[265.3] The widow of a lord’s vassal was called the lord’s widow, and could only marry again by his leave.
[265.4] Nos. 782, 783.
[266.1] Nos. 796, 797.
[266.2] No. 782.
[267.1] No. 781.
[267.2] No. 787.
[268.1] Nos. 787, 791. In justice to Sir John Paston it should be mentioned that he had been making inquiries two months before as to the dimensions of the space over his father’s grave at Bromholm available for a monument.—See No. 782. More than five years, however, had elapsed since his father’s death, and even two years after this the tomb was not attended to, as we find by repeated comments on the subject.—See Nos. 843 and 878. This last letter has been accidentally misplaced, and is really of the year 1472, as will be shown hereafter.
[268.2] No. 781.
[269.1] No. 784.
[269.2] No. 798.