Note 62.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)

[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 182.] This petition must have been drawn up at the end of 1462 or in the beginning of 1463, which would be considered still 1462 in the old computation. It must have been fully three years after Fastolf’s death, which took place on the 5th November 1459, and the imprisonment of Richard Calle in 1461 (see No. 487) is referred to as having taken place ‘at Michaelmas the year past.’ The nobleman to whom the petition is addressed seems to be the Duke of Suffolk.

63.1 William de la Pole, the unfortunate Duke of Suffolk, murdered in 1450. It is a piece of information which we do not meet with elsewhere, that Richard Calle entered the service of the Pastons by this duke’s recommendation.