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

Note 93.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)

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[From Fenn, iv. 158.] The circumstance of the last day of February falling on a Wednesday fixes the date of this letter to the year 1464. There is no evidence in the dates of Privy Seals that the King was at Waltham in the end of February, or that he had previously visited Cambridgeshire, in any year during the period when this letter must have been written; but it is quite possible that he was at Waltham on the 27th February 1464, and if so, that he had passed through Cambridgeshire on his way from Kimbolton, where he had been on the 17th.

94.1 i.e. accused him. See vol. ii. p. 110, Note 1.

94.2 Query, as to this word, it being not perfect in the original.—F.

94.3 Quindena Paschæ, the fifteenth day after Easter.

94.4 Sir Peter Ardern, Knight, was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and also a Justice of the Common Pleas, in 1448; but in 1462 a new Chief Baron was appointed, and Ardern retained only the judgeship in the Common Pleas. He died in 1467.

95.1 John Wymondham, Esq., the purchaser of Felbrigg; he died there in 1475, and was buried in the Augustine Friars at Norwich.—F.

95.2 The word ‘weet’ is omitted in Fenn’s original text, but occurs in the modern copy.

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