After Bridget Paston died in 1598, Coke married Elizabeth Hatton, a desirable marriage due to her wealth ; when he found out that Bacon was also pursuing her hand, Coke acted with all speed to complete the ceremony.

The Paston Letters are a collection of letters and papers from England, consisting of the correspondence of members of the gentry Paston family, and others connected with them, between the years 1422 and 1509, and also including some state papers and other important documents.

It is during the lifetimes of John Paston and his eldest son that the Letters are most numerous and valuable, not only for family matters, but also for the history of England.

Various estates were claimed by different noblemen ; the excluded executors were angry and aggressive ; and Paston soon found himself in a whirlwind of litigation, and exposed also to more violent methods of attack.

He married Margery, daughter of Sir Thomas Brews, and left a son, William Paston ( c. 1479-1554 ), who was also knighted, and who was a prominent figure at the court of Henry VIII.

Her stepmother was Mary Browne, daughter of Sir George Browne, also a widow, of Thomas Paston, of Thorpe, Surrey.

Paston Place was also the home of Volk's Seaplane Station, which was used by Volk's son George Herbert Volk.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend ( d. 1493 ) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.

He was the son of William Paston, who had been created a Baronet, of Oxmead in the County of Norfolk, in the Baronetage of England in 1641.

The family of Paston takes its name from a Norfolk village about twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of Norwich, and the first member of the family about whom anything is known was living in this village early in the 15th century.

He bought a good deal of land in Norfolk, including property in Paston and Gresham Castle, and improved his position by his marriage with Agnes ( d. 1479 ), daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Berry of Harlingbury, Hertfordshire.

A lawyer like his father, Paston spent much time in London, leaving his wife to look after his business in Norfolk ; and many of the Letters were written by Margaret to her husband.

In accordance with the custom of the time, he had conveyed many of his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk to trustees such as Sir William Yelverton, John Paston and his brother William, retaining the revenues for himself, and probably intending his trustees after his death to devote the property to the foundation of a college.

However, it was found that, a few days before Fastolf's death, he had executed a fresh will in which Fastolf had named ten executors, of whom two only, John Paston and another, were to act ; and, moreover, that Fastolf had bequeathed all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk to Paston, subject only to the duty of founding the college at Caister, and paying 4, 000 marks to the other executors.

Some compensation, doubtless, was found in the fact that in 1460, and again in 1461, Paston had been returned to parliament as a knight of the shire for Norfolk, and, enjoying the favour of Edward IV, had regained his castle at Caister.

Paston, Norfolk

He was educated at Sheringham Primary and then at the Paston School in North Walsham, Norfolk, an all-boys grammar school where he had an undistinguished record and by his own account he barely gained admission to study Modern History at the University of Dundee.

His second wife was Eleanor Paston, daughter of Sir William Paston of Norfolk.

The Pastonian interglacial, now called the Pastonian Stage ( from Paston, Norfolk ), is the name for an early or middle Pleistocene stage used in the British Isles.

Some of her correspondence is included in the Paston Letters.

In 1478 Sir John Paston wrote that " yonge William Brandon is in warde and arestyd ffor thatt he scholde have fforce ravysshyd and swyvyd an olde jentylwoman ..." By that time he was already married to Elizabeth Bruyn, a widow with two sons, and according to Paston there were rumours he would be hanged for his offence.

Making good use of his opportunities, William Paston ( 1378 – 1444 ), who is described as a " right cunning man " in the law, attained an influential position in his profession, and in 1429 became a justice of the common pleas.

The UK terminal of the Interconnector gas pipeline, which terminates in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, is located to the west of the parish, straddling the boundary with the adjoining parish of Paston.

Today, Cooper is remembered in the area with a number of local street names ( Astley Road and Paston Road in Hemel Hempstead ), and The Astley Cooper School, formerly Grovehill school, being renamed after him in 1984.

He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history.

He is mentioned very eulogistically in one of the Paston Letters, but practically nothing is known of his subsequent history.

The earliest reference to cricket on Richmond Green is from an 1666 letter by Sir Robert Paston, a resident of Richmond.

The first recorded use of the term ' longbow ', as distinct from simply ' bow ', occurs in a Paston Letter of the 15th century.

Murray was raised in Sheringham and attended Sheringham primary school and the Paston Grammar School.

In the parish church of St. Nicholas can be found the ornate tomb of Sir William Paston ; the remains of medieval painted screens ; a telescopic Gothic font canopy ; a unique Royal Arms Board ; an ancient iron bound chest ; and many other ancient artifacts.

The English naval hero, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and his brother William were educated at Paston Grammar School in North Walsham, founded by Sir William Paston ( of Paston Letters fame ) in 1606.

The school became Paston College in 1984.

On 13 August 1582 Coke married Bridget Paston, daughter of John Paston, a Counsellor from Norwich.

Paston came from a long line of lawyers and judges – his great grandfather, William Paston, was a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Six months after they married John Paston died, leaving his daughter and son-in-law his entire estate and several of his clients.

After the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460, Cecily moved to London with her children and lived with John Paston.

Still he was a capable official, and a faithful servant to Henry VI, who called him " one of the wisest lords of the land " ( Paston Letters, l. 315 ).

In terms of accommodation the university campus has eight en-suite residences, namely Constable Terrace, Nelson Court, and Britten, Colman, Victory, Kett, Browne, and Paston Houses.

The residences are named after Horatio Nelson, John Constable, Benjamin Britten, Jeremiah Colman, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.

He married Harriet Webster, the daughter of Kentville's Dr. Isaac Webster in 1824, then went to London to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Sir Astley Paston Cooper, then surgery at Guy's Hospital under John Abernethy.