The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780521520270
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; Family history; Western Europe - General; History; History - General History; History: World; England; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain
First sentence: Sheltering from a summer storm in the porch of Gresham church on an August afternoon in 1985 - about a quarter of a mile up the hill from the moated platform of the Paston house, an oasis of shrubbery among the corn, and couple of miles from deserted East Beckham - I shared the quiet and isolation with a Latin inscription, all that remained of a fifteenth-century memorial, which lay just over the threshold of the church itself: pray for the soul of James Catt 'generosus'.