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

Note 236.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 5)

Reading edition

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] The following examinations are contained in the same volume as the depositions of John Paston of which an abstract will be found in No. 606. They begin at page 21, immediately after Paston’s depositions, a single blank page intervening.

236.2 By a singular mistake in the record, Sir William Yelverton is here spoken of as deceased instead of John Paston:— ‘per partem venerabilis viri domini Willelmi Yelverton militis defuncti contra testes Johannis Paston armigeri et domini Thomæ Howys.’ Yelverton certainly lived for some years after this, and was continued as judge by Henry VI. on his restoration (see Foss), but John Paston died on the 26th May 1466.

239.1 South-Town, Yarmouth, sometimes called Little Yarmouth.

240.1 ‘Quod dictis Johannes Paston apud Castre penultimo die Octobris ultimo præterito ad tres annos proxime elapsos sibi retulit.’ It would seem by this that Popy’s testimony must have been given within three years of Fastolf’s death.

241.1 The residences of every one of the witnesses are given from the time of his birth; but we have given these details only in one or two cases as specimens.

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