Chapter IX: Introduction: The Paston Family (7)

[Footnote 154-3: She is not unlikely to have been the lady
mentioned in No. 97. ‘Fauconer’s daughter of London, that Sir
Reynold Cobham had wedded.’ This I find need not have been, as I
have stated in a footnote, the widow of Sir Reginald Cobham of
Sterborough, who died in 1446; for there was an earlier Sir
Reginald Cobham, whose widow Elizabeth was married to William
Clifford as early as 1438. (_Inquisitions post mortem_, 16 Hen.
VI. No. 31.) Thus there is the less difficulty in attributing