The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 236.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV. (continued 3)

Reading edition

[From Fenn, ii. 180.]

236.2 The chief part of this letter relates to Sir John Paston’s private affairs, his rents and lands, and informs him that William Jenney had entered into Holme Halle, in Filby, ‘in the ryght and titell of his douterlawe, weche was Boys doughter,’ etc.—F.

236.3 Cecily, Duchess of York, daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, was the widow of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and mother of King Edward IV., etc. She died in 1495, and was buried near her husband in the college of Fotheringay.—F.

236.4 The Abbey of St. Bennet at Holm.

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