[181.1] In Lancashire, now in the suburbs of Preston.

[181.2] The check-roll is a roll or book, containing the names of such persons as are attendants, and in pay to the King, or other great men, as their household servants, &c. —F.

[181.3] See [page 166, Note 3].

[181.4] William Yelverton, a Justice of the King’s Bench.

[181.5] John Markham, one of the Judges of the King’s Bench, who became Chief Justice in 1461.

[182.1] Sir John Fastolf.

[182.2] Sir Miles Stapleton.

he shuld bo outhir shiref or knyght
text unchanged: error for “be”?

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JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON[183.1]

To my worshipfull maister, John Paston, Escuyr, dwellynge att Norwich, in hast.