The Duke of Norfolk besieged Caister Castle to wrest it from the Paston family who had inherited it from Sir John Fastolf. The Pastons held it with a small garrison for six weeks before surrendering. The episode is richly documented in the Paston Letters — the most extensive collection of private correspondence from medieval England — and illustrates the arbitrary power of Yorkist magnates over the gentry.
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