Wrytyn the xxiij. day of Janware in haste, wan I was not well at hesse. God have [you] in Hys keping. By Clement Paston, Yowr broder.
[249.1] [From Fenn, i. 202.] This letter appears to have been written after the battle of Wakefield, when the victorious army, led on by Margaret of Anjou, was marching southwards.
[249.2] Archbishop Bourchier.
[249.3] Sir John Radcliff of Attleborough, styled Lord Fitzwalter in right of his wife, only daughter and heiress of Walter Fitzwalter, seventh lord. This John was at the battle of Ferrybridge on the 29th March 1461, and died, probably of his wounds, on the 6th April following.—See G. E. C.’s Complete Peerage.
[249.4] Andrew Trollope, whose desertion of the Duke of York at Ludlow in 1459 caused the dispersion of the Yorkist leaders. He was killed at the battle of Towton in March 1461, fighting on the Lancastrian side.
[249.5] Thomas Colt.—See Rolls of Parliament, v. 348.
[249.6] Walter Hopton.—See Rolls of Parliament, v. 368.
[249.7] William, son of Sir Leonard Hastings.—See Rolls of Parliament, ib.
[249.8] The battle of Wakefield.