[203.2] [From Fenn, iii. 106.] As this letter was written in the year that John Jermyn was Sheriff of Norfolk, the date must be 1451.
[203.3] See [page 161, Note 3].
[168]
THE EARL OF OXFORD TO SIR JOHN FASTOLF[204.1]
To my right trusty and intierly welbeloved Sir John Fastolff, Knyght.
1451(?)
JAN. 2
Right trusty and intierly welbeloved, I grete yow wele, and pray yow to be right sadly advysed of the contynue of a bille of instruccion closid her ynne; and therupon, as I trust yow, to comon with suych my Lords of the Kyngs Councell as be present now at this tyme, in especiall my Lord Chaunceller, and that ye wole send me instruccyon agayn of their avise, and how I shal demene me. And the Trinite preserve yow. Wretyn at Wynch, the second day of January. The Erle of Oxenford.
[204.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, which is dated at the same place and on the same day as the preceding, was probably written in the same year also.
[169]
JOHN BOCKING TO WILLIAM WAYTE[205.1]
To William Wayte.[205.2]
1451
JAN. 2