Note 282.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV (continued 6)

[From Fenn, iv. 294.] This letter must have been written some time after Sir John Paston had obtained possession of Caister by virtue of the King’s warrant of the 17th July 1466 (No. 641), and before the Duke of Norfolk laid claim to it again in 1469. Thus the date is certainly either 1467 or 1468. But in the latter year Sir John Paston and his brother were both in Flanders at the marriage of the Princess Margaret to the Duke of Burgundy; and Daubeney could not have been with them, as he was when this letter was written, for John Paston the younger says he had sent him five shillings by Calle’s man. Thus 1467 appears to be the only year possible.

283.1 Relic Sunday (the third Sunday after Midsummer Day) was the 12th July in 1467.