[88.1] [From Fenn, iv. 156.] The date of this letter is abundantly evident, first from the circumstance that the 26th of January (the morrow of St. Paul) was a Thursday, and secondly, from the mention of the King’s going into Gloucestershire. In January 1464 Edward IV. was at Northampton, and on the 9th of February he was at Gloucester.
[88.2] John Greenfield. He and the two next named were made serjeants-at-law in November 1463.
[88.3] John Catesby. He was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1481.
[88.4] Richard Pygot.
[88.5] William Nottingham. He was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1479.
[88.6] Humphrey Starkey. He was made a serjeant in 1478.
[88.7] William Jenney was made a serjeant in 1463, and a Justice of the King’s Bench in 1481.
[88.8] John Markham, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and Robert Danby, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, both appointed in 1461.
[88.9] Thomas Lyttelton, the famous lawyer, was created a serjeant in 1453, and appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1466. He died in 1481, aged seventy-nine, as Fenn here tells us in a footnote; but Foss, in his Judges of England, says nothing of his age.
[89.1] George Neville, now Bishop of Exeter, but soon after the writing of this letter translated to York.