Note 21.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Edward IV
Reading edition
[From Fenn, ii. 276.]
21.2 John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk.—F.
21.3 Fenn reads ‘ffoodyd ne,’ and in the modern copy ‘fooded not forth,’ of which some fanciful explanations are suggested in a footnote. The true reading ought certainly to be ‘me’ and not ‘ne,’ the meaning evidently being ‘he has put me off ever since.’ ‘To fode out with words’ is an expression which, as Halliwell informs us, occurs in Skelton, Harrington, etc.
22.1 John Morton, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, and Cardinal.