Note 88.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)
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[From Fenn, iv. 156.] The date of this letter is abundantly evident, first from the circumstance that the 26th of January (the morrow of St. Paul) was a Thursday, and secondly, from the mention of the King’s going into Gloucestershire. In January 1464 Edward IV. was at Northampton, and on the 9th of February he was at Gloucester.
88.2 John Greenfield. He and the two next named were made serjeants-at-law in November 1463.
88.3 John Catesby. He was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1481.
88.4 Richard Pygot.
88.5 William Nottingham. He was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1479.
88.6 Humphrey Starkey. He was made a serjeant in 1478.
88.7 William Jenney was made a serjeant in 1463, and a Justice of the King’s Bench in 1481.
88.8 John Markham, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and Robert Danby, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, both appointed in 1461.
88.9 Thomas Lyttelton, the famous lawyer, was created a serjeant in 1453, and appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1466. He died in 1481, aged seventy-nine, as Fenn here tells us in a footnote; but Foss, in his Judges of England, says nothing of his age.
89.1 George Neville, now Bishop of Exeter, but soon after the writing of this letter translated to York.
89.2 The Utas or Octave of a feast is the seventh day after it.
89.3 Clement Paston, brother to John Paston.
89.4 This relates to the disputes concerning Sir John Fastolf’s will.