Note 50.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV
Reading edition
[From Fenn, i. 270.] This letter seems to have been penned immediately after the last was sent off.
50.3 i.e. the other letter to you—meaning No. 527.
50.4 Mary of Gueldres, widow of James II.
50.5 James, Earl of Douglas, who had been banished from Scotland, but was made by Edward IV. a Knight of the Garter.
51.1 St. Margaret’s Day was the 20th July. The Saturday before it in 1462 was the 17th.