Note 276.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV. (continued 4)
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[From Fenn, ii. 226.] This letter, Fenn tells us, was endorsed under the address in a handwriting of the time which he believed to be Sir John Paston’s—‘Jon Pympe, xvj. die Mar’., anno E. 4, 17,’ showing the date at which it was received.
277.1 Frau’s, i.e. women. The writer’s pleasantry in this passage is certainly rather coarse.
278.1 Perhaps this enigmatical passage may have reference to the Mrs. Barly mentioned in No. 903.
278.2 In the modern version, Fenn reads here, ‘any prized horse of deeds,’ a reading which seems to me questionable.
278.3 ‘Fort’ in Fenn, which is probably a misprint, as the word is spelled ‘force’ on the opposite page.
279.1 Margaret, daughter of Sir John Scot, and wife to Edmund Bedingfeld.—F.
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