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

Note 248.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV. (continued 4)

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[From Fenn, ii. 190.]

248.2 John Hastyngs was Sheriff of Norfolk the preceding year.—F.

248.3 Nihils, or Nichils, are issues which the sheriff that is apposed in the Exchequer says are nothing worth and illeviable, through the insufficiency of the parties from whom due.—F.

249.1 Afterwards Duke of Norfolk.—F.

250.1 Richard, Duke of York, second son of King Edward IV., in or before January 1478, married Anne, sole daughter and heir of John Mowbray, late Duke of Norfolk.—Rolls of Parliament, vi. 168. She was at that time only in her sixth year, and she died early.

250.2 Anne, daughter of Richard, Duke of York, sister of Edward IV., and widow of Henry Holland, the last Duke of Exeter, her first husband; she died 14th of January 1475, and lies buried with Sir Thomas Saint Leger, Knight, her second husband, in a private chapel at Windsor.—F.

251.1 Ellenor, only daughter of William Bourchier, Earl of Ewe, in Normandy, and widow of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.—F.

251.2 Margaret, daughter of Richard Nevile, Earl of Salisbury, and wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, now a prisoner in the Castle of Hammes, in Picardy; or it may refer to Elizabeth, widow of the late Earl of Oxford, and daughter and heir of Sir John Howard, Knight.—F.

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