Note 101.4 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)
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[From MS. Phillipps, 9309.] These depositions, of which we shall only attempt to give some of the principal points, were produced in the Spiritual Court by Sir William Yelverton and William Worcester in opposition to the claim of John Paston and Thomas Howes to be Sir John Fastolf’s executors. The examinations were taken at intervals during the years 1464, 1465, and 1466, and the suit was not terminated when John Paston died. The MS. volume here referred to contains three distinct bundles of these depositions bound up in a wrong order. A volume containing similar matter among the Paston MSS. in the British Museum will be found entered in the year 1465.
103.1 There is no verb in the MS. to govern munimenta et evidencias.
104.1 The text is continued here at another part of the volume, the leaves being misplaced.