Note 48.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI
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[From Fenn, i. 114.] This letter was written in 1455, at the time of the King’s second attack of illness, which happened while he was under the control of the Duke of York and the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury, as mentioned at the end of the letter. In the latter part of the letter some words are lost by the decay of the original MS.
48.2 Here, says Fenn, follows an account of some law business, etc.
48.3 Fought in 1403 between King Henry IV. and the rebel Percies.
49.1 ‘Nicolas Radford,’ says Fenn in a note, ‘was an eminent lawyer, and resided at Poghill, near Kyrton.’ In Pole’s Description of Devonshire, p. 219, we find that one Nicolas Radford dwelled at Upcot in Henry VI.’s time, ‘after whose death controversy arose betwixt John Radford of Okeford and Thomazin, sister of the said Nicholas,’ who had married Roger Prous.
49.2 A hutch was a coffer or chest standing on legs.
49.3 A flight was ‘a light arrow formed for very long and straight shots.’—Halliwell.
49.4 Archbishop Bourchier.
50.1 The King was at Hertford, as appears by the Privy Seals, in August and September 1455, and not improbably in October also.