Note 155.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV. (continued 2)
Reading edition
[From Fenn, ii. 112.]
156.1 William Botoner, otherwise Worcester. He certainly was alive some years later than this.
156.2 Sir William Brandon, Knight, was standard-bearer to the Earl of Richmond, and was slain in Bosworth Field by Richard III. He was father to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.—F.
156.3 Meaning apparently, as Fenn suggests, ‘I paid her off, or treated her with unceremonious language.’
157.1 Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, etc., went to endeavour to obtain the possession of the Earls of Pembroke and Richmond, who were detained as prisoners by the Duke of Brittany.—F.
157.2 Francis II., the last Duke of Brittany, was born in 1435, and died in 1488.—F.
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