The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 53.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)

Reading edition

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This is a draft bill in Chancery prepared by John Paston with a view to the commencement of a suit against Yelverton and Jenney for their entry into the manor of Cotton and other lands of Sir John Fastolf in Suffolk. The document may have been drawn up in the latter part of the year 1461; but from the contents of the preceding letter it is not unlikely to have been a year later. Two copies of this document exist, with the very same corrections and interlineations in both.

53.2 Amortized, or granted in mortmain.

54.1 ‘Sir.’—This word is omitted in the first copy.

54.2 ‘Shuld not make.’—These words are interlined in place of the word ‘left,’ which is erased.

55.1 So spelt in both copies.

56.1 The clause between brackets is cancelled in the first copy.

56.2 This word is interlined in the second copy only.

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