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

Note 204.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 5)

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[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is not addressed, but seems undoubtedly to have been intended for the writer’s husband. The attack upon the lodge at Hellesden here referred to was in 1465, as appears by the letter immediately following.

204.2 ‘Norwich.’—This word is interlined, the writer having originally written ‘this town,’ and afterwards struck out the word ‘town.’

205.1 an—&, MS.

205.2 The old word ‘dogbolt’ seems to have meant a servile follower, or one bound to wait the commands of another. Thus in Lilly’s Tragicall Comedie of Alexander and Campaspe, where Manes complains that he serves a master whose house is a tub, Granichus remarks ‘That Diogenes that dog should have Manes that dogbolt it grieveth nature and spiteth art.’

205.3 Omitted in MS.

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