[62]. Stevenson, pp. [433], [575].
[63]. Ramsay, Lancaster and York, ii. p. 41.
[64]. Brit. Mus. Add. ch. 14,598, “pro notabili et laudabili seruicio ac bono consilio que predilectus consiliarius noster Ioh. Fastolff miles nobis impendit et impendet in futurum,” 12 May, 19 Hen. VI. The future service was no doubt to be rendered in the council-chamber rather than the field.
[65]. “Thus endeth the boke of Tulle of olde age translated ont of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto ... and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe ... the xii day of August the yere of our lord m.cccc.lxxxi.”
[66]. He was father of Sir John Paston, for whom a copy of “Othea” was written in 1469, as well as of John Paston the younger, who owned a copy somewhat later (see above, p. x).
[67]. See Gairdner’s introduction, ed. 1896, i. p. lxxxvii. Fastolf’s relations with his stepson are also illustrated by numerous documents in G. Poulett Scrope’s History of Castle Combe, where there are memoirs of both, as lords of that manor.
[68]. Hist. of Castle Combe, p. 279.
[69]. “Thorugh the wiche sale I tooke sekenesses that kept me a xiii. or xiiii. yere swyng, whereby I am disfigured in my persone and shall be whilest I lyve” (ibid.).
[70]. From some curious accounts dealing with meat and fish in 1427–8 (ibid. p. 266) he was perhaps in the commissariat service.
[71]. Hist. of Castle Combe, p. 169.