The _Dict. Nat. Biogr._ oddly calls the place Mons! Footnote 60: Act iii. sc. 2, ll. 104–109; Act iv. sc. 1, ll. 9–47. Footnote 61: _Paston Letters_, i. p. 37; Stevenson, _Wars of the English in France_, Rolls Series, ii. pt. ii. p. [549]. Footnote 62: Stevenson, pp. [433], [575]. Footnote 63: Ramsay, _Lancaster and York_, ii. p. 41. Footnote 64: Brit. Mus. Add. ch. 14,598, “pro notabili et laudabili seruicio ac bono consilio que predilectus consiliarius noster Ioh. Fastolff miles nobis impendit et impendet in futurum,” 12 May, 19 Hen. VI. The future service was no doubt to be rendered in the council-chamber rather than the field. Footnote 65: “Thus endeth the boke of Tulle of olde age translated ont of latyn in to frenshe by laurence de primo facto ... and enprynted by me symple persone William Caxton in to Englysshe ... the xii day of August the yere of our lord m.cccc.lxxxi.” Footnote 66: He was father of Sir John Paston, for whom a copy of “Othea” was written in 1469, as well as of John Paston the younger, who owned a copy somewhat later (see above, p. x). Footnote 67: See Gairdner’s introduction, ed. 1896, i. p. lxxxvii. Fastolf’s relations with his stepson are also illustrated by numerous documents in G. Poulett Scrope’s _History of Castle Combe_, where there are memoirs of both, as lords of that manor. Footnote 68: _Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 279. Footnote 69: “Thorugh the wiche sale I tooke sekenesses that kept me a xiii. or xiiii. yere swyng, whereby I am disfigured in my persone and shall be whilest I lyve” (_ibid._). Footnote 70: From some curious accounts dealing with meat and fish in 1427–8 (_ibid._ p. 266) he was perhaps in the commissariat service. Footnote 71: _Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 169. Footnote 72: _Chroniques_, ed. W. Hardy, Rolls Series, vol. for 1422–31, p. 289. Elsewhere (p. 254) he describes him as “moult sage et prudent aux armes au quel se fyoit grandement le duc de Bethfort, regent.” Footnote 73: She was a second wife, but the name of the first, who bore him a daughter, is not known (_Hist. of Castle Combe_, p. 271). Footnote 74: _Ibid._, p. 276; _Paston Letters_, i. p. 356. Footnote 75: _Ibid._, p. 419. Footnote 76: William Paston to John Paston: “He wyll dwelle at Caster, and Skrop wyth hym” (_Paston Letters_, i. p. 296). “The chaumboure sumtyme for Stephen Scrope” is mentioned in the inventory of Fastolf’s effects at Caister made after his death (_ibid._, i. p. 482). Footnote 77: