[45.1] [From Fenn, i. 2.] This letter must have been written some little time before the marriage of John Paston and Margaret Mauteby, which seems to have been about 1440.
[45.2] Margaret, daughter and heir of John Mauteby, shortly afterwards married to John Paston, Esq.
[45.3] Son of William and Agnes Paston.
[45.4] Laurence Baldware was rector of Stockton ‘about 1440.’—Blomefield, viii. 49.
[45.5] Gold thread on pipes or rolls, for needlework or embroidery. —F.
[45.6] Ponds to keep fish alive for present use. —F.
[45.7] The Collect for the Third Sunday after Easter.
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ABSTRACT[46.1]
About 1440
Draft Lease by Sir Simon Felbrygge; Oliver Groos, Esq.; John Berney of Redham, Esq.; William Paston of Paston; Thomas Stodhagh; Roger Taillour of Stafford Bernyngham; and Thomas Newport of Runham, executors of Robert Mawteby and John his son, to Margery, widow of the said John, of ‘two parts of manors, &c.’ and the reversion, &c., which they lately held along with Sir Miles Stapleton, Sir William Argenten, Sir John Hevenyngham, Sir John Carbonell, Sir William Calthorpe, John Boys, Esq., and William Caston, Esq., now deceased, by deed of Robert Mawteby. The remainder, after Margery’s death, is to go to Margaret, daughter of the said John and Margery, and the heirs of her body; then to Peter Mauteby, son of Robert and uncle of Margaret; then to Alianora, widow of Robert; then to Alianora, widow of William Calthorp and sister of Robert Mawteby, with reversion to the trustees to fulfil the will.