Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . el, Original Edit. vol. i. p. xv. INTRODUCTION. xv letters being then immediately written in haste to such acquaintance or friends as might chanceto reside near to such places as. the traveller passed, or to which he was ultimately destined. Wefind many allusions in the letters he
Paston letters : original letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III by various persons of rank or consequence ; containing many curious anecdotes, relative to that period of our history ; with notes historical and explanatory ; and authenticated by engravings of autographs and seals . el, Original Edit. vol. i. p. xv. INTRODUCTION. xv letters being then immediately written in haste to such acquaintance or friends as might chanceto reside near to such places as. the traveller passed, or to which he was ultimately destined. Wefind many allusions in the letters here published to such opportunities having been care, however, seems to have been taken to preserve the integrity of the letter. It wascarefully folded, and fastened at the end by a sort of jmper stiap, upon which the seal wasaffixed; and under the seal a string, a silk thread, or even a straw was frequently placedrunning around the letter. We give below a specimen, reduced in size, of the maimer in whichletters were folded and sealed; and many of the seals, selected from those given by Fenn, areintroduced at the end of the letters to which they were attached,—an arrangement we havethought more satisfactory than giving them in one or two pages of plates:— ^ z::^ <TK«t^/|3-m^JH^ ao|«vJU^. The limited means of communication must have operated much to the domestic dis-comfort of the time. It appears to have been a matter of course that a man leaving his home,whether on business or pleasure, must leave his family behind him, and that even a settledoccupation in the capital, where the individuals had estates, interests, and connexions inthe country, as in the case of the Pastoiis, Jenney and others, could not overcome the difficultiesand inconveniences arising from a want of facility of movement and intercourse. We learnthat there were carriers, but we are not told how their journeyings were regulated, but probablynot on fixed days, or to any one appointed pla
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