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Many curious ANECDOTES, relative to that turbulent and bloody,
but hitherto dark, PERIOD of our HISTORY;

AND

Elucidating, not only PUBLIC MATTERS of STATE, but likewife
the PRIVATE MANNERS of the AGE:

Digefted in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

WITH

NOTES, Historical and Explanatory;

A N D

Authenticated by Engravings of AUTOGRAPHS, FAC SIMILES, PAPER-MARKS,

and SEALS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By JOHN FENN, Efq. M. A. and F. A. S.

"Tempora mutantur."

"Litera fcripta manet."

THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

V O L., II.

L O N D O O N,

Printed for G. G. J. and J. ROBINSON, in Pater-nofter-Row.

MDCCLXXXVII.

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To my ryght reu'end and worchepfull Modyr Margaret Pafton dwellyng at Cafter be thys delyu'yd in haft.

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YTH reu'end and worchepfull Modyr I recom'and me on

to you as humbylly as I can thynk defyryng most hertly to her of you' welfare and herts efe whyche I pray God fend yow as haftyly as eny hert can thynk Ples yt yow to wete y* at the makyng of thys byll my brodyr and I and all ou' felawfhep wer in good helle blyffyd be God As for the gydyng her in thys contre it is as worchepfull as all the world can devyse it and ther wer neu'' englyfhe men had fo good cher owt of Inglong that eu' I herd of.

As for tydyngs her but if it be of the fest I can non fend yow favyng yt my Lady Margaret was maryd on Sonday laft paft

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We have in this Letter a moft curious and authentic Account of the Marriage of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, with Margaret, Daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and fifter of Edward IV. and of the fubfequent Diverfions exhibited at Bruges in honour of it, written by John Pafton, (Pl. iv. N° 12.) an eye-witness, who, with his Brother Sir John Pafton, Knight, attended in the Retinue of the Princess.

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