The following article is added in the first copy with many corrections:—
And aftir, late before the discese of the seid Sir John Fastolff, he wold and ordeynid that on wryting shuld be mad of the fundacion of the seid college aftir the forme of the seid apoyntement mad with your seid besecher, and of diverses othir articles conteynid in his seid former willes, not conserning the seyd colegge and also of divers maters wheche he remembrid necessary for the wele of his sowle, that were nevir expressid in writyng before, joyntly to geder expressyng his hole and inter and last will and intent in all.
[53.1] [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This is a draft bill in Chancery prepared by John Paston with a view to the commencement of a suit against Yelverton and Jenney for their entry into the manor of Cotton and other lands of Sir John Fastolf in Suffolk. The document may have been drawn up in the latter part of the year 1461; but from the contents of the preceding letter it is not unlikely to have been a year later. Two copies of this document exist, with the very same corrections and interlineations in both.
[53.2] Amortized, or granted in mortmain.
[54.1] ‘Sir.’—This word is omitted in the first copy.
[54.2] ‘Shuld not make.’—These words are interlined in place of the word ‘left,’ which is erased.
[55.1] So spelt in both copies.
[56.1] The clause between brackets is cancelled in the first copy.
[56.2] This word is interlined in the second copy only.