The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 6 (of 6), Part 1 (Letters, Chronological Table)

Note 87.2 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VII.

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[From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter must have been written either in 1485 or in 1486. Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was taken prisoner at the battle of Bosworth on the 22nd August 1485, and was not released from confinement till 1487, in which latter year also John Paston, to whom this letter is addressed, was knighted at the battle of Stoke on the 16th June. Most likely the letter is of the year 1485, at the beginning of the Earl’s imprisonment, and when Henry VII. had been just six weeks upon the throne.

87.3 In Norfolk.—F.

87.4 John Ratcliff, Lord Fitzwalter, who was summoned to Parliament in September 1485.

88.1 A mess was

88.2 Omitted in MS.

88.3 These last words were written by the Countess, the letter by her secretary.—F.

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