Note 246.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 6)

This letter is reprinted from the Norfolk Archæology, where it was first published by Mr. Worship from a transcript made by Sandford in his MS. Genealogy of the Paston family, compiled in 1674. Sandford states that ‘the originall under the King’s seale remaineth in the custody of Edward Paston, Esq.’ The date is rendered certain by the warrant subjoined.

246.2 We have placed the words ‘Edward the Fourth’ in parentheses, though they are not so printed by Mr. Worship, and are probably not so written in Sandford’s MS., because we suspect that they were not in the text of the original document, but were added by Sandford by way of explanation.