[161.5] Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, fell in the battle of Northampton in July 1460. —F.
[161.6] These commissions of oyer and determiner were to try those who had been concerned in the late rebellion under Cade. —F.
[162.1] See [Note 1, p. 161].
[162.2] John Hody was at this time Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. —F.
[162.3] Robert Danvers became a Judge of the Common Pleas 14th of August 1450. —F.
[162.4] Cherbourg surrendered to the French on the 12th August 1450.—See Stevenson’s Reductio Normanniæ, p. 367.
[162.5] ‘Quære this abbreviated word,’ says Fenn. It is probably eme, meaning uncle.
[132]
THE EARL OF OXFORD TO JOHN PASTON[163.1]
To my right trusty and intierly welbeloved John Paston, Squyer.
1450(?)
AUG. 21