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I've read Kingsford's "Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483" I found it digging very deep to discover the source of such venomous blacklisting of the term "stoner" which impacted me severely in the 1970's intelligence investigations. I finally got the book and since have found that the Stonors were attainted in the reign of Richard II ,of Lancaster, who had the sons of Edward IV ,of York, killed in the Tower of London and attainted all of that former kings supporters. It begins with John De Stonore the First High Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and is in a mix of Latin and Old French. Slowly it evolves to Old English mostly in the ladies letters. It is dry in some places expressing household accounts in l, s, d. (That is pounds schillings and pence.) This was all in Roman numerals and led to my discovering that the use of "j" in Roman numerals denotes the last character "i" in a numeral not a separate (and for me unknown) value. The War of Roses is more excitingly told in books I've gotten since on The Henrys and the Edwards as various on Knighthood and Castles andthe Great Fire of London during Charles II's reign .