Note 14.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV
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[From Fenn, iv. 312.] Allusion is made in this and the next letter to the expected visit of Edward IV. to Norfolk in 1469. Owing to the proposed marriage of Sir John Paston with his kinswoman, Anne Haute, Lord Scales appears at this time to have interested himself in Sir John’s behalf. On the back of this letter, as Fenn tells us, is a note: ‘The L. Scales is now frend to Sr. J. Paston.’ But the handwriting is not contemporaneous.
15.1 The lady here referred to is Anne Haute.
15.2 Alice, widow of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk.
15.3 This was most probably Margery Paston, with whom the whole family were, very soon after the writing of this letter, so much displeased for having without their consent contracted herself in marriage to Richard Calle.—F.
16.1 Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Howard, Knight, and widow of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who was beheaded in 1461-2.—F.
16.2 See vol. iv. p. 188, Note 3.
16.3 Dr. John Yotton. See No. 703.
16.4 An ouch is a collar of gold, formerly worn by women; a gold button, set with some jewel, is likewise so called, and that most probably was the ornament here mentioned to be sent to Sir John by his mother; we may suppose it was intended as a present to his betrothed bride.—F.
16.5 A kersche of Cr’melle, perhaps means a kerchief of Cremell, crewel or worsted, to be made into neck-handkerchiefs for her daughter Anne, who appears to have been for education and board with some lady of consequence.—F.