And All mygthty Jesu preserve yowr hye astat, my spesiall Lord, and send yow long lyve and good hele.
Wryten at Coventre on Tewusday next after Corpus Christi day, &c. Be yowr own pore Servant, John Northwod.
[88.2] [From Fenn, i. 12.] The date of this letter will appear by a foot-note.
[88.3] The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as ‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’
[89.1] 22nd May.
[89.2] The bracketed words are noted by Fenn as ‘imperfect in the original, the paper being chafed.’
[89.3] Killed in an engagement with Jack Cade in June 1450.
[89.4] Probably Sir James Butler, son and heir-apparent of James, fourth Earl of Ormond, who in 1449 was created Earl of Wiltshire.
[89.5] Wife of John Talbot, the famous Earl of Shrewsbury.
[89.6] He signalised himself in the wars of Henry VI. and Edward IV., was a Knight of the Garter, and in November 1470, 10 Edward IV., was slain by the Staffords, perhaps in revenge for this murder of Richard Stafford. —F.