Note 7.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV

[From Fenn, iv. 258.] The mention of Lord Wenlock in this letter proves that it cannot be earlier than 1461; but if the writer be, as we have surmised, the ‘old Taverham’ mentioned by Margaret Paston in No. 489, it is most probably of that year.

8.1 Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell, so created in 1461.

8.2 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

8.3 William Lumner, of Mannington, in Norfolk.—F.

8.4 John Wenlock was created Baron Wenlock in 1461 by Edward IV.; but he afterwards left the York party, and joined that of Lancaster. He was cleft down with a battle-axe by the Duke of Somerset for not coming up in time at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, whereby that battle was lost.—F.