Note 64.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 2)
Reading edition
[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 183.] The MS. of this letter is a rough draft in John Paston’s hand, and there can be no doubt to whom it was addressed. As to the year in which it was written there is no positive evidence; but Daubeney and Calle were both with Margaret Paston in the beginning of 1463 (see No. 536), and the only thing against that date is that Margaret, writing to her husband (then in London) on the 19th, acknowledges only a letter of the 9th. This, however, might well be owing to the disturbed state of the country, or it may be that the present letter, which is only a draft, was not really despatched.
65.1 ‘Item, I I,’ MS.
65.2 ‘Shuld shul,’ MS.