[104.2] Sir William Fielding, according to Warkworth’s Chronicle.
[104.3] These words, ‘Hervy, recorder,’ are written over ‘Herry, capteyn,’ as a correction; but the latter are not erased. Warkworth mentions Sir Nicholas Hervy.
[104.4] Beheaded.
[104.5] Sir John Longstruther, Prior of St. John’s.
[104.6] Originally written ‘Mr. Delvys,’ and corrected.
[105.1] James Gower, according to Warkworth.
[105.2] Sir Humphrey Audeley.
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JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON[106.1]
1471
JULY 5
Most worchepfull and my ryght specyall good modyr, as humbylly as I can, I recomand me on to yow, besechyng yow of your blyssyng. Please it yow to undyrstand that thys day I spake with Batcheler Water, whiche let me have undyrstandyng of your welfare, wherof I thank God with all my hert. Also he leet me have knowlage that the Lord Scalys had grauntyd yow to be my good lord, wherof I am no thyng prowd, for he may do leest with the gret mastyr; but he wold depert ovyr the see, as hastyly as he may; and because he wenyth that I wold go with hym, as I had promyseyd evyr, and he had kept foorthe hys jornay at that tyme, thys is the cause that he wyll be my good lord and help to get my pardon. The Kyng is not best pleasyd with hym for that he desyerthe to depert, in so myche that the Kyng hathe seyd of hym, that wen evyr he hathe most to do, then the Lord Scalys wyll sonest axe leve to depert, and weenyth that it is most be cause of kowardyese. As for pardon, I can never get, withowght I schold paye to myche money for it, and I am not so purveyd. As for Herry Hallman, my brodyr wyll axe hym no sylver tyll ye be payeyd; therfor ye may send to hym and have it.