[2.3] Richard, Duke of York, at this time Protector.
[2.4] Thomas Bourchier, who was translated from the Bishopric of Ely to Canterbury in April 1454.
[2.5] William Grey. He received his temporalities by a patent of the date of this letter, 6th September 1454, which shows that he had by that time done fealty.
and I thankeyd hym for hys good consayll
text has “thanlkeyd”
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ABSTRACT[3.1]
Sir John Fastolf to John Paston.
1454-9
SEPT. 19
Has searched among his evidence, and found a release of Nycolas Bockyng of his messuage and lands in Castre, ‘sometime Fraunceys and afterward John Barboures, and Cassandre his wife,’ which is enrolled in Banco, Rotulo primo de cartis scriptis, de termino Sc. Trin. anno r. R. Henr. Sexti, 23º. Send me the copy of it. (Signature not in his own hand.)
Castre, 19 Sept.
[The year in which this letter was written is uncertain, but it cannot be earlier than 1454, when Fastolf came to Caister, nor later than 1459, as he died in November of that year.]