‘There was never a Paston poor, a Heydon a coward or a Cornwallis a fool’. An old Norfolk saying. The Pastons cannily made a series of advantageous and strategic marriages enabling them to swiftly ascend the social ladder. Frieze of a Medieval Wedding – Artist Thomas Stottard. Yale Center for British Art. The Pastons, aContinue reading “THE PASTON FAMILY DURING THE WARS OF THE ROSES, THEIR UPS, THEIR DOWNS AND THEIR LETTERS.”