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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The doubts which have lately been thrown upon the authenticity of the Paston Letters form a peculiarly appropriate subject for the consideration of the Society of Antiquaries, not merely because historical and antiquarian literature would suffer a grievous loss if the reasonableness of those doubts could be established, but more especially because in the process of their establishment some blame must necessarily fall upon this Society, for having at the time of the original publication allowed itself almost to put the seal of the Society to the genuineness of these important papers.
page 19 note a Banks, Dormant Baronage, iii, 786.
page 20 note a Nichols's Lit. Anecd. iii. 616.
page 20 note b Gent. Mag. June 1750, p. 282.
page 20 note c Soc. Antiq. Minutes, vol. xxii. p. 183.
page 24 note a A list of these corrections is ordinarily found at the end of vol. ii. of the first edition.
page 31 note a Rot. Parl. v. 488.
page 32 note a Stat. 3 Edward IV. c. 4. Auth. Ed. ii. 397.
page 32 note b Rot. Parl. vi., 156.