[22.1] [From Fenn, iv. 108.] The date of this letter must lie between the years 1461 and 1466. The writer’s husband, who is spoken of as dead, was put to death in June 1460, and John Paston, the person addressed, died in May 1466.
[22.2] Assize is a writ directed to the sheriff of the county for recovery of the possession of things immovable, whereof yourself or ancestors have been dispossessed.—F.
[22.3] Edmund Rous was second son of Henry Rous, Esq. of Dennington, in Suffolk, the ancestor of the present Earl of Stradbroke.
[22.4] Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
[22.5] Walter Gorges, Esq., married Mary, the daughter and heir of Sir William Oldhall, and was at this time Lord of the Manor of Oldhall, in Great Fransham. He died in 1466. His son and heir, Sir Edmund Gorges, afterwards married a daughter of Sir John Howard, Knight, the first Duke of Norfolk of that family.—F.
[22.6] John Curde was Lord of the Manor of Curde’s Hall, in Fransham.—F.
[23.1] Elizabeth Mundeford was the widow of Osbert Mundeford, Esq. of Hockwold, in Norfolk, and was daughter of John Berney, Esq., by which means she was aunt to J. Paston.—F.
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SIR ROBERT WILLIAMSON TO AGNES PASTON[23.2]
To my right reverent mastras, Agnes Paston, be this lettre delyveryd in haste.
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