cromwell. He was accused of treason by a priest named Robert Colynson.—See Nicolas’s Privy Council Proceedings, vi. 198.
41.7 Probably Edmund, Lord Grey of Ruthin; but there were at this time also a Lord Grey of Codnor and a Lord Grey of Wilton.
42.1 The day of the Nones.—F.