[67.5] Bald batts seem to mean here ball bats, or bats to play at ball with.—F.
[67.6] Clot shon, clouted shoes—shoes shod with thin plates of iron.—F.
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ABSTRACT[67.7]
Thomas Playter to John Paston
1463
JAN.
Please your maistership wete, that as for my Lord of Norwich cosyns deth, Thomas Gurneys man hath confessed that he slewe hym by commaundment of his maister, and confessed over that the same dager he slewe hym with, he kest it in a sege [a jakes] whiche is founden and taken up al to-bowyd [bent together], for he cowde not breke it, and in prison is bothe he and his maister.
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Also on Thursday next after Cristemasse was a man slayn, by whom no man woot, nor what he is that was slayn no man knowe, his face is so mangled.
[67.7] These extracts are quoted by Fenn from a letter now lost, in reference to what is said in the last letter about Thomas Gurney and his man.