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XXX. Letter of Sir Harry Stradling to his Wife, written in the year 1456. Communicated by the Rev. John Montgomery Traherne, M.A., F.R.S., and F.S.A., in a Letter to the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
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You will oblige me by laying before the Society of Antiquaries an autograph letter of Sir Harrye Stradling to his wife Elizabeth, the sister of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, dated from Rome “the laste day of March.” The year is not stated, but may be collected from the notice of the great battle between the troops of the King of Hungary, commanded by John Hunniades, and the Turks, at Belgrade, A. D. 1456, wherein the latter were defeated with a loss of “forty thousand men.” Heylin (Cosmographie, p. 544, ed. 1666) estimated their loss at 50,000.
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page 427 note 4 Sic.
page 428 note a In a letter in the Plumpton Correspondence, addressed by Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York, to William Plompton, 16 Feb. 1502–3, Quadragesima Sunday is termed “the first Sonday in Cleane Lent.”—Plumpton Corresp. edited by Thomas Stapleton, Esq. for the Camden Society, p. 173.
page 428 note b My son Miles. Jane, daughter of Sir Harry Stradling, married Miles ap Harry, from whom descended Mrs. Blanch Parry the favourite of Queen Elizabeth. Vide pedigree appended to the Stradling Correspondence, edited by the Rev. J. M. Traherne, p. xx.
page 428 note c Low Sunday, or first Sunday after Easter. In 1456 Easter Day fell on the 25th of March.
page 428 note d Barry Island, near Cardiff, on the coast of Glamorganshire. Leland says, “There is no dwelling in the Isle; but there is in the midst of it a fair little Chapel of St. Barrok, where much pilgrimage is made.”—Lel. Itin. by Hearne, vol. iv. p. 44, 3d edit.