The Paston Letters : A Selection Illustrating English Social Life in the Fifteenth Century (Paperback)

Introduction; Pedigree of the Paston family; 1. To my worshipful husband, William Paston, be this letter taken (about 1440); 2. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, dwelling in the Inner Temple at London, in haste (1443); 3. To my well-beloved son, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (about 1444); 4. To Edmind Paston of Clifford's Inn in London, be this letter taken (1444); 5. To my trusty and well-beloved friend, Sir Thomas Howys, parson of Castlecomb (1450); 6. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1451); 7. To my right worshipful master, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1452); 8. To my right worshipful master, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1452); 9. To my well-beloved son, John Paston (1453); 10. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1454); 11. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1455 or 1460); 12. Errands to London of Agnes Paston, the 28th day of January, 1457, the year of King Henry VI, the 36th (1457); 13. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston (before 1459); 14. Unto my right worshipful cousin, Margaret Paston, this letter be delivered in haste (1458); 15. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (before 1459); 16. To my right worshipful and right entirely well-beloved cousin, the Viscount Beaumont (before 1460); 17. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1460); 18. To my worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (about 1461); 19. To my right worshipful husband, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (between 1461 and 1465); 20. To my cousin, Margaret Paston (between 1461 and 1465); 21. To my well-beloved son, Sir John Paston, be this delivered in haste (between 1463 and 1466); 22. To my mistress Margaret Paston, be this delivered in haste, at London (1465); 23. To my mistress Margaret Paston, be this delivered (before 1466); 24. To master John Paston, or to my mistress his mother, be this letter delivered in haste (1466); 25. To mistress Margaret Paston, be this delivered (probably between 1466 and 1469); 26. To his worshipful brother, John Paston, be this delivered in haste (1467?8); 27. To my right reverend and worshipful mother, Margaret Paston, dwelling at Caistor, be this delivered in haste (1468); 28. To John Paston, the younger, be this delivered in haste (between 1466 and 1470); 29. To my right well-beloved brother John Paston Esq. being at Caistor, or to John Daubeney there, be this letter delivered (1468); 30. To my mother and my brother John Paston (1469 or 1474); 31. To Sir John Paston, knight (1469); 32. To John Paston, Esquire, be this delivered (1469?70; 33. To Sir John Paston, knight (1469?70); 34. To my right worshipful mother, Margaret Paston, as Mawteby (between 1470 and 1474); 35. To his well-beloved John Paston, Esquire, at Norwich, or to Mrs Margaret, his mother (1471); 36. To my right worshipful brother Sir John Paston, knight (1472, or perhaps 1470); 37. To John Paston, Esquire, at Norwich, be this delivered (1473); 38. To John Paston, Esquire, be this delivered (1473); 39. To Edmund Paston, Esquire, at Calais, be this delivered (1473); 40. To John Paston, Esquire (1474); 41. [This letter has no direction, but it is written either to John Paston, Esquire, or Margaret Paston] (1475); 42. To John Paston Esquire, at Norwich, be this delivered (1475); 43. Unto my right well-beloved Valentine, John Paston, Esquire, be this bill delivered (1476?7); 44. To my right well-beloved cousin John Paston, Esquire, be this letter delivered (1476?7); 45. Unto my right worshipful master, John Paston, Esquire, be this bill delivered (1476?7); 46. To Master Sir John Paston, be this letter delivered in Calais (1476); 47. Unto the right worshipful Sir John Paston, Knight (1477); 48. To