Note 82.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)
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[From Fenn, iv. 128.] In the preceding letter Sir John Paston seems to have been at home; in Letter 552, we find that he had left home without leave. It is very probable, therefore, that the present letter was written in the interval between them, seeing that the writer complains of Sir John being kept at home.
82.2 This Lady Chamberlayne was Anne, daughter and sole heir of Sir Robert Herling, Knight, by Jane, daughter and heir of John Gonvile, Esq. Her first husband was Sir William Chamberlayne, Knight of the Garter, a renowned and valiant soldier, who died in 1462. She was at this time his widow, and inherited from her father a very considerable fortune.
She afterwards married Sir Robert Wingfield, and after his decease she became the wife of John, Lord Scroop of Bolton.
By the name of Lady Scroop she founded and endowed a Fellowship in the College of Gonville and Caius at Cambridge, originally founded by an ancestor of her Ladyship’s.
She was born in 1426, and was alive in 1502.
At the time this letter was written she must have been nearly forty years old, when Sir John Paston could not have been much above twenty.—F.