Note 26.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter relates to the prisoner Piers mentioned in Nos. 423, 424, and 426. He seems to have been delivered by a general pardon issued at the commencement of the reign of Edward IV. The letter bears no address. It is endorsed, but in a much later hand:— ‘A lettre to J. Paston, Ar., from his wife.’

26.2 He was John Berney’s executor.