Note 166.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VII. (continued 2)

[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is anonymous, but is in the handwriting of Sir John Paston, the younger of that name. From the mention of his wife and ‘the widow, her daughter Leghe,’ it was evidently written not during the life of Margery Brews, his first wife, who must have died about the year 1495, but after his marriage to another. This second wife was Agnes, daughter of Nicholas Morley, Esq., of the well-known family at Glynd, in Sussex, and had already been twice married before her marriage with Sir John. Her first husband was John Hervey, Esq. of Thurleigh, Beds, Usher of the Chamber to King Edward IV. Her second was John Isley of Sundridge, Kent. By the former she had a daughter, Isabel, married to John Leghe or Alyghe, Esq. of Addington, Surrey, who proved his father-in-law’s will in 1494. She herself survived her own third husband, Sir John Paston, and died in 1510. Her will, in which she calls herself ‘Dame Agnes Paston,’ is at the principal registry at Somerset House, dated the 31st May in that year, and proved on the 19th June following. For these particulars I was indebted to the genealogical researches of the late Colonel Chester, and Notes and Queries, 5th S. ix. 326, 370, 414, 512.

166.2 The Earl of Oxford.