Note 200.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 5)

[From Fenn, iv. 62.] John Mowbray, third Duke of Norfolk, died on the 6th November 1461. It appears by the Inquisitions post mortem, 1 Edward IV., No. 46, that John, his son and successor in the title, was seventeen years old on St. Luke’s Day (18th October) in that year. He must therefore have been born on the 18th October 1444, and would have been of full age on Friday, 18th October 1465. The John Paston, Esq., to whom this letter was addressed, must have been the youngest of that name, who, as we have seen already, had been serving in the Duke’s household. His father was at this time a prisoner in the Fleet, so that the letter could not have been intended for him.

201.1 Those who held lands of the Duke as their superior.