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Sir William Car[ew].

Sir John Wy[ndham].

Sir Simond ... .

Sir Roger Be[llingham].

Sir John ... . .

Sir George Nevil . .

Sir Robert Radcly[ff].

Sir Jamys Par[ker].

Sir Edward Dar[ell].

Sir Edward Pekeryn[g].

Sir Thomas of W[olton].

Sir William Sand[es].

A mutilated endors.e.m.e.nt in Sir John Paston's hand reads, '... . .

prisoners ... . . fownd.'

[Footnote 101-1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 135.] This is only a fragment, the first part of which is lost. The seven names at the beginning are the end of a list of knights bannerets made upon the field. Then follow the names of those who were merely dubbed knights; but this list, too, is imperfect, not merely by the mutilation of some names, but because another leaf would certainly have been required to give them all. Compare another copy of these lists in Leland's _Collectanea_, iv. 214-15, where the names in the second list stand in a different order. Several of the mutilated names here have been filled in from Leland; but, curiously enough, that list gives no Sir Gregory and no Sir Simon.

Since this was in type the Editor has found a complete list, more accurate than Leland's, which will be printed at the end of these letters.]

[Footnote 102-1: Sir James Audeley, as his name is given in Leland's list. This was Sir James Touchet, who succeeded his father as Lord Audeley in 1491, and was beheaded and attainted in 1497.]

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DAME ELIZABETH BREWS TO SIR JOHN PASTON[102-2]

_To my rytth worchupfull son, Sir Jon Paston, be thys byll delyvyrd in hast._

[Sidenote: 1487, or later]

Ryth worchupfull son, I recommend me on to zow and to my lady zowyr wyf, and thankyng zow harttyly for the grett labyr thatt ze had on Thorys day for me, and for zowyr kyndnes; for and odyr had don a.s.se ze ded, I had had my purpos; qwerfor I prey G.o.d do be them a.s.se they do be me.

Son, I must prey zow to have a dosseyn men in harnes, with bowys and wepyn convenyent for them, that I may feche my stres ageyn. The schrevys man wa.s.se here wythe me, and [j. of] yowyres, he seyth he ys, and he hatth mad me feythful promes that he wol be wyth me ageyn on Monday, qwerfor I prey zow harttyly, son, and reqwere zow that zowyr men may be wyth me on Monday, as my werry tros ys in zow, qwo sknowyth blyssyd Jesu, Hom haff zow and zowyr in Yss keppyng.

Be zowyr trew modyr,

DAM ELYSABETHE BREWYSSE.

[Footnote 102-2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Fenn dates this letter 'about 1487.' It cannot be earlier than June of that year, and may be a few years later. But the date is unimportant. This letter appears to be a holograph. The next is written by a scribe.]

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DAME ELIZABETH BREWS TO SIR JOHN PASTON[103-1]