[323.1] Nos. 695, 987.
[324.1] No. 704.
[324.2] No. 766.
[325.1] No. 94, and [p. 155] of this Introduction.
[325.2] We have already referred, at [p. 154], to the case of Stephen Scrope, whose wardship was sold by his stepfather, Sir John Fastolf, to Judge Gascoigne, but was afterwards bought back again to prevent the judge marrying him to one of his own daughters, both the original sale and the redemption being equally against the will of Stephen Scrope himself, who complained that Fastolf had ‘bought and sold him like a beast.’ The particulars of these transactions are not obtained from the Paston Letters, but there will be found several notices of another wardship, viz. that of Thomas Fastolf of Cowhaw, kinsman of Sir John Fastolf, which was bought by Sir John of the king, and committed by patent to John Paston and Sir Thomas Howes, and which became the subject of a good deal of controversy.—See Nos. 248, 263, 266, 267, 271, 292, and 352.
[326.1] Italian Relation of England (Camden Soc.), pp. 24-27.
[327.1] Erasm. Epp. lib. v. 10.
[328.1] Italian Relation, pp. 22-32; Polydore Vergil, 14-15. Henry VII., in conference with the Spanish ambassador, De Puebla, always took off his hat when the names of Ferdinand and Isabella were mentioned (Bergenroth’s Spanish Calendar, vol. i. p. 10). I have also seen notices of the same custom elsewhere.
[329.1] Stow’s Chronicle, 421.
[329.2] See No. 760.