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The +copy number (first page of each volume) is hand-written.</p> + +<p>The year of each letter was printed in a sidenote at the top of the +page; this has been merged with the sidenote at the beginning of each +letter. Footnotes have their original numbering, with added page number +to make them usable with the full Index. They are grouped at the end of +each Letter or Abstract.</p> + +<p><ins class = "correction" title ="like this">Text lightly shaded in +violet</ins> indicates the site of a typographical error. Hover the +cursor over the shaded text, and the explanation should appear. +Typographical errors are listed again at the end of the Letter, +after any footnotes. In the primary text, errors were only +corrected if they are clearly editorial, such as missing italics, or +mechanical, such as <span class = "locked">u-for-n</span> misprints. +Italic “d” misprinted as “a” was a recurring problem, especially in +Volume IV. The word “invisible” means that there is an appropriately +sized blank space, but the letter or punctuation mark itself is missing.</p> + +<p><i>Some Specifics:</i> The spelling “Jhon” is not an error. Gresham +and Tresham are different people. Conversely, the inconsistent spelling +of the name “Lipyate” or “Lipgate” in footnotes is unchanged. In +Volume IV, the spelling “apostyle” for “apostille” is used +consistently.</p> + +<p class = "center"> +<a href = "#edward_iv">The Paston Letters: Edward IV</a><br> +<a href = "#contents">Contents of this Volume</a></p> + +<p>If you are comfortable typing directly into your browser’s address +bar, you can go straight to any page or letter. Simply add +<tt>#pageN</tt> or <tt>#letterN</tt> to the end of the file name, where +“N” is the number of the page or letter.</p> +</div> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full"> + +<div class = "page rightside"> + +<p><span class = "smallcaps">This</span> edition, published by +arrangement with Messrs. <span class = "smallcaps">Archibald Constable +and Company, Limited</span>, is strictly limited to 650 copies for Great +Britain and America, of which only 600 sets are for sale, and are +numbered 1 to 600.</p> + +<p class = "center"> +No. . . <span class = "fancy">44</span> . . +.</p> + +</div> + +<hr> + +<div class = "page"> + +<h1>THE PASTON LETTERS<br> +<span class = "subhead">A.D. 1422-1509</span></h1> + +</div> + +<hr> + +<div class = "page"> + +<p><a name = "titlepage" id = "titlepage"> </a></p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/titlepageIV.png" width = "467" height = "705" +alt = "see end of text" title = "see end of text"></p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class = "right"><a class = "added" href = "#titletext">Text of Title +Page</a></p> + +</div> + +<div class = "page"> + +<p class = "center"> +Edinburgh: T. and A. <span class = "smallcaps">Constable</span>, +Printers to His Majesty</p> + +</div> + +<div class = "maintext"> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page1" id = "page1">1</a></span> + +<h2><a name = "edward_iv" id = "edward_iv">THE PASTON LETTERS</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">Edward IV</span></h2> + +<div class = "letters"> + +<h3><a name = "letter488" id = "letter488">488</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag1_1" id = "tag1_1" href = "#note1_1">1.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +A Lettre to J. Paston, Armig., from his wife, shewing his imprisonment +in the Fleete.<a class = "tag" name = "tag1_2" id = "tag1_2" href = +"#note1_2">1.2</a></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. 2</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomand me +to yow. Plesyt yow to wet that I receyvyd yowyr lettyr that ye sent me +by John Holme on Wednysday last past, and also I receyvvd a nothyr +lettyr on Fryday at nyt, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page2" id = "page2">2</a></span> +that ye sent me by Nycolas Newmanys man, of the whyche lettyrs I thanc +yow; for I schold ellys a’ thowt that it had be wers with yow than it +hathe be, or schal be, by the grace of Almyty God. And yet I kowd not be +mery, sethyn I had the last lettyr tyll thys day that the Meyir sent to +me, and sent me werd that he had knowlege for very trowthe that ye wer +delyveryd owt of the Flet, and that Howard was comytyd to ward for +dyvers gret compleynts that wer mad to the Kyng of hym. It was talkyd in +Norwyche and in dyvers othyr plasys in the contre on Saterday last past, +that ye wer comytyd to Flet, and in good feyth, as I herd sey, the +pepyle was ryth sory ther of, bothe of Norwyche and in the contre. Ye ar +ryth myche bownde to thank God, and all tho that love yow, that ye have +so gret love of the pepyll as ye have. Ye ar myche behold to the Meyir<a +class = "tag" name = "tag2_1" id = "tag2_1" href = "#note2_1">2.1</a> +and to Gylberd,<a class = "tag" name = "tag2_2" id = "tag2_2" href = +"#note2_2">2.2</a> and to dyvers othyr of the aldyrmen, for feythfully +they owe yow good wyll to ther porys.</p> + +<p>I have spoke with Syr Thomas Howys for swyche thyngys as ye wrot to +me for, and he promysyd me that he schold labour it aftyr yowyr intent +as fast as he kowd; and in good feyth, as my brodyr and Playter kan tell +yow, as be hys seying to us, he is and wole be feythfull to yow. And as +for Wylliam Wyrcestyr, he hathe be set so up on the hone, what by the +parson and by othyr, as my brodyr and Playter schall telle yow, that +they hope he wole do well i now. The parson seyd ryth well and pleynly +to hym. The parson tolde me that he had spook with Syr Wylliam +Chambyrleyn,<a class = "tag" name = "tag2_3" id = "tag2_3" href = +"#note2_3">2.3</a> and with hys wyfe, and he thynkyth that they wole do +well i now aftyr yowyr intent, so that they be plesantly intretyd. The +parson tolde me that he wyst well that Syr Wylliam Chambyrleyn cowd do +more ese in swyche matyers as ye wrot of, towchyng my Lord of Bedford,<a +class = "tag" name = "tag2_4" id = "tag2_4" href = "#note2_4">2.4</a> +than ony man kowd do that leveyth at +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page3" id = "page3">3</a></span> +thys day. Also he tolde me that he felt by hem that they wold owe yow +ryth good wyll, so that ye wold owe hem good wyll. The parson hopyth +verily to make yow acordyd when he comyth to London.</p> + +<p>Item, my brodyr and Playter wer with Calthorp<a class = "tag" name = +"tag3_1" id = "tag3_1" href = "#note3_1">3.1</a> to inquer of the mater +that ye wrot to me of. What answer he gave hem, they schall tell yow. +I sent the Parson of Heylysdon<a class = "tag" name = "tag3_2" id = +"tag3_2" href = "#note3_2">3.2</a> to Gurnay<a class = "tag" name = +"tag3_3" id = "tag3_3" href = "#note3_3">3.3</a> to spek to hym of the +same mater, and he seyth feythefully ther was no swyche thyng desyiryd +of hym, and thow it had be desyiryd, he wold nowthyr a’ seyd nor done a +yens yow. He seyd he had ever fownde you lovyng and feythfull to hym, +and so he seyd he wold be to yow to hys power, and desyiryng me that I +wold not thynk hym the contrary. As for John Gros, he is at Slole; ther +for he myth not be spok with.</p> + +<p>I pray yow that ye wole send me word whedyr ye wole that I schall +remeve frome hens, for it begynyth to wax a cold abydyng her. Syr Thomas +Howys and John Rus schall make an end of all thyngys aftyr yowyr intent, +as myche as they can do ther in this wek, and he purposyth to come +forward to yow on the Monday next aftyr Seynt Leonardys Day.</p> + +<p>My brodyr and Playter schold a be with yow er thys tym, but that they +wold a byd tyl thys day wer past, be cause of the schyer. I spok to +my brodyr Wylliam as ye bad me, and he told me, so God hym help, that he +hyryd ij. horse ij. dayis be for that ye redyn, that he myth a’ ryde +forthe with yow; and be cause that ye spak not to hym to ryde with yow, +he seyd that he wend<a class = "tag" name = "tag3_4" id = "tag3_4" href += "#note3_4">3.4</a> ye wold<a class = "tag" name = "tag3_5" id = +"tag3_5" href = "#note3_5">3.5</a> have had hym with yow.</p> + +<p>Thomas Fastolfys modyr was her on the next day aftyr ye wer redyn, to +have spoke with yow for hyr sone. Sche<a class = "tag" name = "tag3_6" +id = "tag3_6" href = "#note3_6">3.6</a> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page4" id = "page4">4</a></span> +prayith yow, at the reverens of God, that ye wole be hys good mastyr, +and to help hym in hys ryth, that he may have hom hys lyvelod owt of +ther handys that have had it in hys nownage. Sche seyth that they wold +mak hym a yer yonger than he is, but sche seyth that he is more thane +xxj., and upon that sche dare take an othe.</p> + +<p>And the Blyssyd Trynyte have yow in Hys kepyng, and send yow good +sped in all yowyr matyrs, and send the vyctary of all yowyr enmyis.</p> + +<p>Wretyn in hast, on Sowlemas Daye.<a class = "tag" name = "tag4_1" id += "tag4_1" href = "#note4_1">4.1</a> +<span class = "signature">By yowyrs,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note1_1" id = "note1_1" href = +"#tag1_1">1.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 232.] This letter is ascribed by Fenn to the year 1465, +in consequence of the allusion to John Paston’s imprisonment in the +Fleet. But there were more occasions than one on which he was confined +there. Fenn himself knew of two. Paston was committed to the Fleet, as +we know from William Worcester, on Saturday, the 3rd November 1464. He +was also confined there in August and September 1465, and may very +possibly have been released by the beginning of November. But I am +inclined to think this letter refers to an imprisonment prior to either +of these. For, in the first place, the news of it seems only to have +been recent. It had become general subject of conversation at Norwich, +‘on Saturday last,’ whereas in 1465 it must have been known two months +earlier. Secondly, Sir William Chamberlain, whose influence Sir Thomas +Howes hopes will be of service, must have died in the spring of 1462. +According to Blomefield (<i>Hist. of Norfolk</i>, i. 321), his will was +dated the 3rd March 1461 (which would be in the modern computation +1462), and was proved on the 21st April 1462. It may be presumed, +therefore, that on receiving the letter from his brother Clement (No. 484), written on the 11th October 1461, +John Paston hastened up to London and was immediately thrown into +prison. By this letter, however, we find that he was soon afterwards +released, and his great enemy Howard sent to prison in his stead.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note1_2" id = "note1_2" href = +"#tag1_2">1.2</a> +There is no direction to the letter, but the words above inserted are +written in an ancient hand upon the back of it.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note2_1" id = "note2_1" href = +"#tag2_1">2.1</a> +William Norwich was Mayor of Norwich in 1461.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note2_2" id = "note2_2" href = +"#tag2_2">2.2</a> +John Gilbert was Mayor in 1459 and in 1464. He died in 1472.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note2_3" id = "note2_3" href = +"#tag2_3">2.3</a> +Sir William Chamberlain of Gedding, Suffolk, a Knight of the +Garter, who had served under the Regent Bedford in the French wars. He +married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Robert de Herling, who, though +she long survived him, and had two husbands after him, the second of +whom was John, Lord Scrope of Bolton, was buried by her own desire +beside her first husband, in the chancel of Herling Church<ins class = +"correction" title = ". missing or invisible">. </ins></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note2_4" id = "note2_4" href = +"#tag2_4">2.4</a> +John, Duke of Bedford, Regent of France, died at Paris in +1435.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_1" id = "note3_1" href = +"#tag3_1">3.1</a> +<i>Query</i>, if Sir William Calthorpe, Knight, High Sheriff of Norfolk, +etc., in 1464, and died very old in 1494.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_2" id = "note3_2" href = +"#tag3_2">3.2</a> +Thomas Hert was instituted to the Rectory of Hellesdon in +1448.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_3" id = "note3_3" href = +"#tag3_3">3.3</a> +Thomas Gurney of Norwich, Esq., died in 1471.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_4" id = "note3_4" href = +"#tag3_4">3.4</a> +‘Woud’ in Fenn in the original text, but this is evidently a misprint. +The right-hand copy reads ‘wend,’ <i>i.e.</i> weened or thought, and the +note immediately following shows that this was the reading intended.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_5" id = "note3_5" href = +"#tag3_5">3.5</a> +The word ‘not’ seems here to have been omitted in the original +letter.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note3_6" id = "note3_6" href = +"#tag3_6">3.6</a> +The word ‘He’ occurs in the text before ‘Sche,’ but is evidently a +mistake.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note4_1" id = "note4_1" href = +"#tag4_1">4.1</a> +All Souls’, otherwise Soulmas Day, 2nd of November.—F.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">in the chancel of Herling Church.</span><br> +final . missing or invisible</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter489" id = "letter489">489</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag4_2" id = "tag4_2" href = "#note4_2">4.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepfull <em>[</em>hus<em>]</em>bond, John Paston, be thys +delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +20</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomand me +to yow. Plesyt yow to wet that I receyvyd yowyr lettyr that ye sent by +the gold smyth, as thys day in the mornyng. As for Syr Thomas, he sent +me word he schold to yow ward as on Twysday last past; if he fayle ony +thyng that ye sent word he schold bryng with hym, it is not for no lak +of remembrans, for I sent to hym thryis or fowyr tymys ther for, and +that he schold hast hym ther in. As for Rychard Call, he was not at home +thys fortnyth. When he comyth I schall do yowir erendys to hym; and as +for all yowyr odyr erendys I schall do hem as well as I can. I sent +yow a byll yestyrday by old Taverham, and a byll of Jone Gaynys mater, +the whyche bylle I pray yow may be delyveryd to Thomas Playter. +I spak to hym of the same mater or he yed hens, and I pray yow, if +it plese yow, to geve hym yowyr avyse what ye thynk is best to do ther +in. Sche seyth sche is ryth +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page5" id = "page5">5</a></span> +sory, and if hyr old mastyr demene hym not well to yow sche prayith yow +that ye wole be hyr good mastyr, and I that sche fare never the werse +for hys defawtys. And also I pray yow that ye wele be John Lysterys good +mastyr in hys mater. He spak to Playter ther of, and Playter seyd he +hopyd to fynd a mene aftyr that he had spook with yow, that schold ese +hym ther in. I thank yow hertly for yowyr lettyr, for it was to me +gret comfort to her fro yow. God knowyth my modyr and I thowt ryth longe +tyll we herd tydyngys fro yow. And the blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys +kepyng. Wretyn in hast on Seynt Edmundys Day the Kyng. +<span class = "signature">By yowyr M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +The pepyll was nevyr bettyr dysposyd to yow than they be at this owyr. +The byll that Howard hathe mad a yens yow and odyr hathe set the pepyll +in thys contre a rore. God yeve grace it be no werse than it is yet.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note4_2" id = "note4_2" href = +"#tag4_2">4.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +seems to have been written in 1461, the year of John Paston’s great +dispute with Howard.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter490" id = "letter490">490</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ROGER TAVERHAM TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag5_1" id = "tag5_1" href = "#note5_1">5.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my reverent and most be trusted maister, John Paston, Esquyer, +duelling in the Inner Temple, be this delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Year uncertain</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> reverent and most be trusted +maister, I recommaunde me in the most lowly wise un to your good and +prevyd maysterchep, and desiring many days to here of your welfare, +whiche I be seche God encrese un to his plesauns and un to the +prosperite and welfare of your person, and of all youres. And I be seche +you of the good contynuaunce of your maysterchep at diverses tymes befor +this writing shewed un to me; and, sir, ther is non man a lvye that I +trust more to than I doo un to you, and I am your bedman, and so shall +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page6" id = "page6">6</a></span> +remayn be the grace of God all the days of myn liff. And, sir, +I suppose I shall never see you no more, nor non of myn frendes, +whiche is to me the grettest lamentacion that myght come un to myn +herte; for, sir, by the grace of God, I shall go to Rome and in to +oder holy places, to spende myn dayes of this present liff in the +servise of God. For I hadde lever liffe in gret tribulacion in the +service of God in this present liff, than for to folowe the +wretchednesse of this worlde.</p> + +<p>And, syr, of on thing I be seche specially your good maysterchep that +ye wolle shew your good maistershep un to my fader in tyme of his nede, +and that ye wolle recomaunde me in the most lowly wise with all +reverence un to his good faderhode, be sechyng hym that he wole yeff me +every day, during the dayes of his liff, his paternall blissing. And I +have marvayle san that I have writen so many letters un to hym be for +this tyme, that I hadde never non letter ageyn, whiche is to me the +grettest lamentacion that ever come to my hert; and nowe knowing that I +shall never see hym more, nor you, nor non other of my frendes, marvayle +ye not thow sorowe is imprended in myn hert.</p> + +<p>But, reverent maister, myn singuler trust remayneth nowe in your +person, for, sir, and it please you, I most nedes write un to your +good maisterchep, in the whiche my most trust remayneth. For, syr, and +it please you, as for myn inheritaunce and other things whiche shulde +come to me after the deth of my fader, whoes liff God preserve to his +long plesauns, knowing that I shall never com ther, I hadde lever +that by your good a vise that ye wolde take it unto you, for I hadde +lever that ye hadde it rather than any person in the worlde during my +liff, with all the profites ther of; and if that ye wole make as good +evidences for you in that partye as ye can, and I shall a seale hem. And +as you semeth best, and in the most secret wise, rewle you in this +mater.</p> + +<p>And, sir, I be seche you to recomaunde me in the most lowly wise to +myn reverent Maister William Lumnour, seyeng hym that I am and shall be +his perpetuall bedman, and as ye thenk best, ye may telle hym of all +these maters. And, syr, I be seche you to recomaunde me with all +reverence un to my +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page7" id = "page7">7</a></span> +masteras your wiff, and to all other maysters and frendes ther. And, +sir, that ye wolle thank the bringer of this letter, whiche hathe ben in +my gret tribulacion my good frende; and, sir, whan ye speke with my +fader, recomaunde me un to hym with all reverence, and sey un to hym I +shall send hym a letter in all hast possible.</p> + +<p>And, syr, as for this mater, demene you as ye wolle, and I shall doo +your plesauns as moche as in me is. And, reverent maister, remitte me +summe letter by the bringer her of of all thes maters, for he duellith +with my Lorde, and he is ryght moche be trusted, for I knowe wele he +wole yef a tendaunce un to you for to have summe letter from you; for, +syr, it shall not be longe or that I go to Rome, by the grace of God. +And as sone as I have a letter from you at this tyme, I shall send +you a noder ageyn.</p> + +<p>No more at this tyme, but the Holy Trinite have you in His blissed +keping. Wreten at Sarum, the Monday aftyr Mydsomer Day. And lete these +maters be kept secrete by your best a vise. +<span class = "signature">Be youre poure servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Roger Taverham.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note5_1" id = "note5_1" href = +"#tag5_1">5.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 252.] This letter and the next are placed here merely +for convenience. The two are evidently some years apart in point of +date, and nothing is quite clear about the date of either, except that +the latter must have been written in the reign of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, and of course before the death of John Paston +in 1466. This, which is several years earlier than the other, was almost +certainly written in the reign of Henry <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span> The writer was probably the ‘old Taverham’ +mentioned by Margaret Paston in the last letter.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter491" id = "letter491">491</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ROGER TAVERHAM TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag7_1" id = "tag7_1" href = "#note7_1">7.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right wourshipful maister, John Paston, Esquyer, be this letter +delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> wourshipful maister, I +recommaunde me un to your maistership, and I thank your maistership that +hit pleased your maistership to sende me wourde a yen of my letter that +I sende you by the brynger herof. Sir, as I am enfourmed, ye sent me +wourde how that my fader was dede long tyme passed, and also ye desired +to knowe my titylle of ryght. Sir, I am very heyre, by the disceas +of my fader, to a +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page8" id = "page8">8</a></span> +place called Keswyk, in Taverham, with all the apportenauncez, and that +comyth by enherytaunce and discente to me, for I am the helder and +heyre; and though my Lorde Cromwell<a class = "tag" name = "tag8_1" id = +"tag8_1" href = "#note8_1">8.1</a> hath taken Thomas Taverham, my yonger +brother, as warde for the same enheritaunce, that maketh no mater to me, +in so moche I am helder brother. Wher for I beseche you to sende me a +letter of attournay made to you in my name in the strengest wise that ye +can, for to entre in to the same lyvelode, and I shall asseal that, and +than I shall do my service and feaute to the seid Lorde Cromwell in all +thing as by the tenure of the same lyvelode of olde tyme aught to be +done. And herin I kno well the King shal cause my Lorde Cromwel to do me +bothe lawe and right; and also my Lorde Chaunceler, with oder Lordes +diverse, shall do the same. And, sir, I beseche your maistership to +do and to take possession in the saide place with the apportenaunce in +short tyme, for losyng of the rent this yer passed.</p> + +<p>And, sir, as for the place of Attylbrigge that my moder in lawe now +duellith in, sir, your maistershep shal right not [<i>naught</i>] +attempte ther now in; for my Lorde of Warwik<a class = "tag" name = +"tag8_2" id = "tag8_2" href = "#note8_2">8.2</a> hath seen how the same +place was yeven me by testament by Sir Roger Dallyng after the disease +of my fader, whiche is redy to be shewed. And therupon my Lorde of +Warwik hath comaunded certeyn gentilmen to entre in the same place, and +your maistership hadde be moved ther in or this, but for cause that ye +love wel Lumpnour,<a class = "tag" name = "tag8_3" id = "tag8_3" href = +"#note8_3">8.3</a> and that my moder in lawe is his sister; but I knowe +wel hit woul cost CCC<i>li.</i>, but that she shal be dispossedded of +that place in short tyme. And, maister, how ye woul be rewled in the +seid place of Keswyk, I be seche you to sende me wourde, as my +sengler trust is in you; for and ye woulde not take possession in the +saide place, my Lorde Wenlok<a class = "tag" name = "tag8_4" id = +"tag8_4" href = "#note8_4">8.4</a> woulde have that ful fayne, for all +the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page9" id = "page9">9</a></span> +contray knowith while that while I leve, I am heyr and non other. +And therfor I beseche you in all hast sende me wourde by the bryngger +herof in hast, quia mora trahit periculum. And, sir, I would come +speke with you. I am seke, and may not goo; but telle the bryngger +heroff all your entent. For my liff duryng I hadde lever that ye hadde +that place for j<i>d.</i> than a nother man, thow he woulde yeff me +meche mony, for your maistership ther shewed to me in my yong age. And +God kepe you, &c. +<span class = "signature">Your chapeleyn,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Roger Taverham.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note7_1" id = "note7_1" href = +"#tag7_1">7.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 258.] The mention of Lord Wenlock in this letter proves +that it cannot be earlier than 1461; but if the writer be, as we have +surmised, the ‘old Taverham’ mentioned by Margaret Paston in <a href = +"#letter489">No. 489</a>, it is most probably of that year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note8_1" id = "note8_1" href = +"#tag8_1">8.1</a> +Humphrey Bourchier, Lord Cromwell, so created in 1461.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note8_2" id = "note8_2" href = +"#tag8_2">8.2</a> +Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note8_3" id = "note8_3" href = +"#tag8_3">8.3</a> +William Lumner, of Mannington, in Norfolk.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note8_4" id = "note8_4" href = +"#tag8_4">8.4</a> +John Wenlock was created Baron Wenlock in 1461 by Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>; but he afterwards left the York party, and +joined that of Lancaster. He was cleft down with a battle-axe by the +Duke of Somerset for not coming up in time at the battle of Tewkesbury +in 1471, whereby that battle was lost.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter492" id = "letter492">492</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag9_1" id = +"tag9_1" href = "#note9_1">9.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Richard Calle to John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +20</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Since I left you I have received at Cotton £4 : 2s., with which I +have made purchases of linen shirts, &c. for you. Shall have more +money before Christmas. Debenham, Jenney, nor none of his men ‘come not +there sen’ that I was there.’ A letter of attorney is made for +Nakton in your name to Sir John Heveningham, and a rental and fermal +sent him. We kept a court this week at Calcotte but could get little +money, not so much as I paid my Lady of Suffolk’s officers. Farmers will +not occupy there till appointment be made between Paston and Debenham; +nor Risynge till he hear from Paston. Can get no day for Mautby. They +will not give a noble, nor even 6 shillings, for a cow. Dey occupies +your lands there till you come home. Risynge would take them and the +closes at Castre if he is not to have Calcotte. The prests shall be paid +as soon as we get money, I hope this week. Wheat 12<i>d.</i> a +comb, barley 8<i>d.</i>, malt 9<i>d.</i> and 10<i>d.</i> No good price +for malt, ‘saving, as we understand, it is good Flanders.’ John Russe +and Robert Glover are sending a ship with corn over, and we have +ventured with them 100 comb malt. You should make some bargain with your +beer brewers. Can get no money from Aleynes, farmer of Gresham, since ye +rode, but 40<i>s.</i> Has laid in sufficient beef for Paston’s household +till ‘Fastegang’ (Lent). Sir Thomas Howys advises my mistress not to +send Edmund Paston to Cambridge or elsewhere till after Christmas. +Please ask Clement, your brother, to get a writ against Geoffrey Clerk +of West Somerton for the 20<i>s.</i> that Belys gave him to pay Clement. +Remember the letter I sent you last week.</p> + +<p>Caister, St. Edmund’s Day.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[From what is here said of the levying of rents at Cotton, and from the +mention of Debenham and Jenney in connection with it, we may presume +this letter was written in 1461. With this supposition agrees the +reference to John Paston’s brother, Clement, who, as we see by No. 484, was in London in October.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note9_1" id = "note9_1" href = +"#tag9_1">9.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page10" id = "page10">10</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter493" id = "letter493">493</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">AGNES PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name += "tag10_1" id = "tag10_1" href = "#note10_1">10.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To John Paston, at London, be this delyverd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. 1</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>I grete you welle, and lete you wete that this day Berth’ Elys of +Paston come to Norwych to me, and shewet me a rentall for the terme of +Seynt Mich., the yer of Kyng H. vj. xxxixº; and in the ende of the seyd +rentall, of Waryn Kynges hand is wretyn ‘Agnes Paston vij<i>d. ob.</i> +[7½<i>d.</i>]. Item, the same Agnes for v. acre lond xx<i>d.</i>’ Item, +Aleyn Bayfeld askyth the same rent for the yer last past at Mich. Item, +I have knowlech be a trew man that whan Sharpe the reseyvor was at +Gemyngham last, Waryn Herman was dyvers dayes with hym, and put hym in +mynde that the mercyment for makynge of the walle chuld be askyd ageyn +and be distreynyd ther for. Item, I sent you be Doctor Aleyns man +the restew [<i>residue</i>] of Waryn Herman, and seche names as Cullynge +and Sammys putt in of her owyn fre wylle befor John Northales, shereve +of Norwyche,<a class = "tag" name = "tag10_2" id = "tag10_2" href = +"#note10_2">10.2</a> under her selis. God be with you and send you His +blyssyng and myn. Wretyn at Norwych the Tuisday next after Seynt +Andrew.</p> + +<p>Item, the seyd Berth’ Elis seyth that the seyd reseyver wold not +alowe the rent in Trunche nor the mercyments for my sute to the curt. +Gonnor wold suffyr no man to answer for me. +<span class = "signature">Be your moder,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Agnes Paston.</span></p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note10_1" id = "note10_1" href = +"#tag10_1">10.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The year in +which this letter was written is determined by the mention of John +Northale as Sheriff of Norwich.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note10_2" id = "note10_2" href = +"#tag10_2">10.2</a> +He was Sheriff of Norwich in the first year of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter494" id = "letter494">494</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN HEVENYNGHAM TO JOHN PASTON, SENIOR<a +class = "tag" name = "tag10_3" id = "tag10_3" href = +"#note10_3">10.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To myn ryght worchipffull cosyn, John Paston the elder, Esquyer, be this +letter delivered in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +12</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Ryght worchipffull cosyn, I recomaunde me to you in as hertely wyse I +can, desyryng ever to here off your welffare, whiche I beseche our Lord +Jesu +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page11" id = "page11">11</a></span> +to preserve to your hertes pleaser, &c. Sir, ye sent me a letter of +atorney to reseyve and to ocupye in your name the maner called +Burnevyles in Nakton. Sir, as for that ocupacion, I can litil +skylle en, ne I wel not take up on me non suche ocupacionis; wherffor I +beseche you holde me excused, for it is no werd [<i>world</i>] for me to +take suche ocupacionis. I have as moche as I may to gader myn ownne +lyfflode, and truli, cosyn, I can not gader that well. And +therffor, cosyn, I pray you take it to non displeaser. Sir, that I +may worchepfulli doo for you, ye shal fynde me redy be the grace of +Jesu, whom I hertely beseche to have you in Hise mersyfull kepyng. +Wretyn at Hevenyngham on Seynt Lucye Even. +<span class = "signature">Be your cosyn,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">John +Hevenyngham</span>, knyght.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note10_3" id = "note10_3" href = +"#tag10_3">10.3</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is evidently of the same year as <a href = "#letter492">No. 492</a>. The +contents, moreover, seem to show that the date cannot be far distant +from that of Richard Calle’s letter of the 1st of February +following.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter495" id = "letter495">495</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag11_1" id = "tag11_1" href = "#note11_1">11.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461(?)<br><span class = +"sidetext">DEC.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worchefull master, I recommend me +on to yow, &c. The cause of my wrytyng is this; I was at +Blofeld on Sent Andruys Day<a class = "tag" name = "tag11_2" id = +"tag11_2" href = "#note11_2">11.2</a> wyt the person,<a class = "tag" +name = "tag11_3" id = "tag11_3" href = "#note11_3">11.3</a> and he +understode non noder but that I cam to se is master chepe, for it was +hese cheve day,<a class = "tag" name = "tag11_4" id = "tag11_4" href = +"#note11_4">11.4</a> and that I mevyd in to hym of the lond in +Sochewerk, how I hard sey qwan I was in Sochefolk that Geney mad hys +avaunt that he had zon [<i>given</i>] zow and hym a choppe of xx. pownd +of lond. And in contynent he telde me al the mater beter than I cowde +telle hym, and as I cowde understond in hym be my sympyl wyt, that he +was of knoleche of alle the mater; for he seyd that Yelverton cam don +fro the benche, and plete the mater, and for cause ye wer to laches, and +cam not in tyme, the mater yede a mys. And so I understode be hym that +he is dysposyd to excuse Yelverton in al materys rather than yow; but +never de les make good cher to the person, as thow ye understode that he +wer your frend, tyl tyme ye have your in tente. But be warr +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page12" id = "page12">12</a></span> +and trost hym not, but make yow so strong in lorchepe and in the lawe, +that ye reeke not meche qwder he be good or bad, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, ye be meche be held on to Tomas Grene and Edmund Wydewel, +broder to Heu à Fen, for thei reporte meche worchepe of your master +chepe in al maters, and that cause the substans of the towne to howe yow +servese, and be wel dysposyd on to yow masterchepe, and that understonde +I hevery day. And yf that plese yow, qwan we partyt at Norwyche in yowr +plase, ye seyd on to me ye wold som qat do be my sympyl a wyse; and this +is myn a wyse that in ony wyse ye make Heu à Fen and Tomas Grene on your +consel, yf ye can fyne in yow herte. For I dare sey, as I her and +understonde, that thei how yow ryth good well and servyse, for a man may +her be the halfe qwat the hole menyth, and therfor for Godds lowe +remember yow wel in this mater; for and it stode on myn lyfe, +I wold do as I awyse yow, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, for howr Lords love, goo tharow with Wyll Weseter, and also +plese Chrewys as ye thynke in yow hert best for to do; for it is a comon +proverbe, ‘A man must sumtyme set a candel befor the Devyle’; and +therfor thow it be not alder most mede and profytabyl, yet of ij. harmys +the leste is to be take.</p> + +<p>Item, ye xul oonderstonde that the parson telde me that dey wer +somuned to cum for the probat of the testement at Convercyon of Sent +Powle;<a class = "tag" name = "tag12_1" id = "tag12_1" href = +"#note12_1">12.1</a> and therfor I wolde avyse yow in ony wyse that ye +xuld understond the mater wysely her ye com hom, for I sopose that +Yelverton and he is confydett and acorde to geder.</p> + +<p>Item, qwan I was at Blofeld with the parson, ther cam Robert Fyrass +to hym, seyyng that he is compeld be the Kyngs Commycyoners to have +harnes after is degre, and that the parson sent hym to my mastras that +che xuld delyver hym harnes, and I understond che wylle not tylle ye com +hom. But ye xul understond it is an halmes dede to do hym good, +understondyng is nesessyte and nede that he stond in, and also +understondyng that he was kynnyes man to my master, and it +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page13" id = "page13">13</a></span> +is a comon proverbe, ‘A man xuld kepe fro the blynde and gevyt to +is kyn’; and hevery man wyl sey wel ther of, the mor cause he is a +gentylman, and of is kyne, and in gret penur. And therfor, for the love +of God, remembyr seche maters.</p> + +<p>No mor at this tyme, but God have yow in Hys kepyng, bothe body and +sowle, and <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘sqede’">spede</ins> yow in yowr maters <ins class = "correction" title = +"printed ‘as wel / as wel as’ at line break, but Fenn has the same at mid-line">as +wel as wel as</ins> I wolde ye xulde do.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note11_1" id = "note11_1" href = +"#tag11_1">11.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 64.] The date of this letter is a little uncertain, but +it seems to have been written at the beginning of the dispute between +Paston and Yelverton, about Fastolf’s will, and the year 1461 appears to +me on the whole most probable.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note11_2" id = "note11_2" href = +"#tag11_2">11.2</a> +30th November.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note11_3" id = "note11_3" href = +"#tag11_3">11.3</a> +Thomas Howes.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note11_4" id = "note11_4" href = +"#tag11_4">11.4</a> +The day of his <i>chief</i> or patron saint. Blofield Church is +dedicated to St. Andrew.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note12_1" id = "note12_1" href = +"#tag12_1">12.1</a> +Jan. 25.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">and spede yow in yowr maters as wel as wel as I +wolde ye xulde do</span><br> +text has “sqede yow”<br> +printed “as wel / as wel as” at line break, but Fenn has the same at +mid-line</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter496" id = "letter496">496</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag13_1" id = "tag13_1" href = "#note13_1">13.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right wurchepfull husband, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +[3]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> wurchepfull husbond, I recomaund +me to you. Please it you to wete that myn awnte is dissesid, whos sowle +God assoyll. And if it please you to send word how ye wull that we do +for the lifflode that she had at Walcote, wheder ye wull that any body +take possession thir in your name or not. And if it like you to have +with you my cosyn William her sone, I trow ye shuld fynde hym a +necessary man to take hede to yowr howshold, and to bye all maner of +stuffe nedefull therto, and to se to the rewle and gode gidyn therof. It +hath be told me be for that he can gode skill of such thyngs; and if ye +wull that I send for hym and speke with hym ther of, I shall do as +ye send me word, for in feyth it is tyme to crone your old officers for +diverse thyngs wher of I have know parte be Dawbeney, and more I shall +telle you whan ye come hame.</p> + +<p>Also it is thought be my cosyn Elizabeth Clere, and the viker<a class += "tag" name = "tag13_2" id = "tag13_2" href = "#note13_2">13.2</a> and +other that be your frends, that it is right necessary +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page14" id = "page14">14</a></span> +for you to have Hew of Fen to be your frende in your maters; for he is +callid right feythfull and trosty to his frends that trost hym, and it +is reported her he may do myche with the Kyng and the Lords, and it is +seid that he may do myche with hem that be your adversaryes: and +therfor, Godds sake, if ye may have his gode wille, forsake it not. Also +it is thought the more lerned men that ye have of your owyn contre of +your councell, the more wurchepful it is to you.</p> + +<p>Also if ye be at home this Cristmes, it wer wele do ye shuld do +purvey a garnyssh or tweyn of powter vesshell, ij. basanes, and ij. +hewers, and xij. candlestikes, for ye have to few of any of thes to +serve this place. I am a ferd to purvey mych stuffe in this place +till we be suerrer therof. The Blissid Trinyte have you in His blissid +kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wretyn the Thursday next after Sent Andrew. +<span class = "signature">Be yowr</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note13_1" id = "note13_1" href = +"#tag13_1">13.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 106.] Except that it seems to be of the reign of Edward +<span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, the date of this letter is about +as uncertain as that of the last; but as they are both written about the +same time of year, and both recommend John Paston to use the counsel of +Hugh Fenn, it is highly probable that they are of the same year. Perhaps +the last letter may have been written by the vicar mentioned in +this.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note13_2" id = "note13_2" href = +"#tag13_2">13.2</a> +The vicar of Paston? Robert Williamson was vicar of Paston at this +time.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter497" id = "letter497">497</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag14_1" id = "tag14_1" href = "#note14_1">14.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepful husbond, Jonhn Paston, be thys delyveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +29</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomande +me to yow. Plesyt yow to wete that I receyvyd the lettyr that ye sent me +by a man of Seynt Mychell parysche on Fryday next aftyr the Consepcion +of owyr Ladi;<a class = "tag" name = "tag14_2" id = "tag14_2" href = +"#note14_2">14.2</a> and anon as I had it, I sent my modyr<a class += "tag" name = "tag14_3" id = "tag14_3" href = "#note14_3">14.3</a> the +lettyr because of swyche materys as longyd to hyr in that same lettyr. +And sythyn that tyme I kowd gete no massanger to London but if I wold +have sent by the Scheryfys men; and I knew nowthyr her mastyr nor them, +not whedyr they wer well wyllyng to yow or not; and therfor methowt it +had be no sendyng of no lettyr by hem.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page15" id = "page15">15</a></span> +<p>And as for swyche materys as John Geney and Jamys Gresham spak to me, +I sped hem as well as I kowd; and they bothe told me that ye schold +veryly a ben at home before Crystmas, and that causyd me that I wrot not +to yow now non answer. For if I had know that ye schold not have ben at +home er thys tyme, I schold a sent some man to yow; for I thynk +ryth longe tyll I have some god tydyngys fro yow. I fer me that it +is not well with yow that ye be fro home at thys good tyme. And many of +yowyr contre men thynk the same; but they be hertty inow to yow-ward, +and full fayn wold her god tydyngys fro yow. The wer no byllys put to +the Scherryf<a class = "tag" name = "tag15_1" id = "tag15_1" href = +"#note15_1">15.1</a> at hys beyng her, ner non opyn playnt mad that I + . . . . . of no +persone, be cawse they had so lyttyll knowlage of hys comeyng in to thys +contre. He demenyd hym full . . . +. . and indeferently, as it was told me, and Yelverton +mad a fayir sermone at the Sesschyonys, and seyd + . . . . . so that the +Kyng was informyd that ther was a ryotows felawschep in thys contre, wer +for the Kyng was gretly dysplesyd, and that the Kyng undyrstood well +that it was not of ther owne mosyon, boot of cownselyng of one or ij. +that ben evyll dysposyd folk. And also he seyd if ony man wold put up +ony byllys of compleynts of ony extorcion or brybery don be ony men of +thys contre to them, they wer redy to receyve them, and to make a-kord +be twyx hem; and if they cowd not mak the acord, that than the schold +tak the byllys to the Kyng, and he schold set hem thorow. And the +Scheryfe seyd that he wold he . . . +. . . them that wold compleyne and dorste +not for fer put up ther byllys.</p> + +<p>And Yelverton preyid the Scheryfe that if he had for get onythyng +that the Kyng seyd to hem at ther departtyng, that he wolde rehersyt +[<i>rehearse it</i>] ther. And than the Scheryf seyd that he had seyd +all that he remembryd, save only [that] the Kyng + . . . . to hem ij. personys, Syr +Thomas Todenham and Heydon. And than Yelverton seyd, ‘A, that is +trowthe, as th . . . . +. . . that J[ohn of] Dame told me that he +spak with the Scheryf aftyrward, and let hym h + . . . . . +. . the rewylle [and] demenyng of thys contre, and what +cawsyd the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page16" id = "page16">16</a></span> +pepyll for to grwge ayens swyche folkys as had the reuyll be fortyme; +and he was pleyne to hym in many thyngys, as he told me; and he fond the +Scheryfe ryth pleyne ayen to hym, and well dysposyd in that that myth +growe to the welfar of the schere. The Scheryfe seid he undyrstood by +swyche informacion as he had, syns he came into thys contre, that they +had not all gydyd hem well that had the rewyill of thys contre be for; +and therfore he seyd feythfully, and swore by gret othys that he wold +nowthyr spar for good, nor love, nor fer, but that he wold let the Kynge +have knowlage of the trowthe, and that he wold do asmyche for thys +contre as he cowd or myth do to the welfare therof, and seyd that he +lekyd the contre ryth well. And John of Dame seyd if the contre had had +knowlage of hys comyng, he schold have had byllys of compleyntes and +knowlage of myche more thyng than he myth have knowlage of that tyme, or +myth have because of schort abyng; and he seyd he wold not be longe owt +of thys contre.</p> + +<p>And also Yelverton seyd opynly in the Seschyons they to come downe +for the same cause to set a rewyll in the contre. And yet he seyd he +woste well that the Kynge myth full evyll have for bor ony of hem bothe; +for as for a knyth ther was none in the Kyngys howse that myth werse a +be for bore than the Scheryfe myth at that tyme. I have myche mor +to wryt to yow of than I may have leyser at thys tyme; but I troste to +God that ye schall be at home yowyr selfe in hast, and than ye schall +knowe all. And but if ye come home in haste, I schall send to yow; +and I pray yow hertly, but if ye come home, send me word in hast how ye +do. And the blyssyd Trinyte have yow in hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast on +Seynt Thomas day in Crystmas.<a class = "tag" name = "tag16_1" id = +"tag16_1" href = "#note16_1">16.1</a> +<span class = "signature">By yowyr,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Margaret Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Here was an evyll rewlyd felawschep yestyrday at the schere, and ferd +ryth fowle with the Undyr Scheryfe, and onresnably as I herd sey.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note14_1" id = "note14_1" href = +"#tag14_1">14.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The date of +this letter will appear by comparison with <a href = "#letter500">No. +500</a>. A few words in the margin of the original letter are +illegible, the writing having been injured by damp.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note14_2" id = "note14_2" href = +"#tag14_2">14.2</a> +The Conception of Our Lady was on the 8th December.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note14_3" id = "note14_3" href = +"#tag14_3">14.3</a> +Margaret always speaks of Agnes Paston as her mother.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note15_1" id = "note15_1" href = +"#tag15_1">15.1</a> +The Sheriff was Sir Thomas Montgomery.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note16_1" id = "note16_1" href = +"#tag16_1">16.1</a> +The day of St. Thomas of Canterbury (Becket), 29th December.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page17" id = "page17">17</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter498" id = "letter498">498</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag17_1" id = "tag17_1" href = "#note17_1">17.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right reverent and my moost wurschipful maystre, my Maystre John +Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +29</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> wurshipfull and my mooste +reverent mastre, I recomaunde me unto your goode maystreship. Like you +to witte that on Childremasse daye<a class = "tag" name = "tag17_2" id = +"tag17_2" href = "#note17_2">17.2</a> there were moche people at Norwich +at the shire, be cauce it was noyced in the shire that the Undresheriff +had a writte to make a newe aleccion; wherfore the people was greved be +cauce they had labored so often, seying to the Sheriff that he had the +writte, and pleynly he shulde not a wey unto the tyme the writte were +redd. The Sheriff<a class = "tag" name = "tag17_3" id = "tag17_3" href = +"#note17_3">17.3</a> answerd, and seyd that he had no writte, nor west +who had it. Heruppon the people peacyd, and stilled unto the tyme the +shire was doone, and after that doone, the people called uppon hym, +‘Kylle hym! Heede [<i>behead</i>] hym!’ And so John Dam, with helpe of +other, gate hym out of the schire-hows, and with moche labour brought +hym unto Sporyer Rowe;<a class = "tag" name = "tag17_4" id = "tag17_4" +href = "#note17_4">17.4</a> and ther the people mett a yenst hym, and so +they a voided hym unto an hows, and kept fast the dore unto the tyme the +meyer was sent fore, and the Sherif, to strenght hym, and to convey hem +a wey, or ell he had be slayne. Wherfor divers of the thrifty men came +to me, desiryng that I shulde writte unto your maistreship to lete you +have undrestandyng of the gidyng of the people, for they be full sory of +this trowble; and that it plese you to sende hem your advice how they +shal be gided and rwled, for they were purposed to a gathered an c. or +cc. of the thriftyest men, and to have come up to the Kyng to lete the +Kyng have undrestandyng of ther mokkyng. And also the people fere hem +sore of you and Mastre Berney,<a class = "tag" name = "tag17_5" id = +"tag17_5" href = "#note17_5">17.5</a> be cauce ye come not home.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page18" id = "page18">18</a></span> +<p>Plese you that ye remembr the bill I sent you at Hallowmesse for the +place and londs at Boyton weche Cheseman had in his ferme for v. mark. +Ther wol no man have it above xlvj<sup>s.</sup> viij<sup>d.</sup>, for +Alblastre and I have do as moche therto as we can, but we can not go a +bove that. And yet we can not lete it so for this yere, with owte they +have it for v. or vj. yere. I wrote to your mastreship herof, but I +had non answre; wherfor I beseche you that I may have an answere of this +be Tlwelthe, for and we have an answre of this be that tyme, we shall +enfeffe hem with all, &c.</p> + +<p>My right wurshipfull and my moost reverent maistre, Almyghty Jesu +preserve you, and send you the victorye of your elmyes, as I truste to +Almyghty Jesu ye shall. Wreten at Norwich on Seyn Thomas daye after +Cristemasse daye. +<span class = "signature">Your pore servant and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">R. Call.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note17_1" id = "note17_1" href = +"#tag17_1">17.1</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 150.] The contents of this letter clearly refer to the +matter alluded to in the postscript of the preceding letter of Margaret +Paston, so that the date must be the same.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note17_2" id = "note17_2" href = +"#tag17_2">17.2</a> +28th December.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note17_3" id = "note17_3" href = +"#tag17_3">17.3</a> +Sir Thomas Montgomery.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note17_4" id = "note17_4" href = +"#tag17_4">17.4</a> +Spurrier Row, as I am informed by Mr. L’Estrange, was what is now called +London Street.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note17_5" id = "note17_5" href = +"#tag17_5">17.5</a> +John Berney of Witchingham.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter499" id = "letter499">499</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag18_1" id = "tag18_1" href = "#note18_1">18.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my moost reverent and wurshipfful mastre, my Master John Paston of +the Enner Temple, this be delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Plesith your maystership to undrestande that as for the ferme that +Cheseman had in Boyton, that is to sey, xl. acre lond erable, j. medwe, +and other smale parcell, payng yerly for it iiij<i>li.</i>, weche I can +not lete the xl. acre lond abowe xl. comb barly or xl<i>s.</i>, and ye +to bere al charges of the reparaucion and fense aboute the place, weche +shulde be gret cost. The lond is so out of tylthe that a nedes +[<i>uneath</i>, <i>i.e.</i> scarcely] any man wol geve any thyng for it. +Ther can no man lete it to the walwe that it was lete before, and that I +reporte me to my master, Sir Thomas Howys, not be gret gold. Wherfore I +wol not do therin unto the tyme that I have answere from your +mastership, weche I beseche you it may be hast. And as for Spitlynges, +I have lete som of the lond in smale parcell, because I cowde gete +no fermor for it. And as for Sir T. H., in good feythe I fynde +[him] weele disposed in all thynges, excepte for Sir W. Chamberleyn +for Rees in Stratton. And so the blissid Trinite preserve and kepe you +from all adversite. Wrete at Blofeld, the Thorsday next after +Hallowmesday. +<span class = "signature">Your pore servaunt and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">R. Calle.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note18_1" id = "note18_1" href = +"#tag18_1">18.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The date of +this letter is uncertain. Its contents are mere matter of business, and +as relating to the same farm mentioned in the last may be supposed to +belong to the same year, especially as in the last Calle mentions having +written to Paston on the subject ‘at Hallowmass.’ There is, however, +a discrepancy in the value assigned for the farm.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page19" id = "page19">19</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter500" id = "letter500">500</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THOMAS PLAYTER TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag19_1" id = "tag19_1" href = "#note19_1">19.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To John Paston, the older, in hast, and if he be not at London, than to +be delyvered to Clement Paston in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Lyke</span> your maisterchip wete that at the +last cessyons Erpyngham hundred and other hundredys ther aboute were not +warned, and the schreff excused hym be cause he cowde not knowe who was +officer there. Item, Yelverton lete the pepoll understand that the Kyng +wold have his lawes kept, and that he was dysplesed with the maner of +ther gaderyng, and that he wold have it amendyd; for he conceyveth that +the hole body of the shire is well dysposed and that the ille dysposed +pepoll is but of a corner of the hole shire; and yet that ther mysdoyng +growyth not of ther owyn dysposysyon but of the abbettement and steryng +of sum ille dysposed persones whiche is understand and knowe to the +Kynges hygthnesse. Item, he lete hem wete that the Kyng had commandyd +hym to sey if ther were any man, pore or ryche, that had cause to +complayne of any person that he schuld put up his bylle to the shref and +hym, and they schuld set a reule be twyx hem; and if he wold not abyde +ther reule they schuld delyver the sayd bylle of compleynt to the Kynges +hignesse, and he schuld set the rewle and suche dyreccion that the party +compleynaunt or defendaunt schuld be punysshed for his dysobeysauns of +the said rewle if the case requyred; and also more over, if ther were +ony person that put up ony suche bylle, and it mygth apere to them by +ther examinacion or other wyse fals or untrewe, or elles be cause of +malyce, that than suche compleynaunts schuld sharpely be punysshed. And +than +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page20" id = "page20">20</a></span> +whan he had sayd this and moche more, in dyscoragyng to the pepoll to +put bylles, as after my conseyt, he reported hym to the schref ther +present, that the Kyng thus comanded hem thus to sey, desyreng the said +schref if ony thyng of the Kyngs comaunded were be hynd unspoken by hym +self that he wold remembre and helpe forthe to telle it. And than the +schref said, lyke as he rehersed the Kyng comanded, and more over that +the Kyng named ij. men, by name Tudenham and Haydon, and if ony man wold +put bylles a yens them, he said in feythfull wyse he wold help hem, and +ferther the mater to the Kyng higthnesse. And for his demenyng ther +every man thougth hym rigth wel dysposed; but Yelverton had for yeten to +expresse the names of Tudham and Haydon.</p> + +<p>Item, the schref desyred the jentylmen to go with [him] to Felbryg +Halle, and specially he requyred Mr. John P., the younger; but he cowde +no pepoll gete, and so he cam not there. Item, there was a bylle set up +on the shirehous dore, and the content ther of was but of the favour to +you ward, Barney, Knyvet and Felbrygge, and of the hatered of other; it +was but of sum lewde dysposed person it semeth. Item, sir, at the last +shire was moche pepoll and ille governed for they wold not be rewled be +no body, they had almost a slayne the underschref, for they told hym +wryttes of eleccion was sent doun and he kept it on syde to be gyle hem, +and to make hem labour ayen, and ther for he that kepyth it is to blame, +me thynketh. Item, sir, please you to telle Mr. Clement, we have goten a +reles of al maner accions and appelles of Margret Clerk, made to +Gymmyngham, on of the pryncypalles, and that he woll inquyre wheder it +be suffycyant for alle, and send me word, and weder it dyvers fro +trespas and dette, wher damages is to be recovered, for in this appell +is no damages to be recovered, but only an execucion, whiche non of them +may be contributory to other execucion as is in other cases. +Nevertheles, I hope it be sufficiant for all, for sche is in the +cas to have the lyf in stede of damages. +<span class = "signature">Your <span class = "smallcaps">Thomas +Pl.</span></span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note19_1" id = "note19_1" href = +"#tag19_1">19.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The mention +of Tuddenham and Heyden in this letter proves that it cannot be of later +date than the year 1461, as the former was executed in February 1462. At +the same time the reference to John Paston, Junior, could not be much +earlier, and the message from the King to the people of Norfolk +certainly could not have come from Henry <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span> only a year or two before. The date must +therefore be 1461 precisely.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page21" id = "page21">21</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter501" id = "letter501">501</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag21_1" id = "tag21_1" href = "#note21_1">21.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worchepfull Mastres Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomawnde</span> me to your good +mastreschep, besechyng yow in the weye of charyte, and as I maye be your +bedeman and servaunt, that ye wyll lete me have wetyng hoghe I maye be +rewelyd ageyns the next schyer. It is seyd that ther xal be mych more +pepyll than was the last; and also if I be in my Ladys place, or in ony +other in the town, I xall be takyn owte. Also, mastres, that my +Maystyr Radclyffs xal take all my catell and all other pore good that I +have, and so but I maye have helpe of my mayster and of yow, I am +but lost. Also my servaunt Maryot wyll go fro my wyfe to my ryght gret +hurte. Wherfore, mastres, I besech your help in all thes, and I xal +content the costs as ye xall be plesyd, be the grace of God, hoo ever +preserve yow, &c.</p> + +<p>Also, mastres, I can not be with owte your contynuall help, but I +must selle or lete to ferme all that I have.</p> + +<p>Mastres, my Lady sent to Cawnbrygg for a doctour of fesyk. If ye wyll +ony thyng with hym, he xal abyde this daye and to morwe. He is ryght a +konnyng man and gentyll.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note21_1" id = "note21_1" href = +"#tag21_1">21.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 104.] This letter appears to have been addressed to +Margaret Paston at a period when her husband was a man of some +influence, and perhaps the year 1461 is not far from the true date. It +is not unlikely to have been written about the same time as <a href = +"#letter500">No. 500</a>, which also refers to a meeting at the shire or +county court.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page22" id = "page22">22</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter502" id = "letter502">502</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ELIZABETH MUNDEFORD TO JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag22_1" id = "tag22_1" href = +"#note22_1">22.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worchipfull sir, and my right good neveu, John Paston, +Squyer, be this lettre delyvered, &c.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1461-6</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worchipfull sir, and my right +good neveu, I recomand me un to you with all myn herte. Plece it you to +undyrstande the grete nessessyte of my wrytyng to you is this, that ther +was made an exchaunge be the graunsyre of my hosbonds Mundeford, un hose +sowle God have mercy, of the maner of Gressenale with the aunsetrys of +Rows for the maner of Estlexham, the qwych is parte of my juntor, and my +grauntfadyr Mundeford recoweryd the said maner of Estlexham be assyze<a +class = "tag" name = "tag22_2" id = "tag22_2" href = +"#note22_2">22.2</a> a geyne the aunsetrys of Rows, and so madyt +clere; and nowe have Edmund Rows<a class = "tag" name = "tag22_3" id = +"tag22_3" href = "#note22_3">22.3</a> claymyt the seyd maner of +Estlexham be the verteu of a tayle [<i>an entail</i>], and hathe takyn +possesseon, and made a feffement to my Lord of Warewyke,<a class = "tag" +name = "tag22_4" id = "tag22_4" href = "#note22_4">22.4</a> and Water +Gorge,<a class = "tag" name = "tag22_5" id = "tag22_5" href = +"#note22_5">22.5</a> and to Curde.<a class = "tag" name = "tag22_6" id = +"tag22_6" href = "#note22_6">22.6</a> And un Fryday be for Seynt +Walentyne is Day Water Gorge and Curde enteryd and toke possessyon for +my seyd Lord of Warewyke, and so bothe the forseyd manerys were +ontayled, and at the tyme of the exchaunge made, the tayles and evydens +of bothe for seyd manerys were delyvered un to the partyes indeferently +be the avyse of men lernyd. Qwerfor I beshech you that it plese you to +take the grete labor upon you to +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page23" id = "page23">23</a></span> +informe my Lordys good Lordchep of the trowthe in the forme a bowyn +wreten, and that it plese you to undyrstand qwedyr that my Lord wyll a +byde be the feffment made to hym or not; and that it shall plese my Lord +that I may have right as lawe requeryt, for I trust to God be soche tyme +as my Lord shall be informyd of the trowthe be you, that hese Lordchip +wyll not supportt the forseyd Rows a geyne my right. And if I hadde very +undyrstandyng that my Lord would take no parte in the mater a bowe seyd, +I would trust to Godds mersy, and to you, and other of my good +fryndes, to have possession a geyne in right hasty tyme, beshechyng you +to pardon me of my symple wrytyng, for hadde no leyser. Right +worchipfull and my right good neveu, I beshech the Blyssed Trenyte +have you in Hese gracyous kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Norwych in gret hast, the Tewysday aftyr Seynt Walentyne is +Day. +<span class = "signature">Youre ouyn,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">Elizabeth +Mundeford</span>.<a class = "tag" name = "tag23_1" id = "tag23_1" href = +"#note23_1">23.1</a></span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_1" id = "note22_1" href = +"#tag22_1">22.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 108.] The date of this letter must lie between the years +1461 and 1466. The writer’s husband, who is spoken of as dead, was put +to death in June 1460, and John Paston, the person addressed, died in +May 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_2" id = "note22_2" href = +"#tag22_2">22.2</a> +Assize is a writ directed to the sheriff of the county for recovery of +the possession of things immovable, whereof yourself or ancestors have +been dispossessed.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_3" id = "note22_3" href = +"#tag22_3">22.3</a> +Edmund Rous was second son of Henry Rous, Esq. of Dennington, in +Suffolk, the ancestor of the present Earl of Stradbroke.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_4" id = "note22_4" href = +"#tag22_4">22.4</a> +Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_5" id = "note22_5" href = +"#tag22_5">22.5</a> +Walter Gorges, Esq., married Mary, the daughter and heir of Sir William +Oldhall, and was at this time Lord of the Manor of Oldhall, in Great +Fransham. He died in 1466. His son and heir, Sir Edmund Gorges, +afterwards married a daughter of Sir John Howard, Knight, the first Duke +of Norfolk of that family.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note22_6" id = "note22_6" href = +"#tag22_6">22.6</a> +John Curde was Lord of the Manor of Curde’s Hall, in +Fransham.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note23_1" id = "note23_1" href = +"#tag23_1">23.1</a> +Elizabeth Mundeford was the widow of Osbert Mundeford, Esq. of Hockwold, +in Norfolk, and was daughter of John Berney, Esq., by which means she +was aunt to J. Paston.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter503" id = "letter503">503</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR ROBERT WILLIAMSON TO AGNES PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag23_2" id = "tag23_2" href = +"#note23_2">23.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right reverent mastras, Agnes Paston, be this lettre delyveryd in +haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1460-4</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rygh</span> wurchepful mastres, I recomaund me +un to yow, thankyng yow of the gret chere that ze made me the last tyme +that I was with zow. Mastres, in alle zour godys and ocupacyons that +lyth in my simpil power to do in wurd, wil and dede, I have do my +dylygens and my power therto, so I be savyd be fore God, and have owyn +to your person ryght herty love; for the qwych I am ryght ille +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page24" id = "page24">24</a></span> +aqwyt, and it be as I understande yt; for it is do me to wete that I am +swid with mor of my paryshchons for a reskuse makyng up on the offycers +of the shrewys [<i>sheriff</i>], and I take God to record that it is +wrongfully do on to us. And the gret fray that the [<i>they</i>] mad in +the tyme of masse it ravyched my witts and mad me ful hevyly dysposyd. +I pray Jesu gef hem grace to repent hem therof that the +[<i>they</i>] that caused it may stand out of perel of soule.</p> + +<p>Maystras, at the reverens of God, and as evyr I may do servyce that +may be plesyng on to yow, send me justyly wurd be the brynger of this +bylle ho ze wil that I be gydyd; for it is told me that if I be take I +may no other remedy havyn but streyth to prison. For the whiche I have +sold away xx<i>s.</i> wurth of stuffe; and the reswd [<i>residue</i>] of +my stuff, I have put it in swier hande, for trwly I wil not abyde +the joparte of the swth,—I have levir to go as far as my fet may +ber me. Nevir the less as ze komand me to do, so it be not to my gret +hurt, I wil fulfille it. Nomor to zow at this tyme, but God send +yow that grace that ze may kome to His blyss.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Bromholm in gret haste, +<span class = "signature">Be your</span> +<span class = "signature">Sir <span class = "smallcaps">Robert +Willyamson</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note23_2" id = "note23_2" href = +"#tag23_2">23.2</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 48.] The writer of this letter was Vicar of Paston from +1460 to 1464, and as he dates from Bromholm, which is in the immediate +neighbourhood of Paston, we may presume that it was written during the +time he held that benefice.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter504" id = "letter504">504</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag24_1" id = "tag24_1" href = "#note24_1">24.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepfull husbond, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. 7</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomand me +to yow. Plesyt yow to wet that I sent yow a lettyr by my cosyn Barneys +man of Wychyngham wyche was wretyn on Seynt Thomas Day in Crystmas,<a +class = "tag" name = "tag24_2" id = "tag24_2" href = +"#note24_2">24.2</a> and I had no tydyngys nor lettyr of yow sene the +wek before Crystmas; +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page25" id = "page25">25</a></span> +wher of I mervayle sore. I fere me it is not well with yow be cawse +ye came not home or sent er thys tyme. I hopyd verily ye schold +have ben at home by Twelthe at the ferthest. I pray yow hertly that +ye wole wychesave to send me word how ye do as hastly as ye may, for my +hert schall nevyr be in ese tyll I have tydyngys fro yow. Pepyll of this +contre begynyth to wax wyld, and it is seyd her that my Lord of Clarans +and the Dwek of Suthfolk and serteyn jwgys with hem schold come downe +and syt on syche pepyll as be noysyd ryotous in thys contre. And also it +is seyd here, that there is retornyd a newe rescwe up on that that was +do at the scher. I suppose swyche talkynge comyth of false schrewys +that wold mak a rwmor in this contre. The pepyll seyth here that they +had levyr go up hole to the Kynge and compleyne of siche false screwys +as they have be wrongyd by a fore, than they schold be compleynyd of +with owt cause and be hangyd at ther owne dorys. In good feyth men fere +sore here of a comone rysyng but if [<i>i.e.</i> unless] a bettyr +remedy may be had to a pese the pepyll in hast, and that ther be sent +swyche downe to tak a rewyll as the pepyll hathe a fantsy in, that wole +be indeferent. They love not in no wyse the Dwke of Sowthfolk nor hys +modyr. They sey that all the tretourys and extorsyonerys of thys contre +be meynteynyd by them and by syche as they get to them with her goodys, +to that intent to meynten suche extorsyon style as hathe be do by suche +as hathe had the rewyll undyr them be fore tyme. Men wene, and the Dwke +of Sowthfolk come ther scholl be a schrewd reuell but if [<i>unless</i>] +ther come odyr that be bettyr belovyd than he is here. The pepyll feryth +hem myche the more to be hurt, because that ye and my cosyn Barney come +not home; they sey they wot welle it is not well with yow and if it be +not well with yow, they sey they wot well, they that wole do yow wronge +wole sone do them wronge, and that makyth them all most mad. God for Hys +holy mersy geve grace that ther may be set a good rewyll and a sad in +this contre in hast, for I herd nevyr sey of so myche robry and +manslawter in thys contre as is now within a lytyll tyme. And as for +gadyryng of mony, I sey nevyr a werse seson, for Rychard Calle +seyth he can get +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page26" id = "page26">26</a></span> +but lytyll in substans of that is owyng, nowthyr of yowyr lyvelod nor of +Fastolfys th’eyr. And John Paston seyth, they that may pay best they pay +werst; they fare as thow they hopyd to have a newe werd [<i>world</i>]. +And the blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys kepyng and send us good tydyngys +of yow.</p> + +<p>Yelverton is a good thredbare frend for yow and for odyr in thys +contre, as it is told me.</p> + +<p>Wretyn in hast on the Thorsday nex aftyr Twelthe. +<span class = "signature">By yowyr</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Margaret Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note24_1" id = "note24_1" href = +"#tag24_1">24.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The contents +of this letter clearly show that it was written in January 1462, nine +days after <a href = "#letter497">No. 497</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note24_2" id = "note24_2" href = +"#tag24_2">24.2</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#letter497">No. 497</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter505" id = "letter505">505</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag26_1" id = "tag26_1" href = "#note26_1">26.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomand me +to yow. Plesyt yow to wet that Perse was delyveryd owt [of] preson by +the generall pardon that the Kynge hathe grantyd, whyche was opynly +proclamyd in the Gyld Hall. A none as he was delyveryd he cam hedyr +to me, God wote in an evyll plyte, and he desyiryd me wepyng that I wold +be hys good mastres and to be mene to yow to be hys good mastyr, and +swore sore that he was nevyr defawty in that ye have thowte hym defawty +in. He seyd that if ther wer ony coyne in the cofyr that was at Wylliam +Tavernerys it was ther withowt hys knowlage, for hys mastyr wold nevyr +lat hym se what was in that cofyr, and he told me that the keyis wer +sent to Thomas Holler<a class = "tag" name = "tag26_2" id = "tag26_2" +href = "#note26_2">26.2</a> by mastyr John Smyth. What Holler leyd in or +took owte he wot not as he sweryth. He offyrd me to be rewlyd as ye and +I wold have hym, and if I wold comand hym, to go ageyn to preson, whedyr +I wold to the Castyll or to the Gyld Hall, he wold obey my comandment. +And seth that he came of hys owne fre wyll withowt ony comandment of ony +man or desyir, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page27" id = "page27">27</a></span> +I seyd I wold not send hym ageyn to preson, so that he wold abyde yowyr +rewyll when ye came home. And so he is here with me and schall be tyll +ye send me word how ye wole that I do with hym. Where fore, I pray +yow that ye wole lete me have knowlage in hast how ye wole that I do +with hym.</p> + +<p>Item, I have spok with John Dame and Playter for the lettyr +testymonyall, and John Dame hathe promysyd to get it, and Playter schall +bryng it to yow to London. Item, I have purveyd yow of a man that +schall be here in Barsamys sted and ye wole, the wyche can bettyr +cherysch yowyr wood, bothe in fellyng and fensyng there of than Barsam +can; and he schall mak yow as many hyrdyllys as ye nede for yowyr fold, +of yowyr owne wood at Drayton, and schall tak as lytyll to hys wagys as +Barsam dothe; and he is holdyn a trew man. Item, Playter schall tell yow +of a woman that compleynyd to the Dwk of Sowthefolk of yow, and the +sey[d] Playter schall tell yow of the demenyng and answeryng of the +scheryfe for yow, and also of the demenyng of the seyd Dwke, and of +othir materys the wyche wer to longe mater to put in wryttyn. The pepyll +of that kontre be ryth glad that the day yed [<i>went</i>] with yow on +Monday as it ded. Ye wer nevyr so welcome in to Norfolk as ye schall be +when ye come home, I trowe. And the blyssyd Trynyte have yow in Hys +kepyng. Wretyn in hast on Wednysday next aftyr Seynt Augnet the Fyrst. +<span class = "signature">By yowyr M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear space"> +Item, Ric. Calle told me that he hathe sent you a answer of all erands +that ye wold shuld be do to Sir Thomas Howes. Sir Thomas Howes cam +nowther to me nor sent syn that he cam home from London.</p> + +<p>Will Worceter was at me in Cristemes at Heylysdon, and he told [me] +that he spake with you dyvers tymys at London the last terme; and he +told me that he hopyd that ye wolle be hys good master, and seyd he +hopyd ye shuld have non other cause but for to be hys god maister. +I hope and so do my moder and my cosyn Clere, that he wolle do well +inowe, so that he be fayre fare with Dawbeney and Playter. Avise me to +lete Peers go at large and to take a promys of hym to +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page28" id = "page28">28</a></span> +com to me a mong unto your comyng hom, and in the mene while his +demenyng may be knowyn and espyed in mo thyngs.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note26_1" id = "note26_1" href = +"#tag26_1">26.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +relates to the prisoner Piers mentioned in Nos. 423, 424, and 426. He +seems to have been delivered by a general pardon issued at the +commencement of the reign of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> The letter bears no address. It is endorsed, but +in a much later hand:— ‘A lettre to J. Paston, Ar., from +his wife.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note26_2" id = "note26_2" href = +"#tag26_2">26.2</a> +He was John Berney’s executor.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter506" id = "letter506">506</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN DOWBIGGING TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag28_1" id = "tag28_1" href = "#note28_1">28.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the ryght reverent and worship sir, John Paston, sum tyme Lord of +Gresham, and now fermour therof, as hit is seide.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Perys</span> of Legh come to Lynne opon +Cristynmesse Even in the fresshest wise, and there he dyned so as was; +bot when my Lorde of Oxenforde herde hereof he with his feliship and +suche as I and other your presoneres come rydyng unto Lynne, and even +unto the Bysshop gaole where the seid Perys dyned with other of his +feliship. My Lorde pulled hym oute of the seid gaole and made to kest +hym opon an horse, and tyed an halter by his arme, and so ledde hym +furth like hym selff. And even furthwith the seid Bysshop, the Mair, and +other their feliship mette with my seide Lorde and your presoneres, and +also the seide Perys tyed by an halter, the Bysshop havyng thies wordes +unto my Lorde with his pillion<a class = "tag" name = "tag28_2" id = +"tag28_2" href = "#note28_2">28.2</a> in his handes, ‘My Lordes, this is +a presoner, ye may knowe <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘bv’ (misprint or damaged type)">by</ins> his tepet and staff. +What will +ye do with hym?’ Therto my Lorde seide, ‘He is my presoner nowe.’ Wherto +the Bysshop seid, ‘Where is youre warraunt or commission therto?’ My +Lorde seide, ‘I have warraunt sufficiaunt to me.’ And thus they +departed, the Mair and all the cominaltie of Lynne kepyng theire +silence. Bot when we weren goon, and Perys of Legh fast in Rysyng +Castell, then the yates of Lynne, by the Bysshop comaundement weren fast +sperred [<i>shut</i>] and keped with men of armes. And then the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page29" id = "page29">29</a></span> +Bysshop and his squyers rebuked the Mair of Lynne and seid that he hade +shamed both hym and his toun for ever, with muche other langage, +&c.</p> + +<p>The Bysshop shulde have keped his Cristenmesse at Gaywode, bot yet he +come not oute of Lynne. In faith, my Lorde dyd quyte hym als +curageousely as ever I wist man do. The Bysshop come to the toun with +lx. persones the same tyme, and made to sper the yates after hym, bot +when we mette, ther bode not with hym over xij. persones atte the most, +with his serjaunt of armes; whiche serjaunt was fayn to lay doun his +mase; and so atte the same yates we come in we went oute, and no blode +drawen, God be thanked.</p> + +<p>Yf ye will any thyng atte I may do, send me worde; hit shall be doon +to my power, &c. Comaunde me to my maistresse your wyff, &c. And +yf ye dar joperdie your suyrtie of C. marc I shall come and se you. And +elles have me excused, for, &c. +<span class = "signature">From your oune,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Douebiggyng.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note28_1" id = "note28_1" href = +"#tag28_1">28.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is evidently earlier in date than the last, and may perhaps have been +written at the close of the year 1460, but as it refers to the same +prisoner as the preceding No. we place it here for convenience. It is +printed in the fifth volume of Fenn’s edition as a letter of Henry <span +class = "smallroman">VII.</span>’s time owing to a misreading of the +address, which might easily convey the impression that it was directed +to ‘Sir John Paston.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note28_2" id = "note28_2" href = +"#tag28_2">28.2</a> +The hat worn by a Doctor of Divinity.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">ye may knowe by his tepet and staff</span><br> +text has “bv his” (misprint or damaged type)</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter507" id = "letter507">507</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag29_1" id = "tag29_1" href = "#note29_1">29.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the ryght reverent and my mooste worschipful master, my Master John +Paston, in the Inneer Tempyll.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. 1</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Plesith it your maisterschip to witte that I have been at Burnewyll +in Nacton to receyve the rentes and fermys of the tenauntes. And I +undrestande be them, and be Robert Goordon that Mastre Jenney whas there +and helde a coorte on the Mondaye next aftre Tlwelthe, and warned the +tenauntes that they +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page30" id = "page30">30</a></span> +schulde pay no money to no man onto the tyme they had worde from hym, +seyng that he whas on of the feffeys of the same maner, and that he whas +feed with Sir John Fastolff, of weche fee he was be hynde for ij. yere; +wherfore he desired the tenauntes that they schulde not be redy in +payement onto the tyme they had word from hym, but that he myght be +payed of his seide fee, lyke as the wylle of the deede was. Wherfore I +can gete no money of them unto the tyme they have knowleche how it stond +be twyx your maistership and Mr. Jenney; for withoute Jenney write to +hem or come hom ward that wey, and have the tenauntes together and lete +hem witte that ye ought to have the rentes and fermes of the seid maner, +I can not see that ye be like to have but litell money there, +withoute ye woll do distreyne throuout all the lordeschip. I have +sette dayes to purvey but [<i>their</i>] money ayenst the first weke of +cleene Lenton, and than they schul have an answere who shal receyve it. +Wherfore that it please your maistership to remembre to speke to Mastre +Jenney. The blissed Trinite preserve you and kepe you from all +advercyte. Wreten at Yebbyshep<a class = "tag" name = "tag30_1" id = +"tag30_1" href = "#note30_1">30.1</a> the furst daye of Februare. +<span class = "signature">Your pore servaunt and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">R. Calle.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, the maner of Stratton shuld paye of rente xxvj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i>, weche the fermour seythe my mastresse Brandon is acorded +with you. He is be hynde for certeine yeres, &c.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note29_1" id = "note29_1" href = +"#tag29_1">29.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The manor of +Burneviles in Nacton, near Ipswich, was part of the lands of Sir John +Fastolf which Paston inherited by his will; but his claim was disputed +by Jenney, one of the executors. As Jenney is here said to have +complained that his fee was two years in arrear, we may presume that it +was little over two years since Fastolf’s death when this letter was +written. For further evidences of date compare <a href = +"#letter494">No. 494</a>. It may also be observed that we find undoubted +evidence that John Paston was residing in the Inner Temple six weeks +later (<i>see</i> <a href = "#letter511">No. 511</a>), whereas in the +preceding year he was in Norfolk, where his brother Clement wrote to him +news from London (No. 430).</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note30_1" id = "note30_1" href = +"#tag30_1">30.1</a> +Ipswich?</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter508" id = "letter508">508</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO ——<a class = "tag" +name = "tag30_2" id = "tag30_2" href = "#note30_2">30.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. 9</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> trusty and welbeloved, I grete +yow hartily well, and will ye wite that where hit is so, that Sir John +Fastolf, whom God assoyle, with other, was sum tyme by Sir Herry Inglose +enfeffed of trust of his maner offe Pykewurthe in Rutlande, the which +made his wille, proved, that the seid maner sholde by solde by Robert +Inglose and Edmunde Wychingham his executours, to whom the seid Sir John +hath +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page31" id = "page31">31</a></span> +relesed, as his dute was to do; now it is so that for John Browne<a +class = "tag" name = "tag31_1" id = "tag31_1" href = +"#note31_1">31.1</a> ther is shewed a dede under seall of armes berynge +date byfore his reles made to the Duke of Norffoke, Henry Inglose and +other, contrarie to the wille of the seid Sir Herry and the trust of the +feoffement that the seid Sir John Fastolff was infeffed inne. And a +letter of Attorney under the same seale of armes to yow, to deliver +seison acordynge to the same feffement, to the gret disclaundre of the +seid Sir John and all his, yef this be true. Wherfore I preie yow +hertili that ye feithfully and truly rescribe to me in all the hast ye +may what ye knowe in this mater such as ye wull stonde by with outen +glose, and how ye can imagine that this crafte shulde be practised, and +specially whether ye yourself delivered seison in Rutlond or noo. And +this and what incedentes ye knowe, I preie yow by wrytinge certefie +me in all hast, that I may be the more ripe to answer to this, to the +wurship of the seid Sir John, that was your maister, so that thorowh +your defaute your seid maisters soule ther for lie not in perell, but +this disclaundre may be eesed and cesed as reson requireth, to the +wurship of hym and all that longe to hym. And this I pray yow faile not +offe as I truste yow. Wret at Londo[n] the ix. day of Februar. +<span class = "signature">Yowr frend,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Jon Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note30_2" id = "note30_2" href = +"#tag30_2">30.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span> is a rough draft signed by John Paston +the eldest, and corrected in his hand. It seems to have been written on +the cover of a letter addressed to himself; for on the back is this +direction in another hand:— ‘To my most reverent and worchepfull +maister, John Paston the eldest, Esquier, be this deliveryd in +hast.’</p> + +<p>We have inserted this letter in the year 1462 as this was the first +year after Fastolf’s death, when John Paston appears to have been +residing in London in the beginning of February. The only other possible +years are 1463, 1465, and 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note31_1" id = "note31_1" href = +"#tag31_1">31.1</a> +This name is substituted for ‘Herry Inglose,’ struck out.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter509" id = "letter509">509</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR THOMAS HOWES TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag31_2" id = "tag31_2" href = "#note31_2">31.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the ryght wurshipfull sir and meyster, myn Mayster John Paston, +Squier.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">[FEB.]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worshipfull sire and mayster, I +recomaunde me to yow. And please yow that the chirche of Drayton is or +shal be resyngned in hast in to the Bysshopys hands by Sir John Bullok, +desyryng yow hertly that ye lyke I +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page32" id = "page32">32</a></span> +may have the presentacion of the next avoydaunce for a newew of myn, +callyd Sir Reynold Spendlove, whiche I truste youre maystership wold +agree to make in youre name and myn as was last, &c. And, sir, +please yow also that I have hadde diverse communicacions with Worcestr +sethe Crystmesse,<a class = "tag" name = "tag32_1" id = "tag32_1" href = +"#note32_1">32.1</a> and I fele by hym otterly that he wole not appoynt +in other fourme than to have the londs of Feyrechildes and other londes +in Drayton to the sume of x. marc of yow proprely, by syde that that he +desyreth of myn mayster, whom God assoyle, whiche mater I remytte to +your noble discrecion.</p> + +<p>And as for answere of the bylles that I have, I have ben so sekelew +seythe Crystmasse that I myght not yette don hem, but I shal in alle +hast, wher inne ye may excuse yow by me if ye please tyl the next terme, +at whiche tyme alle shal be aunswered, be Godds grace, who preserve yow +and send yow th’ accomplyshement of youre desyres, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, sere, please youre maystership hit was leten me wete in ryght +secrete wyse that a pyssaunce is redy to aryve in thre parties of this +londe, by the meane of Kyng Herry and the Quene that wes, and by the +Dewk Somercete and others, of vi.<sup>xx.</sup> m.<sup>l.</sup> +[120,000] men; and here day, if wynde and weder hadde servyd theym, +shuld a’ ben here sone upon Candelmasse; at Trente to London werdes thei +shuld a’ ben by Candelmasse or sone after, one parte of theym, and +another parte comyng from Walys, and the thredde fro Yernessey and +Garnesseye. Wher fore it is weel don ye enforme myn Lord Warwyk, that he +may speke to the Kyng that good provy[s]ion be hadde for withstandyng +there malicyous purpose and evyl wylle, whiche God graunt we may our +come theym; and so we shuld, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page33" id = "page33">33</a></span> +I dought not, if we were alle on [<i>one</i>]. There ben many +medelers, and they ben best cheryshed, whyche wold hurt moche if these +come to, as God diffende, &c. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">T. Howys.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note31_2" id = "note31_2" href = +"#tag31_2">31.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 68.] For evidence of the date of this letter, Fenn +quotes the following extracts from the Institution Books in the Registry +of the Bishop of Norwich:—</p> + +<p class = "inset">‘Draiton</p> + +<p>‘Reg. xi. 124. 29 January 1460-1. Johannes Bullock ad præsentationem +Joh’is Paston arm. et Tho. Howys capellani.</p> + +<p>‘Reg. xi. 131. 15 March 1461-2. Joh’es Flourdew ad præsentationem +eorundem.’</p> + +<p>It thus appears that the living was resigned by John Bullock in +1461-2, and on the 15th March John Flourdew was presented to it, not the +person here recommended by Howes.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note32_1" id = "note32_1" href = +"#tag32_1">32.1</a> +This word is indicated by Fenn as indistinct in the <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter510" id = "letter510">510</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag33_1" id = "tag33_1" href = "#note33_1">33.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepfull <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘husbona’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">husbond</ins>, John Paston, +be this delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesyth</span> yow to wete that John Wellys +and his brodyr told me thys nyth that the Kyng lay at Cambryge as +yestyrsnyth to Sandwyche ward, for ther is gret dyvysyen be twyx the +Lordys and the schypmen ther, that causyth hym to goo thedyr to se a +remedye therfor.</p> + +<p>I thank God that John Paston yed non erst [<i>went no earlier</i>] +forthe, for I trust to God all schall be do er he comyth. And it is told +me that Syr John Howard is lek to lese hys hed.</p> + +<p>If it plese yow to send to the seyd Wellys, he schall send yow mor +tydyngys than I may wryt at thys tyme. God have yow in Hys kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wretyn in hast at Thetford, at xj. of the clok in the nyth, the same +day I departyd fro yow.</p> + +<p>I thank Pampyng of hys good wyll, and them that wer cause of changyng +of my hors, for they ded me a bettyr torne than I wend they had do, and +I schall aquyt them anothyr day, and I maye. +<span class = "signature">By yor</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note33_1" id = "note33_1" href = +"#tag33_1">33.1</a> +[From Fenn, ii. 288.] It appears by the dates of the Privy Seal writs +that Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> was at Cambridge on +the 2nd and 3rd March 1462, and this is probably the visit alluded to, +although we do not find that the King went on to Sandwich +afterwards.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">To my ryth worchepfull husbond, John +Paston</span><br> +text has “husbona” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page34" id = "page34">34</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter511" id = "letter511">511</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON, THE ELDER, TO HIS FATHER<a class = +"tag" name = "tag34_1" id = "tag34_1" href = +"#note34_1">34.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To myn ryth reverent and worschypfull fader, John Paston, beyng in the +Inder Temple.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +13</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> reverent and wyrshypfull fader, I +recomand me un to you, be sychyng you of your blessyng and gode +faderhode. Pleasyt it you to understond the grete expens that I have +dayly travelyng with the Kyng, as the berour here of can enfourme you; +and howe long that I am lyke to tary here in thys country or I may speke +with you a gayn, and howe I am chargyd to have myn hors and harnys redy, +and in hasty wyse, besykyng you to consyder theys causes, and so to +remembr me that I may have suche thynges as I may do my mayster servys +with and pleasur, trusting in God it schall be to your wyrshyp and to +myn and vayll [<i>avail</i>]. In especiall I besyche you, that I may be +sur where to have mony somwhat be fore Estern, other of you, or by myn +uncle Clement, when nede ys. Of othir causes the berour hereof can +enfourme you. No more to you at thys tyme, but God have you in Hys +kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wryten at Stamford, the xiij. day of March. +<span class = "signature">Be yowr sone and servant,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston, the Older.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note34_1" id = "note34_1" href = +"#tag34_1">34.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 126.] It appears by the dates of the Privy Seal writs +that Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> was at Stamford, from +the 9th to the 17th March, in the second year of his reign, <i>i.e.</i> +in 1462. This letter belongs therefore to that year.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page35" id = "page35">35</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter512" id = "letter512">512</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">REPORT OF FRENCH PRISONERS<a class = "tag" name += "tag35_1" id = "tag35_1" href = "#note35_1">35.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Memorandum. This is the confessyon of xvj. Frenshemen with the Mastyr, +takyn at Sheryngam, the iij. wek of Lent.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull sir, I recomaund me +to you, and lete you wytte, that I have be at Shiryngham, and examyned +the Frenshmen to the nombre of xvj. with the maister. And thei telle +that the Duke of Somerset is in to Scotland; and thei sey the Lord +Hungyrforthe was on Monday last passed afore Sheryngham in to Scotland +ward, in a kervyle [<i>carvel</i>] of Depe, no gret power with hym, ne +with the seid Duk neyther. And thei sey that the Duk of Burgoyn<a class += "tag" name = "tag35_2" id = "tag35_2" href = "#note35_2">35.2</a> is +poysened, and not like to recovere. And as for powers to be gadered +ayenst our weelfare; thei sey, there shulde come in to Seyne CC. gret +forstages<a class = "tag" name = "tag35_3" id = "tag35_3" href = +"#note35_3">35.3</a> owt of Spayne, from the Kyng there;<a class = "tag" +name = "tag35_4" id = "tag35_4" href = "#note35_4">35.4</a> and CCC. +shippes from the Duk of Bretayne<a class = "tag" name = "tag35_5" id = +"tag35_5" href = "#note35_5">35.5</a> with the navy of Fraunce, but thei +be not yet assembled, ne vitayll there purveyd, as thei sey, ne men. And +the Kyng of Fraunce<a class = "tag" name = "tag35_6" id = "tag35_6" href += "#note35_6">35.6</a> is in to Spayne on pilgrymage with fewe hors as +thei sey; what the purpose is thei can not telle certeyn, &c. In +hast at Norwich.</p> + +<p>The Kyng of Frauns hath comitted the rewle of Bordews on to the +marchaunds of the toun, and the browd<a class = "tag" name = "tag35_7" +id = "tag35_7" href = "#note35_7">35.7</a> tha[t] be therin to be at +ther wages; and like as Caleys is a Stapole of wolle here in England, so +is that made staple of wyne.</p> + +<p>John Fermer, presoner, seyth, on [<i>one</i>] John Gylys, a clerk +that was with the Erle of Oxforthe, wych was some tym in Kyng Herrys +hows, was a prevy secretary with the Erle of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page36" id = "page36">36</a></span> +Oxforthe; and if any wrytyng wer made by the seyd Erle, the seyd Gylys +knew ther of in this gret matyeres.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_1" id = "note35_1" href = +"#tag35_1">35.1</a> +[From Fenn, i. 250.] This letter evidently refers to the state of +matters in the beginning of the year 1462, when Henry <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span> and Margaret of Anjou were in Scotland, and when +the Earl of Oxford had just been beheaded for conspiring against Edward +<span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> The date of Oxford’s execution was +the 20th of February. This confession of the Frenchmen is dated in the +third week of Lent, that is to say, between the 14th and the 20th of +March.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_2" id = "note35_2" href = +"#tag35_2">35.2</a> +Philip the Good.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_3" id = "note35_3" href = +"#tag35_3">35.3</a> +Large ships with forestages or forecastles.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_4" id = "note35_4" href = +"#tag35_4">35.4</a> +Henry <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, King of Castile.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_5" id = "note35_5" href = +"#tag35_5">35.5</a> +Francis <span class = "smallroman">II.</span>, the last Duke.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_6" id = "note35_6" href = +"#tag35_6">35.6</a> +Lewis <span class = "smallroman">XI.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note35_7" id = "note35_7" href = +"#tag35_7">35.7</a> +This word, says Fenn, is imperfect in the original.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter513" id = "letter513">513</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag36_1" id = "tag36_1" href = "#note36_1">36.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right singler maister, J. Paston, Squyer, in hast, &c.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +24</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">After</span> due recomendacion, please it your +maistership to wyte Maister Yelverton, justice, seid in the Sessions +that the Kyng shulde kepe his Estern at Bury, and from thens come unto +this cuntre and se suyche riottes as have be in this cuntre punyshed in +suche fourme as happely summe shulde hange by the nekke. And he tolde +what thank he had of the Kyng at Cambrigg for cause he declarid so well +the charge of extorcions doon by Shirefs and other officers, &c., +for the whiche declaracion the Kyng tooke hym by the hand, and seid he +cowde hym grett thanke, and prayed hym so to do in this cuntre, +&c.</p> + +<p>In hast, at Norwich, the Wednesseday next tofore th’Annunciacion, +&c. +<span class = "signature">Your povere,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Gresham.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note36_1" id = "note36_1" href = +"#tag36_1">36.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 76.] It does not appear that Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> ever did spend an Easter at Bury, as here +projected. He was, however, at Cambridge in the beginning of March 1462; +from which he proceeded to Peterborough, Stamford, Newark, and Lincoln, +and at Easter (18th April) he seems to have been at Leicester.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter514" id = "letter514">514</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN WYKES TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag36_2" id = "tag36_2" href = "#note36_2">36.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right trusti and welbelovid frend, John Paston, Esquier.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +25</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull, and myn enterly +welbelovyd frend, I recomaund me un to you, hertely thankyng you of your +gret present of fisch, and of the felyshipp that my cosyn your sonne +shewid unto me att Norwiche, purposyng +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page37" id = "page37">37</a></span> +be the grace of God to deserve it un to you in tyme to come, in such +place as I may do for you.</p> + +<p>Desiryng you specyally, wher as a tenaunt of myne of Lavenham, called +John Fermour, is sesid and arestid with in the towne of Yermowth, be +cause he dwellid with the Erle of Oxonfords son, and purposid to have +passid the see withou[t] lycence, and stondyth out of the conceyte of +much peple, I wold desyre you, that ye wold wryte to the Baylyffs +of Yermouth to delyver the seid John Fermor to my servaunt John +Brenerigg, brynger of this, with an officer of the seid Towne, to be +caried unto the Kyngs Castell of Rysing at my cost; ther to be examynid +of certeyne Artycules, which I may not disclose, til I have spoke with +the Kyngs Highnes: praying you to wryte to the seid Bayliffs, that I +shall be her suffisant discharge ayenst the Kynge. Desyryng yow to geve +credence to the brynger herof, as my verray trust is in yow.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Lavenham, the xxv<sup>th.</sup> day of Marche.</p> + +<p class = "signature">Your trew and feithfull frend, havyng no blame +for my gode wylle. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Wykes,</span> +<span class = "signature">Ussher of the Kyngs Chambre.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note36_2" id = "note36_2" href = +"#tag36_2">36.2</a> +[From Fenn, i. 252.] As this letter relates to the arrest of a +confederate of the Earl of Oxford and his son, who were executed in +February 1462, for conspiring against Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, the date must be referred to that year.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter515" id = "letter515">515</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag37_1" id = "tag37_1" href = "#note37_1">37.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the rigth reverent and worshipfull sir, and my right honourable +maystyr, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +(?)</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull sir, and my right +honourable maistir, I recomaunde me to you in my most humble wise. And +plese it youre good maistirshyp to wete that it is seyd here that my +Lord Worcestre is lyk to be Tresorer, with +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page38" id = "page38">38</a></span> +whom I truste ye stonde right wel in conseit, with whiche God contynwe. +Wherfor I beseke youre maistirshipp that if my seid Lord have the seid +office, that it lyke you to desyre the nomynacion of on of the officez, +eythyr of the countroller or serchorship of Jernemuth, for a servaunt of +yowrez, and I shuld so gyde me in the office as I truste shuld be most +profit to my seyd Lord. And if youre maistirshyp lyked to gete graunt +thereof, that than it plesyd you to lycense on of youre servaunts to +take out the patent of the seyd office; and if it cost v. or vj. or +viij. marke, I shal trewly contente it ageyn; and yeerly as longe +as I myght have the officez, or any of hem, I shal geve my maister +youre sone v. marke toward an haukeney.</p> + +<p>It shuld be to me right a good mean to stondyn as well in the trust +as in the conseyt amongs marchaunts, with whom and with alle men I calle +myself a servaunt of yourez, and soo wil do, if it plese you, which +boldyth me the more to calle upon youre right wurshipful maistyrshyp in +this mater, where in I beseke you to forgeve me my boldneyse in thys +behalve. And if I knew that my Lord shuld have the office in sertayn, +than I wold wayte upon youre good maystyrshyp there to opteyne the +patent, if it plesyd youre good maystirship to gete me the graunt, +&c.</p> + +<p>No more on to you, my right honourable maister, at thys tyme, but +Jesu I beseke sende you a good conclucyon in all yore maters, and graunt +you ever youre herts desyre. +<span class = "signature">Yore contynwal servaunt and bedeman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Russe.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note37_1" id = "note37_1" href = +"#tag37_1">37.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 112.] This letter must have been written before the 14th +of April 1462, on which day the Earl of Worcester was appointed +Treasurer of the Exchequer (<i>Patent Roll</i>, 2 Edw. <span class += "smallroman">IV.</span>, p. 1, m. 19).</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page39" id = "page39">39</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter516" id = "letter516">516</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">W. C. TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag39_1" id = "tag39_1" href = "#note39_1">39.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation abstract"> +To myn ryght worshipfull and ryght singler good mayster, myn Mayster +John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 4</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Myn ryght worshipfull mayster, I recomaunde me to yow in myn ryght +homble wyse. And please your maystership that I have ben at Wetyng and +there hald the court and lete on Hokmonday<a class = "tag" name = +"tag39_2" id = "tag39_2" href = "#note39_2">39.2</a> as hit hath bene of +olde tyme accostomed; and the tenauntes have attorned and bene full +gladde that myn lady shuld rejoyse hit and kepe here possession. The +priour of Bromhill that was fermoure his terme is expired, and wole sewe +to myn lady and hir councell to have a newe terme; but lete myn lady be +ware, for, as I here seyn, he bydeth but a tyme that he myght gete a +summe of money to geders of myn ladyes lyflode, and to gone ther with<a +class = "tag" name = "tag39_3" id = "tag39_3" href = +"#note39_3">39.3</a> a love of his sojornyng as yette in Hokehold. +She hath bene dreven fro town to town for his sake. Hit is wele done ye +advertyse myn lady, if she be in that cas that she hath governaunce of +hir owen londes, that she do no thyng to that lyflode ner non other in +Norffolk, with ought advyse of theym that have vysyted and overseen +theym; for there hath bene straunge rewle, bothe in woodsales and sale +of londes helde at wylle for fre rent, as ye shal knowe here after. +Thoresby, a man that was generall attorney for myn Lord Oxenford +that was, told me that the Kynge hadde made Keche generall receyvoure by +priveseale of alle londes that were the Erle of Oxenford and Dame +Elyzabet, ecept tho that Howard hadde entered and Lanham and an other +graunted to Wykes, and certeyn lyflode in Kent that was assigned to the +tresorer of howshold of the Kynges hows; and she shuld have be Keches +hande v.<sup>c.</sup> [500] mark, ij.<sup>c.</sup> and l. [250] mark to +bene payed at this Estern and the remulant at Mihelmasse. And of the +remulant the Kyng shuld be answered. Ye shal sone understande how it is; +and if hit be so, hit [is]<a class = "tag" name = "tag39_4" id = +"tag39_4" href = "#note39_4">39.4</a> but foly to laboure any ferther. +I wold fayn knowe, for the courtes for the half yere wold bene +holde for nede. And our Lord be with youre maystership and sende yow +th’accomplyshement of youre noble desyres. Wreten hastely at Norwyche, +the iiij<sup>te</sup> day of May. +<span class = "signature">Youre servaunt to his power,</span> +<span class = "signature">W. C.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +And whan ye comon with myn ryght worshipfull lady I beseche yow remembre +myn pore maters in whiche is greet concyens, &c.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note39_1" id = "note39_1" href = +"#tag39_1">39.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The manor of +Weeting, in Norfolk, came to John Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, by his +marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Howard, Esquire, son +and heir of Sir John Howard, Knight. This Earl was beheaded in February +1462, for treason against Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, +and the present letter seems to have been written in May following.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note39_2" id = "note39_2" href = +"#tag39_2">39.2</a> +Hock Monday was a fortnight after Easter Monday. In 1462 it fell on the +3rd May, the day before this letter was written.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note39_3" id = "note39_3" href = +"#tag39_3">39.3</a> +<i>With</i> repeated in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note39_4" id = "note39_4" href = +"#tag39_4">39.4</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page40" id = "page40">40</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter517" id = "letter517">517</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag40_1" id = "tag40_1" href = "#note40_1">40.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wurschipful maister, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomaunde</span> me unto you. Plesith +it you to witte that I have spoken with Furbuschour and other of the +matre that ye spake to me off, and they have promysed me to be as +feythefull in it as it where for hem selfe. Also I have spoken with my +modre and seide to here as ye desired me to doo, and sche seide sche +knewe the massache weele inowe before be other persones in like wice as +ye comaunded hem to sey to her; and sche seide she wode fayne that ye +dede weele what so ever ye sey and fille forthe in other talkyng. Me +semethe che is displesed that ye came not to her or than ye roode +foorthe. I schall telle you more whan that ye come home. Thomas +Denys wyff whas at me, and desired me that I schulde sende to you and +desire you that che myght have knowleche from you how ye woll that sche +schall doo with her matre; sche seithe her brother and other of her +frendes thynke that she schulde up to London and calle uppon her matre +there, but she seithe pleynly sche woll nought doo therin withoute your +advice. It whas toolde me that Bacon and Gonnor whas here to speke with +me for the matre that Bacon spake to you of, and at that tyme I whas at +Norweche and I herde no more of hem sethen. And as for my brother +William, he is not purposed to come to London tyll aftre Pentecost; but +my brother Clement is purposed to come forward on Monday or on Twesday +next comyng at the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page41" id = "page41">41</a></span> +ferthest. No more at this tyme but the blissed Trinite preserve you. +Wreten the xviij. day of May. +<span class = "signature">Your <span class = "smallcaps">Margaret +Paston</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I prey yow that ye woll wete safe to remembre Johane Gayne matre, and +that ye woll take John Paston that he remembre you of it, for Dawbeney +and Pampyng woll sone for gete it.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note40_1" id = "note40_1" href = +"#tag40_1">40.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is evidently not far removed in date from <a href = "#letter489">No. +489</a>, in which ‘Joan Gayne’s matter’ is also mentioned. The year, +however, cannot be 1461, as William Paston was in London that year as +early as the 4th April. It seems also from this letter that John Paston +had recently left home, which could not have been the case in 1461 if +No. 453 be of that year. We have therefore +little doubt that the true date is 1462, and that the substance of the +letter relates to proceedings taken by the widow of Thomas Denys against +her husband’s murderers.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter518" id = "letter518">518</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON, JUNIOR, TO HIS FATHER<a class = +"tag" name = "tag41_1" id = "tag41_1" href = +"#note41_1">41.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wurschipfull fadre, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesit</span> you to wete that I am at Leyn, +and under stande be dyvers personys, as I am in formed, that the Mayster +of Carbroke<a class = "tag" name = "tag41_2" id = "tag41_2" href = +"#note41_2">41.2</a> wold take a rewle in the <i>Marè Talbot</i> as for +capteyn, and to yeve jaketes of his levery to dyvers personis qwych be +waged be oder men, and nouth be hym, beyng in the said shep. Qwerfor in +as moch as I have but few sowdeors in myn levery her, to strenketh me in +that qwych is the Kynges commandement, I kepe with me yowr too men, +Dawbenney and Calle, qwich I purpose shall seyle with me to Yermeth; for +I have purveyed harneyse for hem. And ye shall well understande, be the +grace of God, that the said Mayster of Carbroke shall have non rewle in +the sheppes, as I had purposid he shuld have had, because of his +besynesse, and for this is on of the specyall causes I kepe yowr said +men with me, besechyng you ye takyt to non dysplesur of ther taryng +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page42" id = "page42">42</a></span> +with me. Nat withstanding, ther herden<a class = "tag" name = "tag42_1" +id = "tag42_1" href = "#note42_1">42.1</a> at Wyggenalle shall be don +this day be the grace of God, Whoo have you in kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Leynn, the morow after my departyng from you.</p> + +<p>Item, as far such tydynges as be here, Th. shall in forme you. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note41_1" id = "note41_1" href = +"#tag41_1">41.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 100.] On the 29th May 1462 a commission was granted to +Sir John Howard and Sir Thomas Walgrave to arrest the ships, the <i>Mary +Talbot</i> and the <i>Mary Thomson</i>, both of Lynn, and other vessels +in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, for a fleet which the King was fitting +out (see <i>Patent Roll</i>, 2 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, p. 1, m. 14, <i>in dorso</i>). Sir Thomas +Walgrave may perhaps have been the person designated in this letter as +the Master of Carbrooke. At all events, the date is clearly about this +time.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note41_2" id = "note41_2" href = +"#tag41_2">41.2</a> +At Carbrooke, in Norfolk, was a commandry formerly belonging to the +Knights Templars, which, like most of the possessions of the order, when +it was suppressed in Edward <span class = "smallroman">II.</span>’s +time, was given to the Knights of St. John.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note42_1" id = "note42_1" href = +"#tag42_1">42.1</a> +I do not understand the meaning of the word ‘herden.’—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter519" id = "letter519">519</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag42_2" id = +"tag42_2" href = "#note42_2">42.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE 6</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Inventory of household stuff remaining at Castre, 6 June 2 Edward <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, viz. of robes, jewels, arras, etc.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note42_2" id = "note42_2" href = +"#tag42_2">42.2</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Phillipps, 9735, No. +354.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter520" id = "letter520">520</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Among some <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, which seem formerly +to have belonged to the Paston Collection in the Bodleian Library at +Oxford, is one endorsed— ‘A Pedigree showing how the manor of +Caister was divided,’ tracing its descent from earlier owners to Sir +John Fastolf.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter521" id = "letter521">521</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">J. DAUBENEY TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name += "tag42_3" id = "tag42_3" href = "#note42_3">42.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my most reverent and worchepfull maister, John Paston, dwellyng at +Heylysdon, be this delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "salutation"><em>Ih’s.</em></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY 3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Most</span> reverent and worchepfull master, I +recommaund me onto your god masterchep. Please you to have knowlage, on +the Fryday at afternoon next after Seynt Peter, there was at the taveran +in London old Debnam +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page43" id = "page43">43</a></span> +and young Debnam, Thomas Edmonds, and I; and ther the seyd Thomas +Edmonds fell in communicacion with old Debnam, and seyd that my Lord +Tresorer<a class = "tag" name = "tag43_1" id = "tag43_1" href = +"#note43_1">43.1</a> had put hym to a gret charge for the vetelyng of +<i>Mary Talbot</i>,<a class = "tag" name = "tag43_2" id = "tag43_2" href += "#note43_2">43.2</a> seyyng to old Debnam that he hard sey that he had +a C. bulloks to selle, the wyche the seyd Edmonds wolle bey so that they +may a cord of the price. Than the seyd old Debnam answerd ageyn, and +seyd he wold, so that he myght have good payment, or elles the seyd +Edmonds to be bound in abligacion to pay hym at suche dayys as they +myght a cord. And noon upon thys same langwage, yong Debnam spake to hys +fader, ‘Sir, I pray you that ye wolle take avisment of this mater +tille to morowe, for I trost to your good faderhod that ye wolle late me +have a serteyn of your bulloks for the vetelyng of the <i>Barge of +Yermothe</i>, and I shall fynd you sufficiant suerte for the payment +therof for Edmonds. I wolle that ye knowe I have be ther, and spoke +with the owner and with the maister of the seyd barge, and they knowyn +myn oppoyntment.’</p> + +<p>Than the seyd Edmonds answered to yong Debnam, and told hym that the +sety of Norwic and Yermothe hathe grauntyd, and send wrytyng to the +Kynge and to the Lords that they wolle manne and veteylle the seyd barge +of her owne cost fro the tym of hyr goyng owt tylle hyr comyng home; and +thus the seyd Edmonds told hym that my Lord Tresorer and all the Lords +that be at London thynk they do ryght well her devyer, and be worthey +moche thanke of the Kyng. ‘Well,’ quod yong Debnam, ‘I had in +commaundment for to have the rewle of the seyd barge, and I wolle be at +Yermothe as thys day iiij. dayys, and man hyr and bryng hyr downne to +the Gylys of Hulle, for that ys my chype.’</p> + +<p>Also he seyd mor, with out that he myght have the seyd barge, he +wolle note goo to see but hym self and hys xxiiij. men. And thus, yf +please your maisterchep, he departyd from the taveran; and at hys +departyng, he told the seyd Thomas Edmonds, ‘Thys ys Paston labor.’ Than +the seyd Edmonds answerd hym ageyn, and seyd playnly he was to +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page44" id = "page44">44</a></span> +blame for to reporte so of your masterchep, for he knoythe veryly he +seyd on trewly of you and of my master your son bothe, and ther on he +wold take a hothe. And so, yf it please your good masterchep, late the +cety of Norwic and Yermothe have knowlage of hys gret crakyng and bost, +and let hym of hys purpose by the autorite that they have.</p> + +<p>Item, my master your son wolle have to hys jakets murry<a class = +"tag" name = "tag44_1" id = "tag44_1" href = "#note44_1">44.1</a> and +tany [<i>tawny</i>], and that it please yow sum of my felachep may spek +to on of the drapers for to ordeyn yt ageyns hys comyng hom, for I trowe +it shall be thys day sevenyght ar he comithe home.</p> + +<p>Item, sir, if please you, Skrowpe hathe sent to you to London be +Byngham for the mony that ye knowe of, zit I spake not with hym; but I +shall telle hym that I suppose ye shall be here in the last end of the +terme, and I shall send your masterchep word what answer I have of +hym.</p> + +<p>Item, sir, if pleese suche tydyngs as I her of, I send you word. My +Lord of Warwek hathe be in Skotlond, an take a castell of the Skoots; +and upon thys ther came the Quene of Skoots<a class = "tag" name = +"tag44_2" id = "tag44_2" href = "#note44_2">44.2</a> with other Lords of +her contre, as ye shall her the namys, in basetry [<i>embassy</i>] to my +seyd Lord of Werwek, and a trews is take betwyx thys and Seynt Bertylmew +Day in Auguste. Thes is the last tydyngs that I knowe. No mor to your +god masterchep at this tyme, but Jesu have [you] in kepyng. +<span class = "signature">Wretyn on the Saturday next after Seynt +Peter.</span> +<span class = "signature">By your por servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Daubeney.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note42_3" id = "note42_3" href = +"#tag42_3">42.3</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 138.] The date of this letter is shown by an entry on +the <i>Patent Roll</i>, 2 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, p. 1, m. 7, <i>in dorso</i>. On the 27th June +1462 a commission was given to Gilbert Debenham, Jun., Esquire, Walter +Alderiche, master of the <i>George</i> of Yarmouth, and John Childe, to +arrest for the King’s service a ship called <i>The Barge of Yarmouth, +alias The George</i>, with victuals, masters, and mariners for the +same.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note43_1" id = "note43_1" href = +"#tag43_1">43.1</a> +John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester. He was beheaded in October +1470.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note43_2" id = "note43_2" href = +"#tag43_2">43.2</a> +<i>See</i> Preliminary Note to No. 518, <a href = +"#note41_1">p. 41, Note 1</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note44_1" id = "note44_1" href = +"#tag44_1">44.1</a> +Dark red or purple and yellowish colour.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note44_2" id = "note44_2" href = +"#tag44_2">44.2</a> +Mary, daughter of Arnold, Duke of Gelders, and mother to James <span +class = "smallroman">III.</span>, King of Scotland.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page45" id = "page45">45</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter522" id = "letter522">522</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON, JUNIOR<a class = +"tag" name = "tag45_1" id = "tag45_1" href = +"#note45_1">45.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my maistre, John Paston the yonger, be this delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Sere</span>, I have receyved your lettre, +wherin I undrestand that my maistre desired that my maistre your brother +myght have the gidyng and governaunce of the <i>Barge of Yermouthe</i>. +As to that, and men of Yermouthe had knowen my maistre entend a fornyght +a goo, he had ben swer of it, but nough it is so that Debenham hathe a +comyscion of the Kyng expressed oonly for that schip named in hes +comyscion; and he hathe ben here at Yermouthe, and spoken with the +balyffs and with the owners of the seide schip, and takyn suche a +direccion that they may graunted it ne man but hym. And moreover he +hathe endented with the owners of the schip what daye it schulbe redy as +well vetaylled as manned; and also he hathe brought downe letters from +my Lord Tresorer to all priours and gentlemen in this contre to helpe +hym and assiste hym to vetayle and manne the seide schip, and hes men is +here dayle, and gothe abought and gathereth whete, malt, money, and what +so ever any man woll geve, &c.</p> + +<p>The blissed Trinyte preserve you. Wreten at Castre, the Friday next +aftre I receyved your lettre.</p> + +<p>Item, is talked here that my maistre your brother and Debenham were +at words at London, and that Debenham shuld have streken hym, had nought +Howard a’ beene, &c., wherof I am ryght sory, &c. Neverthelesse +I trust to God all schul be weell. +<span class = "signature">Your servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Ric. Calle.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note45_1" id = "note45_1" href = +"#tag45_1">45.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 144.] This and the next letter were evidently written +not very long after the last.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page46" id = "page46">46</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter523" id = "letter523">523</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag46_1" id = "tag46_1" href = "#note46_1">46.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my maistre, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> your maisterschip to wit that I +whas at Scole, and spake with Alblastre, John Sadeler, and with other +good yomen of the contre to undrestonde how they were gided for the +vetelyng of the <i>Barge of Yermouth</i>. And I undrestonde be them that +there [<i>their</i>] hundred have payed; nevertheles it is but litell. +Ther was gatherd in that hundred xviij<i>s.</i> and certein corn, and +some other hundred vj. marc and corne, and so they have payed in all the +hundreds and townys here a boute, that is to sey, Est Flegge and West +Flegge and up to Blofeld, Tunsted and up to Stalom, I undrestand, +be the comiscion that Debenham hath. It is more large thanne master John +is, as ye schal undrestand, wherof I send you a copy, weche causeth me +that I labour no ferther therin. Notwithstandyng your maisterschip schal +have knowleche what every hundred geve, and Yermeth bothe.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Wynterton, the morwe aftre I departed from your +maisterschip. +<span class = "signature">Youre poore bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Ric. Calle.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note46_1" id = "note46_1" href = +"#tag46_1">46.1</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 430.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter524" id = "letter524">524</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag46_2" id = +"tag46_2" href = "#note46_2">46.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Richard Calle to John Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">[JULY +5]</span></p> + +<p>Cannot inform him how much malt he has at Castre, ‘for the malters +have not moten all up yet,’—probably 400 quarters new and 160 comb +old malt of Castre and Mauteby, of which 40 quarters will be spent in +the household by Hallowmas. At Yarmouth it is now 2<i>s.</i> 2<i>d.</i> +a bushel—it was 2<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> But London is a better +market. Thinks the price will fall here, as the fields are +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page47" id = "page47">47</a></span> +reasonably fair in Flegge, and so up to Norwich. The carriage from +Yarmouth to London will be 6<i>d.</i> per quarter, ‘and I understand j. +quartre of Yermothe mette makethe at London but vij. busschell.’</p> + +<p>Norwich, Monday after St. Peter’s Day.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[As John Paston does not seem to have been in undisturbed possession of +Caister before 1462, and we have evidence of Richard Calle having been +there in that year about the time of year when this letter was written, +we may with great probability refer it to that year.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note46_2" id = "note46_2" href = +"#tag46_2">46.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter525" id = "letter525">525</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag47_1" id = "tag47_1" href = "#note47_1">47.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the right worshypful my right honourabyl mayster, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull sir, and my right +honourabill maister, I recomaund me to you in my most humble wyse, and +please your maistirship to wete that her is on Thomas Chapman, an evyl +disposyd man al wey ayens you, as I have informyd youre maistirship many +tymes, and now he hathe labouryd to my Lord Tresorer to subplante me, +and brought down wryghting from the Kyng and my Lord Tresorer; but or +hise wryting cam, Wydwell fond the meanys, be the supportacion of +Maistir Feen, that we had a discharge for hym out of the Chauncery; +wherfor the seyd Chapman proposyth to be at London in all haste, and to +avertise the Kyng and my Lord Tresorer ageyn me to the grettest hurt he +can imagyne. Wherfor I beseke youre maystirship, consedryng is evyl +disposecion to yow, and also the rather at my pore instaunce, that ye +lyke that my Lord Tresorer myght undyrstonde that the seyd Chapman is of +no reputacion, but evyl disposyd to brybory of straungers, and be colour +of hise office of supervisor of the searche shal gretly hurte the port. +The seyd Chapman supportors is Blakeney, clerk of the sygnet, and Avery +Cornburght, yoman of the Kynges chaumbre. He hathe here of Avereyes +xxiiij. tune wyn, whereof at the long wey he shal +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page48" id = "page48">48</a></span> +make the seyd Averey a lewd rekenyng. The seyd Chapman lovyth not you, +nor no man to yow wards, &c.</p> + +<p>Sir, I prey God brynge you onys to regne amongs youre cuntre men in +love, and to be dred. The lenger ye contynwe there the more hurt growyth +to you. Men sey ye will neyther folwe the avyse of youre owyn kynred, +nor of youre counsell, but contynwe your owyn wylfullnesse, whiche, but +grace be, shal be youre distrucion. It is my part to enfourme youre +maistirshyp as the comown voyse is, God betir it, and graunt yow onys +herts ease; for it is half a deth to me to here the generall voyse of +the pepyll, whiche dayli encreassyth, &c.</p> + +<p>Sir, I beseke youre maistirshyp to remembre my maystresse for the +lytil sylvir, whiche for serteyn thyngs delyverid to youre use is dewe +to me. I have nede of it now. I have bought salt and other +thyngs, whiche hathe brought me out of myche sylvir. I wold trust, +and I nedyd to borwe xx<i>li.</i>, your maistirshyp wold ease me for a +tyme, but thys that I desyre is myn owyn dute. And Jesu graunt yow ever +yowr herts desyre to youre worshyp and profyt, and preserve yow my right +honourabyll maister from all adversyte.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Jernemuthe, the xv. day of July. Here is a kervyl +[<i>carvel</i>] of Cane in Normandy, and he takyth Duchemen, and +raunsumyth hem grevously. +<span class = "signature">Yore servaunt and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Russe.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note47_1" id = "note47_1" href = +"#tag47_1">47.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 120.] The precise year in which this letter was written +is a little uncertain, but from the date and contents it would appear +that Russe was now in possession of the office which in <a href = +"#letter515">No. 515</a> he had asked Paston to procure for him; so that +it cannot be earlier than 1462.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter526" id = "letter526">526</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILLIAM PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag48_1" id = "tag48_1" href = "#note48_1">48.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To myn wurchipfull broder, Jon Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryththe</span> wurchipfull broder, I recomand +[me] to zow. Lekit it zow to wethe [<i>wit</i>], Jon of Dam is come to +towne, and purposit hym to tary here a day ar ij. ar longar, I can +thynk, and he be desyryd. Were fore I pray +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page49" id = "page49">49</a></span> +zow, and as I have afore this tyme desiryd zow the same, that suche +materis as hathe be comunyd now lathe be twyx myn moder, zow and hym, +may take some good conclucyon be twyx owre selff here at hom. And in myn +consayt, savyng zow better avyse, it were so most convenyent and +wurchipfull for us all, and comforthe to all owre fryndis. And for this +ententhe I wold tary here the lengar; for I wold be as glad as any man a +lyve that suche an ende mythe be take be twix us that iche off us all +schuld inyoy the wylleffar off odyr, qweche I trust with zowr good help +schall be rythe wyll, and I dowthe nat myn mastyr Markam wyll be will +plesyd thus.</p> + +<p>I have tydynges from London, and a monge odyr tydynges I have +knowlage that <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged: error for ‘Cristofre’?">Cirstofre</ins> Hanson is passid +to God on Saterday last past, at ij. of clok after mydnythe. It is good +to take hede there to, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, I sent to zow to have had zowre avyse qwat menys were best to +make for the mater towchyng the Lord Scrop, qwere in I had an answer, +but me thowthe it was not to the poynthe. I sopose, and I purposyd +to make the labore that ze sent me word I schuld do towchyng me, +I can thynk I schuld sone be answerid, meche sonar than he. +I must send some answer to hym, were in I wold have zowr consayll; +for he desirid the same, and I wold not he schold thynk that he were +forgotyn be us. +<span class = "signature">Be zowr pore broder,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">William Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I can thynk and he were here he wold be a feythfull frynd to zow; but +and so were that ze thowthe that it were for to labore for any oder man, +me thynkit it were for zow to remembre myn nevew. That were somewat +lykly, and there to wold I be glad to help and lene to the toder. For as +for me, I know so moche that sche will none have but iff he have, +ar be leke to have, meche more lond than I have; and iff I knewe the +contrary, it schuld nat be left for the labore, but I wold not be in a +folis paradyce, and ze be myn good brodir. I trust thow to do rythe +will, &c.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note48_1" id = "note48_1" href = +"#tag48_1">48.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The reference +to the death of Christopher Hanson proves this letter to have been +written in July 1462, as the precise date of his death is given in +<a href = "#letter528">Letter 528</a>.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">I have knowlage that Cirstofre Hanson is +passid</span><br> +text unchanged: error for “Cristofre”?</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page50" id = "page50">50</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter527" id = "letter527">527</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THOMAS PLAYTER TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag50_1" id = "tag50_1" href = "#note50_1">50.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rigth good maister, John Paston the oldest, beyng at Heylesdon, +besyde Norwiche, in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> your maistership wete that +Christofer Hanson is ded and beryed; and as for executor or testament, +he mad non.</p> + +<p>As for tydyngs, the Erles of Warrewyk, of Essex, Lord Wenlok, Bysshop +of Dereham, and other go in to Scotland of inbassat. And as for the sege +of Kaleys, we here no mor ther of, blyssed be God, ho have you in His +kepying.</p> + +<p>Item, as for Christofers papers that longeth to your tenants, +I have goten of William Worcester; and as for all the remnaunt of +Christofer good, William Worcester hath the reule as hym semeth most +convenient. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Thoms Playter.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note50_1" id = "note50_1" href = +"#tag50_1">50.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 124.] This letter, like the last, is dated by the letter +following.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter528" id = "letter528">528</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">PLAYTER TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag50_2" id = "tag50_2" href = "#note50_2">50.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my maister, John Paston, at Heylesdon.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote"><ins class = "correction" title = +"sidenote missing, but see first footnote">1462<br><span class = +"sidetext">JULY</span></ins></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Item</span>, plese you wete of other tytyngs. +These Lords in your other letter,<a class = "tag" name = "tag50_3" id = +"tag50_3" href = "#note50_3">50.3</a> with Lord Hastyngs and other, ben +to Karlyle to resseve in the Qwen of Scotts;<a class = "tag" name = +"tag50_4" id = "tag50_4" href = "#note50_4">50.4</a> and uppon this +appoyntement, Erle Duglas<a class = "tag" name = "tag50_5" id = +"tag50_5" href = "#note50_5">50.5</a> is comaunded to come thens, and as +a sorwefull and a sore rebuked man lyth in the Abbey +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page51" id = "page51">51</a></span> +of Seynt Albons; and by the said appoyntement schall not be reputed, nor +taken, but as an Englyssheman, and if he come in the daunger of Scotts, +they to sle hym.</p> + +<p>Item, Kyng Harry and his Aderents in Scotland schall be delyvered; +and Lord Dakres of the Northe is wonne and yelden, and the seid Lord, +Sir Richard Tunstall, and on Byllyngham in the said Castell ben taken +and heded.</p> + +<p>Item, the Qwen and Prince ben in Fraunce and ha mad moche weyes and +gret peple to com to Scotland and ther trust to have socour, and thens +to com in to Inglond: what schall falle I can not sey, but I herd that +these appoyntements were take by the yong Lords of Scotland, but not by +the old. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Plaiter.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Christofer dyed on the Satarday next be for Seynt Margret,<a class = +"tag" name = "tag51_1" id = "tag51_1" href = "#note51_1">51.1</a> Anno. +E. ij<sup>do.</sup></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note50_2" id = "note50_2" href = +"#tag50_2">50.2</a> +[From Fenn, i. 270.] This letter seems to have been penned immediately +after the last was sent off.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note50_3" id = "note50_3" href = +"#tag50_3">50.3</a> +<i>i.e.</i> the other letter to you—meaning <a href = +"#letter527">No. 527</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note50_4" id = "note50_4" href = +"#tag50_4">50.4</a> +Mary of Gueldres, widow of James <span class = +"smallroman">II.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note50_5" id = "note50_5" href = +"#tag50_5">50.5</a> +James, Earl of Douglas, who had been banished from Scotland, but was +made by Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> a Knight of the +Garter.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note51_1" id = "note51_1" href = +"#tag51_1">51.1</a> +St. Margaret’s Day was the 20th July. The Saturday before it in 1462 was +the 17th.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">1462 / JULY</span><br> +sidenote missing, but see first footnote</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter529" id = "letter529">529</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag51_2" id = "tag51_2" href = "#note51_2">51.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right honorabil and worshypfull maister, my Maister Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> it youre worshipfull maistyrshyp +to wete, that it is informyd me thys day scretly, that there is dyrected +out a commyssion to mayster Yelwyrton and maister Jenney, which shall +tomorwyr syttyn be vertu of the same at Seynt Oleffes;<a class = "tag" +name = "tag51_3" id = "tag51_3" href = "#note51_3">51.3</a> and the +substaunce of jentilmen and yemen of Lodyngland be assygned to be afore +the seyd commesyoners; and it is supposed it is for my maisters londs, +for as the seyd +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page52" id = "page52">52</a></span> +persone informyd me, the seyd comesyoners have been at Cotton, and there +entred, and holdyn a court. I can not informe youre maystyrship +that it is thus in serteyn, but thus it was told me, and desyryd me to +kepe it secret; but be cause I conseyve it is ageyn your maistyrship, it +is my part to geve you relacion thereof.</p> + +<p>I sende you a letter which cometh from Worcestyr<a class = "tag" name += "tag52_1" id = "tag52_1" href = "#note52_1">52.1</a> to my maister +youre brothyr. I wold ye undyrstod the intente of it, for as for +Worcester, I knowe well he is not good. Sum men ar besy to make +werre, for p’<a class = "tag" name = "tag52_2" id = "tag52_2" href = +"#note52_2">52.2</a> the absentyng of my maister, the parson comyth not +of hyse owyn mocyon, but I wold youre maistyrship knewe be whom it is +mevyd. I herd you never calle hym false pryst, be my trouth, nor +other language that is rehersyd hym, but Gode sende a good accord, for +of varyaunce comyth gret hurt of tyn tyme, and I beseche Jesu sende +youre maistyrship youre herts desyre, and amende hem that wold the +contrary.</p> + +<p>Sir, yesterevyn a man came from London, and he seyth, the Kyng cam to +London on Satyrday, and there dede make a proclamacion that all men that +were be twyx lx. and xvj. shuld be redy to wayte upon hym whan so ever +they were callyd; and it is seyd, that my Lord Warwyk had sent to the +Kyng, and informyd hyse Hyghnesse that the Lord Summyrset had wretyn to +hym to come to grace; but of the fleet of shyppis there is no tydings in +serteyn at London on Monday last past. +<span class = "signature">Youre bedman and servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Russe.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note51_2" id = "note51_2" href = +"#tag51_2">51.2</a> +[From Fenn, i. 260.] This letter must have been written in the year 1462 +before the Duke of Somerset was received into favour. Proclamations +similar to those mentioned in this letter were issued on the 6th March +1461 and the 11th May 1464; but neither of these can be the case +referred to. The coming of the King to London must have been in the +beginning of September 1462. He was in London on the 14th of that month, +and had been at Fotheringay on the 1st, as the dates of Privy Seals +inform us.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note51_3" id = "note51_3" href = +"#tag51_3">51.3</a> +St. Olave’s, in Suffolk.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note52_1" id = "note52_1" href = +"#tag52_1">52.1</a> +William Worcester.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note52_2" id = "note52_2" href = +"#tag52_2">52.2</a> +p’.—So in Fenn’s left-hand copy. The word seems to have been +ambiguous in the original <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span>, and is +rendered ‘<i>by</i>’ (in italics) in the modern version.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page53" id = "page53">53</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter530" id = "letter530">530</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR<a class = +"tag" name = "tag53_1" id = "tag53_1" href = +"#note53_1">53.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Shewyth</span> and lowly compleynith on to +your good Lordship John Paston, the older, Squier, that where Sir John +Fastolf, Knyght, cosyn to your seid besecher, was seasid of diveris +maners, londs, and tenements in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, the +xxvij. yere of Kyng Herre that was, and therof infeffid diveris persones +to execute and performe his will, and mad his will in especiall that a +college of vij. monks shuld be stabilisshed, founded, and indewed +withinne a plase late be the seid Sir John edified at Caster be the see +in Norfolk, and certeyn livelode to be immortesid<a class = "tag" name = +"tag53_2" id = "tag53_2" href = "#note53_2">53.2</a> therto, to prey for +his sowle, his faders and moders, in forme and maner as in his will mad +at that tyme more pleynly specifyth; whech will and feffment continued +till the xxxv. yere of the seid late Kyng. And aftir, upon divers +communicacions had be divers personis with the seid Sir John Fastolff, +and upon divers consideracions mevid to hym, the seid Sir John Fastolff +conceyvid that such be monkys hym there to be indewed shuld not be of +power to susteyne and kepe the seid plase edified, or the lond that +shuld be immortesid ther to, acordyng to his seid entent and will; +wherfore, and for good will that the seid Sir John Fastolff had to the +proferryng of your seid besecher mevyd hym to have the seid plase and +certeyn of his livelode of gretter valew than the charge of the seid +college schuld drawe, and to found the seid college and to bere the +reparacion and defens therof. Upon whech mocion the seid Sir John +Fastolff and your seid besecher apoynted be word withowt writyng at that +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page54" id = "page54">54</a></span> +tyme mad that your seid besecher shuld, aftir the decese of the seid Sir +John Fastolff, have the seid plase in Caster, and all the maners that +were the seid Sir John Fastolffs or any other to his use in Norfolk, +Suffolk, and Norwich, up trust that the same John Paston shuld founde +there a college of vij. monkes or prestes havyng a certeyn pension for +her sustentacion payid clerly in mony withowt any charge, cost, +reparacion, or joperde of defens of the seid plase or of any other +livelode to be bore be the seyd collegians, and more over to paye a +certeyn somme of mony of the revenews of the seid maners, londes and +tenementes to be disposid yerly be certeyn yeres for the sowle of the +seid Sir John Fastolff till the summe of v.<sup>ml.</sup> [5000] mark +were so disposed. Upon wech apoyntement it was acordyd be thwyx the seid +Sir John and your seid besecher, for as moch as your seid besecher had +non astate in the seid maners and londes and tenementes, that for his +more suerte, and upon trust that the seid Sir John had to your seid +besecher in this behalfe that a newe feffement shuld be mad of the seid +plase and of the maner of Caster, and all the seid maners, londs and +tenements to your seid besecher, and divers other personys to the use of +the seid Sir<a class = "tag" name = "tag54_1" id = "tag54_1" href = +"#note54_1">54.1</a> John, terme of his lif, and aftir his decese to the +use of your seid besecher. And moreover, for as moch as your seid +besecher was in dowte whedir God wold send hym tyme of life to execute +the seid apoyntement, intendyng that th’effect of the old purpose of the +seid Sir John Fastolff schuld not be all voyded, thow it so fortuned +your seid besecher cowd not performe the seid apoyntement, mevid the +seid Sir John Fastolff that, not withstandyng the seid apoyntement, that +he aftir the seid feffement mad shuld make his will for the seid +college, to be mad in all maner wise as thow the seid Sir John Fastolff +and your seid besecher shuld not make<a class = "tag" name = "tag54_2" +id = "tag54_2" href = "#note54_2">54.2</a> the seid apoyntement; and +that aftir that, the seid apoyntement to be ingrosid and made so that +the seid college shuld hold be the same apoyntement of your seid +besecher, and ellis this seid will of the seid Sir John +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page55" id = "page55">55</a></span> +Fastolff to stand in effect for executyng of his seid purpose. And sone +aftir this comunicacion and apoyntement the seid feffement was mad +acordynge, and season deliverid to your seid besecher at the seid plase +edified in Caster, as well as at the seid maners, londs, and tenements, +the seid Sir John Fastolff beyng present at delivery of season mad to +your seid besecher of the seid plase and maner of Caster, where the seid +Sir John, more largely expressyng the seid will and entent, deliverid +your seid besecher possession with his owne hands, declaryng to notabill +personys there the same feffement to be made to the use of the seid Sir +John as for terme of his lif only, and aftir his decese to the use of +your seid besecher and his heyrs; and divers tymes in divers yeres aftir +declared his entent in like wise to divers personys. And aftir, be gret +deliberacion and oft communicacion of the seid mater, the seid Sir John +Fastolff and your seid besecher comenauntyd<a class = "tag" name = +"tag55_1" id = "tag55_1" href = "#note55_1">55.1</a> and apoynted be +writyng thoroughly for the seid mater so that your seid besecher shuld +have the seid plase and all the seid maners, londs, and tenements in +Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, to hym and to his heyrs; and that he +shuld found a college of vij. monkes or prestes withinne the seid plase +perpetually as is before seid, and to pay iiij.<sup>ml.</sup> [4000] +mark to be disposed in certeyn yers for the sowle of the seid Sir John +Fastolff; the whech apoyntement declarid and red before the seid Sir +John Fastolff, be good deliberacion was be the seid Sir John fully +concludid, agreyd and stabilisshid for his last will in that +behalve.</p> + +<p>And also the seid comenauntes and apoyntementes eftsonis callid to +remembraunce be the seid Sir John Fastolff, the same Sir John, for +certeyn consideracions movyng hym, be his word, withowt writyng, +dischargid your seid besecher of the seid somme of iiij.<sup>ml.</sup> +mark, desiryng hym so to ordeyne that ich of the seid monkes or prestes +shull yerly have as the prestes of the chauntry of Heylesdon had, and +that vij. pore men shull also be founde yerly in the seid plase +inperpetuite to pray for the sowles above sayd.</p> + +<p>[And aftir, that is to sey the Satirday, Sonday, and Monday +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page56" id = "page56">56</a></span> +next before the decese of the seid Sir John, the same Sir John, +remembryng divers maters and intents in his mynd necessary for the wele +of his sowle, wheche were not expressid in the seid will and +apoyntement, nowther in his testament, and that he wold have one will +mad and wrete conteynyng the seid apoyntements, as well as the seid +other maters not declarid in his intent and will acordyng, comaundid to +have it so ingrosid and wrete.]<a class = "tag" name = "tag56_1" id = +"tag56_1" href = "#note56_1">56.1</a> And where your seid besecher hath +don his part acordyng to the will and apoyntements of the seid Sir John, +as well in fyndyng of the seid prestes and pore men as in all other +thyngs that to hym belongyth to do in that behalfe; and, this not with +standyng, William Yelverton, Knyght, and William Jenney, whech be +infeffid joyntly with your seid besecher in divers of the seid maners, +londs and tenements, have<a class = "tag" name = "tag56_2" id = +"tag56_2" href = "#note56_2">56.2</a> mad a sympill entre in all the +seid maners in Suffolk, and chargid the baylifs, fermors, and tenaunts +of all the seid maners to pay hem the profitez and revenews of the same +maners, londs, and tenements; and thus, contrary to th’entent of the +seid feffement, and contrary to the will of the seid Sir John Fastolff, +thei trobill and lette your seid besecher to take the profitez of the +seid maners, londs, and tenements; of whech your seid besecher hath no +remedy at the comen lawe. Wherfore please your good and gracious +Lordship to direct severall writts of subpena to the seid William and +William, chargyng hem severally upon a peyne convenient to appere before +your Lordship in the Chauncery at a certeyn day be your Lordship to be +limityd, to answer to these premisses, and to do as right and consiens +requirith. And your seid besecher shall pray God for yow.</p> + +<div class = "annotation"> +<p class = "center"> +<i>The following article is added in the first copy with many +corrections:</i>—</p> + +<p>And aftir, late before the discese of the seid Sir John Fastolff, he +wold and ordeynid that on wryting shuld be mad of the fundacion of the +seid college aftir the forme of the seid apoyntement mad with your seid +besecher, and of diverses othir articles conteynid in his seid former +willes, not conserning the seyd colegge and also of divers maters wheche +he remembrid necessary for the wele of his sowle, that were nevir +expressid in writyng before, joyntly to geder expressyng his hole and +inter and last will and intent in all.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note53_1" id = "note53_1" href = +"#tag53_1">53.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This is a +draft bill in Chancery prepared by John Paston with a view to the +commencement of a suit against Yelverton and Jenney for their entry into +the manor of Cotton and other lands of Sir John Fastolf in Suffolk. The +document may have been drawn up in the latter part of the year 1461; but +from the contents of the preceding letter it is not unlikely to have +been a year later. Two copies of this document exist, with the very same +corrections and interlineations in both.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note53_2" id = "note53_2" href = +"#tag53_2">53.2</a> +Amortized, or granted in mortmain.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note54_1" id = "note54_1" href = +"#tag54_1">54.1</a> +‘Sir.’—This word is omitted in the first copy.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note54_2" id = "note54_2" href = +"#tag54_2">54.2</a> +‘Shuld not make.’—These words are interlined in place of the word +‘left,’ which is erased.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note55_1" id = "note55_1" href = +"#tag55_1">55.1</a> +So spelt in both copies.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note56_1" id = "note56_1" href = +"#tag56_1">56.1</a> +The clause between brackets is cancelled in the first copy.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note56_2" id = "note56_2" href = +"#tag56_2">56.2</a> +This word is interlined in the second copy only.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page57" id = "page57">57</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter531" id = "letter531">531</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag57_1" id = "tag57_1" href = "#note57_1">57.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right honourabyl and worshypfull maister, my Maister John +Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plese</span> your worshypfull maistership to +wette, here is a ship of Hith, wyche seith that John Cole cam from the +west cost on Wednysday last past; and he seyth that the fleet of shippis +of this londe met with lx. seile of Spanyards, Brettenys, and +Frenshemen, and there tok of hem l. [50], wherof xij. shyppys were as +gret as the <i>Grace de Dewe</i>; and there is slayn on thys partyes the +Lords Clynton<a class = "tag" name = "tag57_2" id = "tag57_2" href = +"#note57_2">57.2</a> and Dakyr,<a class = "tag" name = "tag57_3" id = +"tag57_3" href = "#note57_3">57.3</a> and many jentilmen juve (?)<a +class = "tag" name = "tag57_4" id = "tag57_4" href = +"#note57_4">57.4</a> and othyr, the nombre of iiij.<sup>ml.</sup> +[4000]; and the seid Spanyards were purposyd with marchaundise in to +Flaundres. My Lord of Warwyks shyp, the <i>Mary Grace</i> and the +<i>Trenyte</i>, hadde the grettest hurt, for they wer formost. God send +grace, thys be trew. On Thursday last past at London was no tydings in +serteyn where the flet was, nor what they had doon, and therfore I fere +the tydings the more.</p> + +<p>Item, sir, as for tydings at London, ther were arystyd be the +tresorer xl. seyles lyeng in Temse, wherof many smale shyppis; and it is +seyd it is to carye men to Caleyse in all haste, for feer of the Kyng of +Fraunce for a sege. And it was told me secretly there were CC. in +Caleyse sworn contrary to the Kyngs well, and for defaute of there +wages; and that Qwen Marget was redy at Boleyn with myche sylver to paye +the soudyers, in cas they wold geve here entresse. Many men be gretly +aferd of thys mater, and so the tresorer hath mych to do for thys +cause.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page58" id = "page58">58</a></span> +<p>Item, sir, as for tydings out of Ireland, ther wer many men at London +at the feyre of the contres next them of Ireland, and they sey thys iij. +wyks came there neythyr shyp nor boot out of Irelond to bryng no +tydings; and so it semyth there is myche to doo there be the Erle of +Pembrook.<a class = "tag" name = "tag58_1" id = "tag58_1" href = +"#note58_1">58.1</a> And it is seyd that the Kyng shuld be at London as +on Satyrday or Sonday last past, and men deme that he wold to Caleyse +hym selfe; for the soudyors are so wyld there, that they wyll not lette +in ony man but the Kynge or my Lord Warwyk.</p> + +<p>Othyr tydings the were come to London, but they were not publyshyd; +but John Wellys shal abyde a day the lenger to know what they are.</p> + +<p>No mere un to you, my right honourable maister, at thys tyme, but +Jesu send yow youre herts desyre, and amende hem that wold the contrary. +<span class = "signature">Your bedman and conty[n]wal servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Russe.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note57_1" id = "note57_1" href = +"#tag57_1">57.1</a> +[From Fenn, i. 262.] This letter was evidently written not very long +after <a href = "#letter529">No. 529</a>. The fleet mentioned here and +in that letter is that referred to in the preliminary note to <a href = +"#letter518">No. 518</a>, <a href = "#note41_1">p. 41, +Note 1</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note57_2" id = "note57_2" href = +"#tag57_2">57.2</a> +John, Lord Clinton. The rumour was false, as he was summoned to +Parliament in 1463. Nicolas supposes he died about 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note57_3" id = "note57_3" href = +"#tag57_3">57.3</a> +Richard Fynes, Lord Dacre of the South, who was Lord Clinton’s +father-in-law. He did not really die till 1484.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note57_4" id = "note57_4" href = +"#tag57_4">57.4</a> +This word, Fenn says, is doubtful in the original <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note58_1" id = "note58_1" href = +"#tag58_1">58.1</a> +Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, half-brother to Henry <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter532" id = "letter532">532</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON, JUNIOR, TO HIS FATHER<a class = +"tag" name = "tag58_2" id = "tag58_2" href = +"#note58_2">58.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth reverent and worchepfull fadyr, John Paston, be thys +delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. 1</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> reverent and worchepfull fadyr, I +recomand me on to yow, beseechyng yow lowly of your blyssyng. Plesyt you +to have knowlage that my Lord<a class = "tag" name = "tag58_3" id = +"tag58_3" href = "#note58_3">58.3</a> is purposyd to send for my Lady, +and is lyke to kepe his Crystmas here in Walys, for the Kyng hathe +desyered hym to do the same. Wherfor I beseche yow that [ye]<a class = +"tag" name = "tag58_4" id = "tag58_4" href = "#note58_4">58.4</a> wole +wychesave to send me sume mony by the berer herof; for, in good feythe, +as it is not on knowyng to yow that I had but ij. noblys in my purse, +whyche that Rychard Call took me by your +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page59" id = "page59">59</a></span> +comandement, when I departyd from yow owt of Norwyche. The berer herof +schuld bye me a gowne with pert of the mony, if it plese yow to delyver +hym as myche mony as he may bye it with; for I have but on gowne at +Framyngham and an other here, and that is my levere gowne, and we must +were hem every day for the mor part, and one gowne withowt change wyll +sone be done.</p> + +<p>As for tydyngs, my Lord of Warwyk yed forward in to Scotland as on +Saterday<a class = "tag" name = "tag59_1" id = "tag59_1" href = +"#note59_1">59.1</a> last past with xx.<sup>ml.</sup> [20,000] men; and +Syr Wylliam Tunstale is tak with the garyson of Bamborowth, and is lyke +to be hedyd, and by the menys of Sir Rychard Tunstale<a class = "tag" +name = "tag59_2" id = "tag59_2" href = "#note59_2">59.2</a> is owne +brodyr.</p> + +<p>As sone as I here any more tydyngys, I schall send hem yow by the +grace of God, who have yow in Hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast, at the Castle +of the Holte,<a class = "tag" name = "tag59_3" id = "tag59_3" href = +"#note59_3">59.3</a> upon Halowmas Daye. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and lowly servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">J. Paston</span>, +Junior.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note58_2" id = "note58_2" href = +"#tag58_2">58.2</a> +[From Fenn, i. 266.] In the month of October 1462, as we learn from +William Worcester, Margaret of Anjou came out of France, whither she had +fled in spring, with a force of 2000 men, landed on the coast of +Northumberland, and laid siege to Bamborough, which she took and placed +in the keeping of the Duke of Somerset.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note58_3" id = "note58_3" href = +"#tag58_3">58.3</a> +The Duke of Norfolk.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note58_4" id = "note58_4" href = +"#tag58_4">58.4</a> +Omitted in original.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note59_1" id = "note59_1" href = +"#tag59_1">59.1</a> +30th October.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note59_2" id = "note59_2" href = +"#tag59_2">59.2</a> +Sir Richard Tunstal was on Queen Margaret’s side, while his brother +William, it seems, was on that of King Edward.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note59_3" id = "note59_3" href = +"#tag59_3">59.3</a> +In Denbighshire.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter533" id = "letter533">533</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGEST TO JOHN PASTON THE +ELDER<a class = "tag" name = "tag59_4" id = "tag59_4" href = +"#note59_4">59.4</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepful brodyr John Paston, the elder, sone of John +Paston, Esquyer, be thys delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +11</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull brodedyr, I recomaunde +me to yow. Plesyt yow to wet, that as thys day we had tydyngs here, that +the Scottys wyll come in to Inglend with in vij. days aftyr the wrytyng +of thys lettyr, for to rescue these iij. castellys, Alnewyk, +Donsamborowe<a class = "tag" name = "tag59_5" id = "tag59_5" href = +"#note59_5">59.5</a> and Bameborowe, whyche castellys wer besegyd, as on +yesterdaye. And at the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page60" id = "page60">60</a></span> +sege of Allnewyk lythe my Lord of Kent and the Lord Scalys; and at +Donsameborow castyll lythe the Erle of Wyrcetyr [and] Syr Rafe Grey; and +at the castyll of Bameborow lythe the Lord Montagwe and Lord Ogyll, and +othyr dyvers Lordys and gentylmen that I knowe not; and ther is to hem +owt of Newe Castyll ordynans inowe, bothe for the segys and for the +feld, in cas that ther be ony feld takyn, as I trow there shall none be +not yet, for the Scottys kepe no promes. My Lord of Warwyk lythe at the +castyll of Warcorthe, but iij. myle owt of Alnewyk, and he rydyth dayly +to all thes castelys for to overse the segys; and if they want vataylys, +or any othyr thyng, he is redy to pervey it for them to hys power. The +Kyng comandyd my Lord of Norfolk<a class = "tag" name = "tag60_1" id = +"tag60_1" href = "#note60_1">60.1</a> for to condyth vetaylys and the +ordynans owt of New Castyll on to Warcorthe Castyll, to my Lord of +Warwyk; and so my Lord of Norfolk comandyd Syr John Howard, Syr William +Peche, Syr Robert Chamberlyen, Rafe Ascheton and me, Calthorp and Gorge, +and othyr, for to go forthe with the vytalys and ordynans on to my Lord +of Warwyk; and so we wer with my Lord of Warwyk with the ordynans and +vytalys yesterdaye. The Kyng lythe at Durham, and my Lord of Norfolk at +New Castyll. We have pepyll inow here. In cas we abyd here, I pray +you purvey that I may have here more mony by Crystmas Evyn at the +ferthest, for I may get leve for to send non of my wagyd men home ageyn; +ne man can get no leve for to go home but if they stell a wey, and if +they myth be knowe, they schuld be scharply ponyschyd. Mak as merry as +ye can, for ther is no joperte toward not yet. And ther be any joperte, +I schall sone send yow word, by the grase of God. I wot well +ye have more tydyngys then we have here, but thes be true tydyngs.</p> + +<p>Yelverton and Jeney ar lek for to be gretly ponyschyd, for because +they came not hedyr to the Kyng. They ar morkyn [<i>marked</i>] well +inowe, and so is John Bylyngforthe and Thomas Playter; wherefor I am +ryth sory. I pray yow let them have wetyng therof, that they may +purvey their excuse +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page61" id = "page61">61</a></span> +in hast, so that the Kyng may have knowlage why that they come not to +hym in ther one personys; let them come or send ther excuse to me in +wrytyng, and I schall purvey that the Kyng schall have knowlage of ther +excuse; for I am well aqueyntyd with my Lord Hastyngys, and my Lord +Dakarys,<a class = "tag" name = "tag61_1" id = "tag61_1" href = +"#note61_1">61.1</a> whyche be now gretest abowt the Kyngys person; and +also I am well aqueyntyd with the yonger Mortymere, Fererys, Hawte, +Harpor, Crowmer, and Bosewell, of the Kyngys howse.</p> + +<p>I pray yow let my grandam<a class = "tag" name = "tag61_2" id = +"tag61_2" href = "#note61_2">61.2</a> and my cosyn Clere<a class = "tag" +name = "tag61_3" id = "tag61_3" href = "#note61_3">61.3</a> have +knowlage how that I desyryd you to let hem have knowlage of the tydyngys +in thys letyr, for I promysyd for to send them tydyngs.</p> + +<p>I pray yow let my modyr<a class = "tag" name = "tag61_4" id = +"tag61_4" href = "#note61_4">61.4</a> have cnowelage how that I, and my +felawscep, and your servauntys ar, at the wrytyng of this lettyr, in +good hell, blesyd be God.</p> + +<p>I pray yow let my fadyr have knowlage of thys lettyr, and of the +todyr lettyr that I sent to my modyr by Felbryggys man; and how that I +pray bothe hym and my modyr lowly of her blyssyngys.</p> + +<p>I pray yow that ye wole send me some lettyr how ye do, and of your +tydyngys with yow, for I thynk longe that I here no word fro my modyr +and yow.</p> + +<p>I pray yow that thys bill may recomand me to my systyr Margery, and +to my mastres Jone Gayne, and to all gode mastyrys and felawys within +Castyr. I sent no lettyr to my fadyr, never syn I departyd fro yow, +for I kowd get no man to London, and never sythe.</p> + +<p>I pray yow in cas ye spake with my cosyn Margaret Clere, recomande me +to hyr; and Almythy God have yow in Hys kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Newcastyll on Saterday next aftyr the Consepsion of owyr +Lady. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">John Paston</span>, +the Yongest.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I pray yow let Rychard Call se thys lettyr.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note59_4" id = "note59_4" href = +"#tag59_4">59.4</a> +[From Fenn, i. 272.] The sieges mentioned in this letter took place, +according to Warkworth, in December of the <i>first</i> year of Edward +<span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, <i>i.e.</i> 1461; but according +to William Worcester in 1462. The dates of the Privy Seal writs prove +that the latter is right, and that Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> was at Durham in December 1462.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note59_5" id = "note59_5" href = +"#tag59_5">59.5</a> +Dunstanborough.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note60_1" id = "note60_1" href = +"#tag60_1">60.1</a> +John Mowbray, who succeeded his father in the dukedom of Norfolk in +1461. He was at this time only eighteen years of age.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note61_1" id = "note61_1" href = +"#tag61_1">61.1</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#note57_3">p. 57, Note 3</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note61_2" id = "note61_2" href = +"#tag61_2">61.2</a> +Agnes Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note61_3" id = "note61_3" href = +"#tag61_3">61.3</a> +Elizabeth, widow of Robert Clere of Ormesby.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note61_4" id = "note61_4" href = +"#tag61_4">61.4</a> +Margaret Paston.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page62" id = "page62">62</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter534" id = "letter534">534</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[JOHN] PASTON TO [THE DUKE OF SUFFOLK]<a class = +"tag" name = "tag62_1" id = "tag62_1" href = +"#note62_1">62.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462-3</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">That</span> it please my lordis good grase to +be good lord and supporter of Paston in his right and possession of the +maner till his right can be lawfully or be trete dispreved by his +adversaries, consideryng that the said Paston is my lordis homager and +was nevir ayens his lordship and that my lord is not gretly behold to do +for the seid Pastons adversaries as he understandith.</p> + +<p>And in case my lord woll not supporte the seid Paston in his right +but be indifferent athwyx bothe parties, that thanne it please my lorde +to have consideracion to the right of the mater as folowyth in articles +and ther upon to be remembird whedir it be resonably desired by William +Jenney or by Debenham as his waged man or for his sake that Paston shuld +leve the possession or the takyng of the profitez of the seid maner.</p> + +<p>First to be remembird that the seid maner aswell as the maner of +Nakton were Sir John Fastolffis, and that the seid Paston of the seid +maners toke estatis at Cotton and attornement of the tenauntis viij. or +ix. yere goo, in such wise as the tenauntes can reporte, and continued +there in possession aswell in the live of the seid Sir John as sithen, +and hath take the profitez therof sith the discese of the said Fastolff, +except for the terme of Mighelmes a yere passed, whech tyme the +tenauntes were compellid by fors of distresses to pay ayens ther willes +part of the seid profitez.</p> + +<p>And that also the title of the seid Paston to the seid maner is not +all only by the seid feffement but aswell by a graunt and bargeyn made a +thwyx the seid Fastolff and the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page63" id = "page63">63</a></span> +seid Paston as by the last will of the seid Fastolff, where by the seid +Paston ought to take the hole profitez of the seid maner, and also it is +lefull to the seid Paston to kepe the seid maner with fors, consideryng +he hath be in possession iij. yere and more; hough be it, the seid +Paston intendyth to kepe the seid maner pesibly and non otherwise. And +that the pretense and cleyme of the seid Jenney is that he schuld be +infeffed with the seid Paston in the seid maner; by whech pretense, if +it were trewe, yet the seid Paston by reason shuld not be put out of the +seid maner, for who som evir had titell therto by feffement or by +executrie, Paston shuld be on that had title; hough be it, the seid +Paston cleymyth not in that forme, but by the titell of his bargeyne and +by the seid Fastolffis will.</p> + +<p>Item, to be remembird, whech tyme as my lord had wretyn his lettirs +and sent his servauntes for the eyde and supporte of the seid Paston to +take the profitez of the seid maner of Nakton as of the maner of Cotton, +desyryng the tenauntes to the seid Paston, the seid Jenney wold have no +consideracion therto; hough be it, though he were a feffe he had no +titell to take the seid profitez, consideryng he is non executor, but +presumptuously, havyng no consideracion to my lordis lettir ner sendyng, +compellid the tenauntis by distresses to pay hym more besely thanne any +feffe or executor, and now at this same tyme hath be at Nakton and +reseyvid as moch mony as he coud gader there.</p> + +<p>Item, where at Mighelmesse the yere passed the seid Paston sent his +sone, a servaunt of my Lordis, and also Richard Calle, servaunt to +the seid Paston put to hym by my Lordis fader,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag63_1" id = "tag63_1" href = "#note63_1">63.1</a> to reseyve the +profitez of the seid maner as thei had do many yeres before, the seid +Jenney ded arest the seid Calle for a thef and as a thef caried hym to +th’entent that the tenauntes shuld be discoraged to pay the seid Paston. +Whech tyme, at the request of the said Calles kynred, it pleased my lord +to write to the seid Jenney and Debenham +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page64" id = "page64">64</a></span> +for the deliverauns of the seid Calle; to which letteris they nouther +toke hede nor reputation, but by that sotilte reseyved the profitez of +the seid maner, the seid Paston havyng non help by my seid Lordis +writyng nor sendyng.</p> + +<p>Wherfore please my Lordis good lordship to supporte the seid Paston +in kepyng of his right and possession till it be dispreved or knowe +onlawfull, and the seid Paston will applye to such meanes as it pleasith +my Lord to take wherby the right of the mater may be undirstond and +determined.</p> + +<p>And also that it like my lord to remembir that it is not behofefull +for any prinse lightly to geve trust or to applye to the desires of any +persones that have geve hym cause of mistrust.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note62_1" id = "note62_1" href = +"#tag62_1">62.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 182.] This +petition must have been drawn up at the end of 1462 or in the beginning +of 1463, which would be considered still 1462 in the old computation. It +must have been fully three years after Fastolf’s death, which took place +on the 5th November 1459, and the imprisonment of Richard Calle in 1461 +(<i>see</i> No. 487) is referred to as +having taken place ‘at Michaelmas the year past.’ The nobleman to whom +the petition is addressed seems to be the Duke of Suffolk.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note63_1" id = "note63_1" href = +"#tag63_1">63.1</a> +William de la Pole, the unfortunate Duke of Suffolk, murdered in 1450. +It is a piece of information which we do not meet with elsewhere, that +Richard Calle entered the service of the Pastons by this duke’s +recommendation.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter535" id = "letter535">535</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON]<a class = "tag" +name = "tag64_1" id = "tag64_1" href = "#note64_1">64.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +14</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomand</span> me to yow and have +reseyvid your lettir, which causith me to write in the lettir that I +send to yow, Daubeney and Richard Calle, certeyn articles touchyng the +rewle of myn hows and myn livelode, as ye shall undirstand whanne ye see +hem. Also, I send yow in the same lettir a bille of all the malt +that remaynd at Mighelmes. I suppose ye have non such of it. +Nevirthelesse it had be convenient it had be had amongis your servauntis +and yow. Also I woll that ze warne both Daubeney and Richard Calle that +thei disclose nat what malt I have, ne what I shall selle, ne that on +marchant knowe nat what an other hath, for ther is gret spies leid her +at London for ingrosers of malt to heyghne the prise; hough be it myne +is not but of myn owne growyng and my tenauntis.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page65" id = "page65">65</a></span> +<p>Also I lete zow wete, I faile mony here and must nedys have up mony +at this tyme for sped of my maters, so that it may come up savely whanne +James Gresham and other attornes come up at the begynnyng of this terme, +with whom Richard Calle may come the same tyme. And peraventure some +trusty carier . . . at this tyme; and +with hym myght some mony come trussid in some fardell, not knowynge to +the carier that it is no mony but some other clothe or vestement of silk +or thyng of charge. Wherfore take avise of such as ye trust, and purvey +that I may have up at this tyme j. c. <i>li.</i> of gold after the old +coynage and xx<i>li.</i> in grotes.</p> + +<p>Item, if I<a class = "tag" name = "tag65_1" id = "tag65_1" href = +"#note65_1">65.1</a> myght have sur cariage, I wold have heder all the +gylt plate that Richard Calle leyd up, he can tell wer and I trowe ye +know also; and ij. potell pottis and a resting iron of silver (?) lyth +at the same place, for it shuld<a class = "tag" name = "tag65_2" id = +"tag65_2" href = "#note65_2">65.2</a> stand me in gret stoher if it +mygth be do closly and suerly. Item, take trew men of yowr counsel.</p> + +<p>Wret the morwe next after Sent Hillary.</p> + +<p>Item leve a bill indorcid what ye take awey if ye take any. +<span class = "signature">Your own, &c.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note64_1" id = "note64_1" href = +"#tag64_1">64.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 183.] The <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span> of this letter is a rough draft in John +Paston’s hand, and there can be no doubt to whom it was addressed. As to +the year in which it was written there is no positive evidence; but +Daubeney and Calle were both with Margaret Paston in the beginning of +1463 (<i>see</i> <a href = "#letter536">No. 536</a>), and the only thing +against that date is that Margaret, writing to her husband (then in +London) on the 19th, acknowledges only a letter of the 9th. This, +however, might well be owing to the disturbed state of the country, or +it may be that the present letter, which is only a draft, was not really +despatched.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note65_1" id = "note65_1" href = +"#tag65_1">65.1</a> +‘Item, I I,’ <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note65_2" id = "note65_2" href = +"#tag65_2">65.2</a> +‘Shuld shul,’ <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter536" id = "letter536">536</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag65_3" id = "tag65_3" href = "#note65_3">65.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worchepful hosbond, John Paston, be this letter deliveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +19</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worchepfull hosbond, I recommand +me to you. Please you to wete that I received a letter frome you on the +Sonday<a class = "tag" name = "tag65_4" id = "tag65_4" href = +"#note65_4">65.4</a> next after Twelfthe day, weche was sent be a prest +of Seynt Gregorys paryche of Norwic; and wher as ye mervaylyd I sent you +no wrytynggs of suche letters as ye sent me be for, I sent you a +answer of the substauns of suche +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page66" id = "page66">66</a></span> +maters as ye have wretyn of me be for (be Playter), the weche he +told me a sent hem to you to London. And as towchyng the erands that ye +sent to me for to do to Richard Calle, I have do as ye command me +to do, and callyd upon hym therfor, bothe be for your writyng and +sithyn; he thar have non excuse for defaute of leyser, for he hathe be +but ryght litill her syn ye departyd hens. He is owght at this tyme, and +whan that he comythe home I shall make hym make yow a cler bylle of the +receyt of your lyvelod, and Fastolf bothe; and I shale send yow a cler +bylle of my receyts, and also of my payments owght thereof ageyn; and as +for suche erands that shuld be do to Sir Thomas Howys, I have +shewyd Richard Calle your writyng, and told hym your entent, as for +suche thyngs as ye wold he shuld sey to hym on hys none heed. Also I +have do your erands to my moder and to my cosyn Cler<a class = "tag" +name = "tag66_1" id = "tag66_1" href = "#note66_1">66.1</a> after your +writyng. Item, I have spoke to John Adam and to Playter of your +entent of the last bylle that ye sent me, and they sey they wolle do +after your entent as moche as they may, and ye shall have a answer +therof in hast.</p> + +<p>Item, Sir Robert Coniors dinid with me this day, and shuyd me a +letter that came frome the Kyng to hym, desyryng hym that he shuld a +wayt upon hys welle be lovyd broder the Duke of Suffolk, at Norwiche, on +Monday next comyng, for to be at the alection of knyghts of the chyer +[<i>shire</i>]; and he told me that every jentylman of Norffolk and +Suffolk that arne of any repetacion hathe writyng from the Kyng in lyke +wyse as he had. I felle hym be his seyyng that he ys right welle +disposyd to you ward; he seythe ther shall no man make hym to be a geyns +you in no mater. Skypwith shall telle you suche tydyngs as bethe in this +contre, and of Thomas Gornay and of his man; hym self is clerk convicte, +and hys man is hangyn; ye shall here her after what they and oder wer +purposyd to a do to her master.</p> + +<p>I thank you hertely of your writyng to me be for that John Paston +came home, for God knowith I thowght right longe tyle I hard frome you; +I shalle send word in writyng of suche tydings as we have her on +Monday in hast. Daubeney +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page67" id = "page67">67</a></span> +deseyryht to wet what tyme that it please you that he shuld come ageyn +to you.</p> + +<p>My moder and many other folkys makyth moche of your son John, the +elder, and right glad of hys comyng hom, and lekyth reght welle hys +demenyng. Heydon<a class = "tag" name = "tag67_1" id = "tag67_1" href = +"#note67_1">67.1</a> son hathe bor owght the syyd stowtly her this +Critstemes, and whan that he rydyth, he hathe iiij. or v. men with hym +in a clothyng; but he hathe but lytyl fafor in this contre but yf +[<i>unless</i>] it be of the Bischop<a class = "tag" name = "tag67_2" id += "tag67_2" href = "#note67_2">67.2</a> and of the Prior of Norwic.<a +class = "tag" name = "tag67_3" id = "tag67_3" href = +"#note67_3">67.3</a> The seyd prior hathe grauntyd hym the stewerdchep +that hys feder had<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +</span>he hathe it under the Covent Seals, and Spylman,<a class = "tag" +name = "tag67_4" id = "tag67_4" href = "#note67_4">67.4</a> his tutor, +to lerne hym howe he shuld be demenyd<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +</span>it is seyd abowght Bakynstorp that Herry Heydon shuld a seyd that +it wer welle do that men of the<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +</span>shuld make redy her [<i>their</i>] bald batts<a class = "tag" +name = "tag67_5" id = "tag67_5" href = "#note67_5">67.5</a> and her clot +shon<a class = "tag" name = "tag67_6" id = "tag67_6" href = +"#note67_6">67.6</a> and go feche hom her knygts of chyer +[<i>shire</i>]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>Barney; and it is promysyd hym that he shall +be met with be cause of hys langage<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . </span>us a good world and a pesybyll. I shall +purvey for all thyngs that ye have sent to me for, so that I ween ye +shal be pleasyd. The blyssyd Trinite have you in Hys kepyng. Wretyn in +hast, the Wednysday next<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>Seynt Agnet. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note65_3" id = "note65_3" href = +"#tag65_3">65.3</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 150.] This letter refers to a coming election of knights +of the shire, which seems to be for the Parliament which met on the 29th +April 1463. No other general election of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>’s time will suit the date, and it is quite +certain that it was written during Edward’s reign.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note65_4" id = "note65_4" href = +"#tag65_4">65.4</a> +9th January.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note66_1" id = "note66_1" href = +"#tag66_1">66.1</a> +Elizabeth, widow of Robert Clere of Ormesby.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_1" id = "note67_1" href = +"#tag67_1">67.1</a> +This must be Henry, son of John Heydon, Esq., Recorder of +Norwich.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_2" id = "note67_2" href = +"#tag67_2">67.2</a> +Walter Lyhert, Bishop from 1445 to 1472.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_3" id = "note67_3" href = +"#tag67_3">67.3</a> +John Molet or Mowth, Prior from 1453 to 1471.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_4" id = "note67_4" href = +"#tag67_4">67.4</a> +Henry Spilman, afterwards Recorder of Norwich; he was the founder of the +Spilmans of Narborough, by marrying Ela, daughter and heir of William de +Narborough.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_5" id = "note67_5" href = +"#tag67_5">67.5</a> +<i>Bald batts</i> seem to mean here ball bats, or bats to play at ball +with.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note67_6" id = "note67_6" href = +"#tag67_6">67.6</a> +<i>Clot shon</i>, clouted shoes—shoes shod with thin plates of +iron.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter537" id = "letter537">537</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag67_7" id = +"tag67_7" href = "#note67_7">67.7</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Thomas Playter to John Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN.</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Please your maistership wete, that as for my Lord of Norwich cosyns +deth, Thomas Gurneys man hath confessed that he slewe hym by +commaundment of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page68" id = "page68">68</a></span> +his maister, and confessed over that the same dager he slewe hym with, +he kest it in a sege [<i>a jakes</i>] whiche is founden and taken +up al to-bowyd [<i>bent together</i>], for he cowde not breke it, and in +prison is bothe he and his maister.</p> + +<p class = "center"><span class = "twospace">. . . . . . . .</span></p> + +<p>Also on Thursday next after Cristemasse was a man slayn, by whom no +man woot, nor what he is that was slayn no man knowe, his face is so +mangled.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note67_7" id = "note67_7" href = +"#tag67_7">67.7</a> +These extracts are quoted by Fenn from a letter now lost, in reference +to what is said in the last letter about Thomas Gurney and his man.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter538" id = "letter538">538</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag68_1" id = "tag68_1" href = "#note68_1">68.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght reverent and wurschip<em>[</em>full<em>]</em> mayster, my +Mayster John Paston in the Ynner Temple at London.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">[FEB.]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> your goode maystrechip to witte +that ther comen doune to the undrescheryff of Norwiche, a writte to +a tache Mr. John P. the yongere, wherof I sende you a copy closed herin, +but they woll not a reeste hym within Norwich; but I undrestande ther is +comen an other writte to the undrescheryff of Norfolk bothe for hym and +me, and for all thoo that ben indyghted. Wherfore I purpose me to ride +to Hoonyng to the scheryff thys day, to undrestande how he is disposed, +and to desire hym to shewe favour to your pore tenaunts; and as I feele +hym disposed I schall send your maystreship answer.</p> + +<p>And as for tidyngs here in this contre, we have noon but that ther be +many Frenchemen upon the see and do moche answer upon the coosts. Mr. +Yelver[ton] knew of the comyng up of the <i>teste</i> within ij. dayes +after they were goon, &c. My ryght reverent and wurschipful maystre, +the blissed Trinite preserve and kepe and ferther you in all your +maters.</p> + +<p>Sir William Wyllugby whas at Risynge Castell, and yesterday he come +home a yenne. On Tentale hathe entred in to a parte of Felbregge +lyvelod, and a corte holden, and the tenaunts retorned. Item, as for the +cort that Deben[ham] schuld holde at Calcot we here not of it.</p> + +<p class = "signature">Your pore servaunt and bedman, R. C.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page69" id = "page69">69</a></span> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Rex vi[ce]comitibus Norwici, salutem. Præcepimus vobis quod capiatis +Johannem Paston juniorem, nuper de Norwico, armigerum, si inventus +fuerit in balliva vestra, et eum salvo custodiatis, ita quod habeatis +corpus ejus coram nobis a die Paschæ in unum mensem ubicunque tunc +fuerimus in Anglia, ad respondendum nobis de quibusdam feloniis et +transgressionibus unde in comitatu nostro Suffolchiæ indictatus est. Et +si prædictus Johannes in balliva vestra inveniri non poterit, tunc ad +duos comitatus in balliva vestra citra terminum prædictum proximo +tenendos juxta formam statuti in hujusmodi casu provisi proclamari +faciatis quod idem Johannes sit coram nobis ad præfatum terminum ad +respondendum nobis de præmissis. Et habeatis ibi hoc breve. Teste +Johanne Markham apud Westmonasterium, xxxjº die Januarii, anno regni +nostri secundo. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Croxton.</span></p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +Rotulo xxvjº R. Per contr’ Anno secundo Regis Ed. iiij<sup>ti</sup> r. +xiij. Irrotulatur coram Rege de recordo, termino Hillarii anno secundo +Regis Ed. iiij<sup>ti</sup>, prout patet in rotulo infrascripto.<a class += "tag" name = "tag69_1" id = "tag69_1" href = "#note69_1">69.1</a></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note68_1" id = "note68_1" href = +"#tag68_1">68.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] As the writ, +of which a copy is subjoined to this letter, is dated on the 31st +January in the second year of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> (1463), the letter itself must have been written +in February.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note69_1" id = "note69_1" href = +"#tag69_1">69.1</a> +This note is to imply that the writ is enrolled among what are called +the Records on the Coram Rege Roll of Hilary term, 2 Edw. <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, rot. 26, a former writ against +John Paston, junior, being enrolled in the Controlment Roll, 2 Edw. +<span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, rot. 13.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter539" id = "letter539">539</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag69_2" id = "tag69_2" href = "#note69_2">69.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB.</span> or +<span class = "sidetext">MARCH</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> you to wet that Will. Jeney and +Debham cam to Calcote on Wednysday before none, and ther they spake with +Rysyng and John Smythe, and haskyd hem rent and ferme, and they seydyn +they had payed you, and so they myght not paye hem. Also, ferthermore, +they told hem that ye had hold a corte ther syn that they enteryd there. +Than Jenney answerd ageyn ‘Be cause he held a corte here we mad hym hold +corte at London, and so shall we make the to hold a corte at Ipysweche +withowt thow wolt pay us the rent and ferme.’ ‘Sir,’ quod Rysyng, +‘I toke the ferme of my master and of Sir Thomas Howys.’ Jenney +seyd, ‘And as for Sir Thomas, he and we schall acord well i nowe.’ And +so they hahte seled up the berne dore and woll dryve a wey the catell +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page70" id = "page70">70</a></span> +bothe of the fermores and of the tenauntes, withowt the fermor and John +Smythe woll fynd hem suerte to pay hem at Esterne, and Jenney and Debham +woll [be] bownd ageyn to hem in a obligacion of xl<i>li.</i> to save hem +harmelese ageyns you. And so as yet Rysyng standythe under award at +Leystofte. So Rysyng hathe sent word to me that I shall knowe thys nyght +or ellis to morowe what end they hathe mad.</p> + +<p>Item, as towchyng the burges of Yermothe they wer chosyn on +Wednysday. The Baly Wydwell ys on; and as for the todyr the Bischoppe +sent to the towne for to have a man of hys owne, and so they be not +acordyd yit of hym; en cas they may not acord, John Rus shall be the +todyr.</p> + +<p>Item, as towchyng Grene, a came not to Caster on Thursday, for he +went to Norwich the same day, and so he is yet ther. Daubeney hathe +spokyn with Watkyn Shypdam for to be at Beyton on Monday to kepe a corte +ther; and so he woll be at Caster on Sonday and spek with you, for he +seythe that Fastolfe<a class = "tag" name = "tag70_1" id = "tag70_1" +href = "#note70_1">70.1</a> hathe mad a cleyme ther to; that is the +cause he wolle comon and speke with you ther of hym selff.</p> + +<p>Item, I can not, ner Daubeney nowther, fynd your wyght boke; it is +not in the trussyng cofyr, ner in the sprucheste nothyr. Jon Walsham +toke me a quayer, I suppose it lo[n]gythe to the same boke, that +same I send you, and the byllis of Walcote with ale sealyd. Wretyn this +day. +<span class = "signature">By your,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>On the back are the following accounts, written, in a very careless +hand, by Richard Calle:</i>—</p> + +<table class = "money"> +<tr> +<td class = "header" colspan = "4">Forene’ Recept’.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Johanne Prentice de Castelaere ad festum Sanctæ Fidis per +manus vicarii de Sporle,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">lx<i>s.</i></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Roberto Wylley clerico post Nativitatem Domini,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">c<i>s.</i></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Willelmo Whyte, vigil’ Conversionis Sancti Pauli,</p></td> +<td class = "number">vj<i>li.</i></td> +<td class = "number">xiij<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Edmundo Wynter, mason, de Bermynghem circa Conversionem Sancti +Pauli,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">vj<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">viij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Willelmo Elys de Wynterton ad Pascha,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">vj<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">viij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Warino Herman ad Pascha,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">xiij<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>De Johanna Bakeney uxore Gerard,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">xiij<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page71" id = "page71">71</a></span> +Item, de Johanne Russe.</td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rec. de Willelmo Norwich et M. Johanne Smythe venditio jocalium +Johannis Berney de Redham pro tant’ denar’ pro me pro debito ipsius +Berney apud Redham solut’,</p></td> +<td class = "number">xx<i>li.</i></td> +<td class = "number">xvj<i>s.</i></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "header" colspan = "4">Recept’ de Tesauro.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Inprimis, pro viagio Johannis Paston, Jun. cum Rege et aliis +causis (?) versus Annewyke de denariis receptis de debito prioris +Norwicensis,</p></td> +<td class = "number">l<i>li.</i></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de auro remanente de Coppes in eadem baga,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">lx<i>s.</i></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de baga pecuniæ prestandæ eodem tempore,</p></td> +<td class = "number" colspan = "3">viij. marc’.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de remanent’ in forcerio tesaur’ li’berat’<a class = "tag" +name = "tag71_1" id = "tag71_1" href = "#note71_1">71.1</a> frater meus +Will’ Yelv’n,</p></td> +<td></td> +<td class = "number">x<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "header" colspan = "4">Termino Michaelis.<a class = "tag" +name = "tag71_2" id = "tag71_2" href = "#note71_2">71.2</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de pecunia remanente cum Thoma Gresham apud London; termino +Michaelis xx<i>li.</i>, termino Hillarij, xxxiij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i>,</p></td> +<td class = "number">xxj<i>li.</i></td> +<td class = "number">xiij<i>s.</i></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de tesauro London termino Michaelis, l. marc’, termino +Hillarij l. marc’, termino Paschæ l. marc’,</p></td> +<td class = "number">c<i>li.</i></td> +<td></td> +<td></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, de tesauro Norffolk cariat’ versus London termino Paschæ, +ultra xl<i>li.</i> remanens (<i>sic</i>) apud terminum +Trinitatis,</p></td> +<td class = "number" colspan = "3">xl. marc’.</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note69_2" id = "note69_2" href = +"#tag69_2">69.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter, +though not addressed, seems to have been written by Margaret Paston to +her husband. The election referred to must have been that for the +Parliament of 1463. From one expression used it is clear that it was +written some time before Easter, and the dispute with Jenney and +Debenham about Calcote proves the date to a certainty. Compare <a href = +"#letter538">Nos. 538</a> and 540.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note70_1" id = "note70_1" href = +"#tag70_1">70.1</a> +Thomas Fastolf of Cowhawe.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note71_1" id = "note71_1" href = +"#tag71_1">71.1</a> +The words ‘tesaur’ liberat’’ are interlined and apparently intended to +be inserted here. I must leave the grammar of the sentence as it +stands in the original. The word at the end, which I believe stands for +‘Yelverton,’ is very ambiguous from the careless writing.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note71_2" id = "note71_2" href = +"#tag71_2">71.2</a> +These words are inserted between the lines, but whether they were +intended for a heading is a little uncertain.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter540" id = "letter540">540</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag71_3" id = +"tag71_3" href = "#note71_3">71.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">[John Paston] to John Pampyng, Richard Calle, +and William Wykes.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463</p> + +<p>Remember my instructions about bills and actions against Debenham by +my tenants at Calcote. Make a ‘remembrance apart’ of the ground on which +every trespass has been committed, whether it be in my lands or in those +of my tenants, and whether the land was holden of me by Calcote Hall +fee, or Freton Hall fee, lest Debenham justify [on the plea that] he +took them elsewhere. As my tenants at Cotton have been compelled to pay +much money to Jenney and Debenham against their wills, I would, as +I have told John Paston the younger, that he should ride to Cotton with +Richard Calle and such friendship as he can get, and demand my duties, +except from those who had been compelled to pay the others. The latter +to take actions next term against Debenham. Will respite them for this +once all they have paid, till it may be recovered by law; +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page72" id = "page72">72</a></span> +that is, provided they ask it: otherwise, will politicly put them in +jeopardy of losing their farms. Desires Calle to make a roll of the +tenants and when he comes to Cotton enter therein how much cattle has +been distrained from each.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +It appears by the last letter that a writ was issued, evidently at the +suit of Debenham, against John Paston, junior, and the other agents of +his father in Suffolk. From the present paper it would seem that John +Paston also instituted a prosecution on behalf of his tenants against +Debenham. We shall find by later letters that these suits were going on +in 1463, and were not terminated in the beginning of the following year. +The <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> from which the above abstract +has been made is a draft with a heading in John Paston’s hand. On the +back are notes of the Statutes of Westminster and of Richard <span class += "smallroman">II.</span> touching <i>scandalum magnatum</i>, etc.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note71_3" id = "note71_3" href = +"#tag71_3">71.3</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter541" id = "letter541">541</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RALPH LAMPET’S TESTIMONY<a class = "tag" name = +"tag72_1" id = "tag72_1" href = "#note72_1">72.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +19</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">To</span> all tho to whom this present wrytyng +shall come, Rauff Lampet, Squier, sendyth gretyng in our Lord. And +forasmoch as it is meritory to bere witnesse of trought, and that I +knowe and herd the disposicion and will of Ser John Fastolff, knyght, +aftir the forme folowyng, and am requered to sey the trought, +I record and testifie, and bere witnesse that Ser John Fastolff, +knyght, abought the tyme of hervest was v. yere, that was the yere of +our Lord M<sup>l</sup>cccclvij. at Caster, fast by Mekyll Yarmouth, in +the Shire of Norffolk, in presens of divers persones that tyme callid to +by the seid Ser John, ded make estat and feffement and livery of seison +of the maner of Caster aforeseid, and other maners, londs, and tenements +in Norffolk to John Paston, Squier, and other. And at that livery of +season thereof delivered, as well by the hands of the seid Ser John as +be other, the seid Ser John Fastolff by his owne mouth declared his will +and entent of that feffement and livery of season, mad to the use of the +seid Ser John as for duryng his life only, and aftir his decese to the +use of the seid John Paston and his heyrs. And also the seid Ser John +seid and declared, that the seid John Paston was best frend, and helper, +and supporter to the seid Ser John, and that it was his will that the +seid John Paston shuld have and inherite the same +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page73" id = "page73">73</a></span> +maners, londs, and tenements, and other, aftir his decese, and ther to +dwelle and abide, and kepe howsold, seying that he knew well that the +disposicion of the seid Paston was to do good in the contry, and be non +oppressor of the pore pepill. And the seid Ser John desired me, and +Daune William Bokenham, that tyme Prior of Yarmouth, beynge presente, to +record as he had seid to us. And this I record and witnesse for trought +be the feyght that I owe to God and all Seynts. In witnesse wherof to +this my writyng I have set to my seall and signe manuell the xix. day of +March, the third yer of the reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">R. Lampet.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note72_1" id = "note72_1" href = +"#tag72_1">72.1</a> +[Tanner <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span>, 106, f. 35 b.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter542" id = "letter542">542</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag73_1" id = +"tag73_1" href = "#note73_1">73.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Raff Lampet to his Cousin Daubeney</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Date uncertain</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Reminds him that he spoke to him at Redham, in the church, about certain +lands ‘which John of Berney bought of me,’ and for which there is still +owing him 13s. 4d., and a rent of 6d. four years in arrear. Begs him to +speak to Master Paston to get him the money.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +We place this letter immediately after another document signed by Ralph +Lampet, the exact date being uncertain and immaterial. It is probably, +however, about this period, as it may be surmised to be after the death +of John Berney.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note73_1" id = "note73_1" href = +"#tag73_1">73.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter543" id = "letter543">543</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag73_2" id = +"tag73_2" href = "#note73_2">73.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +6</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Testimony of Sir Roger Chamberlain, witnessed by Reginald Tylneye, prior +of Ixworth, and Sir John Rose [a brother of the house], that he was +with the Duke of Norfolk in September before Sir John Fastolf died, when +my Lord urged Fastolf to sell him the reversion of Caister, or +(as he wished to give it to the Abbey of St. Benet’s) to exchange +it for a manor of my Lord’s in South Walsham, which lay more convenient +for the Abbey. Sir John, however, begged him not to press it, as he had +appointed with his cousin, John +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page74" id = "page74">74</a></span> +Paston, to have Caister and all his other livelode in Norfolk and +Suffolk in order to endow a college of seven priests and seven poor men. +My Lord said, many thought Sir John would make Paston his heir; to which +he replied that there was no man living that he would like better to be +his heir, and begged my Lord to be his good lord if it so fortuned, +which the Duke promised to do. Has heard the Duke since often +acknowledge that Sir John had declared plainly he would make Paston his +heir. Not having his own seal present, has sealed this with that of the +prior of Ixworth, and requested him to put his seal to it besides. +Ixworth, 6 April 1463.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note73_2" id = "note73_2" href = +"#tag73_2">73.2</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Phillipps, 9735, No. +280.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter544" id = "letter544">544</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag74_1" id = "tag74_1" href = "#note74_1">74.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rytz wurchepfull mayster, Jon Paston, in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 6</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryt</span> wurschipfull hosbond, I recommand +me to zou, desyring hertyly to her of zour wellfar, praying zou to wete, +that I [have] spoken with Strawngs wyf of the matter that ze spoken to +me of; and sche seyth pleynly to me, be her feyth, that sche knew never +non seche ne never herd of non scheche, and told to me in lyk wyse as +sche had seyd to Jamys Gloys. And sche seyd to me if sche kowd inquier +of any other that sche thinght xuld have knowleche of any seche, sche +xuld wetyn of hem, and letyn me have knowleche therof; and if ze soppose +that any other be in this contre that ye thync xuld have knowleche of +this forseyd mater, yf ye wyll send me word ther of, I xall do my +part ther in.</p> + +<p>Also I have ben att Sweyngsthorp and spoken with Kokett, and he seyth +that he woll don lyche as ye bad me that I xuld sey to hym for to don. +And I have spokyn with the sexteyn, and seyd to hym as ye bad me that I +xuld don, and he axid me ryt feythfully hw ye sped in zour materys.</p> + +<p>I teld hym that ze haddyn fayr be hests, and I seyd I hopyd that ze +xuld don rytz well therin; and he seyd that he +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page75" id = "page75">75</a></span> +supposyd that D.<a class = "tag" name = "tag75_1" id = "tag75_1" href = +"#note75_1">75.1</a> wold don for zou; but he seyd he was no hasty +laborer in non mater. He seyd be hys feyth he wost qher a man was that +laboryd to hym for amater ryth along tym, and alwey he be hestyd that he +wold labor itt effectualy, but qhyll he sewyd to hym that he kowd never +have remedy of his mater; and than qhan he thowth that he xuld no remedy +have to sew to hym, he spak with Fynys,<a class = "tag" name = "tag75_2" +id = "tag75_2" href = "#note75_2">75.2</a> that is now Speker of the +Parlment, and prayid hym that he wold don for hym in hys mater, and zaf +hym areward; and withinne ryth short tym after his mater was sped. And +the seyd sexteyn<a class = "tag" name = "tag75_3" id = "tag75_3" href = +"#note75_3">75.3</a> and other folkys that ben yowr ryth wele willers +have kownselyd me that I xuld kownsell zou to maken other menys than ye +have made to other folks, that wold spede your materys better than they +have don thatt ye have spoken to therof be for this tym. Sondery folks +have seyd to me that they thynk veryly, but if [<i>unless</i>] ye have +my Lord of Suffolks<a class = "tag" name = "tag75_4" id = "tag75_4" href += "#note75_4">75.4</a> godelorchyp, qhyll the werd [<i>world</i>] is as +itt is, ye kan never leven in pese with owth ye have his godelordschep; +therfor I pray that with all myn herth, that ye wyll don yowr part to +have his godelordschep and his love in ese of all the materis that ye +have to don, and in esyng of myn hert also; for be my trowth I am afferd +ellys bothen of these materys the qhyche ye have in hand now, and of +other that ben not don to yett, but if he wyl don for zou and be your +godelord. I pray yow hertylye send me werd how ze don, and how ye +speden in zour materys; and I pray you as for seche thyngs as Jamys hath +a byll of, that I may have hem as hastyly as ze may; and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page76" id = "page76">76</a></span> +that ze wyll vowchesave to bey apese of blak bukram for to lyn with a +gown for me, I xuld bey me amurrey gown to gon in this somer, and +leyn in the koler the satyn that ze zeve me for an hodde; and I kan +gettyn non gode bokeram in this town to lyn it with. The Holy Trinyte +have yow in His kepyng, and send zou helth and good spede in all yowr +maters.</p> + +<p>Wretyn att Norwyche, on ye Fryday nexst after Crowchemesse Day.<a +class = "tag" name = "tag76_1" id = "tag76_1" href = +"#note76_1">76.1</a> +<span class = "signature">Yours,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note74_1" id = "note74_1" href = +"#tag74_1">74.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 188.] Our reason for believing this letter to have been +written in the year 1463 will be seen in a footnote.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note75_1" id = "note75_1" href = +"#tag75_1">75.1</a> +Possibly John Damme.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note75_2" id = "note75_2" href = +"#tag75_2">75.2</a> +This looks like a mistake, for no Speaker of the name of Fynes is met +with during this period. The expression, however, suggests that the +letter was written about the beginning of a new Parliament, which could +only have been that which met on the 29th April 1463. On the following +day the Commons elected John Say as their Speaker, whose name Margaret +Paston seems to have confounded with the family name of William Fenys, +Lord Say, the trusty friend of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> who accompanied him into exile when he fled from +his kingdom in 1470. It does not appear, however, that John Say, the +Speaker, was related to that family.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note75_3" id = "note75_3" href = +"#tag75_3">75.3</a> +The Sacrist or Sexton of the Priory of Norwich was the officer who had +the care of Sacra, or Holy Things, as the Church Plate, Copes, etc.; he +was likewise Secretary, Auditor, and Chancellor of the Convent, and had +a Sub-sacrist or Deputy to perform the servile parts of his office. In +1444 Brother Richard de Walsham was appointed Sacrist.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note75_4" id = "note75_4" href = +"#tag75_4">75.4</a> +John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note76_1" id = "note76_1" href = +"#tag76_1">76.1</a> +Crouchmas Day, or the Invention of the Cross, was on the 3rd of +May.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter545" id = "letter545">545</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[JAMES GRESHAM] TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag76_2" id = "tag76_2" href = "#note76_2">76.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To mygth rigth <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘gooa’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">good</ins> +and speciall maister, John Paston, +dwellyng at Heylesdon be syde Norwich.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rigth</span> reverent, &c. Please your +maisterchip wete that I resseived your letter whiche ye sent by Crome, +and as for the examinacion of, &c. that I wrot to you of in my +former letter to be taken on the Munday or on Tewysday, &c. this was +the cause. Ye yaff me informacion at my last departyng fro you that the +murdre was don uppon the day nexst after Seynt Petre. And for doute +lesse ye had be ougth at the comyng of my seid letter, and for dowte +that I supposed that my maistres, your wyf, had not be remembred of the +day, it caused me, accordyng to your informacion, to wryte the uttermost +day for her remembrans. Neverthelesse, if ye certifie that ye toke the +examinacion with in the yere and day, and sette the day in certayn, your +certificat is sufficiant in +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page77" id = "page77">77</a></span> +lawe and shall bynd any of the parties to sey the contrary. And also the +writte is that ye schuld certefie <i>sine dilatione</i>, and no day +expresly yoven you whan to certifie it; wherfor ye may kepe uncertefiet +tyl the nexst terme. And so do sir, for it schal do no hurt; but if ony +questions or jangelyng schuld be mad when the examinacion was, let a +sufficiant day with inne the yere be noysed, and if the <i>teste</i> be +to schort we schal fynd the mene it schal be amendyd by hym that wrot +it. For after the informacion that I had of Crome the Sunday was the +uttermest day, and therefor it was happy that sche was examined thenne. +And where that ye wold I schuld tak the advice of Maister Markham, +&c., if all thyng were laufull, and elles not, it is full hard to my +self to determine the certaynte of every circumstans of the mater, and +it is not gretely to be comuned of with other, nor to comune of casez +lyke; for whan the mater schuld come in revelysshon it wold cause prevy +titlers and flaterers ougth of suche questions to ymagyn, and contryve +mater of distourbans. Wherfor uppon the certeynte of myn determinacion I +brak the mater to Master Markham, which called to hym Master Byngham, +and so thei ij. meved Y.<a class = "tag" name = "tag77_1" id = "tag77_1" +href = "#note77_1">77.1</a>; and after that mocion he kept not his owyn +councell but brak to every man of it. Hou be it he was sore mevyd with +it, I wote it well, and glad to take avyse and comfort of other +personez than of Masters Markham and Byngham. Al circumstans were to +long to wryte, but I hope to speke with you be tymes i nougth or ye +schall nede to certefye, &c. And, sir, in conclucion, Masters +Markham and Byngham thynk it sufficiant i nougth to take his promys and +his othe with ougth obligacion that he schal mak amends if profe here +after can be mad uppon hym. And to this Maister Markham prayed you to +agre by the same token ye mevyd hym to sette an ende be twyx you and my +masters your brethern. Neverthelesse if ye thynk this wey not +sufficiant, ye may lete sum other handele the mater at hom to hym if +that ye hope to gete good pref in the mater, for with ougth evydent +proffe the mater schall be but noysefull to you, and cause men to thynk +that it growyth of your ille wyll to hym +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page78" id = "page78">78</a></span> +ward, &c.; for he noyseth and seyth, because of ille wyll ye have +caused a mad woman to take apell a yens hym.</p> + +<p>Item, sir, as for Leukenore he is not at London, but peraventure I +schal make hym to be meved in the mater here after.</p> + +<p>Item, I dede your erand to my maister your son.</p> + +<p>Item, as for John Say,<a class = "tag" name = "tag78_1" id = +"tag78_1" href = "#note78_1">78.1</a> he recomendyth hym to you, bothe +for your billes and for your labour, and prayeth you if ony land that +lyth for the priour ease mygth be aspyed, that ye wold help to gete it +hym and send hym word; and as for the morteysyng<span class = +"enspace"> . . . +. . . </span>and at his cost and labour.</p> + +<p>Item, as for tydyngs, the Kyng and the counsell is at Northampton,<a +class = "tag" name = "tag78_2" id = "tag78_2" href = +"#note78_2">78.2</a> and the Convocacion schall be<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . . </span>after Relyk Sunday. And ther +be ij. marchaunts come fro Caleys, and they mygth no leve have to +com[e]<span class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . . . . </span>schuld bere +the Kyng certeyn lettres and juste tytyngs that sege is comyng to +Caleys. And trew[s]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>[ou]re Lady Day, as I herd sey.</p> + +<p>Item, it is talked that Duchemen and Englysshemen ben at contraversie +with in<span class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . .</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note76_2" id = "note76_2" href = +"#tag76_2">76.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +seems to be in James Gresham’s handwriting. It is evident that it was +written shortly after Midsummer. Rather more than a year and a day had +elapsed since a murder committed on the morrow of St. Peter’s Day +(<i>i.e.</i> on the 30th June), and it is mentioned that Convocation was +to sit some little time after Relic Sunday, which always falls in the +middle of July. Further, the King is said to be at Northampton, which he +was in July 1463, and no other year appears to suit.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note77_1" id = "note77_1" href = +"#tag77_1">77.1</a> +Yelverton.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note78_1" id = "note78_1" href = +"#tag78_1">78.1</a> +Probably the Speaker of the Parliament of 1463, whom Margaret Paston +named Fynes in <a href = "#letter544">Letter 544</a>. <i>See</i> <a href += "#note75_2">p. 75, Note 2</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note78_2" id = "note78_2" href = +"#tag78_2">78.2</a> +According to the dates of the Privy Seals the King was at Northampton +from the 8th to the 28th July 1463; also on the 2nd May 1464.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">To mygth rigth good and speciall +maister</span><br> +text has “gooa” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter546" id = "letter546">546</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JAMES GRESHAM TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag78_3" id = "tag78_3" href = "#note78_3">78.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right wurshepfull mastres, my Mastres Margret Paston, at +Caster.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> it your good mastresship to wete +that a <i>fieri facias</i> is come out of the Exchequir for Hue Fen to +the Shireff of Norffolk to make levy of CC. mark of the propir goods and +catels of my masters, as executor of Sir +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page79" id = "page79">79</a></span> +John Fastolf; of whech <i>fieri facias</i> we sent my master word, whech +sent us word ayen by Berney that we shuld lete the Shiref undirstand +that my master nevir toke upon hym as executor, and so for that cause +that writte was no warant to take my masters goods; and also that my +master mad a dede of gift of all his goods and catels to Master Prewet +and Clement Paston and other, so that my master hath no goods whereof he +shuld make levy of the forseid summe; and if the Shireff wold not take +this for non answere, that thanne my master wold he shuld be lettid in +Master Prowetts and Clement Pastons name. Nevirthelesse we spak with the +Shireff this day, and lete hym undirstand the causes aforeseid, and he +agreid, so that he myght have suerte to safe hym harmeles, to mak such +retorne as my master or his counsell coud devise. And because my master +wrote by Berney that he wold not fynd the Shireff no suerte, we wold not +apoynt with hym in that wyse; and so we toke avyse of Thomas Grene, and +by cause the Undir-Shireff shall be on Monday at Hygham, by Bastewyk +brygg, and he and we thought that it was best that Master Prowet shuld +mete with the Shireff there, and require and charge hym that by colour +of the foreseid <i>fieri facias</i> that he make no levy of any goods +and catels of the seid Prowetts and Clement Pastons ayens the seid John +Pastons, letyng hym vete that such goods as the seid Paston had, be now +the seid Prowetts and Clement Pastons by vertu of a dede of gift mad to +hem almost ij. yere agoo; and if the Shireff woll be besy aftir that to +take any catell, that he be lettid in Master Prowetts name and Clement +Pastons by Daubeney and other; whech besines of the Shireff shall be on +Tuisday or Wednesday, and as we understand at Heylesdon. Wherfor ye must +send thedir Daubeney with Pecok, and the may gete hym here more felasep +by the avise of Master Sir John Paston. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">James Gresham.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note78_3" id = "note78_3" href = +"#tag78_3">78.3</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 130.] John Paston’s eldest son appears to have been +knighted in the course of the year 1463. The earliest notice which I +find of him as knight is in a writ dated 11th July, 3 Edward <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, entered on the Coram Rege Roll of +Trinity term, 3 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> This +letter is not unlikely to have been written about that time, as it +appears by a subsequent letter (<a href = "#letter550">No. 550</a>) +that Sir John Paston remained for some time at home in Norfolk, when the +friends of the family thought he ought to be abroad in the world.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page80" id = "page80">80</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter547" id = "letter547">547</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag80_1" id = +"tag80_1" href = "#note80_1">80.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. +15</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Deed poll whereby Elizabeth, widow of John Vere, Earl of Oxford, Lady +of the manor of Knapton, Norfolk, grants to Agnes, widow of William +Paston, the right of removing obstructions in two watercourses belonging +to the mill called Wodmyll in Bacton; the first of which watercourses +flows out of Knapton Fen, and the second from the mill of the Abbot of +St. Benet’s of Holme.</p> + +<p>Stratford of the Bowe, 15th Aug. 1463, 3 Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span></p> + +<p class = "center"><i>Fine Seal.</i></p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note80_1" id = "note80_1" href = +"#tag80_1">80.1</a> +[From Add. Charter 14,514, B.M., D. Turner’s Coll.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter548" id = "letter548">548</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO JOHN PASTON, SENIOR<a +class = "tag" name = "tag80_2" id = "tag80_2" href = +"#note80_2">80.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To oure right trusty and entierly welbelovid servaunt, John Paston, +th’elder.</p> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<span class = "smallcaps">The Duc of Norff.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. +31</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> trusty and entierly welbelovid +servaunt, we grete you hertily well, and specially praying you that ye +will be with us at Framlyngham on Sonday next comyng, that we may comon +with you there, and have youre sadde advise in suche matiers as +concernyth gretly to oure weel, whiche shall be mynestred unto you at +youre comyng. Prayng you that ye fayle not herof, as our speciall trust +is in you. And our Lord preserve you in His keping.</p> + +<p>Written at Framlyngham the xxxj. day of August. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Norff.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note80_2" id = "note80_2" href = +"#tag80_2">80.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 250.] John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, the writer of this +letter, succeeded his father in the dukedom in November 1461, being at +the time only seventeen years of age. A year afterwards, in +November 1462, we find him living at his castle of Holt in Denbighshire, +where he proposed to spend Christmas (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter532">No. 532</a>), but before that season came he was sent for +by the King to serve against the Scots (<a href = +"#letter533">No. 533</a>). I am inclined to think this letter +was written in the August of 1463; for although the Duke was again +living at Holt in March following, it seems probable that he would have +visited his chief family seat at Framlingham in the meanwhile. John +Paston, the youngest, who was attached to his household, was certainly +at home with his family in the latter part of this year (<i>see</i> +<a href = "#letter560">No. 560</a>).</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page81" id = "page81">81</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter549" id = "letter549">549</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE ABBOT OF LANGLEY TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class += "tag" name = "tag81_1" id = "tag81_1" href = +"#note81_1">81.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the ryght worcheppful Sere John Paston, Knyght, be this +delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +4</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worchepful ser, and tendyrly +belovyd in our Lord God, I comend me to you, sendyng you knowyng +that I dede your erand to my brother, the persoon of Blofeeld, on +Wednysdaye was sevenyght, after the undyrstandyng that I had of you and +from you be this brynger; whech man I felte ryght wele and favorabelye +dysposyd to you ward, and more favorable wole be than to ony other +jentylman levand, the wylle of the dede performyd, and his conscyens +savyd; and more thinges seyd favorabely for yow which I entytelyd in a +scrowe to a’ certyfyed to your servaunt Calle, yf he had come, as ye +sent me woord he sculd ado, and xuld, as ye behestyd me, abrowte me our +ferme for Heylesdon, which not don, causeth me to wryte, prayng your +jantylnesse that I send no more therfore, for it is unpayed for the zeer +afore the Halwemesse that my Mayster Fastolf deyed, and for the same zer +that he deyed in, and sythen for ij. zer, and v<i>s.</i> unpayed of a +zer, and come Myhelmesse nexte xal be another zer unpayed. Thus is iiij. +zer unpayed and v<i>s.</i>, and at Myhelmesse next xal be v. zer and +v<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>This thus kepte from Holy Chirche that is Holy Chirchez good, may not +be withoute grete parelle of soule; wher the parelle is God knoweth, +I pray God amend it, and geve hem grace that have his goods so to +dyspose them, that thei and the dede both may be oute of parelle. And +the Trynyte have you in His mercyful kepyng. Wretyn at Langle, on +Soneday, at evyn late, next after Seynt Johne Daye Decollacion.<a class += "tag" name = "tag81_2" id = "tag81_2" href = "#note81_2">81.2</a> +<span class = "signature">Be your welewylland,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Abbot of Langeleye.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note81_1" id = "note81_1" href = +"#tag81_1">81.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 146.] The date of this letter is clear, from the +statement it contains as to the length of time which has elapsed since +the decease of Sir John Fastolf.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note81_2" id = "note81_2" href = +"#tag81_2">81.2</a> +The Decollation of St. John the Baptist was observed on the 29th +August.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page82" id = "page82">82</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter550" id = "letter550">550</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">R. C. V. C. TO JOHN PASTON THE ELDEST<a class = +"tag" name = "tag82_1" id = "tag82_1" href = +"#note82_1">82.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my worcheppefull master, Master Paston the heldest.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull master, I recommend me +on to zowr masterchepe. And of on mater at reverens of God take hede, +for in trowth I her meche talkyng therof, and that is both in Norffolk, +Suffolk, and Norwyche, among halle men of worchepe, as welle that love +zow as oder, and that is of my master, your son, Syr Jon, causse he is +so at home, and no noderwyse set for. Summe sey that ze and he both +stond howth of the Kyngs good gras, and summe sey that ze kepe hym at +home for negard chepe, and wyll no thyng ware [<i>spend</i>] up on hym; +and so heche man sey is avyse as it plese hem to talke. And I have +hanqwerryd [<i>inquired</i>], and seyd the most cause is inparty for +cause ze har so meche howte, that he is the rather at home for the save +gard of the costs. But at the referens of God, excheuyng of common +langage, se that he may worchepfull be set for, heyder in the Kyngs +servyse, or in maryache; for as towchyng the Lady Chaberlen<a class = +"tag" name = "tag82_2" id = "tag82_2" href = "#note82_2">82.2</a> that +mater is don, for I spake with the parson therof, and I hard be hym that +that mater wyll not pre [<i>proceed ?</i>].</p> + +<p>No more, but God spede zow as well in all maters, as I wold ze xuld +do, I be seche zow that this leter be kept secrete. +<span class = "signature">Be zow[r] bede man,</span> +<span class = "signature">R. C. V. C.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note82_1" id = "note82_1" href = +"#tag82_1">82.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 128.] In the preceding letter Sir John Paston seems to +have been at home; in <a href = "#letter552">Letter 552</a>, we find +that he had left home without leave. It is very probable, therefore, +that the present letter was written in the interval between them, seeing +that the writer complains of Sir John being kept at home.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note82_2" id = "note82_2" href = +"#tag82_2">82.2</a> +This Lady Chamberlayne was Anne, daughter and sole heir of Sir Robert +Herling, Knight, by Jane, daughter and heir of John Gonvile, Esq. Her +first husband was Sir William Chamberlayne, Knight of the Garter, +a renowned and valiant soldier, who died in 1462. She was at this +time his widow, and inherited from her father a very considerable +fortune.</p> + +<p>She afterwards married Sir Robert Wingfield, and after his decease +she became the wife of John, Lord Scroop of Bolton.</p> + +<p>By the name of Lady Scroop she founded and endowed a Fellowship in +the College of <ins class = "correction" title = +"editor’s error for ‘Gonville’ alone (John Caius was born in 1510)">Gonville +and Caius</ins> at Cambridge, originally founded by an ancestor of +her Ladyship’s.</p> + +<p>She was born in 1426, and was alive in 1502.</p> + +<p>At the time this letter was written she must have been nearly forty +years old, when Sir John Paston could not have been much above +twenty.—F.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">she founded and endowed a Fellowship in the +College of Gonville and Caius at Cambridge</span><br> +editor’s error for “Gonville” alone (John Caius was born in 1510)</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page83" id = "page83">83</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter551" id = "letter551">551</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag83_1" id = "tag83_1" href = "#note83_1">83.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worchipfull hosbond, John Paston, be thys letter delyveryd +in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +13</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Riht</span> worchepfull husbond, I recommand +me to you. Please you to wete that I was at Norwic this wek to purvey +suche thyngs as nedythe me ageyns thys wynter; and I was at my modder, +and wille I was ther, ther cam in on Wrothe, a kynnysman of +Elysabet Clers, and he sey your dowter, and preysyd hyr to my moder, and +seyd that she was a goodly yong woman; and my moder prayd hym for to +gett for hyr on good mariage yf he knewe any; and he seyd he knewe on +shuld be of a CCC. mark be yer, the wyche is Sir John Cley son, that is +Chamberleyn with my Lady of York,<a class = "tag" name = "tag83_2" id = +"tag83_2" href = "#note83_2">83.2</a> and he ys of age of xviij. yer +old. Zyf ye thynk it be for to be spok of, my moder thynkyth that it +shuld be get for lesse mony nowe in thys world than it shuld be her +after, owthyr that j. [<i>one</i>], or sum other good mariage.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page84" id = "page84">84</a></span> +<p>Item, I spake with Master John Estgate for Pekerynes mater after your +entent of the mater of the letter that ye sent home, and he seyd to me +he shuld write to yow howe he had don ther in; and so he sent you a +letter, the wyche was sent you be John Wodows<a class = "tag" name = +"tag84_1" id = "tag84_1" href = "#note84_1">84.1</a> man with other +letters.</p> + +<p>As for answer [of] other mater, Daubeney tellythe me he wret to you. +I be seche Alle myghty God have you in Hys kepyng. Wretyn at +Caster, the Sonday next after Seynt Marteyne. +<span class = "signature">Be your</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">M. Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note83_1" id = "note83_1" href = +"#tag83_1">83.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 88.] I have found no letters of Margaret Paston dated +from Caister before the year 1463; but I am inclined to think that this +and the letter following both belong to that year. The latter, being +addressed to Sir John Paston, at least cannot be earlier, and my reasons +for believing it to be of that very year will be seen in the note to it +(<a href = "#note84_2">p. 84, Note 2</a>). It is just possible +that this letter may be of a different date, but considering that both +were written in November, and both of them certainly between the 12th +and the 19th, and that in both Margaret Paston not only dates from +Caister, but speaks of Daubeney as being with her, the presumption, +I think, is pretty strong that they are of the same year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note83_2" id = "note83_2" href = +"#tag83_2">83.2</a> +Cecily, Duchess of York, widow of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and +mother of Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> She died in an +advanced age, at her castle of Berkhamstead, in May 1495, and was buried +near her husband, in the Choir of the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay, +in Northamptonshire.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note84_1" id = "note84_1" href = +"#tag84_1">84.1</a> +John Wodehouse, Esq. of Kimberley, son of the renowned John Wodehouse, +Esq., who gained so much honour at the battle of Agincourt; he died in +1465, and lies buried in Kimberley Chancel.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter552" id = "letter552">552</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag84_2" id = "tag84_2" href = +"#note84_2">84.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my welbelovyd son, Sir John Paston, be this deliveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I gret</span> yow welle, and send yow +Godds blissyng and myn, latyng yow wet that I have receyved a letter +from you, the wyche ye deliveryd to Master Roger at Lynne, wherby I +conseyve <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘thar’: corrected from Fenn">that</ins> +ye thynke ye ded not well that ye departyd hens +withowt my knowlage. Wherfor I late yow wett I was ryght evyll payed +with yow. Your fader thowght, and thynkyth yet, that I was asentyd to +your departyng, and that hathe causyd me to have gret hevinesse. +I hope he wolle +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page85" id = "page85">85</a></span> +be your good fader hereafter, yf ye demene you welle, and do as ye owe +to do to hym; and I charge you upon my blyssyng that in any thyng +towchyng your fader that shuld be hys worchep, profyte, or avayle, that +ye do your devoyr and dylygent labor to the fortherans therin, as ye +wulle have my good wille, and that shall cause your fader to be better +fader to you.</p> + +<p>It was told me ye sent hym a letter to London. What the entent therof +was I wot not, but thowge he take it but lyghtly, I wold ye shuld +not spar to write to hym ageyn as lowly as ye cane, besechyng hym to be +your good fader; and send hym suche tydyngs as be in the contre thir ye +bethe in, and that ye war [<i>beware</i>] of your expence bettyr and ye +have be befor thys tyme, and be your owne purse berer, I trowe ye +shall fyndyt most profytable to you.</p> + +<p>I wold ye shuld send me word howghe ye doo, and howghe ye have +schevyfte for yourself syn ye departyd hens, be som trosty man, and that +your fader have no knowlage therof. I durste not late hym knowe of +the laste letter that ye wrot to me, be cause he was so sor dyspleasyd +with me at that tyme.</p> + +<p>Item, I wold ye shuld speke with Wekis, and knowe hys dysposysion to +Jane Walsham. She hathe seyd, syn he departyd hens, but [<i>unless</i>] +she myght have hym, she wold never maryd, hyr hert ys sor set on hym; +she told me that he seyd to hyr that ther was no woman in the world he +lovyd so welle. I wold not he shuld jape hyr, for she menythe good +feythe; and yf he wolle not have hyr, late me wete in hast, and I shall +purvey for hyr in othyr wysse.</p> + +<p>As for your harneys and ger that ye left here, it ys in Daubeneys +kepyng; it was never remevyd syn your departyng, be cause that he had +not the keyes. I trowe it shall apeyer [<i>get injured</i>], but if +it be take hed hate [<i>unless it be taken heed at</i>, or <i>to</i>] be +tymys. Your fader knowythe not wher it is.</p> + +<p>I sent your grey hors to Ruston to the ferror, and he seythe he shull +never be nowght to rood, nowthyr ryght good to plowe nor to carte; he +seyth he was splayyd, and hys shulder rent from the body. I wot not +what to do with hym.</p> + +<p>Your grandam wold fayne here sum tydyngs from yow. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page86" id = "page86">86</a></span> +It wer welle do that ye sent a letter to hyr howe ye do, as astely as ye +may. And God have you in Hys kepyng, and make yow a good man, and zyf +yow grace to do as well as I wold ye shuld do.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Caster, ye Tewisday next befor Seynt Edmund the Kynge. +<span class = "signature">Your moder,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">M. Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I wold ye shuld make mech of the parson [of] Fylby, the berer herof, and +make hym good cher yf ye may.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note84_2" id = "note84_2" href = +"#tag84_2">84.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 168.] As Sir John Paston was knighted in the year 1463, +and his father died in May 1466, the date of this letter must lie +between the years 1463 and 1465. I think the first of these years +is probably the true date. Sir John Paston, it seems, had left home +without letting his mother know of his intention. Whither had he gone? +Not to London, because he addressed a letter to his father there; +besides he had passed by Lynn. One would naturally suppose, therefore, +that he had gone to wait upon the King, at a time when Edward was at a +distance from the capital. And in this view we are confirmed by the +passage in which Margaret desires her son to speak with Wykes, who, as +we know by <a href = "#letter514">Letter 514</a>, was an usher of the +King’s Chamber. Now Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> was in +Yorkshire, staying, for the most part, at Pomfret, during October and +November 1463, while about the same time of year in 1464 he was at +Reading, and in 1465 at Greenwich. Sir John would naturally have passed +through Lynn on his road to the North.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">wherby I conseyve that ye thynke ye ded not +well</span><br> +text has “thar”: corrected from Fenn</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter553" id = "letter553">553</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag86_1" id = "tag86_1" href = "#note86_1">86.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth worchepfull husbond, Jon Paston, be thys lettyr delyveryd in +haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1462-3<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbond, I recomand me +to yow. Plesyth it yow to wet that Jon Jeney was here with me thys daye +and told me that ye desyiryd that I shold do make a dyche at Heylysdon, +and the seson is not for to do make no new dechys, nor to repare non old +tyll it be aftyr Crystmas, as it is told me, and so I sent yow word in a +lettyr more thane a monythe goo; I wot not whedyr ye had the lettyr +or not, for I had non answer ther of fro yow. Jone Dyngayne recomandyth +hyr to yow, and prayith yow for Goddys sake that ye wole be hyr good +mastyr, and that ye wole wychesave to spek to Hwe of Fen for hyr, for it +is so that serteyn lyvelod whyche hyr husbond had in Engham was cast in +the kyngys hand in hyr husbandys lyve, and, as she undyrstandyth, it was +do in hys fadyrys lyve; of the whyche +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page87" id = "page87">87</a></span> +hyr husband spok to Hwe of Fen ther of in hys lyve to helpe that he myth +be dyschargyd ther of, and Hwe of Fen promysyd hym verily that he had +mad an ende ther in and dyschargyd hym, and that he shold never be hurt +nor trublyd ther for; and now the laste wek Barnard the undyr scheryfe +sent downe a warant to sese the lond for the Kynge, and so, but +[<i>unless</i>] he have xx<i>s.</i> for a fyne within shorte tyme he wol +not suffyr her to have the avayle of the londys. Wher fore she prayith +yow, for Goddys sak, that ye wole purvey a mene that Hwe of Fen may save +hyr harmles, in as myche as he promysyd hyr husbond to purvey ther fore +in hys lyve; and if it plese not yow to spek to hym ther of, that it +plese yow to do John Paston or Thomas Playter or sume othyr, that ye +thynk that cane undyrstande the mater, for to spek to the seyd Hwe of +Fen ther of in hyr name, and to serge the kyngys bokys ther fore, if ye +thynk that it be for to do, and sche woll ber the cost ther of. As for +the mater that ze wold I schold spek to Wylliam Worcester of towchyng +the false forgyd evydens, I can not spek with hym yet; hys wyfe +seyth allwe that he is oute when that I send for hym. Yowyr fermore of +Sweynysthorpe hathe fownde suerte for yowyr dute, as Rychard Calle +tellyth me, so that ye scholl be plesyd when ye come home. And the +blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast on the Monday +next aftyr Seynt Andrew. +<span class = "signature">By yowyr,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note86_1" id = "note86_1" href = +"#tag86_1">86.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 198.] This letter +must lie between the years 1459, when Sir John Fastolf died +(as Hellesden belonged to him), and 1465, as John Paston died in +May 1466. The most probable year is either 1462 or 1463, for it is +mentioned here that Paston’s farmer at Swainsthorpe had found security +for the payment of his rent, and Richard Calle had levied four marks +rent of him in February 1464. <i>See</i> <a href = +"#letter558">No. 558</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter554" id = "letter554">554</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag87_1" id = +"tag87_1" href = "#note87_1">87.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +10</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Indenture, 10th Dec. 3 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, +between Robert Wodlark, Provost of the College of St. Mary and St. +Nicholas, Cambridge, and John Paston, Esq., witnessing a loan by Paston +to the college of 100 marks till the octaves of St. Hilary, 1464 +[<i>i.e.</i> 1464-5], upon certain plate.<a class = "tag" name = +"tag87_2" id = "tag87_2" href = "#note87_2">87.2</a></p> + +<p><i>Note below in a different hand:</i>— ‘Memorandum quod Mr. +Alexander Lye erit apud Norwicum in die Martis pro[ximo] post diem +Carniprivii.’</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note87_1" id = "note87_1" href = +"#tag87_1">87.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note87_2" id = "note87_2" href = +"#tag87_2">87.2</a> +The plate specified in this document is the same as that contained in +the <i>second</i> list in <a href = "#letter561">No. 561</a>, at p. +98.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page88" id = "page88">88</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter555" id = "letter555">555</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag88_1" id = "tag88_1" href = "#note88_1">88.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worshipfull mayster, John Paston, at Castre, in Norfolk.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +26</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">After</span> due recomendacion hadde, please +it your maistership to wytte that this day the plee by twene Ogan and +yow was sore argued in the Kynggs Bench by your counsell, in lettyng of +the jugement, and to morwe have they day to argue ageyn. And for lak of +copies of the plee, I am fayn to sewe for newe copies therof for +your counsell. Your counsell hopeth to do weel therin. These argued for +yow, Maisters Grenefeld,<a class = "tag" name = "tag88_2" id = "tag88_2" +href = "#note88_2">88.2</a> Catesby,<a class = "tag" name = "tag88_3" id += "tag88_3" href = "#note88_3">88.3</a> Pygot,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag88_4" id = "tag88_4" href = "#note88_4">88.4</a> Notyngham,<a class += "tag" name = "tag88_5" id = "tag88_5" href = "#note88_5">88.5</a> and +Starky,<a class = "tag" name = "tag88_6" id = "tag88_6" href = +"#note88_6">88.6</a> &c. And yesterday was the matier by twene +Debenham and yow called by Geney<a class = "tag" name = "tag88_7" id = +"tag88_7" href = "#note88_7">88.7</a> for an answer. I have spoken +onto Catesby, and delyvered hym your enfromacion, and to be advysed, and +to commune with Maister Grenefeld, &c.</p> + +<p>The two Chefe Juges<a class = "tag" name = "tag88_8" id = "tag88_8" +href = "#note88_8">88.8</a> and Maister Lyttleton<a class = "tag" name = +"tag88_9" id = "tag88_9" href = "#note88_9">88.9</a> arn awaytyng up on +the Kyng, for the Kyng is purposed in to Gloucestreshire, &c.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page89" id = "page89">89</a></span> +<p>It is seid that my Lord Chaunceller<a class = "tag" name = "tag89_1" +id = "tag89_1" href = "#note89_1">89.1</a> shull be here on Saterday +<ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘on on’: corrected from Fenn">or on</ins> Moneday next comyng, +as the maisteres of the +Chauncerye sayn. I write to yow this by cause ye seid to me if ye +wyst that my Lord Chaunceller shuld be here, thanne wolde ye come +hidder, and ell[es] wolde ye not come here this terme.</p> + +<p>As touchyng Rysyng, he hath his day, Utas<a class = "tag" name = +"tag89_2" id = "tag89_2" href = "#note89_2">89.2</a> Purificationis, but +I have that weye that his presence is recondet for al this terme.</p> + +<p>Maister Clement<a class = "tag" name = "tag89_3" id = "tag89_3" href += "#note89_3">89.3</a> tellyth me that Wysseter hath put excepcion on to +your wyttenesseres,<a class = "tag" name = "tag89_4" id = "tag89_4" href += "#note89_4">89.4</a> &c.</p> + +<p>It is seid that the Kyng wold ride Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and +Norffolk, and so to the Parlement, for he hath sent for alle his feed +men to awayte up on hym in their best aray in al hast.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at London, the Thursday in the morwe after Seynt Poule. +<span class = "signature">Your owen poure man,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Jams Gresham.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_1" id = "note88_1" href = +"#tag88_1">88.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 156.] The date of this letter is abundantly evident, +first from the circumstance that the 26th of January (the morrow of St. +Paul) was a Thursday, and secondly, from the mention of the King’s going +into Gloucestershire. In January 1464 Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> was at Northampton, and on the 9th of February +he was at Gloucester.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_2" id = "note88_2" href = +"#tag88_2">88.2</a> +John Greenfield. He and the two next named were made serjeants-at-law in +November 1463.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_3" id = "note88_3" href = +"#tag88_3">88.3</a> +John Catesby. He was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas in 1481.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_4" id = "note88_4" href = +"#tag88_4">88.4</a> +Richard Pygot.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_5" id = "note88_5" href = +"#tag88_5">88.5</a> +William Nottingham. He was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer in +1479.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_6" id = "note88_6" href = +"#tag88_6">88.6</a> +Humphrey Starkey. He was made a serjeant in 1478.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_7" id = "note88_7" href = +"#tag88_7">88.7</a> +William Jenney was made a serjeant in 1463, and a Justice of the King’s +Bench in 1481.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_8" id = "note88_8" href = +"#tag88_8">88.8</a> +John Markham, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, and Robert Danby, Chief +Justice of the Common Pleas, both appointed in 1461.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note88_9" id = "note88_9" href = +"#tag88_9">88.9</a> +Thomas Lyttelton, the famous lawyer, was created a serjeant in 1453, and +appointed a Judge of the Common Pleas in 1466. He died in 1481, aged +seventy-nine, as Fenn here tells us in a footnote; but Foss, in his +<i>Judges of England</i>, says nothing of his age.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note89_1" id = "note89_1" href = +"#tag89_1">89.1</a> +George Neville, now Bishop of Exeter, but soon after the writing of this +letter translated to York.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note89_2" id = "note89_2" href = +"#tag89_2">89.2</a> +The Utas or Octave of a feast is the seventh day after it.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note89_3" id = "note89_3" href = +"#tag89_3">89.3</a> +Clement Paston, brother to John Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note89_4" id = "note89_4" href = +"#tag89_4">89.4</a> +This relates to the disputes concerning Sir John Fastolf’s will.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">on Saterday or on Moneday next +comyng</span><br> +text has “on on”: corrected from Fenn</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter556" id = "letter556">556</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">HENRY BERRY TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name += "tag89_5" id = "tag89_5" href = "#note89_5">89.5</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my Rygth worsschipful cosyn, John Paston, Squyer, be this Letter +delyveryd, &c.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +28</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worsschypfull and reverent cosyn, +I recomaunde me on to you wyth al myn hert, as your feythful kynnesman +and oratour, desyrynge to here of the goode prosperite and welfare of +your worsschipfull modyr +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page90" id = "page90">90</a></span> +my Lady and cosyn, wyth your wyff, Sir John Paston, your brethern +Wylliam and Clement, with all your sonys and doughters, to whom I +beseche you hertely that I may be recomaundyd. God of His hyghe mercy +preserve you all un to Hys mercy and grace, and save you from all +adversite.</p> + +<p>Worsschipfull cosyn, my speciall writynge and hertys desire afore +rehersyd, nature naturaly so me compellyth,</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>Watt thou I be putt fer ought of conceyte and syght,</p> +<p>I have you all in remembrance both day and nyght;</p> +</div> + +<p>besechynge you, gentyll cosyn, to tender my writynge. I take God to +my wyttnesse, I wold as fayn do that myght be un to your honor, +worsschippe, and profit as any herthly man can thynke.</p> + +<p>Worfor now late deyde the Abbot of our Monastery, and lefte us in +grete ded [<i>debt</i>]; the brynger heroff is my speciall frende: the +holdyst brother in our place never hard nor saw our chirche in that +mysere that is now; we have cast the perellys amongys us, and there is +nowne other helpe, butt every brother that hath any worsschipfull kynne +or frendys, every man to do his part to the well fare, socour, and +releve of our monasteri; therfor, worsschipfull cosyn, I, a brother +of that worsschipfull monastery, wer inne begoon the feyth of all thys +lond, mekely besechyth you in the reverence of Allmygty God to render +help, and socour us in our grete necessite; for in London lyth to wedde +many ryche jowells of ouris, with other grete detts, wych my brother +wyll enforme you of.</p> + +<p>Plesyth your goodnesse, for Godys sake, and all the Seyntts of evyn, +and att my sympyll request, to have compassion upon us, ye havynge dooe +swerte [<i>due surety</i>] both in obligacions and pleggs; in the +reverens of All myghti God, do your allmesse and charite; hitt schall +cause you to be prayed for, and all your kynne as long as the chirche +stantt; and be this menys, I trust to All myghty God, to se my +cosyn William, or Clement, to be stward of our londys, and so to have an +intresse in Kentt, to the worsschippe of God and you all, wych ever have +you in His kepynge. Amen.</p> + +<p>Writyn at Caunterbiry in hast the xxviij<sup>ti</sup> day of +Januare.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page91" id = "page91">91</a></span> +<p>Also I beseche you, schew the brynger of this letter sum humanite and +worsschipe, that when he comyth home, he may reporte as he fyndeth.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "tag91_1" id = "tag91_1" href = +"#note91_1">91.1</a>[This is the cause every wele thi putt my kynne in +my berd, seyinge, I am come of lordys, knygtes, and ladys. +I wold they wer in your daunger a m<sup>l.</sup> merke, that they +mygte know you, &c.] +<span class = "signature">Be your cosyn and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Henry Berry.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note89_5" id = "note89_5" href = +"#tag89_5">89.5</a> +[From Fenn, i. 278.] By the mention of Sir John Paston it is evident +that this letter was written after 1463, but of course the date cannot +be later than 1466, in which year John Paston the father died, to whom +the letter is addressed. It appears also to have been written shortly +after the death of James Sevenoke, Abbot of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, +which Fenn, I know not on what authority, says occurred in 1463. +Even the new edition of Dugdale does not give the date; but Fenn’s date +is in all probability right.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note91_1" id = "note91_1" href = +"#tag91_1">91.1</a> +This last paragraph is crossed out in the original <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter557" id = "letter557">557</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">CLEMENT PASTON TO JOHN PASTON SENIOR<a class = +"tag" name = "tag91_2" id = "tag91_2" href = +"#note91_2">91.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To hys rythe worchyfull broder, John Paston thelder, Sqwyer be this +delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Broder</span>, I recomawnde me to zowe. After +all dew recommendacions, &c. Az for Hew Fennys obligacion, Zelverton +knowlacheyd it to be Sir John Fastolfe is dede opynly in the Escheker, +and ther he hadde is jugement to receive the mony and x<i>li.</i> for +domages. And they report here that they have a schreve after her entent +that wyll mak hem execucion, or ellis return that ye have wastyd the +godis of the dede; so that they wyll have execucion of zowr own goodis, +or ellys a wryt to tak zowr body. Thus ze may se they zeve no fors wat +they doo, thow they xwld lesse and stroy all the goodis of the dede; And +ther for, for savacion of goodis of the dede, better it wer to suffer +tak sum trete than to suffer the goodis thus to be lost. Also Zelverton +hathe ben at all the tenauntis of Sowthewerk and chargid hem to pay no +mony but to hym. Also the kyng hathe ben in Glowcetescher and pwnyssede +hys rebellious a zens the lawe, and so he entendithe to doo in Norfolk, +and after that in oder contreez. God zeve grasse and good spede in hys +jornay. No more but I +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page92" id = "page92">92</a></span> +pray Gode have zow in hys kepyng. Wretyn on Hasse Wednysday in +haste.</p> + +<p>Also I pray zou, send me xl<i>s.</i> that I tok James Gressam and +John Pampyng for zowr materis. Also ther is no man that hathe contentyd +ony thyng in the Kyngis Benche of all thys term for zour materis, and +that makythe the clerkis and zowr Aturnay wery. I trow I xall be +fayn to contente hem or ellys they xall be unpayyd. +<span class = "signature">Zowr broder,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Clement Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note91_2" id = "note91_2" href = +"#tag91_2">91.2</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 2.] For the date +of this letter and the King’s going to Gloucestershire, see preliminary +note to <a href = "#letter555">No. 555</a>, <a href = +"#note88_1">p. 88, Note 1</a>.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter558" id = "letter558">558</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag92_1" id = "tag92_1" href = "#note92_1">92.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mooste reverent and wurchipfull mastre, my Mastre John Paston, be +this delyverd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> it your goode mastreschip to +undrestande that I have receyved a byll of John Boteler, weche speketh +of your heygh at Heylesdn, and of your barly in other places, but I +undrestand not what ye wold I schulde do therin; nevertheles I schal do +make it redy. And as for your heygh I schull tell you whan I come hume; +and as for money at Heylesdon I can non gete, and at Sueynesthorp I have +take iiij. marc.</p> + +<p>Item, as for tidyngs the Sescions schal be at Thetford on Wednesday +next comyng, where I undrestande Mr. Berney wol be with moche people, be +cauce ther is come to hym a +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page93" id = "page93">93</a></span> +Prevy Seale that he schuld be with the Kyng within vj. dayes that the +Prevy Seale whas delyverd hym, weche he can not doo, for the vj. day is +to morwe. Ther is on comen to Felbrigge, to William Yelverton on other, +and to Robert Rough an other, and non of them wol goo to the Kyng; and +the Undrescherif tolde me that ther is comen a comyscion doun to hes +maistre, that in cas they come not up to the Kyng be ther Prevy Seales, +that than he rere the contre and take hem and bryng hem to the Kyng wher +so ever he be.</p> + +<p>Item, Jamys Gresham tellethe me the same, and as for tidyngs fro +London we here non, but that John Colman telleth me that if Berney or +Robert Rough come up they are like to die.</p> + +<p>Ther be come to London Embasetors from the Duke of Burgundy, weche +cauced the Kyng to spede hym the rather to London.</p> + +<p>Item, as for any newe assises at Thetford ther is non but that hathe +hanged this v. yere, as the Scherif tellethe me.</p> + +<p>I whas purposed to be at home this nyght tell I had your bille, weche +cauceth me to ride on to Drayton for divers thyngs, &c. Almyghty +Jesu preserve you.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Norwiche, the ij. Munday of clene Lente. +<span class = "signature">Your pore beedeman and servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Ric. Calle.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note92_1" id = "note92_1" href = +"#tag92_1">92.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 72.] This letter and the next both mention assizes at +Thetford. The latter, which is dated on Wednesday, the last (29th) day +of February, and which was certainly written in the year 1464, mention +them as being held on that very day. The present letter, dated on the +second Monday in Lent, says they are <i>to be</i> held on Wednesday +following. Now the second Monday in Lent 1464 fell on the 27th of +February, that is to say just two days before that particular Wednesday +on which we know that the assizes really were held. This alone seems +almost sufficient evidence of the date of the letter. As for the King’s +going up to London, it appears by the dates of the Privy Seals that on +the 9th February he was at Gloucester, on the 16th and 17th at +Kimbolton; and it is stated in the next letter that he was at Waltham on +the 27th, which shows that he really was moving towards the capital. +This was not the case in 1462, the year to which Fenn assigns the +letter; nor do I know his authority for stating that there was a +Burgundian Embassy in the beginning of that year.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter559" id = "letter559">559</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PAMPYNGE TO JOHN PASTON, SENIOR<a class = +"tag" name = "tag93_1" id = "tag93_1" href = +"#note93_1">93.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worshipfull master, John Paston, the elder, Squier.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. +29</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> your mastership to wete that the +Assise holde this day at Thetford; and as for any newe Assise, that ye +spak of, ther is non, ner non other savyng on for a man a bought +Brunham.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page94" id = "page94">94</a></span> +<p>I spak with Herward, and I askyd hym if ther was any gret day at +Bury, and he seid ther was but a small day, and as for any assises ther +wer non but old; and he told me that Debenham and the Undershireff were +falle ought. Debenham bare the Shireff on hand<a class = "tag" name = +"tag94_1" id = "tag94_1" href = "#note94_1">94.1</a> that he had do +indited an hundred men son he cam in to his office, and the Shireff told +hym that the Kyngs bokkes apperid whedir it was so or nought; and he +told Debenham that he coud indite an hundred at on tyme whan ye wer +indited, and named yow the cause of ther brekyng.</p> + +<p>Ther was a man kyllid now late in Suffolk, and he that ded it was on +of Debenhams men; and Herward told me that the Shireff seid to hym he +wold do Debenham a shrewd turne and he coud.</p> + +<p>Item, it was told me at Norwich that Master Berney shuld have be here +with a gret felaship, and it is not so, ner no man heryth of hys comyng, +ner her is but litell pepill nowther, ther wer not so few this iij. yer, +as men say.</p> + +<p>Item, Herward askyd me where John Gayn was, and I askyd why, and he +seid ther is a <i>capias</i> ought ayens hym upon the condempnaceon,<a +class = "tag" name = "tag94_2" id = "tag94_2" href = +"#note94_2">94.2</a> and the Shireff hath it, he bad me geve hym +warnyng; it is retarnabill xv. Pasch.<a class = "tag" name = "tag94_3" +id = "tag94_3" href = "#note94_3">94.3</a></p> + +<p>Item, thei sey here that the Kyng was on Monday at Waltham.</p> + +<p>Item, Nicholas Colman hath brought home your fardell; it is at +Norwich.</p> + +<p>Item, ther be no more Juges here but Sir Pers Ardeyn.<a class = "tag" +name = "tag94_4" id = "tag94_4" href = "#note94_4">94.4</a></p> + +<p>Wretyn at Thetford, the Wednesday the last day of Februar.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page95" id = "page95">95</a></span> +<p>Item, Wymondham<a class = "tag" name = "tag95_1" id = "tag95_1" href += "#note95_1">95.1</a> is here, and was at the shirehows this day, and +the Kyngs livery abaught his nekke, and ther stood be the Juge, whill a +lettir of the Kyngs was red. The effect was, as it was told me, that the +Kyng will that justice be had, and that all risers ayens the pees, and +oppressers of the pepill, be chasteised, letyng hem weet<a class = "tag" +name = "tag95_2" id = "tag95_2" href = "#note95_2">95.2</a> that he was +late in Cambrigge Shire, and there such as had offendid askyd grace, +whech thei had, savyng such as wer rewlers, whom he woll somwhat bee +punyshid, purposyng to be in this contry abought Estern, &c. +<span class = "signature">Your servaunt, &c.,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Pampynge.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note93_1" id = "note93_1" href = +"#tag93_1">93.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 158.] The circumstance of the last day of February +falling on a Wednesday fixes the date of this letter to the year 1464. +There is no evidence in the dates of Privy Seals that the King was at +Waltham in the end of February, or that he had previously visited +Cambridgeshire, in any year during the period when this letter must have +been written; but it is quite possible that he was at Waltham on the +27th February 1464, and if so, that he had passed through Cambridgeshire +on his way from Kimbolton, where he had been on the 17th.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note94_1" id = "note94_1" href = +"#tag94_1">94.1</a> +<i>i.e.</i> accused him. <i>See</i> vol. ii. p. 110, Note 1.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note94_2" id = "note94_2" href = +"#tag94_2">94.2</a> +Query, as to this word, it being not perfect in the +original.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note94_3" id = "note94_3" href = +"#tag94_3">94.3</a> +Quindena Paschæ, the fifteenth day after Easter.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note94_4" id = "note94_4" href = +"#tag94_4">94.4</a> +Sir Peter Ardern, Knight, was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, +and also a Justice of the Common Pleas, in 1448; but in 1462 a new Chief +Baron was appointed, and Ardern retained only the judgeship in the +Common Pleas. He died in 1467.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note95_1" id = "note95_1" href = +"#tag95_1">95.1</a> +John Wymondham, Esq., the purchaser of Felbrigg; he died there in 1475, +and was buried in the Augustine Friars at Norwich.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note95_2" id = "note95_2" href = +"#tag95_2">95.2</a> +The word ‘weet’ is omitted in Fenn’s original text, but occurs in the +modern copy.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter560" id = "letter560">560</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGEST TO JOHN PASTON, HIS +FATHER<a class = "tag" name = "tag95_3" id = "tag95_3" href = +"#note95_3">95.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rygte reverent and worchepfull fadyr, John Paston, dwellyng in +Castyr, be thys delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +1</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> reverent and worchepfull fadyr, I +recomand me on to yow, besechyng yow lowly of your blyssyng, desyryng to +here of yowyr wellfar and prosperyte, the whyche I pray God preserve on +to Hys plesans, and to yowyr hertys desyir; besechyng yow to have me +excusyd that ye had no wrytyng fro me syth that I departyd frome yow; +for so God me helpe, I send yow a lettyr to London anon aftyr +Kandylmas, by a man of my Lordys; and he forgat to delyver yt to yow, +and so he browt to me the lettyr ayen; and sythe that tyme I kowd get no +messenger tyll now.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page96" id = "page96">96</a></span> +<p>As for tydyngs, syche as we have here I send yow. My Lord and my +Lady<a class = "tag" name = "tag96_1" id = "tag96_1" href = +"#note96_1">96.1</a> ar in good hele, blyssyd be God, and my Lord hathe +gret labore and cost here in Walys for to take dyvers gentyllmen here +whyche wer consentyng and helpyng on to the Duke of Somersettys goyng; +and they were apelyd of othyr se[r]teyn poyntys of treson, and thys +mater. And bycause the Kyng sent my Lord woord to keep thys contre, is +cause that my Lord terythe here thus longe. And now the Kyng hathe geve +my Lord power, whedyr he wole do execusyon upon thes gentyllmen, or +pardon hem, whedyr that hym lyst; and as fertheforthe as I kan +undyrstand yet, they shall have grase. And as sone as thes men be come +in, my Lord is perposyd to come to London, whyche I supose schall be +within thys fortnyght. The menys namys that be apechyd ar thes, John +Hanmer, and Wylliam hys sone, Roger Pulyston, and Edward of Madok; these +be men of worchepe that schall come in.</p> + +<p>The Comenys in Lancasher and Chescher wer up to the nombyr of a x. +m<sup>l.</sup> [10,000] or more, but now they be downe ayen; and one or +ij. of hem was hedyd in Chestyr as on Saterday last past.</p> + +<p>Thomas Danyell<a class = "tag" name = "tag96_2" id = "tag96_2" href = +"#note96_2">96.2</a> is here in Chesscher, but I wot not in what plase, +he hathe sent iij. or iiij. letyrys to Syr John Howard, syne my Lord +come hedyr.</p> + +<p>And othyr tydynggs her we none here, but that I supose ye have herd +before; I supose veryly that it schall be so nye Esterne<a class = +"tag" name = "tag96_3" id = "tag96_3" href = "#note96_3">96.3</a> er +ever my Lord come to London, that I schal not move [q. <i>mowe</i>? +<i>i.e.</i> be able] come home to yow before Estern; wherfor I besech +yow, that ye wole wyche save [<i>vouchsafe</i>] that one of your men may +send a byll to myne oncyll Clement, or to som othyr man, who that ye +wole, in youyr name, that they may delyver me the mony that I am +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page97" id = "page97">97</a></span> +behynd of this quarter syn Crystmas, and for the next quarter, in parte +of that some that it plesid yow to grant me by yer; for by my trowthe, +the felawchep have not so myche mony as we wend to have had be ryth +myche; for my Lord hath had gret costs syn he came hedyr. Wherfore I +besech yow, that I may have this mony at Estern, for I have borowyd mony +that I must paye ayen after Estern: and I pray to Allmyty God have yow +in kepyng.</p> + +<p>Wretyn in the Castyll of the Holte, in Walys, the fyrst day of +Marche. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and lowly servant,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">John Paston</span>, +the yongest.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note95_3" id = "note95_3" href = +"#tag95_3">95.3</a> +[From Fenn, i. 284.] ‘The Duke of Somerset’s going’ here referred to +cannot well be his flight to Scotland in 1462 (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter512">No. 512</a>), though the time of year at which this letter +is dated would agree very well with that supposition; for it appears by +<a href = "#letter511">Letter 511</a> that John Paston, the father, was +at that time residing in the Temple and not at Caister; nor indeed have +we distinct evidence of his being at the latter place before 1464. +Moreover, in the beginning of 1463, Somerset had just made his peace +with King Edward and been received into favour, but early in 1464 he +rebelled again. There can be little doubt, therefore, that this year is +the true date.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note96_1" id = "note96_1" href = +"#tag96_1">96.1</a> +John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth, his wife.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note96_2" id = "note96_2" href = +"#tag96_2">96.2</a> +This gentleman had a reversionary grant of the constableship of Rising +Castle in 1448, 27 Hen. <span class = "smallroman">VI.</span> He married +Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Howard, and sister of Sir John, +afterwards Duke of Norfolk. He is said to have been attainted in the 1 +Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, but fully restored both in +blood and possessions in the 14th of the same King. He was esquire of +the body to Henry <span class = "smallroman">VI.</span>—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note96_3" id = "note96_3" href = +"#tag96_3">96.3</a> +In 1464 Easter Day fell on the 1st of April.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter561" id = "letter561">561</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag97_1" id = +"tag97_1" href = "#note97_1">97.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +11</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Copy of an indenture bearing date 11th April, 4 Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, witnessing the delivery to Richard Calle, +servant of John Paston, Esquire, by John, prior of the monastery of Holy +Trinity, Norwich, by virtue of the King’s writ, of a red box containing +seventeen bundles of evidences, with £40 of silver in groats, and 80 +nobles of gold, in a bag, and other valuables.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +An inventory of the articles referred to in the foregoing indenture is +contained in a separate paper mutilated in the right-hand margin, which +we give verbatim as follows:—</p> + +<p>This is the parcell be endenture received by Richard Calle of<span +class = "enspace"> . . . . +. . . . . . . </span>day +of Aprile the forthe yere<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +</span>as it apperit by the copye that the seyde Richard sendeth me by +John Threcher.</p> + +<div class = "list"> +<p>Unam cistam rubeam cum xvij. bundellis evidenciarum in eadem cista +contentis.</p> +<p>Quadraginta libras argenti in grossis et iiij<sup>xx.</sup> +nobil.</p> +<p>Duo turribula<a class = "tag" name = "tag97_2" id = "tag97_2" href = +"#note97_2">97.2</a> argenti et deaurata.</p> +<p>Unam pixidem argenti et deauratam.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +I left no cruet in the cofer.<a class = "tag" name = "tag97_3" id = +"tag97_3" href = "#note97_3">97.3</a></p> + +<p>Unum osculatorium cum imagine Sancti Jacobi et<span class = +"enspace"> . . . .</span></p> +<p>Unum cruett argenti et deauratum.</p> +<p>Unum crismatorium rotundum. +<span class = "signature">Md.<a class = "tag" href = +"#note97_3">97.3</a></span></p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +I left non soch in the cofer but chalis of gold.<a class = "tag" href = +"#note97_3">97.3</a></p> + +<p>Unum calicem argenti et deauratum.</p> +<p>Unum alium calicem cum imagine Sanctæ Trinitatis.</p> +</div> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page98" id = "page98">98</a></span> + +<p>This is the copy of a bille drawin in Englyche that I sent home [of +all] manner of suche stuff as was in myne coffre in the abb[ey]<span +class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . </span>by a letter sent with the same +bylle that he chowlde take hede that<span class = "enspace"> +. . . </span>yf he fonde aney more, well be +it, as it aperit in the seyd lett[er]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . </span>woulle be lokyd [<i>locked</i>] +uppe.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Thes to chalis after the unc’ xx. <i>s.</i> ar worth xliij. <i>li.</i><a +class = "tag" name = "tag98_2" id = "tag98_2" href = +"#note98_2">98.2</a></p> + +<div class = "list"> +<p>Unum calicem de auro playne ponderis duas li[bras].</p> + +<p>Unum alium calicem de auro cum scriptura ‘Cal[icem salutaris +accipiam,’<a class = "tag" name = "tag98_1" id = "tag98_1" href = +"#note98_1">98.1</a> ponderis xix. unc’].</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +This is worth xiij. <ins class = "correction" title = +"printed in roman (non-italic) type"><i>li.</i> +xv. <i>s.</i></ins><a class = "tag" href = "#note98_2">98.2</a></p> + +<p>Unam tabulam de auro cum imagine Sancti J[acobi positam cum lapidis +pretiosis,] ponderis xiij. unc’ et iij. quarteria.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Thes be worth, after xxx. <ins class = "correction" title = +"printed in roman (non-italic) type"><i>d.</i></ins> the unch xxviij. +<ins class = "correction" title = "printed in roman (non-italic) type"><i>li.</i> +xiij <i>s.</i> ix. <i>d.</i></ins><a class = "tag" href = +"#note98_2">98.2</a></p> + +<p>Unum par turribulorum argenti et deaurat’ cum scriptura, viz., in +prima parte ‘Dat’ est eis,’ &c.; et in secunda parte ‘Ascendit +fumus,’ pond’ xiij. lb. et [x. unc’].</p> + +<p>Unam pixidem argenti pro sacramento deaurat’ cum cruce [in summitate +ac chased cum] liliis, pond’ v. lb. et iij. unc’ di’.</p> + +<p>Unam ampullam argenti deaurat’ pond’ i. lb.<a class = "tag" name = +"tag98_3" id = "tag98_3" href = "#note98_3">98.3</a></p> + +<p class = "space"> +<a class = "tag" name = "tag98_4" id = "tag98_4" href = +"#note98_4">98.4</a>All this was put in a paner togyddre and<span class += "enspace"> . . . . </span>for +to berit in to the coffre.</p> + +<p>Item, xl. mark in noblis and xl. li. in gro[tis].</p> + +<p>Item, evydens.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note97_1" id = "note97_1" href = +"#tag97_1">97.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note97_2" id = "note97_2" href = +"#tag97_2">97.2</a> +Thuribula, censers, from <i>thus</i>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note97_3" id = "note97_3" href = +"#tag97_3">97.3</a> +These marginal notes are in John Paston’s hand.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_1" id = "note98_1" href = +"#tag98_1">98.1</a> +Psalm cxv. [cxvi.] 13.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_2" id = "note98_2" href = +"#tag98_2">98.2</a> +<i>See</i> Note 3 on last page.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_3" id = "note98_3" href = +"#tag98_3">98.3</a> +The plate in this list is the same as that described in <a href = +"#letter554">No. 554</a>, by which the words lost in this <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span> have been supplied.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_4" id = "note98_4" href = +"#tag98_4">98.4</a> +Added in John Paston’s hand.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">This is worth xiij. <i>li.</i> xv. +<i>s.</i><br> +Thes be worth, after xxx. <i>d.</i> the unch xxviij. <i>li.</i> xiij +<i>s.</i> ix. <i>d.</i></span><br> +all currencies (“li.”, “s.”, “d.”) printed in roman (non-italic) +type</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter562" id = "letter562">562</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SACRED VESSELS<a class = "tag" name = "tag98_5" +id = "tag98_5" href = "#note98_5">98.5</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +This is the plate that was in my cofir at Norwich.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">A chaleys</span> of goold playne, weyng ij. +pound.</p> + +<p>Item, a nother chaleys of goold, with this writynge ‘Calicem +salutaris<a class = "tag" name = "tag98_6" id = "tag98_6" href = +"#note98_6">98.6</a> accipiam,’ weyng xix. unces.</p> + +<p>Item, one table of gold, with an image of Sen James set with precious +stonys, weyng xiij. unce iij. quarter.</p> + +<p>Item, one peyre of sensers of silver and gilt, with scripture, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page99" id = "page99">99</a></span> +viz., in the first part, ‘Dat’ est eis,’ &c., and in the second +parte, ‘Ascendit fumus,’ &c., weyng xiij<i>li.</i> et x. unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, one box of silver and gilt for the sacrement, with a crosse in +the heyght, and chased with liliis, weying v<i>li.</i> iij. unc’ di.</p> + +<p>Item, one potte callid a crismatorie to put in holy creme and oyle, +of silver and gilt, weying j<i>li.</i></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_5" id = "note98_5" href = +"#tag98_5">98.5</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This list of +articles is in the handwriting of Richard Calle, writing, +I presume, as John Paston’s secretary, and in his name. It will be +seen that it corresponds with a Latin list contained in <a href = +"#letter561">No. 561</a>, and must therefore be the ‘bill drawn in +English’ there referred to.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note98_6" id = "note98_6" href = +"#tag98_6">98.6</a> +Salutularis, <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter563" id = "letter563">563</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">A LIST OF GILT IMAGES<a class = "tag" name = +"tag99_1" id = "tag99_1" href = "#note99_1">99.1</a></span></h3> + +<p>An image off Owr Lady with ij. awngellis sensyng, gilthe, +viij<sup>xx.</sup> unc’, viz., xiii<i>li.</i> et. iiij. unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, a crosse with a fott, lx. unc’, gilthe in to cassys and gilt, +viij<sup>xx.</sup> & xvij. unc’, viz., xiiij<i>li.</i> & ix. +unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, an image of Sent Jon Vangelist, gilthe, weyng +vij<sup>xx.</sup>x. unc’, viz., xij<i>li.</i> vj. unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, an image of Sent Jon Baptist, gilthe, with the Lamb, lviij. +unc’, viz., iiij<i>li.</i> x. unnc’.</p> + +<p>Item, an image off Sent Jamis with his staff, gilthe, weyng xxxvj. +unc’, viz., iij<i>li.</i></p> + +<p>Item, an image off Our Lady, gilthe, with a crowne and a lely, weyng +iij<sup>xx.</sup>vj. unnc’, viz., v<i>li.</i> vj. unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, an image of Sent Denys, gilthe, weyng l. unc’, viz., +iiij<i>li.</i> ij. unc’.</p> + +<p>Item, an image off owr Savyowr, gilt, with His crosse, His diademe, +and His fane, v<sup>xx.</sup>xj. unc’, viz., ix<i>li.</i> iij. unc’.</p> + +<p class = "inset"> +Summa unciarum xl<sup>xx.</sup>viij. unc’.<br> +Summa lxvij. lib. iiij. unc’.<br> +Sum in markis Cj. mark ij. unc’, di.</p> + +<p>Memorandum, j. lib. continet xij. unc’; j. marc continet viij. +unc’.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Endorsed</i>—Episcopus Cantuariensis.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note99_1" id = "note99_1" href = +"#tag99_1">99.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This list is +likewise in the handwriting of Richard Calle, and was perhaps drawn up +about the same time as the preceding one.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page100" id = "page100">100</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter564" id = "letter564">564</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">CLEMENT PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag100_1" id = "tag100_1" href = +"#note100_1">100.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rygth worchepful broder John Paston Sqwyer.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worshypfull brothyr, I recomawnde +me to zow. After all dew recomendacions, &c., plesse it zow to wett +that after that I had harde say that the person of Blowfelde<a class = +"tag" name = "tag100_2" id = "tag100_2" href = "#note100_2">100.2</a> +wasse com to town I went to hym to his in, and he bade the mesenger say +that he wasse not within, and I bad hym say a gayn that I come thyder to +hym for hys own worchep and avayle and that I wasse sory that I com so +fer for hym; and after that he sent for me and he cowde not fynde me, +and I harde say ther of. And than I wrott a letter, resytyng how that he +wasse sworn yesterday for to say the trowthe of al maner of materis +consernyng Sir John Fastolfe, avysyd hym to remember qwat hys wytnesse +hadde sayd for hys sake, and wat schame it xwlde be to hym to say the +contrary; And also, if he sayde the contrary, ze wold herafter prove the +trowthe and contrary to hys sayyng, and prove hym in a perjuri. And also +I badde hym remember with wat maner of men he delt wythe; and I rehersyd +how untrwly they hadde don. And not with standyng thys, after I met with +hym in the strett and spak with hym, and I fownde hym passyng strawngely +disposyd and sor mevyd with consiens that ze xwld have the lond and +fownd the colage but with an C. marcs, not with stondyng he myth fynde +in hys consiens by the well that the colage xwld be fowndyd in a noder +plasse but with an C. marcs, and the reminaunt of the lylode sold so +that he myth pwroe the mony; so I felt by hym that all hys strawngenes +from zow is for he demythe that ze wold parte from no thyng; and I told +hym the contrary ther of to be +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page101" id = "page101">101</a></span> +trwe, az this day he is exaymined up on a bok to sey the trowthe of all +thynges as the juge will<a class = "tag" name = "tag101_1" id = +"tag101_1" href = "#note101_1">101.1</a> aske hym, for the jugeis +informacion; wych I trowe wyll not be good. Also they have pwt in +<i>testes</i> azens zow iij<sup>xx</sup> or iiij<sup>xx</sup> men. +Mayster Robard Kent wold sayn that ze xwle gett zow ij. lycens of the +prioris of zowre wytnes, Mayster Clement and the monke, with an A<a +class = "tag" name = "tag101_2" id = "tag101_2" href = +"#note101_2">101.2</a> datt beryng before the comyng up; for that must +ye nedis have. Also he wold sayn that ze xwld com to thys towne. Me +thowte by Sir Thomas that they have aswerte in maner that ze xall have +no lycens for zour fundacion. And [<i>i.e.</i> if] they be abowte to +gett a lycens to fownde the colage in a noder place, me thynkythe that +wold hurte; her colour is for cause ze can gett no lycens to fownde it +at Caster; werfor thow zour wyll wer trwe, they myth lawfully fownde it +in a noder place. My Lord Chawnceler<a class = "tag" name = "tag101_3" +id = "tag101_3" href = "#note101_3">101.3</a> is gone to Zork and wyll +not be her of all thys term. Wrytyn on Wednisday nexst be for Saynt +George.</p> + +<p>The Kyng hathe ben in Kent and ther ben endityd many for Isleis +dethe; and he wyll com to town this day azen and he wyl not tary her but +forthe to Zork straytt. +<span class = "signature">By <span class = "smallcaps">Clement +Paston</span>.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note100_1" id = "note100_1" href = +"#tag100_1">100.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 7.] This letter +was written in April 1464, when witnesses began to be examined about +Fastolf’s will. <i>See</i> <a href = "#letter565">No. 565</a>. The Privy +Seals of Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> show that he was +in Kent (at Dartford) on the 15th and 18th of that month, and he +immediately after started for York.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note100_2" id = "note100_2" href = +"#tag100_2">100.2</a> +Thomas Howes.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note101_1" id = "note101_1" href = +"#tag101_1">101.1</a> +‘will.’ In <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> ‘w<sup>t</sup>,’ which +ought to read ‘with’; evidently a slip of the pen.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note101_2" id = "note101_2" href = +"#tag101_2">101.2</a> +Apparently meaning an <i>ante</i> date.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note101_3" id = "note101_3" href = +"#tag101_3">101.3</a> +George Nevill, Bishop of Exeter, afterwards Archbishop of York.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter565" id = "letter565">565</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag101_4" id = +"tag101_4" href = "#note101_4">101.4</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Depositions touching Sir J. Fastolf’s +Will</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = +"sidetext">APRIL-NOV.</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p class = "hanging"> +‘Primum testes reprobatorii producti per Yelverton, contra testes Paston +principaliter productos &c.</p> + +<p>‘Facta fuit sequens examinatio testium subscriptorum secrete et +singillatim, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page102" id = "page102">102</a></span> +videlicet, Domini Johannis Davy capellani vicesimo octavo die mensis +Aprilis, Thomæ Upton quinto, Johannis Bockyng duodecimo, Nicholai Newman +xvj<sup>to</sup> diebus mensis Maii; Johannis Loer, Willelmi Eton +quarto, Roberti Lynne quinto, diebus mensis Junii; Bartholomei Elys +tercio, magistri Roberti Wylly sexto, Johannis Marshall, Johannis Davy +terciodecimo et Willelmi Lyne ultimo, diebus mensis Julii; Anno Domini +millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo quarto, Indictione duodecima, +pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri, domini Pii +Divina prudencia Papæ Secundi anno sexto, In Domo Thesaurarii ecclesiæ +Cathedralis Sancti Pauli, London, infra parochiam Sancti Gregorii +civitatis London situat’, per venerabilem virum magistrum Johannem +Druell, utriusque juris doctorem, examinatorem et commissarium ad infra +scripta specialiter deputatum. In præsentia mei Nicholai Parker notarii +auctoritate Apostolica, publici scribæ in hac parte de et super +exceptionibus infra scriptis, par partem domini Willelmi Yelverton et +Willelmi Worceter productorum.’</p> + +<p>1. John Davy chaplain, staying at the University of Cambridge, +<i>liberæ conditionis</i>, 30 years old and more, examined <i>super +exceptionibus infrascriptis</i> of which the tenors are quoted, viz., on +the part of Yelverton and Worceter against John Russe, Robert Cutteler +clk., Master Clement Felmyngham, Rob. Boteler, Ralph Lampet, Brother +Will. Bokyngham, and Master Robert Popy, witnesses on the opposite side, +whose testimony is discredited ‘eo quod parte sua non præsenti +juraverunt et super non juratis deposuerunt, ac in depositionibus suis +fuerint et sint varii, contrarii, singulares negativam asserentes, +causas dictorum suorum minime reddentes, unumque et eundem præmeditatum +sermonem proferentes, a testatore non vocati aut rogati perhibere +testimonium, nec sufficienter probantes in hac parte, prout ex +inspectione depositionum suarum liquere poterit intuenti.’ Further, John +Russe was illiterate, and did not understand Latin when he made his +deposition, and he contradicted the other witnesses on his own side: +viz., to the 9th interrogatory he said, Sir J. Fastolf’s will was +not written before his death, which Clement Felmyngham and Robt. +Cutteler in their reply to the 3d said it was. Moreover he expected +advantage to himself from his testimony, and was discharged by Howys of +£300 that he owed Fastolf. He had also secretly abstracted certain +muniments and charters of the testator, which were in the custody of +Will. Worceter, in the house of John Tovy, at Castir, Norwich dioc., in +Nov. 1459. Moreover he was <i>supravisor et locator</i> of the +testator’s lands called Akethorpe, yearly value 9 marks, appointed by +Paston or Howys, who promised to sell them to him much under value for +his testimony. Further, his statement that he was present <i>in quadam +bassa camera</i> at Caister between 8 and 9 <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span> on the Saturday before Sir J. Fastolf’s +death, was a perjury, for he was really all that time in other places a +long way off. His declaration that he was no servant or tenant of those +who brought him forward was untrue: he had hired a house of Howys in the +town of Yarmouth, value 40s. a year. He was inconsistent in his +testimony about the hour Sir J. declared his will. He also pretended +never to have seen Fastolf’s will before his death, although he wrote +the said pretended will with his own hand with the date at the head, +which at the beginning of this suit he caused to be cut off from the +writing and hidden.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page103" id = "page103">103</a></span> +<p>Also the said Rob. Cutteler chaplain, when he made his deposition, +was ‘levis opinionis, malæ conscientiæ et de mensa Joh’is Paston ac +tenens ipsius, prout ad primum interrogatorium examinationis suæ primæ +et secundæ respondebat.’ Also he was perjured; because in April 1457 in +par. of Holy Trin., Castir, he beat and maimed one Jo. Flemyng, and +boasted of it (<i>ac sic factum nomine suo ratum habuit</i>), but +being taken before Sir J. Fastolf, justice of the peace, he swore +he had not done so.—Proofs that he was not disinterested.</p> + +<p>Exceptions to Rob. Popy: He was a tenant of Paston’s, &c. +&c.</p> + +<p><i>Davy</i> says John Rus was at Yarmouth on the Saturday in +question, as he usually was on Saturdays, to buy victuals for Fastolf’s +house, &c. (Proof declared insufficient in the margin). Sir +J. Fastolf was so ill, that, as Davy had heard he was unable to +speak from 22d Oct. ‘Quæ quidem infirmitas vocabatur judicio medicorum, +<i>sincope</i>, quæ ipsum vexabat singulis horis et ipsum deduxit ad +extasim de scientia istius jurati, qui continue conversabatur cum eo +usque ad ipsius mortem.’</p> + +<p>2. Thos. Upton, one of the clerks of the King’s kitchen, +<i>literatus</i>, ‘liberæ conditionis,’ forty years old and over; 2d. +witness.</p> + +<p>Mentions that W. Worceter gave Jo. Rus a casket to keep containing +certain documents, which Rus delivered to Howys after Fastolf’s death. +Was clerk of the kitchen to Fastolf when Rus used to go on Saturday to +Yarmouth, &c.</p> + +<p>9 May. Jo. Bokkyng produced by Jo. Naseby, proctor of Yelverton and +Worceter, before Master Tho. Wynterton, LL.D., auditor of Thomas +Archbishop of Canterbury, at his house in the parish of St. Martin, in +presence of Robert Kent, proctor of John Paston.—Examination +committed to John Druell, LL.D. who on the 12th May examines him +secretly in the house of the treasurer of St. Paul’s.</p> + +<p>‘Dicit quod Johannes Tovy quædam munimenta et evidencias<a class = +"tag" name = "tag103_1" id = "tag103_1" href = "#note103_1">103.1</a> in +certis bagis et pixidibus contenta quæ Willelmus Worceter eidem Johanni +Tovy liberavit custodienda.’ Rus was and is Howys’ tenant for the house +he lives in. After Fastolf’s death Upton delivered to Clement Felmyngham +a signet or gold ring, ‘ad signandum sigilla dicti domini Johannis +Fastolf,’ in a little bag, which was to be returned ‘post signacionem +hujusmodi,’ but afterwards he said he had lost it. Touchyng brother +W. Bukyngham, it was publicly noised at Yarmouth that Robert Brown, +a chaplain of that town, had killed one Seman Burton, that +Bukyngham knowingly received him, and that by his advice he fled. To the +last exception he says he believes Fastolf did not release Paston from +the payment of the said 4000 marks, ‘quia iste juratus non intellixit in +tota vita sua tantam liberalitatem in dicto domino Johanne Fastolf.’ +Fastolf had such difficulty in breathing for five or six days before his +death that he could hardly speak.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +Interrogatories proposed on the part of Paston and Howys, and +administered to witnesses.</p> + +<p>‘In primis, interrogetur quilibet testis hujusmodi cujus sit +conditionis et an +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page104" id = "page104">104</a></span> +sit famulus, <a class = "tag" name = "tag104_1" id = "tag104_1" href = +"#note104_1">104.1</a>serviens aut tenens partis eum producentis, et cui +parti magis favet partium prædictarum.’ Secondly, whether he be in the +pay of any one. There are six interrogatories in all, and they are +numbered.</p> + +<p>Then follow answers of some one, whose name does not appear, to each +of these six interrogatories; and other answers by—</p> + +<p>1. Nich. Newman, Usher of the Chamber to Lady Catherine, Duchess of +Norfolk.</p> + +<p>2. John Loer, servant of the Abbot of Langley.</p> + +<p>3. Will. Eton.</p> + +<p>4. Rob. Lynne of Bucklande.</p> + +<p>5. Barth. Elys of Yarmouth, ‘literatus liberæ conditionis,’ fifty +years old and more (proves Rus’s absence, but his testimony is declared +in the margin to be improbable, and not to agree with Davy’s).</p> + +<p><i>6 July.</i> Naseby produces Rob. Wylly on the part of Yelverton +and Worcester. Examined on the 9th.—Says he was required by Paston +and Howys to see Fastolf’s will, and ‘ad impediendum +[<i>impendendum</i>] consilium suum:’—that on a Sunday in the +summer after Fastolf’s death, John Paston showed him, at Fastolf’s house +in Southwark, Sir John’s will written on paper, in presence of Clement +Felmyngham and John Bracley, and asked his opinion if it was valid. +Thought it insufficient to overthrow any previous will. A clause +mentioning Tudenham and Heydon as executors was cancelled by this +deponent’s advice, ‘eo quod erat contra caritatem.’</p> + +<p><i>13 July at Bow Church.</i> Naseby produces John Marshall and John +Davy, whose examinations follow.</p> + +<p><i>19 Oct. 1464.</i> Druell examines Hen. Wenstall at the treasurer’s +house of St. Paul’s.</p> + +<p><i>15 Nov. 1464.</i> Druell examines Rob. Hert.</p> + +<p><i>1 Dec.</i> Naseby produces Rob. Fyztrauf, whose production Kent +opposes; who tries to prove Rus’s absence (insufficiently, as remarked +in the margin), because he was constantly with Fastolf, except half an +hour that morning, and held the basin while Henry Barbour lathered the +beard (<i>lavit barbam</i>) of the said Sir John Fastolf.</p> + +<p>‘Responsiones personaliter factæ per dominum Thomam Howys unum +executorum domini Joh’is Fastolf, ultimo die mensis Aprilis Aº +D<sup>ni</sup> 1464,’ &c., ‘coram Ven. viro Mag’ro Thoma +Wynterbourne, LL.D.,’ &c., ‘in camera ejusdem infra manerium +Rev<sup>mi</sup> patris apud Lamehith, Winton dioc’ situat’, in +præsenncia mei Nicholai Parker,’ &c.</p> + +<p>Howys says he did not see Coteler or Rus in Fastolf’s chamber that +Saturday before he went to dinner. On Saturday and Sunday before his +death Fastolf spoke so low he could hardly be heard by any one, and +Howys heard him only by putting his ear close to his mouth. Fastolf’s +mind was clear.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note101_4" id = "note101_4" href = +"#tag101_4">101.4</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Phillipps, 9309.] These +depositions, of which we shall only attempt to give some of the +principal points, were produced in the Spiritual Court by Sir William +Yelverton and William Worcester in opposition to the claim of John +Paston and Thomas Howes to be Sir John Fastolf’s executors. The +examinations were taken at intervals during the years 1464, 1465, and +1466, and the suit was not terminated when John Paston died. The <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span> volume here referred to contains three +distinct bundles of these depositions bound up in a wrong order. +A volume containing similar matter among the Paston <span class = +"smallroman">MSS.</span> in the British Museum will be found entered in +the year 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note103_1" id = "note103_1" href = +"#tag103_1">103.1</a> +There is no verb in the <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> to govern +<i>munimenta et evidencias</i>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note104_1" id = "note104_1" href = +"#tag104_1">104.1</a> +The text is continued here at another part of the volume, the leaves +being misplaced.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page105" id = "page105">105</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter566" id = "letter566">566</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag105_1" id = +"tag105_1" href = "#note105_1">105.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 12</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Power of attorney by Roger Fidyon, clerk, and William Bondys to +Richard Lynstede, John Holme, and John Brikkes, to enter and take +possession of the manor of Hornynghall, in Castre, by Yarmouth, with +appurtenances in Castre, Maudeby, Ormesby, Filby, and Scroudeby, or +elsewhere in the hundred of East Flegge, Norfolk, which the said Roger +and William have of the gift of Edmund Clere; and thereafter to deliver +seisin therein to Agnes Paston, William Paston, Elizabeth, Countess of +Oxford, John Veer, Earl of Oxford, John Scroop, Knight, Lord Scroop, Sir +William Yelverton, Elizabeth Cleere; William Jennay, John Grenefeld, +John Catesby, Serjeants-at-Law; John Hastynges, John Clopton, John +Calthorp, Hugh Fen, Thomas Cornewaleys, Thomas Howes, clerk, Roger +Marchall of London, Henry Spilman, William Lomnour, Bartholomew Whyte, +William Whyte, John Applyerd, James Arblaster, William Wurcetyr, and +Richard Maryot, according to a charter granted to them by the said Roger +and William.</p> + +<p>Castre, 12th May, 4 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note105_1" id = "note105_1" href = +"#tag105_1">105.1</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in the Bodleian +Library.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter567" id = "letter567">567</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag105_2" id = "tag105_2" href = +"#note105_2">105.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To myn ryght worshypful hosbond, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in +haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE 8</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worshypful hosbond, rekomaund me +on to you. Pleasyth you to wete that I sent yisterday Loveday to +Norwyche to speke wyth the Vykyr of Derham<a class = "tag" name = +"tag105_3" id = "tag105_3" href = "#note105_3">105.3</a> for the mater +betwen Master Constantyn and hym; and he seyth that as for that mater, +Master Constantyn sewyd hym for +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page106" id = "page106">106</a></span> +feyth and trowth brekyng, and he sewed Master Constantyn in the +Temporall Curte uppon an obligacion of x<i>li.</i>; and ther was made +appoyntment be twen hem by the advyce of bothe ther Conceylis, be for +Master Robert Popy, that eche of hem shuld relece othyr, and so they +dede, and the sewtys wer wythdrawyn on bothe partyes, and iche of hem +aquytauncyd othyr; and as for any copy of the plee, he had never non, +ner he ner Master John Estegate, that was hys atornay, remembryth nat +that it was regestryd; and Master John Estegate seythe, if it schuld be +scergyd in the regester it wold take a fortenyght werk, and yit +peraventur never be the nerer.</p> + +<p>Syr Thomas Howes hathe ben ryght besy thys weke at Blofeld, in +wrytyng and lokyng uppe of ger, and John Russe hathe ben with hym ther +the moste parte of alle thys weke, and thys day was Robert Lynne ther +with hym; what they have do I wote nat, but I schal wete if I may.</p> + +<p>It was told me that Syr Thomas desyryd of John Russe to make hym a +new inventory of Syr John Fastolffs goods. John Russe myght not be spoke +with yit, for the letter that he shuld a wretyn, whych ye sente me word +of.</p> + +<p>Item, it is tolde that the Dwke of Suffolk<a class = "tag" name = +"tag106_1" id = "tag106_1" href = "#note106_1">106.1</a> is kome home, +and owthyr he is ded, or ellys ryght seke, and not lyke to eskape; and +Syr John Howard is kome hom; and it is seyd that the Lord Skalys<a class += "tag" name = "tag106_2" id = "tag106_2" href = "#note106_2">106.2</a> +and he have a comyssyon to enquer whye they of this contre that were +sent for kame not hastylar uppe afftyr they wer sent for. It is reportyd +that the Kyng is gretly dyspleasyd ther with. At the reverence of God, +arme yowr selve as myghtyly as ye kan ageyn yowr enmyes, for I know +verrayly that they wyl do ageyn yow as myghtyly as they kan with all +ther power.</p> + +<p>It is told me that Syr Thomas shal kom uppe in haste, and othyr, +suche as he kan make for hys partye.</p> + +<p>Also for Goddys sake be war what medesyns ye take of any fysissyans +of London; I schal never trust to hem be cause of your fadr and myn +onkyl, whoys sowlys God assoyle.</p> + +<p>The blissyd Trynyte have yow in Hys kepyng, and sende +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page107" id = "page107">107</a></span> +yow helthe and good spede in all yowr materis. Wretyn in haste, on the +Fryday next befor Sceynt Bernabye. +<span class = "signature">By yowrs,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Alle the jentylmen of thys contre that went uppe to the Kyng ar +contrmaundyd, and ar com hom ageyn. It is told me that Rowse of +Suffolk<a class = "tag" name = "tag107_1" id = "tag107_1" href = +"#note107_1">107.1</a> is ded. If John Gayn myght have any releese of +his sone, if it myght do hym ese, it wer a good torne for hym.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note105_2" id = "note105_2" href = +"#tag105_2">105.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 176.] The commission to Lord Scales and Sir John Howard +mentioned in this letter seems to have reference to a proclamation dated +the 11th May 1464, by which all men between the ages of sixty and +sixteen were ordered to attend the King. The date is confirmed by the +reference in the postscript to the death of ‘Rous of Suffolk,’ for +Reginald Rous of Denington died in 1464. (<i>See</i> Weever’s <i>Funeral +Monuments</i>, p. 782.)</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note105_3" id = "note105_3" href = +"#tag105_3">105.3</a> +Constantine Dalby was instituted to the Vicarage of East Dereham in +1451, and was succeeded in 1458 by Robert Sheringham.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note106_1" id = "note106_1" href = +"#tag106_1">106.1</a> +John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note106_2" id = "note106_2" href = +"#tag106_2">106.2</a> +Anthony Widville was created Lord Scales in 1461.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note107_1" id = "note107_1" href = +"#tag107_1">107.1</a> +Reginald Rous, Esq. of Denington, in Suffolk, died in 1464. He was the +ancestor of the present Earl of Stradbroke.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter568" id = "letter568">568</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag107_2" id = "tag107_2" href = +"#note107_2">107.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wurschipfull my mastre, John Paston, be this delyverd in +haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +28</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> it youre goode maisterchippe to +witte that I have be with my Mastre Calthorppe for the matre ye wrote to +hym fore, wherin I have founde hym ryght weele disposed and favorabley; +nevertheles he tolde me that William Jenney hath bene hes goode frende +and have ben of hes councell this ij. yere in all hes matres towchyng +the lawe, but he seide lever he hadde lose the lesser frende than the +greete frende, and so he hathe graunted favour accordyng to youre +desire, and wrote a lettre to the undrescheryff of Norfolk that he +schuld take suerte sufficient to save hym harmeles, and that done to +write a letter to the undrescheryff of Suffolk and lete hym witte that +he hath taken suerte that ye schall appere in the <i>crastino +Animarum</i> upon the exigents returnable, or elles +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page108" id = "page108">108</a></span> +to bryng a <i>super sedias</i><a class = "tag" name = "tag108_1" id = +"tag108_1" href = "#note108_1">108.1</a> lauful before that daye, +chargyng hym that he do sece [<i>cause to cease</i>] the callyng of the +writts, and to retorne that ye appered the furst day. Weche suerte is +taken, and a letter wreten to the undrescheryff of Suffolk acordynge +herto.</p> + +<p>Item, as for Sir Thomas Howes, he lythe most at Norwiche. I can +thynke he come not up to London tyll Michelmes.</p> + +<p>Item, I rode over to Techewelle whan that I whas at Mastre +Calthorppes for to have money of the fermours, and Yelverton and Sir +Thomas hathe sent to hem that they schol pay to you no more money, for +that they had payed to you they schulde payed [<i>pay it</i>] ayene to +them; and so I gane [<i>can</i>] gete no money of hem. Wherfore I went +for to distreyne hem; and so they seide that I myght not distreyne hem, +for I come before the daye, for her [<i>their</i>] day is at Midsomer. +Nevertheles I wold not lette, for that Simond Miller and other promysed +to Mr. William Cotyng and to me that I schuld have the money aftre +Midsomer, so that I brought with me a quetaunce of suche money as ye +have receyved of hem, or elles a generall quetaunce; and the tone I +purposed to do in haste be the advice of the seide Mastre +W. Cotynge. For, and I torned, I can thynke it schuld hurte. +I am purposed to lete it in youre name to other folks or to them +ayen, and suerte founde to you, &c. And Almyghty God preserve and +kepe you. Wreten at Norwiche on Sen Petres Even. +<span class = "signature">Your pore servaunt and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Ric. Calle.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note107_2" id = "note107_2" href = +"#tag107_2">107.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +refers to the suit brought by Jenney against Paston in 1464, in which, +as will be seen hereafter, Paston failed to appear at four successive +county courts held at Ipswich, and was at last outlawed in Michaelmas +term. <i>See</i> <a href = "#letter572">No. 572</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note108_1" id = "note108_1" href = +"#tag108_1">108.1</a> +<i>Super sedias.</i> So spelt in <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page109" id = "page109">109</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter569" id = "letter569">569</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO EDWARD IV.<a class = "tag" name = +"tag109_1" id = "tag109_1" href = "#note109_1">109.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the Kyng, our Liege Lord.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Besechyth</span> lowly your humble servaunt, +John Paston the older, squier, that it please youre good grace, for such +a fyne as your highnes hath apoynted your seid besecher to content yow, +wherof ye be put in suerte, to graunt on to your seid besecher your +gratious lettirs patentes of licence to found, stabilissh, and endewe in +the gret mancion of Caster in Flegge in Norffolk, that late was John +Fastolffs, knyght, cosyn to your seid besecher, a college of vij. +prestes, wherof one to be master, and of vij. porefolk, to pray for your +noble astate and for the soule of the seid John Fastolff and such other +as he was behold to inperpetuite, aftir ordinauns by your seid besecher +in that behalff to be made; and to inmortese, geve and graunt to the +seid prestes and to ther successours, for the sustentacion of hem and of +the seid porefolk CXX. mark of annuite and rent charge, or annuites and +rentes charge, yerly goyng out of the maners callid Redhams, Vaux, and +Bosomes, in Caster forseid, Begviles in Wynterton, Reppis in Bastewyk, +Spencers in Heryngby, Loundhall in Saxthorp, Heylesdon, Drayton, +Heynesford, Guton in Brandeston, Beyton, Techewell, and of the thrid +part of the maner of Runham with th’apportenauns in the shire of +Norffolk, and of the maners of Hemnales in Cotton, Burneviles in Nakton, +Akthorp in Leystoft, Calcotes, Havelound, Spitlyngges, with +th’apportenauns in the shire of Suffolk, and out of any part of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page110" id = "page110">110</a></span> +the seid maners, with a clause of distresse for defaut of payment of the +seid rente, and vj. acres of lond in the seid towne of Caster, and the +avowsons of the chirches of the same town, and the fourth part of the +seid mancion, or any part therof for the habitacion of the seid prestes +and porefolk, to be reparid at the costs of your seid besecher, and his +heires or assignes for evir. And also by your seid lettirs patentes to +graunt the same prestes to be one body incorperate and to have +succession perpetuall, and a comon seall, and to be persones abill to +plede and to be impletid, and to purchase and alienyn all maner londes, +goodes and catell, by the name of the master and his brethyrn of the +college of Sen John Baptist of Castre aforeseid. And also by your seid +lettirs patentes to licence the seid prestes to take and reseyve, and to +hold to them and to ther successours the seid annuite, rent charge, vj. +acres of lond, avousons, and the seid ———<a class = +"tag" name = "tag110_1" id = "tag110_1" href = "#note110_1">110.1</a> +part of the seid mancion, for evir. And to geve your Chaunceler of +Inglond for the tyme beyng, comaundement, power, and auctorite that +where as in this petision is not comprehendid the certeynte of termes, +maters, clauses, and other circumstaunces convenient and requisite after +forme of lawe for licens of the seid fundacion, that your seid +Chaunceler, that notwithstandyng, do make your seid lettirs patentes in +forme of lawe effectuall and sufficient in that behalf after the very +entent aforeseid, not excedyng the valew and somme before specifyd, +without any fyne or fee other thanne is afore specifyd to be payd for +the seid lettirs patentes, licens, or grauntes, by your seid besecher or +by the seid prestes; and thei shall pray hertly to God for yow.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Endorsed in a later hand:</i>—Supplicatio Jo. Paston [pro] +fundacione Collegii apud Caistor [secundum] formam testamenti Jo. +Fastolf, mil.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note109_1" id = "note109_1" href = +"#tag109_1">109.1</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> in the Bodleian Library.] +This, and the alternative petition which follows, seem to have been +drawn up in the year 1464, as one or other of them must have been the +subject of the agreement of the 10th September in that year (<a href = +"#letter571">No. 571</a>). The two are printed from two parchment +<span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> in the Bodleian Library. There is +also, among the Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> in the +British Museum, a third copy, fair written on parchment like the +other two, of which the text corresponds in the beginning to the second +petition, and in the latter part to the first.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note110_1" id = "note110_1" href = +"#tag110_1">110.1</a> +A blank on an erasure.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page111" id = "page111">111</a></span> + +<h4><a name = "letter569b" id = "letter569b">II.</a></h4> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the Kyng, our Sovereyn Lord.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Please it yowr highnes to graunte unto yowr humble servant John Paston +the older, Squier, yowr gracious lettres patents of licence to fownde, +stabelysh, and endewe in the gret mancion of Castre be Mekyll Yermowth +in Norffolk, that late was John Fastolffs, knyght, cosyn to yowr seyd +besecher, a colage of vij. prystes wheroff on to be master, and +vij. pourmen, to praye for your noble astate, and for the sowle of the +said Fastolff and suche othir as he was be holde to inperpetuite, and to +inmortese and gyve to the seyd prystes, and to ther successours for the +sustentacion of hem, and of the seyd pourmen C. marke of annunite and +rent charge, yerly goyng owt of all maneres, londes, and tenementz that +were the seyd Fastolffs within the Shyres of Norffolk and Suffolk, and +vj. acres of londe in the sayd town of Castre, and the iiij. parte of +the sayd mancion for the habitacion of the sayd prystes and pourmen, to +be repared at the costes of your seyd besecher and hys heyres and +assignes for ever, as suerly and lawfully as your seyd besecher can +devise. And also be your letters patentz to graunt the same prystes to +be one bodie incorperate, and to have succession perpetuall, and a comon +seall, and to be persones abyll to plede and be impletid, and to +purchase and alienyn all maner londs, tenements, godes, and catell, be +the name of the master and hys brethyrn of the collage of Saynt John +Baptiste of Castre aforsayd. And also be your letters patentz to licence +the sayd prystes to take and receyve, and to holde to theym and to ther +successours the sayd annaunite, rente charge, vj. acres of lond, +avowsons, and the seyd iiij. parte of the said mancion for ever, with +owte eny ffyne or fe to be payde for the sayd lettres patentz, licens or +grauntes be your sayd besecher, or be the said pristes. And thei shall +pray hertly to God for you.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Endorsed in a later hand:</i>—Peticio Joh’is Paston Arm’ ad +Regem pro collegio in Caister.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter570" id = "letter570">570</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO MASTER ROTHEWELL<a class = "tag" +name = "tag111_1" id = "tag111_1" href = +"#note111_1">111.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Maister</span> Rothewell, please you to +remembre, as for the mater that John Paston and Sir Thomas Howys +comownyd with you of, in whiche they desyred specialy the good lordship, +support and helpe of my Lordis of Wynchestre and Beauchamp for +acomplishement of the will +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page112" id = "page112">112</a></span> +of here testatour<a class = "tag" name = "tag112_1" id = "tag112_1" href += "#note112_1">112.1</a> and in esshewynge of costis. And where as ye +meovyd to knowe the materys that were contraryed be otherys, we +undirstonde and have knowlege of late tyme it<a class = "tag" name = +"tag112_2" id = "tag112_2" href = "#note112_2">112.2</a> stondeth in +these materys folwyng.</p> + +<p>Fyrst, the seyd Testatour be hise testament namyd the seyd Lordys and +the seyd John Paston and Thomas Howys and othyr executorys, and wolde as +for the admynistracion, kepyng and execucion of his goodis shuld be +takyn and doo be the seyd Paston and Howys duryng here lyves, if they +will take admynistracion; and if ony of hem too desese or refuce the +admynistracion, the tothyr to chese to hym on of the remnaunt of the +executorys to execute, &c. And if bothe deye, noon chosyn, thanne +tweyne to be chosyn be the executorys levyng, or the more part of hem, +to admynistre in lyk wise. And they too that do occupye to have recourse +to my seyd lordis and the othyr executorys in takyng here good avyse +chargeable and requysit materys. And this is oon matere that othyr namyd +in the Testament gruche with. Notwithstandyng, as for ony avauntage that +we cleyme to have by it, we wyll be agreable to ony mean resonable that +oure seyd lordis wyll ordeyne to the good disposecion of the goodys +accordyng to oure testatorys intent, or to ony meane that may concyensly +or lawefully be meovyd.</p> + +<p>Item, as for hise wyll touchyng hese goodis on mevable, as hese +londis and tenamentis, the seyd testatour hathe at all tymes this xx. +yeer, in all wyllis that he hathe made, ordeynid that a gret part of +hyse seyd londis shuld goo to the fundacion of a collage at Castre of +vij. monkys or pristis and vij. pore folke; and he by hyse last wyll +ordeynid that the seyd John Paston shuld have all the londis and +tenementis in Norffolke, Suffolke and Norwyche; and that the seyd Paston +shuld at hese cost inmorteyse and indewe the seyd Collage and paye +iiij<sup>ml</sup> mark to be dysposed for the testatouris soule, as is +declaryd in the seyd wyll more pleynerly. And as for the remnaunt of the +lyflode to be sold, and the mony thereof comynge to be disposed be thoo +personys that he hathe ordeynid to have the execucion of hise wyll and +testament.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page113" id = "page113">113</a></span> +<p>And as for thys matere of the Collage, there shall, be the mene +hereof, more mony growe to the handis of the mynistrorys, what soo ever +they bee, and also lesse labour thanne shuld have doo and thys hadde not +bee, in cas the seyd mynistroris wolde intende to parforme ony will that +the seyd Testatour made thys xx. yeer. And also it shalbe well provyd +that the seyd Testatour was dysposed to have doo more largely to the +seyd Paston thanne is conteynid in the seyd wyll if he hadde levyd the +tyme to have expressyd and parformyd hise wyll and entent.</p> + +<p>Wherfor, plese my seyd lordis to take suche a direccion that the may +undirstonde the trouthe of these materys, and to shewe here good +lordshepys and favour accordyng to the trouthe in parformyng of the +Testatourys wyll, and in sesynge of voyd costis of hese goodis. And that +they will geve noo credence to suche as wyll upon here owyn +imagynacionys for maleyse or invye intendyng to contrarye the dedys wyll +or mys spende hese goodis . . .</p> + +<div class = "annotation"> +<p><i>Endorsed by another hand:</i>—</p> + +<p>A letter to Rothwell or Worcester or of Watkyn Schyddam.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note111_1" id = "note111_1" href = +"#tag111_1">111.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 33,597, f. 6.] This letter +would seem to be of about the same date as <a href = +"#letter569">No. 569</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note112_1" id = "note112_1" href = +"#tag112_1">112.1</a> +Sir John Fastolf.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note112_2" id = "note112_2" href = +"#tag112_2">112.2</a> +<i>it.</i> <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> reads ‘in.’</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter571" id = "letter571">571</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">FOUNDATION OF CAISTER COLLEGE<a class = "tag" +name = "tag113_1" id = "tag113_1" href = +"#note113_1">113.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Apunctuament’ Regis pro fundacione Collegij apud Caistre, &c.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +10</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">The</span> Kyng, for the soume of CCC. mark of +lawfull mony of Inglond, or of silver plate to the valew therof, +grauntith to John Paston the older, Squier, to have licens, lawfully +mad, to make and found a College of vij. prests and vij. pore folk at +Caster, in Flegge in Norffolk, for the soule of Sir John Falstolf, +Knyght; thei to be indued with certeyn rent, and otherwise aftir the +intent and effect as is specifijd in a bille therof, signed by the Kyng; +and that he +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page114" id = "page114">114</a></span> +shall showe his good grase, favour, and assistance to have the said +fundacon inacted and auctorised in the parlement next holden, and +discharge the seid John Paston and the seid prests of any other fyne or +fee to be mad in the Chauncerie for the seid fundacion; and that the +Kyng shall signe and graunt warants for seid licens, and shewe his good +grace and favour in the expedision therof, what tyme he be sued to +therfore by the seid John Paston.</p> + +<p>Also, the Kyng grauntith to be good and favorabill Lord to the seid +John Paston, and inespeciall in all thyngs touchyng the execucion of the +will of the seid Sir John Fastolf, and also to be good and favorabill +Lord to the seid John Paston, in supportyng and helpyng hym, in that the +Kyngs Highnesse may lawfulle do, in such maters as are in debate athwyx +the seid John Paston and William Yelverton, or William Jenney, or any +other, concernyng the londs and tenements, goods or cattell, that were +the seid Sir John Fastolfs. Also the Kyng grauntith to help and support +the seid John Paston to opteyne and have to the use of the seid Sir John +Fastolf such goods as were the seid Fastolfs deseitfully aloyned out of +the possession and knowlech of the seid John Paston; and that the Kyng +shall graunt the seid John Paston such lawfull writynggs and lettirs +from the Kyng, directed to such persones as shall be behovefull for the +same, what tyme the seid John Paston suyth to the Kyngs Highnesse +therfore.</p> + +<p>Also where Yelverton, or Jenney, or any Justise of the Peas of the +Shire of Suffolk hath recorded any riot, trespas, or offenses to be do +ayens the Kyngs peas, by the seid John Paston, his servaunts, or +tenaunts, or frends; or where any inditement or presentment is found +ayens them, or any of them, before any of the seid Justises, for any +such riot, offenses, trespas, or for any other mater remaynyng of record +in the Kyngs Benche, or in any other plase, the Kyng grauntith to the +seid John Paston, and all other persones named in the seid records or +inditements, or in any of hem, and to alle her boroughs +[<i>sureties</i>] and plegges, and to ich of hem that woll sue it, +a pardon of all riotes, trespas, offenses, felonys, forfetures doon +ayens the Kyngs peas, and of fynes therefore +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page115" id = "page115">115</a></span> +dempt [<i>adjudged</i>], or to be dempt, and of all other thyngs +generally, treason except, and that the Kyng shall signe warants lawfull +of the seid pardons, what tyme his Highnesse be requerid by the seid +John Paston or his attornys.</p> + +<p>And also that his Highnesse shall do inquere and examinacion be mad +whedir the seid record of the seid Justises and presentments, and other +informacions or compleynts mad ayens the seid John Paston, were do +trewly and lawfully or nought; and if it be found that thei were do +otherwise thanne trought, lawe, or consiens woll, thanne the Kyng +grauntyth to cause the doers therof to recompense the seid John Paston +and the seid other persones, as far as lawe and good consiens woll in +that behalf.</p> + +<p>And that if it fortune any compleynt to be mad ayens the seid John +Paston, by any persone in tyme comyng, to the Kyng, that he shall take +no displeasir to the seid John Paston till the tyme he come to his +answer, and be found in defaut.</p> + +<p>And that the Kyng shall receyve an C<i>li.</i> of the seid CCC. mark, +what tyme he send for it, and the remnaunt as sone as the seid fundacion +take effect; and also that his Highnesse shall gete the assent of the +reverent fader in God, the Archebisshop of Caunterbury, in such +apoyntments as is mad athwyx the Kyng and the seid John Paston, of such +goods as were the seid Sir John Fastolfs, for the delivere therof; and +that if the seid John Paston refuse the administracion of the goods and +catell that were the seid Sir John Fastolfs, sufferyng other to take it +opon hem, the Kyng, at the instauns of the seid John Paston, grauntith +to be good and favorabill Lord to such other as the coors of the lawe, +and assent of the seid John Paston, shall take the seid administracion +in execucion of the seid Fastolfs will, touchyng the administracion of +the goods and catell forseid, acordyng to the same wyll; and that the +Kyng shall not cleyme nor desire any of the londs or tenements, goods or +catell, that were the seid Sir John Fastolf, ayens the seid John Paston, +or any other executor, administror, or feffe of the seid Sir John +Fastolf, nor support or favour any other persone in cleymyng any of the +seid londs or tenements, goods or catell, ayens any the seid +administers, executores, or feffes.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page116" id = "page116">116</a></span> +<p>And the Kyng grauntith that where as this bille is not sufficiently +mad in clauses and termes according to th’entent therof, that his +Highnesse woll take and execute the very entent therof, notwithstandyng +the insufficiens of any such termes and clauses in thes bille. Wretyn at +Marleburgh, the Monday next after the Nativite of oure Lady, the fourthe +yere of the reigne of the Kyng.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note113_1" id = "note113_1" href = +"#tag113_1">113.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 182.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter572" id = "letter572">572</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACTS<a class = "tag" name = "tag116_1" id = +"tag116_1" href = "#note116_1">116.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Outlawry of John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +20</span></p> + +<div class = "annotation"> +<p>The following writs and copies of writs stood originally on a file in +the order in which they are here noticed.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +I. Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> to the Prior of +Norwich.—Orders him to deliver to the bearer all goods in his +hands belonging to John Paston, Esq., who is outlawed. Reading, 20 +Nov.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +II. Writ to Edmund Clyre, Escheator of Norfolk, touching the above +outlawry.—John Paston is here called ‘the elder.’ Dated 20 +Nov.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +III. <i>Supersedeas</i> addressed to the Escheator of Cos. Cambridge and +Hunts to stay confiscation of the goods of John Paston, who has been +outlawed, first for trespass against William Jenney, and secondly for +trespass against William Hogan; of which he was convicted in Suffolk on +Monday, 10 Sept., 4 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> Both +cases are removed by writs of error into the King’s Bench.—Teste +J. Markham apud Westin., 28 Nov., 4 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span></p> + +<p class = "space"> +IV. Copy of <i>supersedeas</i> on the exigent issued at Jenney’s suit to +the Sheriff of Suffolk.—Teste J. Markham apud Sekbrok, 24 +Aug., 4 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> With the return +on the writ of exigent, notifying Paston’s non-appearance when +proclaimed at the county courts held at Ipswich on Monday 21 May, Monday +18 June, Monday 16 July, and Monday 13 Aug., 4 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> The <i>supersedeas</i> was delivered to the +sheriff by Richard Calle in Paston’s name on the 29 Aug.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +V. Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> to Sir John Markham, +Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.—Commands +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page117" id = "page117">117</a></span> +him to make <i>supersedeas</i> upon the exigents. For, as the King +understands, Jenney obtained judgment against Paston for £23 : 10s., and +William Hogan by the support of Jenney took another action, and obtained +a judgment of £16 : 13 : 4 ‘against conscience and law, as we be +informed.’ If Paston has delivered to the sheriff any writs of error to +send the actions to our court of parliament, he is to comply, according +to the usual course in such cases.—Fotheringay, 3 Aug.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +VI. Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> to Thomas Croxton, +Clerk of the Crown.—Commanding him to search the records and see +that the processes of outlawry against John Paston have been well and +sufficiently made out.—Reading, 3 Oct.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +Memorandum subjoined, ‘that William Jenney’s counsel hath openly vaunted +in Westminster Hall that the King hath sent another letter to the +sheriff, commanding him to certify John Paston outlawed.’</p> + +<p class = "center"> +⁂ V. and VI. are copies on the same paper.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note116_1" id = "note116_1" href = +"#tag116_1">116.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter573" id = "letter573">573</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR WALTER BLOUNT TO THE PRIOR OF NORWICH<a +class = "tag" name = "tag117_1" id = "tag117_1" href = +"#note117_1">117.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the Prior of Norwich.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Reverend</span> fader in God, I recomaunde me +to you. And for so muche the Kyngs hyghnesse is advertysed ye shuld have +in . . . .<a class = "tag" name = +"tag117_2" id = "tag117_2" href = "#note117_2">117.2</a> certayn goodes +of John Pastons to the value of vij. or viij. m<sup>l</sup> mark wherin +the Kyng is entytilled by such processe of owtlawry as is awarded ayenst +the said Paston; Wherefor in the Kynges name I charge you that if any +such good be in your governance<a class = "tag" name = "tag117_3" id = +"tag117_3" href = "#note117_3">117.3</a> or within your monastery, ye +suffer noon of thayme to passe oute of your garde, but suerle to kepe +thaym unto the Kynges behouffe, unto ye tyme ye have otherwise in +comaundment, as ye will answer at your perille and in eschewing his gret +displeasur and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page118" id = "page118">118</a></span> +such jeopardies as by the lawe myght ensue to youre over gret damage, +which I ne wold. And of your disposicion herin it like you I may be +certified in writing by the berour herof. And Oure Lord have you in his +keping. Wryten at London the xxvij. day of Novembre anno +lxiiij<sup>to</sup>. +<span class = "signature">By the Tresorer of Ingland,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Syr Water Blount.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note117_1" id = "note117_1" href = +"#tag117_1">117.1</a> +[<span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in Pembroke College, +Cambridge.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note117_2" id = "note117_2" href = +"#tag117_2">117.2</a> +A word or two illegible.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note117_3" id = "note117_3" href = +"#tag117_3">117.3</a> +So the word seems to have been originally, but the writing is faded, and +a modern hand has attempted to restore the beginning as ‘no + . . .’</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter574" id = "letter574">574</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag118_1" id = "tag118_1" href = "#note118_1">118.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worshipfull maister and brother, John Paston, this letter be +taken.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1464(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worshipfull and reverend mayster +and brother, with alle my service I recommaunde me on to yow. Please hit +onto your grete wysedom to have yn your descrete remembrauns the streite +Ordre on which we ben professid, and on which ze er bownden to kepe your +residens, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page119" id = "page119">119</a></span> +and specially on this tyme of Crystmas amonggis your confrerys of this +holy Ordre, the Temple of Syon; for ynlesse than ze kepe dewly the +poynts of your holy Religion, owr Maister Thomas Babyngton, maister and +soverayn of owr Order of th’assent of his brythryn ben avysed to awarde +azenste yow ryght sharp and hasty proces to do calle yow to do your +obcervauns, and to obeye the poynts of your Religion, which wer on to me +grete hevynesse. Wherfore I, as he that hath most grettest cause, and ys +most bownden on to your grete gentylnesse, and also whom nature and +kynde most specially byfore every of alle owr breth[r]yn bynden me to +owe and wilne yow goode wylle and trewe hert, consyderyng the grete tyme +of penawns that ze havyn ben yn fro sone upon Mighelmas hederto, that ys +to say, yn relevyng and sustenawns of your evyn Crysten,<a class = "tag" +name = "tag119_1" id = "tag119_1" href = "#note119_1">119.1</a> and also +yn the charytable and meritory dede of almyssdoyng, that ys to say yn +plenteous and liberall zeftis, which ys more precyusseur than goolde er +sylver, which hath nat be at alle tymys to your grete ease, neyther +hertis plesauns, but rather to your grete desese and yntollerable peyne. +And wher Godds lawe and manys lawe acorden that hit shall nat be lawful +to non erthely man to be so lyberall and plenteous of that that God +sendith hym, that he sholde so despose hit so that he sholde nowgch have +to lyve by; and forasmych as I have perfite knowlich of your freel<a +class = "tag" name = "tag119_2" id = "tag119_2" href = +"#note119_2">119.2</a> [<i>frail</i>] and naturall disposiseon so set on +to theym that ben nedy and hunggery that of your selfe ze have no myght, +neyther power to absteyne and rewle yourself, but also long as God +sendith and zevyth yow whereof to dispose and help your evyn Crysten ze +most nedis despose hit forth a monggus your evyn Cristen, +I conseile yow that yn also hasty and goodely tyme as ze kan to +come on to your holy brytheryn that ben of that devowt and clos +conversacion, to th’entent that ze myght ben advertysid and lernyd by +theym the goode rewle and messur that ze owght and sholde have yn the +despociscion and delyng of your almys.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page120" id = "page120">120</a></span> +<p>And also, sethnys ze haven chosen zow a place yn this seson of Avent, +yn which ze have had a resonable leysour and space to do your penauns +yn, which drawith fast to a ende; which hath been a convenyent place as +for the ceson of the yer; and now hit drawith fast on to Cristmas, on +which tyme every trewe Crysten man sholde be mery, jocunde, and glad. +And sethnys ther is no place which by lyklyhod of reason ze shulde fynde +yn your hert to be so gladde and yocunde yn as ze sholde be yn the place +of your profession a mounggis your holy brytheryn; yn which place yn +this ceson of the yer hit ys a custumyd to be alle maner of desport, +lyke as hit is nat unknowe to your wisse descrescion; wherfore, as my +symple reason ledith me your grete descrescion sholde rewle you that ze +sholde approche nygh the plase of your holy relegion yn also hasty tyme +as ze code er myght, of whos comyng alle your saide bretheryn wolde be +glade and fayn, and yn especiall I, your servaunt and brother, lyke as I +am most syngguler bownden to th’encresse of your prosperite and welfar, +which I shall ever desir with Godds mersy, which have yow undir His +blessid and favorable proteccion. Wrytten yn the Temple of Syon, +iij<sup>d.</sup> day of December, yn grete hast. +<span class = "signature">By your Servaunt and brother,</span> +<span class = "signature"> +<a href = "images/sig120_large.jpg" target = "_blank"> +<img src = "images/sig120.png" width = "131" height = "95" +alt = "signature: T and symbol"></a></span></p> + +<p class = "right allclear"> + <br> +<a class = "added" href = "images/sig120_large.jpg" target = +"_blank">Enlarged View</a></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note118_1" id = "note118_1" href = +"#tag118_1">118.1</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 418.] It is difficult to assign with confidence either +a date or a meaning to this strangely worded epistle. The signature +itself is a mystery. The order of the Temple of Sion is unknown to +archæologists, and the place from which the letter is dated cannot be +identified. From the peculiar device used as a signature, resembling +what in heraldry represents a fountain, Fenn threw out a suggestion that +Fountaine was the writer’s name, remarking that a family of that name +resided at Salle, in Norfolk, and might have been related to Paston as +the writer claimed to be. But there seems to be an air of irony about +the whole communication which forbids us to construe any of its +statements seriously; nor do we find the slightest allusion to this +letter or its contents in all the rest of the correspondence. For my +part, I am inclined to think it was a mocking letter addressed to +John Paston by one of the prisoners in the Fleet, where Paston had +himself been confined in 1464. His imprisonment on that occasion was +probably of short duration, but I cannot tell the precise date of his +release. He was committed to the Fleet, as we are informed by William +Worcester (<i>Itinerary</i>, p. 366), on Saturday the 3d November. If I +am right in my conjecture about this letter, he had, perhaps, been +already liberated; but some of his late fellow-prisoners, probably +members of the Inner or Middle Temple like himself, who had formed +themselves into a fancy ‘Order of the Temple of Sion,’ amused themselves +by speculating on the probability that he was not yet quite clear of the +toils of the law, and that he would be obliged to come back and spend +Christmas in gaol, among the jolly companions whom he had recently +deserted. I may remark that the name of Thomas Babington occurs in +Dugdale’s <i>Origines Juridiciales</i>, p. 163, as having been elected a +reader in the Inner Temple in 22 Hen. <span class = +"smallroman">VII.</span>, when he seems to have been an old man; for, +owing to his sight failing, he was excused from reading, and John Port, +who was afterwards Attorney General, and, later still, Justice of the +King’s Bench, read in his place.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note119_1" id = "note119_1" href = +"#tag119_1">119.1</a> +<i>i.e.</i> your fellow-Christians.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note119_2" id = "note119_2" href = +"#tag119_2">119.2</a> +Fenn interprets this word <i>free will</i>, which I cannot think to be +the meaning intended.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page121" id = "page121">121</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter575" id = "letter575">575</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[JOHN PASTON] TO MARGARET PASTON AND OTHERS<a +class = "tag" name = "tag121_1" id = "tag121_1" href = +"#note121_1">121.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mastres Margrete Paston, and to my welbelovid Frendis, John +Daubeney and Richard Calle.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I pray</span> yow, see to the god +governaunce of my housold and guydynge of other thynges touchyng my +profite, and that ye, with Daubeney and Richard Calle, and with other +such of my frendis and servauntis as can avise yow aftir the mater +requireth, wekely take a sad comunecacion of such thynges as be for to +do, or oftenner and nede be, takyng avise of the master, and of the +viker<a class = "tag" name = "tag121_2" id = "tag121_2" href = +"#note121_2">121.2</a> and Sir Jamis,<a class = "tag" name = "tag121_3" +id = "tag121_3" href = "#note121_3">121.3</a> that is for to say, as +well for provision of stuffe for myn howsold as for the gaderyng of the +revenew of my livelode or greynes, or for setting awerk of my +servauntis, and for the more poletik meane of sellyng and carryng of my +malt, and for all other thynges necessari for to be do; and that whanne +I come home I have not an excuse, seying that ye spoke to my servauntis +and that Daubeney and Calle exkuse them that thei wer so besy thei myght +not attende; for I woll have my mater so guided that if on man may not +attende a nother shall be comaunded to do it; and if my servauntis faile +I had lever wage some other man, for a jorny or a season, thanne my +mater should be on sped.</p> + +<p>As for my livelode, I left with Daubeney a bille of many of my +dettis, wherby ye alle myght have be indused whedir ye shulde have sent +for silver.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page122" id = "page122">122</a></span> +<p>It liketh me evill to here that my prestis and pore men be onpaiid, +and that no mony sent to me more thanne x. markis be Berney of alle this +season, and yet therof telle Richard Calle he sent me viii. nobils in +goold for v. markis, and that as longe as gold was better payment thanne +silver I had nevir so moche gold of hym at onys; and telle hym that I +wolle nat that he shall kepe that use, for I trowe my tenauntis have but +litell gold to pay.</p> + +<p>Also remembir yow in any housold, felaship or cumpany that will be of +good rewle, purvyauns must be had that every persone of it be helpyng +and furtheryng aftir his discrecion and powyr, and he that woll not do +so without he be kept of almes shuld be put out of the houshold or +felachep.</p> + +<p>Item, where ye desire me that I shuld take your sone<a class = "tag" +name = "tag122_1" id = "tag122_1" href = "#note122_1">122.1</a> to +grase, I woll for your sake do the better, and will ye knowe he +shall not be so oute of my favour that I will suffir hym to mischefe +without be eftsones his owne defaut. And hough be it that in his +presumptuouse and ondiscrete demenyng he gaf bothe me and yow cause of +displeasir, and to other of my servauntis ille exaumple, and that also +guided hym to alle mennes undirstandyng that he was wery of bidyng in +myn hows, and he not insurid of help in any other place; yet that +greveth nat me so evill as doth that I nevir coud fele nor undirstand +hym poletyk ne diligent in helpyng hym self, but as a drane amongis bees +which labour for gaderyng hony in the feldis and the drane doth nought +but takyth his part of it. And if this myght make hym to knowe the +better hym self and put hym in remembrauns what tyme he hath lost, and +hough he hath leved in idelnes, and that he coud for this eschewe to do +so heraftir, it myght fortune for his best. But I here yet nevir from no +plase that he hath be in of any poletyk demenyng or occupacion of hym. +And in the kynges hows he coud put hym self foorth to be in favour or +trust with any men of substauns that myght forther hym; neverthelesse as +for your house and myne I purpose not he shall come there, ner be my +will non othir but if [<i>i.e.</i> unless] he can do more thanne loke +foorth and make a fase and countenauns.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page123" id = "page123">123</a></span> +<p>Item, send me word whedir my glasier hath do at Bromholm and at the +friers of the South Towne,<a class = "tag" name = "tag123_1" id = +"tag123_1" href = "#note123_1">123.1</a> and whedir he be paiid such +mony as I sent home word he shuld be paiid, and if he have do all he +must have more mony, but I remembir not certeynly what, till I come +home, for I remember nat what his bargeyn was for the work at the +Southtowne. I trowe Mr. Clement can telle, and also fele hym self +and send me word. Also that ye and Richard Calle and Daubeney see that +Mr. Clement and Mr. Braklee<a class = "tag" name = "tag123_2" id = +"tag123_2" href = "#note123_2">123.2</a> which hath grete nede I wote +well, and my prestis and pore men be paiid and also all othir men. And +that ye see that I be not callid on for that is my dewte. Also that ye +see amongis yow that that is owynge me be not lost ne forborn for +lewdnes, for that shall bothe hurt me and do my tenauntis harme. Lete +Richard Calle remembir that my fermour of Sweynesthorp is falle in gret +dette for defaut of callyng upon but be on [<i>one</i>] yere; And I deme +that bothe John Willeys and my new fermour of Snaylewell arn like to be +in the same case, and peraventure Aleyn of Gresham and other.</p> + +<p>Item, remembir yow or evir I had a doo with Fastolffis livelode, +whill I toke hede to my livelode my self, it both served myn expenses at +home and at London and all other charges, and ye leid up mony in my +cofirs every yere, as ye knowe. And I wote well that the payment of my +prestis and other charges that I have for Fastolffis livelode is not so +gret as the livelode is, thow part therof be in trobill. And thanne +consider that I had nought of my livelode for myn expenses at London +this twol monyth day; ye may verely undirstand that it is not guided +wittely nor discretly; and therfore I pray yow hertly put alle your +wittes to gedir and see for the reformation of it. And ye may remembre +be this how ye shuld do if this wer yowris alone, and so do now.</p> + +<p>And that ye woll remembir I have sent yow all many lettirs touchyng +many maters, and also a bille now last by Pecok of erandis, desiryng yow +to see hem alle to gedir and send me an answere articlerly; and such as +ye can not spede at this tyme, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page124" id = "page124">124</a></span> +lete hem be sped as sone as ye may, that ye se over my seyd lettirs oft +tymes til they be sped.</p> + +<p>Item, I remembir that myn heygh at Heylisdon the last yere was spent +and wasted fwll recklesly and colored under my shep.<a class = "tag" +name = "tag124_1" id = "tag124_1" href = "#note124_1">124.1</a> +I pray yow see that I be not servid soo this yere.</p> + +<p>Item, Pecok told me of a fermour that wold have had Mautby Mersh, +paying xij. markis as it went afore; and Richard Calle told me of on +[<i>one</i>] that wold pay more. Burgeys paiid me first xij. markis +vj<i>s.</i> viij<i>d.</i>, and I had the reed and the rushis, and he +found the shepherdis hyre in shakke tyme for my fold; and sithen he +brigged awey the shepherdis hyre and thanne the nobill, and I trowe he +occupyth ne lenger hym self. And I remembir he told me vij. yere goo +that my merssh shuld alwey apeyr [<i>impair</i>] till the prime were +past the nombre of xix., and thanne it shuld amend a ix. or x. yers, +promittyng me he wold thanne amend my ferme. I praye yowe help to +lete it aswell as ye can, rather to hym thanne a nother man if he woll +do aswell, and that ye comon with Pecok.</p> + +<p>Item, as for the mater that I wrote of to the viker and other goode +felaws, desire hem that thei be not to excessive hasty in the mater for +non nede, but to do that the may do therin [goodly]<a class = "tag" name += "tag124_2" id = "tag124_2" href = "#note124_2">124.2</a> and wittely +as sone as thei may; And as for the respite of the mater here, lete hem +not care therfore. I shall do well ineugh, telle hem; for certeyn, +the mater is in as good case as any such mater was this xx. wynter, as +my counsell tellyth me; but I will be sure of all weyes that I may have, +and specially of the declaracion of the trought of my mater and of my +frendis.</p> + +<p>Item, as for the mater athwyx the parson of Mautby, Constantine<a +class = "tag" name = "tag124_3" id = "tag124_3" href = +"#note124_3">124.3</a> and the viker of Derham,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag124_4" id = "tag124_4" href = "#note124_4">124.4</a> whedir it were +smalle mater or gret I care not, but I am sure that too witnesse which I +knowe were apposed therin before a juge spirituall, whech as +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page125" id = "page125">125</a></span> +I suppose was Master Robert Popy or some other; the viker of Derham can +telle, and as I trowe can John Wynter of Mautby, or othir parysshons +telle, where the sute was athwyx hem, and I can think it was in the +chapitell; if ye can easely gette me what the witnesse seid, I wold +nomore; but do no gret cost over it.</p> + +<p>Item, recomaund me to Master Robert Popy, and telle hym, as for any +thyng seid ayens hym in my mater then myn adversaris ment ontrewly, they +proved nought but that he is a good man and a worshipfull and a +trewe.</p> + +<p>Item, if I have any otis beside my stuffe, or may any bye aftir +xiiij<i>d.</i>, spare not, and take good mesure of bartirre for some +other chafers, and send me word hough moch ye may bye.</p> + +<p>Item, it is told me ye make no wood, nowther at Caster nor Mautby, +wherof I merveyle; remembir yow we must brenne wood a nodir yere.</p> + +<p>Item, I send yow a titelyng that I mad whill I was at home, what malt +I had by estimacion set at the lest; wherfore see that Brigge make a +reknyng of his malt, and cast ye my book and loke what ye can amend it; +and apeyre [<i>impair</i>] it shall not if alle folkis have do trewly; +but I suppose fewe of you have take any heed at it as moch as I ded.</p> + +<p>Item, I may selle here for vj<i>s.</i> <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘viija.’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">viij<i>d.</i></ins> a +quarter clene fyed after Royston mesure, whech is lesse thanne the water +mesure of London. Cambrigge shire malt is here at x<i>s.</i> Cast ye +what I may selle of new and old, savyng stuffe for myn hows. Item, to +remember that Guton malt must be shipped at Blakeney. Item, Lynstedis +malt at Wolcote may be shipped there; therfore cast amongis yow what +malt may best be sold.</p> + +<p>Item, if on [<i>one</i>] man may not attende to gader silver, sende a +nother, and send me word what hath be reseyved and spent.</p> + +<p>Item, that I have an answer of alle my lettirs and of every article +in hem.</p> + +<p>Item, but if ye make such purvyauns that my prestis be paiid and pore +men, beside other charges, and purvey +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page126" id = "page126">126</a></span> +mony for me beside; owther ye gadir shrewdly or ellis ye spend +lewdly.</p> + +<p>Item, I sent a lettir by Rauff Greneakyr to James Gresham and to yow, +which he promised me shuld be at Norwich on Wednesday aftir Thwelth day, +and therin wer divers maters; and in especiall of a mater that shuld be +in communication on Teusday last past bethwyx Yelverton and Robert +Wyngfeld, as in the seid lettir is specifiid. It is so that the seid +Robard shall be here within this ij. dayes; if any thyng ye have aspied +of it send me word. Item, yonge Knevet tellith me that he is my good +frend, and he is come ridyng homeward on Friday last was. I pray +yow, ley wetche whedir ye here any thyng that he medillyth hym at that +mater, and send me word; for I wold understand whedir he wer just and +trew or nought, and that do [<i>done</i>] it shall not ligh in his power +to hurt me. But take ye hed and inquere and knowe other mennes purpos, +and kepe your intent as close as ye can; and what some evir boost be +mad, werk ye wisely and set not by it but send me word what ye here.</p> + +<p>Item, Calle sendyth me word that Sir Thomas Howes is seke and not +like to askape it, and Berney tellyth me the contrary; wherfore I pray +yow take hed therat, and lete me have knowleche, for though I be not +behold to hym I wold not he were ded for more thanne he is worth.</p> + +<p>Item, take the viker the bille that I send yow herwyth.</p> + +<p>Item, that ye, if ye can fynd the meane, to aspie what goodis Edmond +Clere eschetith of any mannes.<a class = "tag" name = "tag126_1" id = +"tag126_1" href = "#note126_1">126.1</a></p> + +<p>Item, remember well to tak heed at your gatis on nyghtis and dayes, +for theves, for thei ride in divers contres with gret felaship like +lordis, and ride out of on [<i>one</i>] shire in to a nother. Wretyn at +London, the Tuisday next aftir Sent Hillary.</p> + +<p>Item, that Richard Calle bryng me up mony, so that my prestis +[<i>i.e.</i> borrowings] be paiid, and that he come up suerly with other +men and attornis.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Endorsed in a later hand:</i>— ‘Some speciall lettres towching +John Paston’s trowbells and sute for Fastolfs landis by the Duke of +Suffolk.’</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note121_1" id = "note121_1" href = +"#tag121_1">121.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 15.] The contents +of this letter show it to be of the year 1465, when Daubeney and Calle, +as we know, were with Margaret Paston (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter576">No. 576</a>). Reference is made to the displeasure Sir +John Paston had given to both his parents in 1463 (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter552">No. 552</a>), and what his mother writes about his return +home in May of this year (<a href = "#letter579">No. 579</a>) goes +to confirm the date. Further proof will be found in the footnote at +<a href = "#note126_1">p. 126</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note121_2" id = "note121_2" href = +"#tag121_2">121.2</a> +If this be the vicar of Paston, it was William Warner, who succeeded +Robert Williamson in 1464.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note121_3" id = "note121_3" href = +"#tag121_3">121.3</a> +James Gloys, the priest.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note122_1" id = "note122_1" href = +"#tag122_1">122.1</a> +Sir John Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note123_1" id = "note123_1" href = +"#tag123_1">123.1</a> +South Town, Yarmouth, where there was a house of Austin Friars.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note123_2" id = "note123_2" href = +"#tag123_2">123.2</a> +Dr. John Brackley, the Grey Friar.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note124_1" id = "note124_1" href = +"#tag124_1">124.1</a> +Meaning, that the waste was attributed to his sheep.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note124_2" id = "note124_2" href = +"#tag124_2">124.2</a> +This word ‘goodly’ has been lined out, and a very illegible word +inserted above it.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note124_3" id = "note124_3" href = +"#tag124_3">124.3</a> +Constantine Dalby had been rector of Mautby from 1453 to 1460, and +appears also to have held the vicarage of East Dereham from 1451 to +1458. He was succeeded at Mautby by Thomas Howes from 1460 to 1465, and +then by Robert Cutler or Cotteler, who must be the ‘parson of Mautby’ +spoken of just before.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note124_4" id = "note124_4" href = +"#tag124_4">124.4</a> +Robert Sheringham was vicar of East Dereham from 1458 to 1467.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note126_1" id = "note126_1" href = +"#tag126_1">126.1</a> +Edmund Clere, as appears by evidences in the Record Office, was +escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk from November 1464 to November +1465.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">Item, I may selle here for vj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i> a quarter</span><br> +text has “viij<i>a.</i>” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page127" id = "page127">127</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter576" id = "letter576">576</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN WYKES TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag127_1" id = "tag127_1" href = +"#note127_1">127.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Unto my maystres, <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged">Margageret</ins> Paston, be thys letter delyveryd in hast, +&c.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. 7</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull maystres, I recomaund +me un to your gode maystresshyp. Please it you to wyte that my mayster +your hosbond, my maystres youre moder, my mayster Sir John, Mr. Wyllyam, +Mr. Clement, and all ther men, wer in gode helth, whon thys letter was +wryten, thankyd be Jesu, and also ther maters be in a gode wey, for my +Lord Chaunseler ys ther syngeler gode Lord in thys mater at thys tyme; +and that it provyth, for he was yesterday in the Escheker, and ther he +had a foren hym alle the Juges, all the Barons of the Escheker, and all +the Shurgents, and ther argued wher that the Barons of the Escheker +shold award any such Comyssyon or not, and uppon that the seyd Comyssyon +shull be broght uppon Fryday unto the Chaunsery, and ther to be provyd, +wher it be lafull or not, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, and yf it please it you to gyve Daveney<a class = "tag" name = +"tag127_2" id = "tag127_2" href = "#note127_2">127.2</a> knowlych that +ther ys jugement gyven uppon the condempnacion a yenst Hall,<a class = +"tag" name = "tag127_3" id = "tag127_3" href = "#note127_3">127.3</a> +that he claymed for hys bond man, and the jugement ys gyven a yenst +Daveney, Ric. Call, and Thomas +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page128" id = "page128">128</a></span> +Bon, and ther ys comen owte proces for to take ther bodys thys same day, +and if thay or any of them be taken thay shull never gon oute of prison +on to the tyme that they have satesfyed the party of viij<sup>xx</sup> +marc, and ther for lete them be ware. And the Holy Trinyte have you in +Hys kypyng. Wryten at London, uppon Thursday next after the Purificacion +of our Lady, &c. +<span class = "signature">By your Servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Wyks.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note127_1" id = "note127_1" href = +"#tag127_1">127.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 134.] This letter must be later than the year 1463, as +Sir John Paston does not appear to have been knighted so early as +February in that year. But as John Paston, the father, was at Caister +and not at London in the early part of the year 1464, it cannot be that +year. Neither can we assign it to 1466, the last year of John Paston’s +life, as it appears by a letter written on the 17th February in that +year that although John Paston was in London, his son Sir John could not +have been there for some time before. We are therefore shut up to the +year 1465 as the only possible date for this letter.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note127_2" id = "note127_2" href = +"#tag127_2">127.2</a> +So in Fenn, but the name ought certainly to be Daubeney, perhaps spelt +Dabeney.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note127_3" id = "note127_3" href = +"#tag127_3">127.3</a> +Robert Hall. I find that he brought an action in Trinity term, +3 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, against John +Daubeney of Norwich, gentleman, and Thomas Boon and Richard Call of +Norwich, yeomen, for having, in conjunction with William Daubeney of +Sharyngton, Norfolk, Esq., unlawfully imprisoned him at Norwich for +three hours on the 20th February, 39 Hen. <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span> (1461), until he gave them a bond of £100 for +his ransom.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">Unto my maystres, Margageret Paston</span><br> +text unchanged</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter577" id = "letter577">577</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILLIAM WORCESTER TO ——<a class = +"tag" name = "tag128_1" id = "tag128_1" href = +"#note128_1">128.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +31</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> your maistershyp to wete that +aftyr recomendacion that I sende Thomas More to myne oncle the parson<a +class = "tag" name = "tag128_2" id = "tag128_2" href = +"#note128_2">128.2</a> wyth certeyn credence to hafe aunsuer uppon by +hym for myn acquytaille another day, yff onye thyng falle sinistrely +only yn theyr deffaut, as God defend, not be my wille, for I hafe as +feythfulle demesned me seth I rode to London thys terme, and hedertoo as +anye maner creatur yn reson coude desyre me; and hafe demened me at +London accordyng to the message sent me by the baylly of Drayton, and I +vele but littille that my gode wille ys allowed.<a class = "tag" name = +"tag128_3" id = "tag128_3" href = "#note128_3">128.3</a> I hafe +also, seth I came to Norwiche, enformed hym whate proffyt ease and +avaylle I may help stand hem both yn my maister godes and yn hys +lyvelode; yff he or hys frendys set littlle by it, I may nat do +wyth all. And the blessed Trinite be with yow, because ye wolle the +wellfare off my maister, whoos soule God hafe pytie on and bryng hym +owte of peyn, as the wellfare of the parties it meovyth me wryte to yow +the rathyr. I enformyd yow for trouth, and as I wille prefe, that I +was the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page129" id = "page129">129</a></span> +principall doer and cause that both Maister Paston and myne oncle came +fyrst yn the testament viij. yeer goon, to a gode entent; and yff they +wold wyrke ayenst me to minussh my power, theyr disposicion woll be +construed ferther than they wille it were, and they not so avaylled as +they weene yn all thynges. The blessed Trinete be wyth yow. Wryt on +Passyon Sonday. +<span class = "signature">Your <span class = "smallcaps">W. +Wyrcestre</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Memorandum to Thomas More that because ye myzt foryete myne erand to +Maister Bernay, I pray you rede hym my bille, and that he wille +take it to a gode entent; for how so evyr I wryte I meene well, and so +shall.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note128_1" id = "note128_1" href = +"#tag128_1">128.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] In this +letter reference is made to a ‘testament’ drawn up by Sir John Fastolf +eight years previously. This, however, cannot be his last will, as that +would carry the date to a year after John Paston’s death, who seems to +be here spoken of as living. The settlement referred to is doubtless the +testamentary declaration of 1457 mentioned in <a href = "#letter541">No. +541</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note128_2" id = "note128_2" href = +"#tag128_2">128.2</a> +Sir Thomas Howes.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note128_3" id = "note128_3" href = +"#tag128_3">128.3</a> +<i>i.e.</i> Little credit is given me for my good will.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter578" id = "letter578">578</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag129_1" id = "tag129_1" href = +"#note129_1">129.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worchepfull hosbond, Jon Paston, be this deliveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +8</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worchepfull hosbond, I recomand +me to you. Please you to wet that I send you a copy of the deed that Jon +Edmonds of Taveram sent to me, be the menys of Dorlet. He told Dorlet +that he had suche a deed as he supposyd, that wold don ease in prevyng +of the tytyll that the Duk of Suffolk cleymythe in Drayton; +<span class = "apostille"> +Carte Drayton.</span> +for the same deed that he sent me, the seale of armys is lyke onto the +copy that I send you, and noo thyng leke to the Duk of Suffolks +auncesters.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page130" id = "page130">130</a></span> +<p>Item, the seyd Edmond seythe, yf he may fynd any other thyng that may +do yow ease in that mater he wolle do hys part therin.</p> + +<p>Item, Jon Russe sent me word that Barker and Herry Porter told hym in +councell that the Duk of Suffolk hathe bowght one Brytyeff ryghte, +<span class = "apostille"> +Heylisdon, Brythyeve, Barker, Porter.</span> +the wyche makythe a cleyme on to Heylysdon, and the seyd Duke is +proposyd to entere within shorte tyme after Esterne, for in so moche the +seyd Russe felle be the seyd Barber and Porter that all the feffees +wolle make a relees on to the Duk and helpe hym that they can in to her +power, for to have hys good lorchep.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Bracium.</p> +<p>Item, yf it please you, me thynkythe it war ryght nessessary that ye +send word howe that ye wolle your old malte be purveyed for; for and any +hote weder come affter that it hathe leyne this wynter season, it shall +be but lost but yf [<i>unless</i>] it be sold be tymys, for as for the +pryse [<i>price</i>] here, it is sore falle. I have sold a C. comb +of malt that came fro Guton, to Jamys Golbeter, clenefyed, and strek +met, and non inmet (?), for <ins class = "correction" title = +"printed in roman (non-italic) type">ij<i>s.</i> ij<i>d.</i></ins>, +the comb, and to be payed at Mydsomer and Lammes.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Sirpi pro reparatione de Mautby.</p> +<p>Item, ther be dyvers of your tenantrys at Mauteby that had gret ned +for to be reparyd, at [? but] the tenaunts be so por that they ar not a +power to repare hem; wherfor yf leke you, I wold that the marche +that Bryge had myght be kept in your owne hand this yer, that the +tenaunts myght have ruschis to repare with her howsys. And also ther is +wynfall wod at the maner that is of noo gret valewe, that myght helpe +hem with <ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged">toward +toward </ins> the reparacion, yf it leke you to late hem have it that +hathe most need therof. +<span class = "apostille"> +Burgoys, Mareshs, Mauteby.</span> +I have spoke with Borges that he shuld heyne [<i>raise</i>] the price of +the mershe, or ellis I told hym that he shuld no lenger have it, for ye +myght [have]<a class = "tag" name = "tag130_1" id = "tag130_1" href = +"#note130_1">130.1</a> other fermors therto that wold geve therfor as it +was late befor, and yf he wold geve therfor as moche as another man +wold, ye wold that he shuld have it befor any other man; and he seyd he +shuld geve me answer be a fortenyght after Esterne. I can get non +other fermor therto yet.</p> + +<p>Item, I understand be Jon Pampyng that ye wolle not that +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page131" id = "page131">131</a></span> +your sone be take in to your hows, nor holpe be you, tylle suche tyme of +yere as he was put owt therof, the wiche shall be abowght Seynt Thomas +messe.<a class = "tag" name = "tag131_1" id = "tag131_1" href = +"#note131_1">131.1</a> +<span class = "apostille"> +Pro recupera­tione Johannis Paston.</span> +For Gods sake, sir, a pety on hym; remembre yow it hathe bed a long +season syn he had owt of yow to helpe hym with, and he hathe obeyed hym +to yow and wolle do at all tymis, and wolle do that he can or may to +have your good faderood. And at the reverence of God be ye hys good +fader, and have a faderly hert to hym; and I hope he shall ever knowe +hymselff the better here after, and be the more ware to exchewe suche +thyngs as shuld dysplease you, and for to take hed at that shuld please +you. Pecoke shalle telle you be mothe of more thyngs than I may write to +you at this tyme. The blyssyd Trinite have you in Hys kepyng. Wretyn at +Caster in hast, the Monday next after Palme Sonday. +<span class = "signature">Your M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note129_1" id = "note129_1" href = +"#tag129_1">129.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The claims +laid by the Duke of Suffolk to Drayton and Hellesden occupy a prominent +place in this correspondence during the year 1465, and I do not find +them alluded to in any letter of an earlier date. Moreover, the purchase +by virtue of which the Duke laid claim to the latter manor, which is +reported here as a secret, is mentioned again as a piece of news in a +letter undoubtedly written on the 10th May 1465. There can be little +doubt therefore that this letter is of the same year. The apostyle, or +set of marginal notes appended, is in the handwriting of John +Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note130_1" id = "note130_1" href = +"#tag130_1">130.1</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note131_1" id = "note131_1" href = +"#tag131_1">131.1</a> +This might be the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 7th July, or St. +Thomas Apostle’s Day, 21st December; but most probably it means the day +of St. Thomas à Becket, 29th December.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "correction"> +<p><span class = "citation">for ij<i>s.</i> ij<i>d.</i>, the +comb,</span><br> +“s.” and “d.” printed in roman (non-italic) type</p> + +<p><span class = "citation">that myght helpe hem with toward toward the +reparacion</span><br> +text unchanged</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter579" id = "letter579">579</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag131_2" id = "tag131_2" href = +"#note131_2">131.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull husband, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshipful husbond, I recomaunde +me unto you. +<span class = "apostille"> +Drayton tenaunts bony, perter ij.</span> +Pleasyd you to wyte that I have spokyn thys wyke with dyvers of youre +tennaunts of Drayton and put hem in comfort that all shalbe well +hereafter by the grace +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page132" id = "page132">132</a></span> +of God; and I fyle well by hem that they wylbe ryght glad to have ayen +there olde mayster, and so wold they all except j. or ij. that be fals +shrewys. And thys next wyke I purpose on Wensday or Thursday to be at +Haylesdon, and to a byde ther a wyke or ij., and send oure men aboute to +gedere money at Drayton and Haylesdon; and yf ye wyll I woll do kepe a +corte at Drayton or I com thens. I pray yow send me word how ye +wyll that I doo there in. +<span class = "apostille"> +Malt, barly.</span> +I recevyd ij. letters from you of Nicholl Tolman yesterday, werin +ye desyre that we shuld purvey for your malte and barley; +and soo shall we doo as well as we cann, and send you word howe that we +may doo therewith in hast.</p> + +<p>Item, yesterday Master Phylyp<a class = "tag" name = "tag132_1" id = +"tag132_1" href = "#note132_1">132.1</a> toke Dorlets hors uppon Drayton +lond as they went to the plowe for the hole yere ferm; and as it ys told +me the tenaunts of Drayton tolde hym that he dyde hym wrong to make hym +pay for the hole yere, +<span class = "apostille"> +Dorlat et verba M.P.</span> +for non of the tenaunts had payd hym but for the di’ [<i>half</i>] yere +and he say thohg they had not payd but for the di’ yere, +Paston shuld pay for the other di’ yere, and for moo yers also yf he +lyvyd. But I trow to gyte Dorlet ayen hys hors or els Mr. Phylyp ys lyke +to be unhorssyd ons, and we lyve all. Your son<a class = "tag" name = +"tag132_2" id = "tag132_2" href = "#note132_2">132.2</a> shall com hom +to moryn, as I trowe, and as he demenyth hym hyr after I shall lete you +have knowlych; +<span class = "apostille"> +J. P., sen.</span> +and I pray you thynk not in me that I wyll supporte hym ne favour hym in +no lewdnesse, for I wyl not. As I fynd hym hereafter, soo I wyll lete +you have knowlych. I have put your evydens that com owte of the +abbay<a class = "tag" name = "tag132_3" id = "tag132_3" href = +"#note132_3">132.3</a> in a seck and enseylyd hem under Ric. Call ys +seall that he shal not say but they eryn as he left hem; +<span class = "apostille"> +Rotuli prioris (?)</span> +but as for the place where they ern kypt he hath no knowlych<span class += "enspace"> . . . . . +. . . . . . </span>As for the +gentylwoman that ye wrote to me for yn youre lettere, I<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . . . . . +</span>there, yf it lykyd all folks as well as it shold doo me, +I trow<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +</span>a bowte yf her frends were as well a gryed therto, and as +they<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . . . . . +</span>parte, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page133" id = "page133">133</a></span> +yf ye wyll that it be movyd of more hereafter I wyll<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . </span>wyll make a newe parson, at Drayton. +Also it ys sayd that<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>there, by cause it hath stond so long voyd; +yet and any sh<span class = "enspace">. . . +. . . . </span>had lever that he com in by +the Byshop then by a<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>doo therein yf ye wyll send hom any +presentacion selyd<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>we shall a say to gyte som gode priste and +sette hym<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>Wryten in haste at Caster on Holy Rode Day +&c.</p> + +<p>As<span class = "enspace"> . . . . +. . . </span>doo therein as well as I cann. I have gyte a +replevyn<span class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . . . </span>CC shype, and yf +they may not be hadde ayen, then he grau[nteth]<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . </span> +<span class = "apostille"> +Data obliga­cione (?) pro ovibus.</span> +We fynd hym ryght gode in that we desyre of him for you, and therfore yf +it lyke you I wold he were th<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . .</span> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note131_2" id = "note131_2" href = +"#tag131_2">131.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] Holy Rood +Day, on which this letter is dated, commonly means the 14th of September +(feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross). Here I suspect it is the +3rd May (Invention of the Holy Cross), as the contents of the letter +suit that date in the year 1465. It will be seen that Margaret Paston +dates from Caister, and proposes next week to be at Hellesden. Her next +letter, dated the 10th May, is from Hellesden, and shows that she +carried out the intention here expressed of sending men to collect money +at Drayton, and had left her eldest son at Caister to keep the place. +There is also a close agreement between that letter and this, in what is +said about the demeanour of the tenants and Mr. Philip’s conduct. The +apostyle of this letter, as of the preceding, is in the hand of John +Paston, very ill written, and occasionally ambiguous.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note132_1" id = "note132_1" href = +"#tag132_1">132.1</a> +Philip Lipgate, the Duke of Suffolk’s bailiff.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note132_2" id = "note132_2" href = +"#tag132_2">132.2</a> +Sir John Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note132_3" id = "note132_3" href = +"#tag132_3">132.3</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#letter561">No. 561</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter580" id = "letter580">580</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag133_1" id = "tag133_1" href = "#note133_1">133.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the right worshypfull sir, my right honourabyll maister, John Paston, +at London.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 6</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull sir and my right +honorabyll maister, I recomaund me to you in the most humble wise. And +please youre maistir ship to wete that my maistresse hathe dyverse tymes +spokyn to me to helpe to purvey a merchaunt for sum of youre malt; but +in good feyth I can gete no man that wyll geve at the most more than +xxij<i>d.</i> for a quarter, for soo men selle dayli at the moste, and +sumtyme xx<i>d.</i> a combe. My maistresse is right hevy therfor, but I +can not remedy it; if ony good marchaunt were there, after my sympil +conseyt it were good to take hym, for the yeer passith faste and the +[feldes]<a class = "tag" name = "tag133_2" id = "tag133_2" href = +"#note133_2">133.2</a> be right plesaunt to wards, &c. Sir, at +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page134" id = "page134">134</a></span> +the reverence of Jesu, laboure the meanys to have peas; for be my trowth +the contynwaunce [of this] trobill shall short the dayez of my +maistresse, and it shall cause you to gret losse, for serteyn she is in +gre[t hevi]nesse as it apperith at<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . . . </span>ll covertly she consederith +the gret decay of youre lyflode, the gret detts that hange in detours +hands and h<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . . . . . </span>[she +speaket]h not thus to me, but I conceyfe this is cause of here gret +hevynesse; me semyth of ij. hurts the leste is mos[t]<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . . . . . . . +. . </span>well the dayli contynewyng maleyse of youre +insessiabyll enemyes, how they contryve and seke occacions to<span class += "enspace"> . . . . . +. . </span>informyd, more wyll doo every foot of grownd +withinne fewe dayez, and rather to geve it awey for nowght tha[n]<span +class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . </span>it. Where as they many tymes +have meovyd a trety and never it taketh to noo conclucion, and as they +have seyd in youre d<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +</span>Sir, after my sympyll conseyt it were well doon to agree to a +trety, and be that ye shuld knowe ther desyre and the uttir<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . </span>the lond were dubyll the valwe that it is. +Worsestyr shewyth hem presedents what every maner cost at the fyrst +byeng, and ther<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>rekne the bargeyne shuld avayle you foure +tymes mor than it shall; and in thys they be gretly blyndyd; my maister +the parson hathe<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . </span>to rellesse in serteyn londs whiche he +refus[eth to] doo, but I conseyve, and ye drawe not to a conclucion thys +terme that he wyll be as redy to rellesse<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>men, truste ye thys for +serteyn; and soo he [told] me serteynly. He hathe be meovyd to revoke +Maister Roberd Kente and to take the avoket or proctor [that] Maister +Yelwirton hathe. What it myght hurtyn if he soo dede I knowe not, but +they have made gret labour to hym therfor. He gaf me a gret +reb[uke]<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . </span>the bill that was put in ayens Elyse Davy +and otheris, to whiche I answeryd hym as me thowght and soo in maner +made my peas, &c. Maister<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>was here and in +presence of men of the most substance in Jeremuth he be havyd hym to you +wards in full goodly termys, soo God helpe<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>and after my conseyt he +wyll not be redy to relesse in ony of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page135" id = "page135">135</a></span> +the londs. A man of hyse teld me secretly that Maister Yelwyrton +and otheres blamyd hym and seyd<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>to hym be cause he was +so redy be hym self to agree to trete and make hyse peas with yow, +neyther he seyd to me to trete nor the contrary nor had but langwage to +me as he had to othyr. I askyd my maister the parson if he +undyrstod that Maister Yelwyrton yaf ony favour to my Lord of Suffolk in +Drayton, and he seyd he supposyd Maister Yelwyrton was not cler of that +mater, but Mayster Jenney was in nowyse pleasyd with all, &c. Sir, +as for the wytnesse that were desyred to be redy whan nede requirith in +thys mater, R. Calle can avertise youre maistirshyp. Sir, at the +reverence of Jesu consedre how many yeers it is past that my good lord +and maister deseasyd and how lytill is doon for<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . </span>of the +grete substaunce that he hade it is hevy to remembre; ye sey the defaute +is not in yow after your conseyt, but I can here no<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . </span>in +that of youre openyon, for thys I knowe for serteyn and it had pleasyd +you to have endyd be the meanys of trety, ye had ma[de]<span class = +"enspace"> . . . </span>peas to the +gret well of the dede with the forthe part of the mony that hathe be +spent, and as men sey only of very wylful[nesse of your] owyn person. +For the mercy of God remembre the onstabylnesse of thys wold hou it is +not a menut space in comparyson to ever<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . +. . . </span>leve wylfullnesse whyche men +sey ye occupye to excessifly. Blyssyd be God ye had a fayre day laste +whiche is noysyd cost yow<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>to iiij. lords, but a +newe mater anewe cost and many smale growe to a gret summe, and summe +mater on recurabyll, formen seyd<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>is lyk to stonden in a +perplextif if ye take not a conclucion in haste, and if it were doo it +were hard to have recovery; but as my [maister] the parson seyd, thys +terme they wyll prove if ye wyll agree to trete, and if ye refuse they +all wyll do the uttirmest. I conseyve well [your] maistirshyp hathe +a conseyt that if a man of good will meove yow or remembre you to trete, +that that man, what soo ever he be, shuld be meovyd be youre adversaryez +to meove you in that mater, and soo in that it hertyth you gretly that +they shuld seke to you for peas. Be my trowth, sir, there was nor is no +man, savyng onys, as +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page136" id = "page136">136</a></span> +I teld you, Maister Jenney spake to me, that ever I knewe wold seke or +feythefully desyre to have peas with yow, savyng because of the exspence +of the good so onprofitably in the lawe, and that is the prynsypal cause +of meovyng of ther peas, &c. I wold well God helpe me soo it +grevyth me to here that ye stonde in no favour with jentylmen nor in no +gret awe with the comowns. Ye truste the jury of Suffolk; remembre what +promyse Daubeney hade of the jury and what it avaylid; it is a dethe to +m[e] to remembre in what prosperite and in what degre ye myght stonde in +Norfolk and Suffolk and ye had peas and were in herts ease, and what +worship my maisters your sones and my maistresse youre douters myght +have be preferryd to if ye had be in reste. A day lost in idyll can +never be recoveryd, &c. Sir, I beseke youre maistershyp for +yeve me that I wryte thus boldly and homly to you; me thynkyth my +hert<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . </span>not be in ease but if I soo doo, for ther +was, nor never shal be, no mater that ever was soo ner myn herte, that +knowy[th God,] whom I beseke for Hese infenyt mercy preserve you and my +maistresse and all youres from all adversyte and graunt yow<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . </span>herts +desyre. Wretyn at Jernemuthe the vj. day of may. +<span class = "signature">Your contynw[al bedesman]<br> +and servaunt, <span class = "smallcaps">John [Russe]</span>.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note133_1" id = "note133_1" href = +"#tag133_1">133.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] As this +letter refers to the Duke of Suffolk’s claim to the manor of Drayton, +the date must be 1465. The original <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span> is mutilated to some extent in both margins.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note133_2" id = "note133_2" href = +"#tag133_2">133.2</a> +The tops of the letters f, l, d visible.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter581" id = "letter581">581</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag136_1" id = "tag136_1" href = +"#note136_1">136.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mayster, John Paston the oldest be thys delyveryd<ins class = +"correction" title = "text has superfluous ."> </ins>in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 10</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull husbond I recomaund +me unto you. Pleysed you to wyte that on Wensday last passyd Dabeney, +Naunton, Wykes and John Love werr at Drayton for to speke with your +tenaunts ther to put hem <ins class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘iu’">in</ins> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page137" id = "page137">137</a></span> +comfort and for to aske money of hem also. +<span class = "apostille"> +Distr’ Petr’. Warin.</span> +And Pyrs Waryn, otherwyse callyd Pyrs at Sloth, whych ys a flykeryng +felowe and a besy with Mr. Phylyp and the Bayly of Cosshay, he had a +plowe goyng in your lond in Drayton, and ther your seyd servaunts at +that tyme toke hys plowe ware, that ys to say ij. marys, and broght hem +to Heylysdon, and ther they be yet. And on the next mornyng after Mr. +Phylyp and the Baylly of Cosshay com to Haylysdon with a grete nomber of +pepell, that ys to say viij.<sup>xx.</sup> men and mor in harnysse, and +ther toke from the persons plowe ij. hors, pris iiij. marc and ij. hors +of Thomas Stermyns plowe, pris xl<i>s.</i>, +<span class = "apostille"> +Distr’ Sturmyn et rectoris de Heylisdon.</span> +saying to hem that ther was taken a playnt ayenst hem in the hunderd by +the seyd Pyrs for takyng of the forseyd plowarre at Drayton, and but +they wold be bond to com to Drayton on Tewysday next comyng to awnswer +to such maters as shalbe sayd to them ther they shold not have ther +bests ayens; whych they refusyd to do on to the tyme that they had an +awnswer from you; and so they led the bestes forth to Drayton, and from +Drayton forth to Cosshay. And the same after none folwyng the parson of +Haylesdon send hys man to Drayton with Stermyn for to speke with Mr. +Phylyp to know a way yf they shuld have ayen ther cattell or not; and +Master Phylyp awnsweryd them yf that they wold bryng home ther destresse +ayen that was taken of Pyrs Waryn, that then he wold dylyver hem thers, +or els not; +<span class = "apostille"> +Crak.</span> +and he lete hem playnly wyte that yf ye or any of your servaunts toke +any dystresse in Drayton that were but the valew of an hen, they wold +com to Haylesdon and take ther the valew of an ox therefore, and yf they +cannot take the valew therof there, that then they wyll do breke your +tenaunts howsys in Haylesdon, and take as moch as they cowd fynd +therein; and yf they be lettyd therof, wych shall never lye in your +power for to do, for the Duck of Suffolk ys abyll to kepe dayly in hys +hows more men then Dabeney hadde herys on hys hede, yf hym lyst; and as +for Dabeney he ys a lewde felowe, and so he shalbe servyd herafter, and +I wold he were here. And therfore yf ye take uppon you to lette them so +for to do, that then they wold goo in to any lyflode that ye had in +Norfolk or Suffolk, and to take a destresse in lykewysse +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page138" id = "page138">138</a></span> +as they wold do at Haylysdon. And other awnswerr cowde they non gyte, +and so they departyd. +<span class = "apostille"> +Accio rectoris et Sturmyn.</span> +Ric. Calle axid the parson and Stermyn yf they wold take an accyon for +ther catell, and the parson<a class = "tag" name = "tag138_1" id = +"tag138_1" href = "#note138_1">138.1</a> seyd he was agyd and syklow, +and he wold not be trobelyd herafter; he sayd he had lever lose hys +catell, for he wyst well yf he dyde so he shold be endytyd, and so vexid +with hem that he shold never have rest by hem. As for Stermyn, he sayd +at that tyme he durst not take no sute ayenst hem nother; but after that +Ric. was rydyn, I spake with hym, and he sayd he wold be rulyd as +ye wold have hym, and I fond hym ryght herty and wel dysposyd in that +mater; and he is bownde to you an obligacyon of x<i>li.</i> sengyll with +outen condycyon that he shall abyde by such accyons as shalbe takyn by +your advyse in hys name; wherfore I have send you a tytelyng therof in a +byll closyd herin. I axyd Thomas Gryne avyse when they had take the +dystresse hyre, and he avysyd me that herre destresse shold be delyveryd +a yen to them so that we myzt have ayen ours; and me thoght it was non +awnswer after myn entent, and wold not therof but axyd avyse of Skypwith +what hym thoght that were best to doo there in, and most wyrshypfull. He +seyd by hys avyse that I shold send to you in al the hast that I cowde, +and that ye shuld fynde a mene therfore above, by the avyse of youre +lernyd counsell to have a wrytte from above for to delyver yt of lesse +then the undershyrff werre other wysse dysposyd to you then we fynde +hym, for it symyth that he ys made of the other party. And as for the +replevyn for the CC. shype ys not yet servyd. +<span class = "apostille"> +Replevin.</span> +Skypwyth thynkyth that ye myzt have a wrytte both for the shype and the +destresse now taken at Haylysdon, I pray you that ye wyll send word +in hast how [ye] woll that we doo in thys maters. +<span class = "apostille"> +Episcopus Norwic’.</span> +Skypwith went with me to the Byshop of Norwych, and I lyte hym have +knowlych of the ryotous and evyll dysposicyon of Master Phylyp, desyryng +hys Lordshyp that he wold see a mene tha[t] a correccyon myzt be +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page139" id = "page139">139</a></span> +hadde, in as moch as he was chef Justic of the Peas and hys ordynare, +and inasmoch as he was a prest<a class = "tag" name = "tag139_1" id = +"tag139_1" href = "#note139_1">139.1</a> and under hys correccyon that +he shold have understondyng of hys dysposicyon; and I made Dabeney to +tell hym all the mater howt it was; and he seyd he wold send for hym and +speke with hym. And he told me of dyvers thyngs of the demenyng of hym, +wherby I understode he lykyd not by hys dysposicyon nor demenyng in thys +mater nor in no nothyr; for it symyd he had provyd hym what he ys in +other maters. +<span class = "apostille"> +Episcopus Norwic’.</span> +My lord seyd to me that he wold ryght fayn that ye had a gode conclusyon +in your maters, and seyd by hys trouth, that he ought you ryght gode +wyll, and wold ryght fayn that ye wer com home, and seyd to me that it +shold be a grete comfort to your frends and neghbors, and that your +presens shold do more amongs hem, than a C. of your men shold do in your +absens, and more, your enmys wold ferr to do ayens you yf ye myght be at +home, and steryng amonges hem, and seyd full playnly in meny other +thyngs it wer to long to wryte at thys tyme, as Skypwith shall tell you +when he comyzt to you. +<span class = "apostille"> +Skipwith.</span> +I pray you thanke Skypwith of hys gode wyll, for he was ryght well +wyllyd to go with me and yeve me hys avyse, me thynkyth he ys ryzt well +wyllyd to you.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Per’ Heyl’d.<a class = "tag" name = "tag139_2" id = "tag139_2" href = +"#note139_2">139.2</a></p> + +<p>Item, I pray you send hastely word how that ye wyll that we be gydyd +with thys place, for as it ys told me, it ys lyke to stond in as grete +jupardy in hast as othere don. On Thursday al day there were kept in +Draton logge in to lx. persons, and yet as it ys told me, ther be within +dayly and nyztly in to a xvj. or xx. persons.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Elys.</p> + +<p>Item, it ys told me that Thomas Elys of Norwych, whych nowe ys chosyn +Mayer, seyd at Drayton that yf my Lord of Suffolk nede a C. men he wold +purvey hym therof, and yf any men of the town wold go to Paston he wold +do lay hem faste in prison. +<span class = "apostille"> +Super­sedeas.</span> +I wold youre men mygh have a <i>supersedias</i><a class = "tag" name = +"tag139_3" id = "tag139_3" href = "#note139_3">139.3</a> owte of the +chauncere, and be owte of the danger of ther men here; +<span class = "apostille"> +Naunton.</span> +and I pray you let not Wyll Naunton be foryete therin. Ric. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page140" id = "page140">140</a></span> +Calle and other can tell you of hys demenyng; and I pray you that ye be +not dysplesyd for his abydyng with me, for in gode feth he hath ben a +grete comfort to me syn ye departyd hens, as I wyll lete you wyte +hereafter. I pray you yf hys brother com to you for a relesse of +hys londe, lette him non have on to the tyme that ye see hys faderes +wyll, the whych I wote wher it ys, and that it like you to desyre hym to +be gode brother to him.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +J. Paston at Castre.<br>M. P. at Heylisdon.</p> + +<p>Item, I have left John Paston the older at Caster, to kype the place +there, as Ric. can tell you; for I had lever, and it pleasyd you, to be +captensse here then at Caster; yet I was nothyng purposyd to abyde here +when [I] come from home but for a day or ij., but I shall abyde here +tyll I here tydyngs from you.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Brightled.</p> + +<p>Item, it ys told me that the Duck of Suffolk hath boght or shal by in +hast the ryzt that on Bryghtylhed hath in Haylesdon, &c.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Evidens.<br>Pekering.</p> + +<p>Item, as for the evydens that Watkyn Shypdam hadd, he delivered to +hys wyffe a box enselyd with hys owyn seall by hys lyffe for to be +delyveryd to you, whych box she delyveryd to Ric. Call under the same +seall after hys dessesse. Ric. can tell you of the gydyng of the cofere +with other boks that were at Shypdams. +<span class = "apostille"> +Evidens.<br>Norwic’.</span> +And as for all your other evydens ye ther not feer as for the syzt of +hem, for ther hath nor shall no man sen hem tyll ye com hom. I can +not fynd that ye send to me fore to have oute of the rolle.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Colt.<br>Malt.</p> + +<p>Item, I here no word of Colte of New Castell, nor of no nother from +you that shold have your malte, but I have spoken to the Viker, John Rus +and Robert Boteler, to help for to sell your malte, and as we can do +therein, we shall send you word. +<span class = "apostille"> +Præpositus de [Cantab].<a class = "tag" name = "tag140_1" id = +"tag140_1" href = "#note140_1">140.1</a></span> +The Provest of Cambrygge ys com into thys contry and Dabeney shall +receve of hym that longyth to you on Monday or Tewysday, and he shall +have hys delyveryd accordyng to your wrytyng.</p> + +<span class = "apostille"> +Mater.<br>Clere.</span> + +<p>Item, my moder told me that she thynkyth ryght strange that she may +not have the profects of Clyre ys place in peasabyll wyse for you, she +seyt it ys hers and she hath payd most therfore +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page141" id = "page141">141</a></span> +yet, and she sayth she wyll have the profects therof, or ells she wyll +make more folk to speke therof. She seyth she knowyt not what ryght ne +titell that ye have therin but yf ye luste to trobell with herre, and +that shold be no wyrshep to you; and she sayth she wylbe ther thys somer +and repayre the housyng ther. In gode feyth I hyre moch langage of the +demenyng betwene you and herre. I wold ryght fayn, and so wold many +moo of youre frendes, that it were otherwyse bytwene you then it ys, and +yf it were I hope ye shold have the beter spyde in all other maters. +I pray God be your gode spyde in all your maters, and yef yow grace +to have a gode conclusyon of hem in haste for thys ys to wyry a lyffe to +a byde for you and all youre. Wryten in haste at Haylysdon the x. day of +May.</p> + +<p>The cause that I send to you this hastely ys to have an awnswer in +haste from you. +<span class = "signature">Your M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note136_1" id = "note136_1" href = +"#tag136_1">136.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The date of +this letter is rendered certain by the mention of Thomas Ellis as having +been elected Mayor of Norwich. He was so elected for the second time in +1465. He had been Mayor before in 1460-61, and was again after this in +1474-75; but neither of these latter dates will suit the other contents +of this letter. Like some others of this year, this letter is apostyled +by John Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note138_1" id = "note138_1" href = +"#tag138_1">138.1</a> +Thomas Hert, perhaps a relation of the Bishop of Norwich, was presented +to the rectory of Hellesden by Sir John Fastolf in 1448, but how long he +held it is uncertain, as the list of rectors is very defective, and the +next name that appears on it is George Gardiner in 1579.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note139_1" id = "note139_1" href = +"#tag139_1">139.1</a> +Philip Lepeyate was presented to the rectory of Salle in Norfolk, in +1460, by Thomas Brewse, Esq., afterwards father-in-law of John Paston, +the youngest.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note139_2" id = "note139_2" href = +"#tag139_2">139.2</a> +<i>i.e.</i> Periculum Heylesdon.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note139_3" id = "note139_3" href = +"#tag139_3">139.3</a> +So in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note140_1" id = "note140_1" href = +"#tag140_1">140.1</a> +This word is left blank by Paston.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "correction"> +<p><span class = "citation">be thys delyveryd in hast</span><br> +text has superfluous . after “delyveryd”</p> + +<p><span class = "citation">for to speke with your tenaunts ther to put +hem in comfort</span><br> +text has “iu comfort”</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter582" id = "letter582">582</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag141_1" id = "tag141_1" href = +"#note141_1">141.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull mayster, John Paston the oldest, be this +delyveryd in haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 13</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomaund</span> me, &c.</p> + +<p>Yf it pleasyd you, I wold ryght fayn that John Jenney werre putte +oute of the Comyssyon of the Peas, and that my brother Wyll. Lumner wer +set yn hys stede, for me thynkyth it wer ryght necessere that ther were +such a man +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page142" id = "page142">142</a></span> +in that county that oght you gode wyll, and I knowe verely he owyth you +ryght gode wyll; he was with me at Caster but late. Yf ther be made any +labour for Doctour Alyn to be Justice of the Peas, I pray you for +Gods sake let it be lettyd yf ye may, for he wyll take to moch upon hym +yf he werr. I wold not that he wer remembyrd of your parte but yf +[<i>unless</i>] he be spokyn of of other parts: he ys ryght grete with +Master Phylyp Lypzate and the Baylyf of Coshay.</p> + +<p>Yf it please yow to wyte that Wyks dyde a reste one Wyll. Dylmyn of +Norwych, as Pampyng can enforme you of, for sertyn harnys wych he +delyveryd hym at New Castell for to cary to Yarmoth by water, and ther +to delyver it to hym ayen; whych harnys he kypt styll, and may not be +delyveryd; and now ther ys com down an <i>habeas corpus</i> for hym, and +most appyr at the Comyn Place [<i>Common Pleas</i>] on Fryday next +comyng. Wherfor yf it pleased you that ther myght be taken an accyon in +Wyks name of trespas under such forme as ther may be a <i>capias</i> a +wardyd a yenst hys comyng; for after that he was arestyd he dyde +Daubeney to be arestyd for mayntenyng; and as for the harnys Wyks +delyveryd it to hym the x. day of Januar, the ij. yer of Kyng E.<a class += "tag" name = "tag142_1" id = "tag142_1" href = "#note142_1">142.1</a> +in Pylgryme strete, at New Castell: Inprimis, a peyr brygandyrs, +a salet, a boresper, a bawe, xviij. arwys, ij. payr +polronds [<i>shoulder pieces</i>], a standard of mayle, a payr +slyvys of plate, to the valew of v. marc. And at the reverens of God, +slowth not your maters nowe, and make any end of hem, other purvey you +to make hym or to marre hem in haste, for thys ys to orybyll a coste and +trobell that ye have and have had, for to endur any whyle, and it ys +grete hevenys to your frends and welwyllers, and grete joy and comfort +to your ennemyes. My Lord of Norwych seyd to me that he wold noth abyde +the sorow and trobell that ye have abyden, to wyn all Sir John Fastolf +ys gode. And God be your spede in all yor maters. Wryten at Haylesdon +the xiij. day of May.</p> + +<p>I thynk ryght long to hyr tydyngs tyll I have tydyngs from you. +<span class = "signature">Your</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note141_1" id = "note141_1" href = +"#tag141_1">141.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 164.] There can be little doubt this letter was written +in the year 1465, when Margaret was troubled by Mr. Philip Lipgate and +the Duke of Suffolk’s bailiff of Cossey. It may be observed also that +Margaret here dates from Hellesden, and speaks of having been recently +at Caister. Compare <a href = "#letter579">Nos. 579</a> and <a href = +"#letter581">581</a>. Further, the name of John Jenney is found on the +Commission of the Peace for Norfolk, dated the 1st April 1465 (Patent, +5 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, p. 1, m. 32), +but it is not on the commission issued on the 20th February following +(<i>ib.</i>, m. 27); so that John Paston seems to have acted on his +wife’s suggestion and been successful in getting him removed.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note142_1" id = "note142_1" href = +"#tag142_1">142.1</a> +<span class = "smallroman">A.D.</span> 1463. This was at the time the +King was in the north, when Alnwick Castle surrendered to him.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page143" id = "page143">143</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter583" id = "letter583">583</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag143_1" id = "tag143_1" href = +"#note143_1">143.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull husbond, John Paston, by thys +delyvery<em>[</em>d<em>]</em> in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 20</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> it you to wyte that on Satourday +last your servaunts Naunton, Wyks, and other, wer at Drayton, and ther +toke a dystresse for the rent and ferm that was to pay, to the nomber of +lxxvij. nete, and so broght them hom to Hayllesdon, and put them in the +Pynfold, and so kept hem styll ther from the seyd Satour day mornyng un +to Monday,<a class = "tag" name = "tag143_2" id = "tag143_2" href = +"#note143_2">143.2</a> at iij. at clok at after non. Fyrst on the same +Satour day the tenants folwyd uppon, and desyryd to have ther catell +ayen; and I awunsweryd hem, yf they wold do pay such dewts as they oght +for to pay to you, that then they shold have ther catell delyveryd ayen; +or els yf they wer not a power to pay redy money, that then they to fynd +suffycyant suerty to pay the money at such a day as they mygh agrye with +me, and therto to be bonden to you by obligacyon; and that they seyd +they durst not for to take uppon hem for to be bonden, and as for money +they had non for to pay at that tyme, and therfor I kept stylle the +bestys.</p> + +<p>Harleston was at Norwych, and send for the tenants the seyd Satour +day at after non, and ther, by the menys of the Bayllyf of Coshay, put +the tenants in such feer, sayng that yf they wold pay such dewts, or els +for to be bonden to pay, that then they wold put hem owte of such londs +as they huld bondly of the Lordshyp, and so to dystrayn hem and trobell +hem, that they shuld be wery of ther part; and that put hem [in] such +feer that they drust nother pay nor be bonden.</p> + +<p>And on the same day at evyn-song time Harleston com to +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page144" id = "page144">144</a></span> +me to Haylesdon, desyryng me that I wold delyver a yen the seyd +dystresse; and as for such dystressys as they had taken here of your +tenants shold be delyveryd a yen in lyke forme; and I seyd I wold not +delyver hem soo, and I told hem that I wold delyver hem as ys wryten a +fore and other wyse not, and other wyse I wold not delyver hem but by +the form of lawe. And other comynycacyon was had by twene us at that +tyme of dyvers maters whych wer to long to wryte at thys tyme, but ye +shall have knowlych therof in hast.</p> + +<p>And on Monday next after at ix. at clok ther com Pynchemor to +Haylesdon with a replevyn,<a class = "tag" name = "tag144_1" id = +"tag144_1" href = "#note144_1">144.1</a> whych was made in Harleston ys +name as Understewerd of the Duche [<i>Duchy</i>], sayng that the bests +were taken uppon the Duche Fee, wherfor he desyryd me to mak hym levery +of the seyd bests so taken; and I seyd I wold not delyver hem on to the +tyme that I had examenyd the tenants of the trough [truth]. And so I +send theder Wyks with Pynchemor to understond what they wold say; and +the tenants seyd that ther was taken non uppon the Duche at ther +knowlych, save only Pyrs Warryn the yonger. And Paynter seyd that ther +catell was taken uppon the Duche, whych they connot prove by non record, +save only by ther awyn sayng; and so we wold not a bey that replevyn, +and so they departyd. And at iij. at clock at after non Pynchemor come +to Haylysdon a yen with ij. men, whych broght with hem a replevyn from +the Shyryff, whos namys be John Whytherley and Robert Ranson, whych +requyryd me by the same replevyn to make them delyvery of the seyd +bestys taken at Drayton; and so I, syyng the Shyryffs replevyn and under +hys seale, bade my men delyver hem, and soo they wer delyveryd.</p> + +<p>And as for all other maters that ye have wretyn to [me] of, +I wyll spede me to send you a awnswer as hastely as I may, for I +may no leysor have to wryte no more to you thys tyme. The blyssyd +Trynyte have you in His kepyng. Wryten at Haylesdon, the xx. day of May. +<span class = "signature">By yours,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note143_1" id = "note143_1" href = +"#tag143_1">143.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 200.] A comparison of this letter with <a href = +"#letter581">No. 581</a> will leave no doubt that they were both written +in the same year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note143_2" id = "note143_2" href = +"#tag143_2">143.2</a> +This was the day the letter was written.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note144_1" id = "note144_1" href = +"#tag144_1">144.1</a> +This is a writ for restitution of cattle that have been distrained or +impounded. It was commonly granted by the sheriff on security being +given that the party would bring the matter to an issue at law.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page145" id = "page145">145</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter584" id = "letter584">584</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag145_1" id = "tag145_1" href = +"#note145_1">145.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull husbond, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in +haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull husbonde, I +recomaunde me to you. Please it you to wyte that I have send to Master +John Smyth and to Master Stephyn to have a vyse for the church of +Drayton; and they send me word that ther moste be had a comyssion from +the Byshop to calle in the person Flowredew,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag145_2" id = "tag145_2" href = "#note145_2">145.2</a> and that most +be proclaymyd in the church of Drayton iij. tymes by a Deen,<a class = +"tag" name = "tag145_3" id = "tag145_3" href = "#note145_3">145.3</a> +and after that yff he appyre not with in vj. monthys after the fyrst +proclamacion, that then he for to be depryvyd, and the patron to present +whom he luste, and ells your presentacyon ys not sufficyant. And I have +so purveyd that a comyssyon ys hadde, and shal be servyd as hastely as +it may be.</p> + +<p>As for John Rysyng, I have sent to hym to wyte the cause that he ys +not broght up to London, and he sayth that he callyd uppon the Shyrff +that he myght be had up for [to] com to hys awnswer, and the Shyrff told +hym that he wold not bryng hym up at hys owyn coste; and John Andres +seyd that he wold not have hym up, and so he ys styll in prison at +Ipswych; and so shall he be but yf ye canne fynde the beter mene for to +have hym oute. I have sent to hym xiij<sup>s.</sup> +iiij<sup>d.</sup> to help hym sylf ther with; he payth for hys borde +wykely xx<sup>d.</sup> And Hopton and Smyth be ther styll allso, and +they have money ynogh, wher som ever that they have it. Rysyng +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page146" id = "page146">146</a></span> +dymeth that they have confort of the other party; and I send you a copy +of the warant that they wer a restyd by, &c.</p> + +<p>I spake not with my moder syn Rychard Calle broght me the letter from +you tochyng her mater, for I myght have no lesor. While I speke with her +at leysure I wyll remember her in that mater, acordyng to your wrytyng. +And as for your tenants of Drayton, as I canne understond by hem, they +be ryght gode and trew hertyd to you to ther powers, and full fayn wold +that ye had it a yen in peasse, for they had as leffe al most be tenants +to the Devell as to the Duke, except Wyll. Herne, Pers at Sloth, and on +Knott of the same towne, for they be not gode.</p> + +<p>All your tenants at Haylesdon and Drayton, except thes iij., be ryght +glad that we err ther a mongs hem, and so be many other of our olde +nebers and frends; and but yf [<i>unless</i>] ye com hom by Wensday or +Thursday<a class = "tag" name = "tag146_1" id = "tag146_1" href = +"#note146_1">146.1</a> in Wytson wyke, I purpose me to ssee you in +secrete wyse by Trynyte Sonday,<a class = "tag" name = "tag146_2" id = +"tag146_2" href = "#note146_2">146.2</a> but yf [<i>unless</i>] ye send +to me contrary comaundement er that tyme; and I pray you send me yeur +avyse how ye wyll that we doo a yenst the next shyr, whych shulbe the +Monday next after Trynyte Sonday, as for callyng uppon the replevyn that +the bests of Drayton wer delyveryd by.</p> + +<p>Item, Richard Calle told me that ye desyryd to have Master Phylyp ys +name, and hys name ys Phylyp Lypzeate, and I send you a letter<a class = +"tag" name = "tag146_3" id = "tag146_3" href = "#note146_3">146.3</a> by +Henre Wylton ys man, wherin I wrote Master Phylyp ys name; and in the +same letter I wrote to you for Wyll. Lumnor. I pray you send me +word yf ye have it. And the Blysshyd Trynyte have you in Hys kypyng. +Wryten the Monday next after Assencyon Day.<a class = "tag" name = +"tag146_4" id = "tag146_4" href = "#note146_4">146.4</a> +<span class = "signature">By yours,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note145_1" id = "note145_1" href = +"#tag145_1">145.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 206.] What is said here about the tenants of Hellesden +and Drayton, and about Master Philip Lipyate, leaves no doubt that this +letter was written in 1465. It contains, moreover, a distinct +reference to <a href = "#letter582">Letter 582</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note145_2" id = "note145_2" href = +"#tag145_2">145.2</a> +John Flowerdew was instituted to the Rectory of Drayton on the 15th of +March 1461, on the presentation of John Paston, Esq., and Thomas Howes, +Clerk.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note145_3" id = "note145_3" href = +"#tag145_3">145.3</a> +This means the Rural Dean, who had a district of ten churches in the +country, wherein he exercised a jurisdiction of great advantage to +ecclesiastical discipline, and the sentences of superior Ecclesiastical +Courts were to be executed by him.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note146_1" id = "note146_1" href = +"#tag146_1">146.1</a> +5th or 6th of June.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note146_2" id = "note146_2" href = +"#tag146_2">146.2</a> +9th of June.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note146_3" id = "note146_3" href = +"#tag146_3">146.3</a> +<a href = "#letter582">No. 582</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note146_4" id = "note146_4" href = +"#tag146_4">146.4</a> +23rd of May.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page147" id = "page147">147</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter585" id = "letter585">585</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag147_1" id = "tag147_1" href = +"#note147_1">147.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull husbond, John Paston, be thys letter +delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +11</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull husband, I recomaunde +me unto you. Please it you to wyte that I recevyd letters from you on +Wensday laste passyd, the were wryten the Monday next before, wherof I +thanke you of the letter that ye send to me. I wolde fayn doo well +yf I cowde, and as I canne I wol doo to youre pleasure and profet; and +in such thyngs as I cannot skyle of, I wyll take a vyse of such as +I know that be youre frendes and doo as well as I canne. Wher as ye +wrote to me that Lydham told you that I told hym that the Ducks men +werre not so besy as they had be by fore, no more thay were not at that +tyme, but sythen thay have be bysyer. What confort that thay have I +canne not have no knowlych as yet, but I suppose and all your felshyp +were gode, thay shold not have so grete confort as they have, or ells +they wold not be so besy as thay have be. Grete bost thay make that the +Duck shold have Drayton in peas, and after thys Haylesdon, and that with +in short tyme; thay er moch the bolder, I suppose, by cause that ye +be wher as ye be. At the reverens of God, yf ye may by any wyrshypfull +or resonabell mene, com oute therof as sone as ye may and come home +amonges your frends and tennaunts, and that shold be to hem the grettyst +confort that thay myzt have and the contrary to your enmys.</p> + +<p>It ys sayd here that the Duck of Suffolk shall com to Coshay in haste +and logge ther for a season; I fyle well by your tenaunts that yf +ye were peaseabyly possessyd and your cort holden in peaseabyll wyse, +and that they myzt be in pease +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page148" id = "page148">148</a></span> +a yenst the other many, than they wold take accyons a yenste hem for +such wrongs as have be don to hem, and ells they say that they thernot +[<i>dare not</i>] take it uppon hem, for they dwelle so ney to the other +many that thay knowe well thay shold never be in ease yf thay dyde soo +whyle that thay dele amongs hem. On Thursday last John Doket, the bayly +ys son y lawe, and Thomas Ponte, with other, erly in the mornyng, an +owre by fore the sonne rose, com to your fold, and drove away the flock +at Drayton, both Colyet and other, in to Coshay fee, or ever that the +shipherd myght have knowlych therof and then he fowlyd one and desyryd +to have hem a yen, and thay wold not suffer hym to have them no more but +the Colyet and ther were c. and j. of yours and tho had thay forth with +hem to Coshay, and the same day we had a replevyn for the cc. shype and +replevyn for the hors that wer taken at Haylesdon, and how that thay +were obbeyd Ric. Calle shall enforme you, and of other maters also, the +whych I may not wryte to you of at thys tyme.</p> + +<p>Item, I have spoke with [John] Strange of the mater that ye wrote to +me of, and in gode feyth I<a class = "tag" name = "tag148_1" id = +"tag148_1" href = "#note148_1">148.1</a> fynd hym, as me symyth, ryght +well disposyd to you wards; and he hath, acordyng to your desyre, spoken +with Yelverton yesterday to fyle his dysposicion in that mater, and +Yelverton, as it symyth by hym, roght not gretely thogh the mater brake, +so that he myght have any resonabell colour to breke, he ys so callyd +uppon by Wayte and other of the Duck of Suffolk ys counsell that he ote +[<i>wot</i>] not where to hold hym, and he ys put in so gret confort, as +I am enformyd, to receve money for the lond, and that temptyth hym ryght +sore; for with money he wold fayn be in handelyng, as ye know he hath +nede therof. He told John Straunge that it ys informyd hym that ye have +up an enquest to depreve ther wytnesse and ther with ys he sore +movyd<span class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . . . . </span>that yf any +thyngs be don in temporall maters other in spyryt[uall]<span class = +"enspace"> . . . +. . . </span>maters tochyng executors or +feoffeys or wyttnes tyll the day of<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +</span>trety be passyd, he wyll not abyde no trety therin, but do +as<span class = "enspace"> . . . +. . . . . . </span>thynkyth +best +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page149" id = "page149">149</a></span> +for to do therein. I told John Straunge that I kn[ew]<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . . +. . . </span>thogh it were soo that shold passe +any such enquest it shol n<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . . </span>of them in provyng of her trothys, +the whych shold be no hurt<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . </span>for John Straunge desyryd me that I shuld +send to you in al haste that<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . </span>any such folks that thay shold not doo in +the mater till the day of<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . </span>may have knowlych howe he and other wold doo +in such maters as sh<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . . +. . </span>he wold be loth that he shold have any +colour to breke for any thyng<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>and Yelverton sayth it shall not breke thorf +his defaute yf ye wyll n[ot]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>be ryght glad to have your gode wyll and to +goo thorgh in all maner mate[rs]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . . +. . </span>eschewyng of wastfull expens of the dede ys +godes and that the godes myzt be dyspendyd to the welle of the dede. +Straunge desyryd to knowe what appoyntements he desyryth to have in the +trety, and he sayd he wold not let that be understond tyll the tyme of +trety cam. Me symyth, save your beter avyse, it were wel do that thay +that be com up for you myzt be kypt in som secryte place and not do +[<i>naught done ?</i>] in the mater tyll the tyme of the trety were +passyd. The cost there of shall not be grete to that it myzt hurte yf +the trety were broken by that meane and then ye may have hem nyer; and +yf ye thynk it be to doo ye may have hem to go to ther mater after the +seyd tyme, for of ij. hurtes the grettyst ys best to be eschewyd.</p> + +<p>Item, as for youre houshold at Caster, savyng your beter avyse, me +thynkyth that v. or vj. of your folkes, such as ye wyll assyngne, were +[enough to?]<a class = "tag" name = "tag149_1" id = "tag149_1" href = +"#note149_1">149.1</a> kype the place, and they for to go to bord with +the prustes, and ye not to kype no houshold ther yet; and that ye shall +fynd more profettabyll than for to doo as we do nogh; for ther expens, +as I understond, have not be moch the lesse by fore Wytsontyde than it +shold be thogh I had be at home by cause of resortyng of pepell theder; +and yf the houshold were broke thay myzt have a gode excuse in that, +whosome ever come. Ric. Call shall enforme you of thys maters, and mo +other, more playnly than I may do wryte +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page150" id = "page150">150</a></span> +at thys tyme. It is necessary that possessyon be kypt hyre yett tyll ye +be more ferther forth in other maters. The Blessyd Trynyte have you [in] +Hys kypyng, and send you gode spyde in all your maters, and send you +grace to have a gode conclusyon in hem in haste. Wryten on the Tewysday +nex before Corpus Christi. +<span class = "signature">By your faynt houswyff at thys tyme,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note147_1" id = "note147_1" href = +"#tag147_1">147.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>] This letter, in +which it is anticipated that the Duke of Suffolk will obtain possession, +first of Drayton, and then of Hellesden, is evidently a little later in +date than <a href = "#letter578">Nos. 578</a> and 581, and can only be +of the year 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note148_1" id = "note148_1" href = +"#tag148_1">148.1</a> +The <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> has ‘in’ instead of ‘I,’ +evidently by mistake.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note149_1" id = "note149_1" href = +"#tag149_1">149.1</a> +Paper decayed.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter586" id = "letter586">586</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGEST TO HIS FATHER<a class = +"tag" name = "tag150_1" id = "tag150_1" href = +"#note150_1">150.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> reverent and worchepfull fadyr, I +recomand me on to yow, beschyng yow lowly of your blyssyng. Plesit yow +to have knowlage how that I have be in Sowthefolk for syche materys as +my cosyn Dawbeney took my modyr a byll of, towchyng the materys be twyx +yow and Jenney. And of all the jentylmen that ye wold my modyr schold +send to for thys mater ther ar no more at home bot John Alyngton; and I +schewyd hym the byll of the namys of the Inqwest and knew no more of hem +all bot thes, John Depden, Thomas Wodborne, John Donemowe, Herry +Chesten, and Adam Wrene. And to all them Alyngton sent a man of hys for +to fele hem how they wer dysposyd. Thys was the answer of John Depden +and Thomas Wodborne, they sayd the last tyme they wer at London iche of +ther costys stood hem on x<i>s.</i>, and they seyd they wold no mor come +at London bot if<a class = "tag" name = "tag150_2" id = "tag150_2" href += "#note150_2">150.2</a> they knew who schod pay for ther costis; but me +thowt by Alyngtonys man that they wold have had a brybe of yow be syd +the paying for ther costys for to have bedyn at home, for they have non +othyr levyng but brybys. As for John Donemow and Herry Chesten, so that +ther issuys may be payd they wyll not come ther; nor in trowthe they +scholl not +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page151" id = "page151">151</a></span> +come ther. Wher for Alyngton prayith yow that ther issuys may be payid. +Adam Wrene was not spoke to, for he is Jenneys baly or hys fermour. As +for the quest they ar not yet somoned to aper, and but if<a class = +"tag" name = "tag151_1" id = "tag151_1" href = "#note151_1">151.1</a> +they be somonyd ther scholl non of hem all aper. The most part of the +todyr dwell a bowt Ippyswyche and they be Debnamys tenauntys and +Brewsys, and I <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged: error for ‘kowd’?">knowd</ins> +get no man to spek with hem but if<a class = +"tag" href = "#note151_1">151.1</a> I schold have spok with hem my +selve; and my spekyng with hem schold rather aperyd [<i>have +impaired</i>] the mater than a mendyd it. And also I hyid me the faster +home a geyn, for I lay at my cosyn Lovedays on Corpus Christi Day at +nyth; and he told me that the Duches of Sofokys consell wold entre in to +Calcot Hall, and they wold kep it tyll the Duches knew who schold be her +tenaunt, owthyr ye or Debnam. Thus told one of the men of the seyd +cowncell to Loveday; whyche man schold ryd thedyr with hem. And thys +schold be do as to morow at aftyr non; bot I trow they wole but tak a +distres for the servys of the maner, whych is dwe; but I have sent word +to Rysyng and to the tenauntis that they schold dryve a wey ther catell. +And as for the maner, my brodyr and I scholl kepe it so that they schall +not entyr as that daye, by the grase of God, nor aftyr nowthyr and +[<i>i.e.</i> if] we may knowe of it, but if<a class = "tag" href = +"#note151_1">151.1</a> ye send us othyr wys word. As for the namys that +ye wold have for to pase upon the mater betwyx yow and Hogan, +I spok to Alyngton and Loveday therof, and Loveday seyd he knew non +that wold pas up on ony inquest for hym, for he medylyd with no syche +men; and Alyngton seyd that he kowd assyne me none men for serteyn, not +tyll he had spok with some, whyche he seyd wold aske gret leyser, for he +knew bot fewe in Sofolk; if it had be in Cambrygge schyre he kowd have +get you j now. My modyr spak with old Banyard of Sibton Abbey for the +same mater, and he knew none that wold pase upon the mater at his +desyer, but he asygnyd dyvers men that love not Jeney, whyche he kowd +thynk wold pase upon it at yowr desyer if ye spok with hem your selve; +or at the lest iche of hem kowd get yow ij. or iij. men that wold sey as +they wold in cas ye spok with hem your selve, whoys +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page152" id = "page152">152</a></span> +namys I send you in a byll by Loveday. Item, as for the gape at Nakton +Rychard Calle seyth that it was a thorn busche was leyd in with owt a +stake betwyx ij. thornys that grew; and as for Jeneys netes, ther was +not one lost her calfe that I can inquer of. And I pray God farther yow +in all youyr materys to Hys plesans and to youer hertys desyir. Wretyn +in hast at Hallysworthe the Saterday next aftyr Trinite Sonday.</p> + +<p>My cosyn Hevenyngham is at London, and he kowd asygne you men that +wold say as he wold mor than Syr John Wyngfeld, Alyngton, and all. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and lowly servant,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston the Yongest.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note150_1" id = "note150_1" href = +"#tag150_1">150.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 190.] This letter +refers to the dispute with Jenney in 1464-5, and seems to belong to the +latter year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note150_2" id = "note150_2" href = +"#tag150_2">150.2</a> +‘But if,’ the old familiar expression for ‘unless,’ occurs in this +letter with peculiar frequency.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note151_1" id = "note151_1" href = +"#tag151_1">151.1</a> +See footnote 2 on preceding page.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">and I knowd get no man to spek with +hem</span><br> +text unchanged: error for “kowd get”?</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter587" id = "letter587">587</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag152_1" id = "tag152_1" href = +"#note152_1">152.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght reverent and worschippfull master, Sir John Paston, +Knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> it your gode masterschip to +wete that as for the examynacion of Master Robert Popy, his examinacion +was wreten in a longe bille of parchemyn accordyng to the deposicion in +the Spirituall Coorte. And Master Robert come into the Chauncery, and +was sworne that all that was wreten in the seide bille was trewe, and so +delyverd the same bille to the Mastre of the Rolles; and he bare it +forthe with hym in his hande, for it was delyverd hym at the risyng of +the Coorte. Tounesende was by and I bothe, &c. And as for delyveryng +of money to Dawbeney, I do that I may do, and more thenne I may +weele doo, for I have put my selfe in gret daunger for that I have +borwyd, &c. Almyghty God spede you in all your maters, &c. +Wreten the Saterday next after Corpus Christi Daye. +<span class = "signature">Your servaunt R. C.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note152_1" id = "note152_1" href = +"#tag152_1">152.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +seems to have reference to the depositions touching Sir John Fastolf’s +will in the suit brought by Sir William Yelverton and William Worcester +against John Paston and Thomas Howes. Robert Popy seems to have been +examined in the spring of 1464 (<i>see</i> <a href = "#letter565">No. +565</a>); but the suit was still going on in 1465, and in a letter of +Margaret Paston’s, of the 24th June following, Richard Calle is +mentioned as having recently left her and gone to her husband in +London.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page153" id = "page153">153</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter588" id = "letter588">588</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RYSYNG TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name += "tag153_1" id = "tag153_1" href = "#note153_1">153.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Onto my ryght reverent and worchipfull maister, John Paston, Esquyer, be +this letter delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> reverent and worchipfull sir, I +recomende me onto your good maisterchip in the moste lowly wise that I +can or may, letyng your masterchippe understonde howe that John Smyth, +of Freton, and John Hopton, of Freton, and I were attached and led onto +Gippeswich, and there putte into the Kynges pryson by cawse of the fyn +which was sessed upon the forsaid John Smyth, John Hopton, and me, as +your maisterchippe knowith well. And as for John Smyth and John Hopton, +they had labored the meanes onto Master Jenney, that they were delyvered +owt of pryson or than the massenger come ageyn to theym which they sent +onto yow; and I remayne stille in pryson, and I can not knowe but that +they labour the meanes to make me to paye the money for theym. And so I +can not se non other meane but that I shall ly stille in pryson, and +been ondo for ever withoute your good masterchippe shewed to me at this +tyme; for as I am enformed that Jenney hath promysed theym that I shall +paye the fyne for theym, and also alle the costes that haith be spent +ther upon, and shall be spent, for thei say that I am sufficient to bere +the hole daunger. And my keper yafe me licence to goon home, and thei +had hevyed the peple that dwelle ther, and that gretly, and said playnly +how that ye myght not beere the dawnger a geyns Jenney for your self; +therfor the seiden that ye myght not helpe them owt of dawnger when +thatte ye myght not helpe your self. Wherfor I pray your masterchippe to +lete me have word in as hasty tyme as ye may, to knowe whether that I +shall abyde her stylle or not, and if I myght do yow any +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page154" id = "page154">154</a></span> +good at London, I pray your mastershippe that ye will sende for me, +and I will come up to yow. And if ther be non other remedy but that the +money most nedys be paid, I pray your masterchippe that ye will +make such purveyaunce therfor that it may be to myn delyveraunce at the +reverence of God, and in the weye of charite as myn hole truste is in +your masterchippe, for I can not seke to no man, nor will not but only +to yow. Wherfor I pray yow that ye will tenderly understond this letter, +as I may pray for yow onto God, who have yow in His kepyng. Wretyn at +Gippeswich the xviij. day of June.</p> + +<p>These ar the names of theym that have parte of my catell, Gilbert +Nicoll, of Sprowton, William Merssh and John Woode of Gippeswich, +bocher. +<span class = "signature">By your man and feithfull servant,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Rysyng.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note153_1" id = "note153_1" href = +"#tag153_1">153.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The +imprisonment of John Rysing is referred to in Margaret Paston’s letter +of the 27th May 1465 (<a href = "#letter584">No. 584</a>), and in +another of the 24th June following (<a href = +"#letter590">No. 590</a>). There can be no doubt this letter is of +the same year.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter589" id = "letter589">589</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag154_1" id = +"tag154_1" href = "#note154_1">154.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Examinations taken at the house of the treasurer of St. Paul’s +Cathedral, London, of the following witnesses in the matter Sir John +Fastolf’s will, viz.:— of Thomas Torald and Robert Lawe on the +18th; of William Waterman on the 19th; of John Osbern and John Heydon on +the 20th; of William Pykeryng, John Symmys and John Shawe on the 21st +<ins class = "correction" title = "text has ‘days’">day</ins> of June +1465.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note154_1" id = "note154_1" href = +"#tag154_1">154.1</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Phillipps, 9309.]</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">William Pykeryng, John Symmys and John Shawe on +the 21st day of June 1465.</span><br> +text has “days”</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter590" id = "letter590">590</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag154_2" id = "tag154_2" href = +"#note154_2">154.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshipfull <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘husbana’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">husband</ins>, +John Paston, be thys delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +24</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull hosbond, I recomaund +me to you. Please it you to wyte that the same Wensday that Ric. Call +departyd hens I send Ric. Charlys to speke with the undershryf, +requyryng hym that he shold serve the replevyn +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page155" id = "page155">155</a></span> +for the shype and hors that were take, &c.; and the shryf sayd +playnly that he wol not, nor derst not serve it, not thogh I wold yeve +hym xx <i>li.</i> to serve it. And Ric. Charlys axhyd the cause why, and +he sayd, for he wold not have to doo with that felshyp, and so it ys yet +unservyd. I supyose that Ric. Calle hath told you what revell ther +was by the Bayllyf of Coshay and his felaw uppon your men that shold +have servyd the replevyn.</p> + +<p>Item, the same Wensday that Ric. Call rode from hens the were indytyd +v. of men by the enquest of Fourhoo hunder, as Crome can enforme you, +and on Fryday last paste John Paston, the yonger, Wykes and Thomas +Honewerth were endytyd at Dyram, by what menys the berour herof Crome +shall [en]forme you. I send theder Ric. Charlys, John Seve, and +iij. or iiij. other gode felows, for to have don other folks as gode +atorne; but it wold not be, for the Juge ys soo parcyall with the other +party that I trowe ther shalbe sped no maters before hym for you, nor +for non of yours tyl it be otherwyse by twene you than it ys. Crome +shall tell you of hys demenyng at the last sessyons at Dyrham. +I send you a copy of both the endytements. Your son John Paston the +yonger, I hope shal be with you thys wyke and enforme you of mo +thyngys, and howe myn hors and hys sadell and harnys ys prysoner at +Coshaye Halle and have ben ever syn Wensday last.</p> + +<p>Item, I recevyd a letter from you on Satorday last, whych was wryten +on Monday next before and I have sent to Sir Thomas Howys the same day +for such maters as ye wrote to me of, and he sent me word that Wyllyam +Worceter had a boke of remembraunce of recaytys that hath be recevyd by +Sir John Fastolf or any of hys sythen the iiij.<sup>te.</sup> yere Kyng +Harry, both of hys owyn lyflode or of any other mannys that he had to +doo wyth all. He sayd, yf ye wold send to Wyll. Worceter to loke +therfore he sayd he wyst well he wold lete you have knowlych yf any such +thyng may be founde, and also he sayd that he wold send to the seyd +Wyll. to serche therfore, and as for such bokys as he hath hyre at hom +he wol doo loke yf any remembraunce canne be founde therof, and ye shall +have knowlych ther of, as he hath promysyd, by Satourday next comyng. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page156" id = "page156">156</a></span> +And as for the woman that made the clayme that ye wrote of he ys +wellwyllyd that she shold be seyn to in the way of almys. And as I here +say, it symyth by hym that in any thyng that he canne doo tochyng the +savacyon of the dedys gode,<a class = "tag" name = "tag156_1" id = +"tag156_1" href = "#note156_1">156.1</a> other in lyflode, other in +other godys, he sayth that he wyll doo. I canne not have no +knowlych that Haydon mellyth in the mater of Drayton; yf he do oght +therin, he doyth it closely, as he ys wont to doo, and wayshyth hys +hondys ther of as Pylate dyde. It shalnot be long to or that I send to +yow; of such tythynges as we have I shall lete you have knowlych ther +of. I fynd Crome ryght welwyllyng to you in such thyngys as lyth in +hym for to do. I pray you lete hym be thankynd therfor, and that +shall cause hym to be the beter wylled; he hath not be rewardyd as yet +but by Ric. Call, as he canne tell you. The Blyssyd Trynyte have you in +His kepyng and send you gode spyde in all your maters. Wryten in hast on +Mydsomer day.</p> + +<p>As for Rysyng, but yf [<i>unless</i>] ye purvey for hym he canne no +helpe have at home. +<span class = "signature">By yours,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note154_2" id = "note154_2" href = +"#tag154_2">154.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] As this +letter refers to Paston’s disputes with the Duke of Suffolk and his +officers, the date must be 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note156_1" id = "note156_1" href = +"#tag156_1">156.1</a> +<i>i.e.</i>, the dead man’s goods.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">To my ryght wyrshipfull husband, John +Paston</span><br> +text has “husbana” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter591" id = "letter591">591</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[JOHN PASTON] TO MARGARET PASTON AND OTHERS<a +class = "tag" name = "tag156_2" id = "tag156_2" href = +"#note156_2">156.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my cosyn Margret Paston and to John Dawbeney and Richard Calle.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomande</span> me to yow, and have +received a letter from yow and a nother for Richard Calle be John +Colman, and . . be Roos; and I have received of +Colman the plate and mony acording Richard Callis letteris. Item, +I con yow thonk ye send me word the prise of corn. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page157" id = "page157">157</a></span> +Item, as for yowr sone,<a class = "tag" name = "tag157_1" id = +"tag157_1" href = "#note157_1">157.1</a> I lete yow wete I wold he +dede wel, but I understand in hym no disposicion of policy, ne of +governans as man of the werle owt to do, but only levith and ever hath +as man disolut with owt any provision, ne that he besiith hym nothinge +to understand swhech materis as a man of lyvelode must nedis understond; +ne I understond nothing of what disposicion he porposith to be, but only +I kan thynk he wold dwell ayeyn in yowr hows and myn, and ther ete and +drinke and slepe.<a class = "tag" name = "tag157_2" id = "tag157_2" href += "#note157_2">157.2</a> Therfor I lete yow wete, I wold know hym +or he know myn entent, and how wel he hath ocupiid his tym now he hath +had leyser. Every pore man that hath browt up his chylder to the age of +xij. yer waytyth than to be holp and profited be hes chylder, and every +gentilman that hath discrecion waytith that his ken and servantis that +levith be hym and at his coste shuld help hym forthward. As for yowr +sone, ye knowe well he never stode yow ne me in profite, ese or help, to +valew of on grote, savyng at Calkot Hall whane [he<a class = "tag" name += "tag157_3" id = "tag157_3" href = "#note157_3">157.3</a>] and hes +brothir keptid on day ayeyns Debenham, and yet was it at iii. [times<a +class = "tag" href = "#note157_3">157.3</a>] the coste that that ever +Debenham sones put hym to. For be her police [<i>by their policy</i>] +they kepe Cotton at my cost and with the<a class = "tag" name = +"tag157_4" id = "tag157_4" href = "#note157_4">157.4</a> profitis of the +same. Wherfor geff hem no favor tyle ye feel what he is and will be.</p> + +<p>Item, Calle sendith me word that Master Phylip<a class = "tag" name = +"tag157_5" id = "tag157_5" href = "#note157_5">157.5</a> hat entrid in +Drayton in my Lord of Suffolk’s name, and hat odir purpose to entre in +Heylisdon, and he askith my avyse; whech is that ye confort my tenantis +and help hem til I com hom, and lete hem wet I shall not lese it, and +that the Dowk of Suffolk that last diid wold have bouth it of Fastolff, +and, for he mygth not have it so, he claymyd the maner, seying it was on +Polis [<i>one Pole’s</i>], and, for his name was Poole, he claymed to be +eyr. He was ansueryed that he com nothing of that stok, and how +somever<a class = "tag" name = "tag157_6" id = "tag157_6" href = +"#note157_6">157.6</a> wer kyn to the Polis that owth<a class = "tag" +name = "tag157_7" id = "tag157_7" href = "#note157_7">157.7</a> it it +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page158" id = "page158">158</a></span> +hurt not, for it was laufully bowth and sold, and he never kleymid it +after. Item, I am in purpose to tak assise ageynse hem at this +tyme, and elles I wold have sent thedir streyt be a letter of attorney +to entre in my name; never the les ye be a gentilwoman, and it is +worshep for you to confort yowr tennauntis; wherfor I wold ye myth ryd +to Heylisdon and Drayton and Sparham, and tari at Drayton and speke with +hem, and byd hem hold with ther old master til I com, and that ye have +sent me word but late, wherfore ye may have none answer yet, and informe +hem as I ha (<i>sic</i>) wrete to ye within; and sey oupinly it is a +shame that any man shuld set anny lord on so ontrwe a mater, and +speciall a preste; and lete hem wete, as sone as I am com hom I shall +see hem. Item, that as for distreyn for rent of ferm, thow the Dewk had +tytill, as he hath not, he may non ask til the next rent day after his +entre, that is Michelmes, and seye that ye will be paiid everi peni and +asken hem it. And make mech of men of Cossey, becawse they wer owr +welwillers when we wer neyboris ther; and lete hem wete that the +begyningis of shech mater had never worchip nor profite of me, ne shall, +and desyr god will of yowr neyboris, &c., and suyn all othir menes +that ye kan to plese the pepill. And lete yowr tenaunts wete that the +Dewke may never be lawe compel hem to torn from me; and do all so well +as ye can, and if any entyr be made in Heylisdon shuff him owt and set +sum man to kepe the place, if ned be, not withstandyng it longith not to +the manere. Item, I wold fayn have sum man to be bayle of Heylisdon +and Drayton, &c., that myth go amongis the tenauntis. And elles I +wold han Richard Chyllins (?) to go amond [<i>q.</i> among?] hem tyl I +com hom and also Richard Calle whan home. Item, he sent me word that the +tenauntis of Drayton wold not come to the Dewkis cort and that they will +be stefast to me and kepe hem straunge and froward from the Dewkis +cowncell; all this mater shall turne to a jape and not hurt hem; ner, +and if ye be wavering it shall hurt hem. Item, I let yow wete this +is do to cause me to loose my labor ayens hym for Dedham, which I wil +not for it. God kepe yow. Wret the Thursday befor Sent Petres day.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page159" id = "page159">159</a></span> +<p>Item, tel Richard Calle to have wittenses redy. I wol spede this +mater spirituall befor Estern.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note156_2" id = "note156_2" href = +"#tag156_2">156.2</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 9.] This letter, +which is in the handwriting of John Paston, refers to the proceedings of +the Duke of Suffolk to enforce his claim to Drayton and Hellesden, and +was clearly written in the summer of 1465 on Thursday before St. Peter’s +Day, <i>i.e.</i> before the feast of SS. Peter and Paul (29th June).</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_1" id = "note157_1" href = +"#tag157_1">157.1</a> +Sir John Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_2" id = "note157_2" href = +"#tag157_2">157.2</a> +A later hand has here written in the margin: ‘Hic postea fuit Sir John +Paston senior, miles.’ But the <i>postea</i> is wrong.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_3" id = "note157_3" href = +"#tag157_3">157.3</a> +These words omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_4" id = "note157_4" href = +"#tag157_4">157.4</a> +<i>the</i> repeated in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_5" id = "note157_5" href = +"#tag157_5">157.5</a> +Philip Lipgate, the Duke of Suffolk’s bailiff.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_6" id = "note157_6" href = +"#tag157_6">157.6</a> +‘How somever’ for ‘whosomever,’ or ‘whoever.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note157_7" id = "note157_7" href = +"#tag157_7">157.7</a> +‘Owth’ for ‘ought,’ <i>i.e.</i> owned.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter592" id = "letter592">592</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag159_1" id = "tag159_1" href = +"#note159_1">159.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY 6 +(?)</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I grete</span> yow wele, letyng yow +wetyn that I am informyd for certeyn the Duc of Suffolk reysyth grete +pepyl bothe in Norffolk and Suffolk to comyn doune with hym to putte us +to a rebeuc and thei may; querfor I wold in ony wyse that ze make yow as +strong as ze can wyth inne [<i>in the</i>] place, for I and other moo +suppose that zyff they fynd zow not here they wyl seke yow there ze arn. +I wold John Paston the zonger schuld ryde azyn to my Lady of +Norffolk and be wyth hyr stylle tyl we haff other tydyngs, and ther may +he do sum good, after that he heryth tydyngs, in goyng forth to hys +fadyr or in to sum other place quere we may hafe remedy; for yt [is] +told me that there ar come to Cossay onward more than ij. hundred, and +ther ys comyng, as yt ys seyd, more than a thowsand. I wold that ze +sende hyder Lytyl John that I mygth sende hym abowte on myn errandys. +Sende me worde how that ze doo by summe of the tenantes that be not +knowyn.</p> + +<p>Item, byd Richard Calle send me word in a bylle, of how many materys +that he hath sent myn husbond an answere of, the quych he sendt hom in +divers letters for to be sped here and of the fermours of Tychwelle.</p> + +<p>Item, zyf Sir Jamys Gloys may come to Norwych to Adam Taylours how I +wold he come on Munday bytymys, and I schal sende to hym thyder. God +kepe yow alle. Wretyn in hast on Satyrday. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">By your Modyr.</span></p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page160" id = "page160">160</a></span> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, yt ys told me that zong Heydon reysyth mych pepyl in the sokyn and +in other place.</p> + +<p>Item, I wold ze schuld do Rychard Calle hye hym of makeng of alle the +acountes and, zyf nede, lete hym gete help and kepe Thomas Hunnworth +stille wyth yow, and be war of of Pykyng [<i>Pickering ?</i>]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note159_1" id = "note159_1" href = +"#tag159_1">159.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is not addressed on the back, nor is the handwriting that of Margaret +Paston, but from the subscription it would appear to have been written +by her to one of her sons; and as John Paston the younger is mentioned +in the body of the letter, the person addressed was evidently his elder +brother. The letter seems to have been written shortly before the Duke +of Suffolk’s attempt on Hellesden mentioned in the next No., probably on +the Saturday preceding it.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter593" id = "letter593">593</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag160_1" id = "tag160_1" href = +"#note160_1">160.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mastre, John Paston, in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +10</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> it youre maysterschip to witte +of the rwle and disposicion of the Master Philip and the Balyf of +Cossey, with others of my Lorde of Suffolkes men. On Monday last past, +at aftrenoon, [they] wer at Heylesdon, with the nombre of CCC. men, for +to have entred, notwithstandyng they seyde they come not for to entre; +but withoute dought, and they had been strong inough for us, they wolde +have entred, and that we undrestonde nough, but we knowyng of ther +comyng and purveyed so for hem, that we wer strong j nough. We had lx. +men withinne the place, and gonnes, and suche ordynauns, so that if they +had satte uppon us, they had be distroyed. And ther my mastres was +withine, and my mastre, Sir John, and hathe gate hym as grete worschip +for that day as any gentleman myght doo, and so is it reported of the +partye and in all Norwiche. And my Lorde of Norwiche sent theder Master +John Salett and Master John Bulleman for to trete, and so they ded; and +the Duc men seide they had a warant for to attache John Dawbeney, Wyks, +Calle, Hunewrthe, and Bliclyng and other, weche they wuld have; and my +master, Sir John, answerd them, and seide that they were not withine, +and though we had ben, they shuld not have had hem; and so they desired +oon of our men. And so +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page161" id = "page161">161</a></span> +Naunton stede by my mastres and haxed hem whom they wold have, and seyde +if they wold have hem he wold go with hem, and so he ded. And on the +next day they caryed hym forthe to my Lord of Suffolk to Claxton, +through Norwich; and ther we had founde a remedy for hym for to heve +lette hym; and he wold not, but nedys go forthe with hem; but like a +jentelman he was entreated amongs hem. And Harleston desyred at +Heylesdon to speke with my mastre, Sir John, and so he ded, and seyde to +hym it were ryght weele don that he rode to my Lord of Suffolk and +desired hym in any wice that he schulde do so, and seyde that it was hes +dwte so for to do, in asmoche as my Lorde was come to contre, and that +he wolde ryde with hym, and brynge hym to my Lorde; and he answerd and +seide to hym, whan that he undrestode that my Lord were hes fathers +goode Lord and hes, that thanne he wolde se hes Lordship, and [ell]es he +had non aronde to hym; and so they departed. And thanne appoyntement was +taken that they shull sende home ther men, and we schuld send home oure. +And nough my Lord of Suffolks men come from Claxton to Norwich, and face +us and fray uppon us, this dayly. Ther fylle uppon me befor Sevayne dore +xij. of hes men, viij. of them in harneys, and ther they wold have +myscheved me and the Scheryf letted hem and other, and they make ther +awaunte were that I may be goten I schul dye; and so they lye in a wayte +for to myscheve me, Dawbeney, and Wyks; and so I dare not ryde out alone +withoute a man with me. And I undrestonde ther is comyn an Heyre +Determyner<a class = "tag" name = "tag161_1" id = "tag161_1" href = +"#note161_1">161.1</a> to enquer of all ryots, and my Lord of Suffolk +and Yelverton be Comyscioners; and so they sey as money of us as can be +taken shal be endyted and hanged forth with; and so the people here are +dysmayed with ther rwle. Wherfore that it like you to sende werd how my +mastres schal do at Heylesdon, and we in all other maters; and wether ye +wol that we feche a yene the flok of Heylesdon, for they are nough +dreven to Causton, and there go they on the heyth; and my Lord of +Suffolk wolbe at Drayton on Lames Daye, and kepe the Coort ther; +wherefor ye must seke an remedy for it, or ell[es] it woll not do +weele.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page162" id = "page162">162</a></span> +<p>If my Lord of Norffolk wold come, he schulde make all weele, for they +feere hym above all thyngs, for it is noyced here that my Lord of +Norffolk hathe taken partye in thes mater, and all the cuntre is cladde +of it, seyng that if he come they wooll hooly go with hym.</p> + +<p>And me senethe it were wele don to meve my Lord in it, though ye +schuld geve hym the profyghts of Heylesdon and Drayton for the kepyng, +and som money be side; for ye must seke som other remedy than ye do, or +ell[es] in my conseyte it schull go to the Divell, and be distroyed, and +that in ryght schort tyme. And therfore at the reverence of God take som +appoyntement with Master Yelverton, suche as ye thynke schuld most +hurt.</p> + +<p>I beseche you to pardon me of my writyng, for I have pitte to se the +trybulacion that my mastres hathe here, and all your frends, &c.</p> + +<p>Almyghty Jesu preserve and kepe you. Wreten the Wednesday next Seint +Thomas Daye. +<span class = "signature">Your pore servaunt and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Ric. Calle.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note160_1" id = "note160_1" href = +"#tag160_1">160.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 212.] From what has been already said about the Duke of +Suffolk’s claim to the manor of Hellesden, it is clear that this letter +is of the year 1465. Later it cannot be, as John Paston was dead before +July 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note161_1" id = "note161_1" href = +"#tag161_1">161.1</a> +An Oyer and Terminer, or Special Commission.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter594" id = "letter594">594</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag162_1" id = "tag162_1" href = +"#note162_1">162.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worschipfull husbond, John Paston, in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +12</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worshypful husbond, I recomaund +me to yow, preyeng you hertyly that ye wyl seke a meen that yowr +servauntys may be in pees, for they be dayly in fer of ther lyvys. The +Duke Suffolks men thretyn dayly Dawbeney, Wykys, and Richard Calle, that +wher so ever they may gete them they schold dye; and affrayes have ben +made on Rychard Calle this weke, so that he was in gret jupperte at +Norwych among them; and gret affrayes have ben made uppon me and my +felashep her on Monday last passyd, of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page163" id = "page163">163</a></span> +whych Rychard Calle tellyth me that he hath sent yow word of in +wryghtyng, mor pleynly than I may doo at thys tyme, but I shal informe +yow mor pleynly heraftyr.</p> + +<p>I suppose ther shal be gret labor ageyn yow and yowr servaunts at the +Assysis and Cescions her; wherfor me semyth, savyng your better advyce, +it wer wele do that ye shold speke with the Justicys or they com her; +and yf ye wol that I compleyn to them or to any other, if Good fortune +me lyfe and helth, I wol do as ye advyse me to do, for in good +feyth I have ben symply intretid among them; and what with syknesse, and +troble that I have had, I am browte ryght lowe and weyke, but to my +power I wyl do as I can or may in your maters.</p> + +<p>The Duk of Suffolk and both the Duchessys shal com to Claxton thys +day, as I <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘an’: corrected from Fenn">am</ins> +informyd, and thys next weke he shal be at Cossey; +whether he wol com ferther hyddyr ward or not, I wot not yit. It is +seyd that he schold com hyddyr, and yet hys men seyd her on Monday that +he cleymyd no tytyl to thys place; they seyd ther comyng was but to take +out such ryotus peple as was her within thys place, and suche as wer the +Kyngys felonys, and indytyd and outlawyd men. Neverthe lesse they wold +schew no warauntys wherby to take non such, thow ther had suche her; +I suppose if they myght have com in pesably, they wold have made an +other cause of ther comyng.</p> + +<p>Whan alle was doo and they scholde departe, Harlyston and other +desyryd me that I schold com and se myn olde Lady, and sewe to my Lorde, +and if any thyng wer amysse it schold be amendyd. I said if I +scholde sewe for any remedye, that I scholde sewe ferther, and lete the +Kynge and alle the Lordys of thys lond to have knowlech what hathe be +don to us, if so wer that the Deuk wolde meynten that hathe be don to us +by hys servauntys, if ye wolde geve me leve.</p> + +<p>I pray yow sende me worde if ye wyl that I make any compleynt to the +Duke or the Duchesse; for as it is tolde me, they know not the pleynesse +that hathe ben don in such thyngys as hathe ben don in her +[<i>their</i>] namys.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page164" id = "page164">164</a></span> +<p>I schold wryght muche mor to yow but for lak of leyser.</p> + +<p>I comaundyd my Mayster Tom thys day to have com ageyn by me from +Norwych, when he had spokyn with Rychard Calle, but he cam not. +I wolde he wer qwyte of hys indytments, so that he wer qwyte of +yowr servyce; for by my trowthe, I holde the place the mor +ongracyous that he is in, for hys dysposycion in dyverce thyngys, the +whych ye schal be informed of her after.</p> + +<p>The Trynyte have yow in kepyng. Wretyn the Fryday next after Seynt +Thomas. +<span class = "signature">By yowr,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note162_1" id = "note162_1" href = +"#tag162_1">162.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 218.] It is needless to point out that this letter must +have been written in the same year as the last.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">thys day, as I am informyd</span><br> +text has “an”: corrected from Fenn</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter595" id = "letter595">595</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag164_1" id = "tag164_1" href = +"#note164_1">164.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my cosyn, Margaret Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +13</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recummand</span> me to yow, I thank of +yow of yowr labour and besynes with the unruly felechep that cam befor +yow on Monday last past, wherof I herd report be John Hobbis. And in god +feyth ye aquyt yow rygth wel and discretly and hertyly to yowr wurchep +and myn, and to the shame of your adversarijs, and I am wel content that +ye avowid that ye kept possession at Drayton and so wold doo. Wherfor I +pray yow, make yowr word god if ye may, and at the lest, let myn +adversarijs not have it in pees if ye may. Jon Hobbys tellith me that ye +be seekly, whech me lekith not to here; praying yow hartyly that ye take +what may do yowr eese and spar not, and in any wyse take no thowth no to +moch labor for thes maters, ne set it not so to yowr hert that ye fare +the wers for it. And as for the mater, so they overcome yow not with +fors ne bosting, I shall have the maner sewrlyer to me and myn, +than the Dewk shall have Cossey, dowt ye not. And in cas I come not home +within thre wekis, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page165" id = "page165">165</a></span> +I pray you com to me, and Wykes hath promisid to kepe the plase in yowr +absens. Nevertheles whan ye come set it in seche rewle as ye seme best +and most suer, bothe for Castre and Heylisdon if the werr hold. In cas +ye have pees send me word.</p> + +<p>As for that it is desyrid I shuld show my tytill and evydens to the +Dewk, me thynkyth he had evyll cowncell to entre in opon me, trusting I +shuld shew hym evydens. And [<i>if</i>] ye seme it may do yow god or +eese, lete my Lord of Norwich wet that the maner of Drayton was a +marchants of London callid Jon Heylisdon longe er any of the Polis that +the seyd Dewk comyth of wer borne to any lond in Norfolk or Suffolk; and +if they wer at that tyme born to no lond, how may the seyd Dewk klaym +Drayton be that pedegre? As for the seyd John Heylisdon, he was a por +man born, and from hym the seyd maner dessended to Alice his dowtyr, hos +estat I have, and I soppose the seyd Dewk comyth not of hem.</p> + +<p>Item, as for the pedegre of the seyd Dewk, he is sone to William +Pool, Dewk of Suffolk, sone to Mychell Pool, Erl of Suffolk, sone to +Mychel Pool, the furst Erl of Suffolk of the Polis, mad be King Richard +seth my fader was born; and the seyd furst Mychell was sone to on +William Pool of Hull, whech was a wurchepfull man grow be fortwne of the +werld. And he was furst a marchant, and after a knygth, and after he was +mad baneret; and if any of thees hadde the maner of Drayton I will los +C<i>li.</i> so that any persone for the Dewk will be bond in as moch to +prove the contrary; and I wot weel the seyd Dewkis Cowncell wil not +claym the seyd maner be the tytill of the fader of the seyd William +Pool. And what the fader of the seyd William was, as be the pedegre mad +in the seyd last Dewkis fadirs daijs I know rygt weell; wherof I +informyd Herry Boteler to tell my old Lady of Suffolk, becawse he is of +her cowncell; and more will I not tell in thes mater, but if +[<i>unless</i>] I be desyrid or compellid.</p> + +<p>Item, let my Lord of Norwich wete that it is not profitabe ner the +comen well of gentilmen that any jentilman shuld be compellid be an +entre of a lord to shew his evidens or tytill to his lond, ner I wil not +begine that example ne thralldam of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page166" id = "page166">166</a></span> +gentilmen ner of other; it is god a lord take sad cowncell, or he begyne +any sech mater.</p> + +<p>And as for the Pools that owth Drayton, if ther wer C. of hem levyng, +as ther is non, yet have they no tytill to the seyd maner. God kepe yow. +Wret the Satirday, &c. +<span class = "signature">Yowr <span class = "smallcaps">Jon +Paston</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I pray yow be as mery with yowr felachep as ye kan.</p> + +<p>Item, I send hom writt and prasens for yowr servaunts and myn.</p> + +<p>Item, I may sell you woll for xl<i>d.</i> the ston, redi mony, as +Arblaster can tell yow, and malt for iiij<i>s.</i> the quarter at days +xxj. for xx. delivered of Yermouth mesur. If ye fayle mony ye most make +it of yowr wole or malt.</p> + +<p>I send you hom writts of replevin for the shep and the horses that +wer take, and avise yow lete the writtis be delivered be fore my Lord of +Norwich, and god rekord; and if ye may make men with fors to take the +catell agey[n] be waran of replevyn, spar not rather than fayle.</p> + +<div class = "annotation"> +<p>On the back of the letter is the following memorandum in a different +hand:—</p> + +<p>Md. there lefte behynde of Heylesdon folde of my mastre schepe xlj. +modreschep. Item of lambes xxxiiij. Item of my mastres xij. modreschep. +Item of her lambes xij.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note164_1" id = "note164_1" href = +"#tag164_1">164.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] As this +letter is dated on a Saturday, and refers to the Duke of Suffolk’s +attempt on Hellesden as having been made on the Monday preceding, there +can be no difficulty in fixing the precise date, both of day and +year.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter596" id = "letter596">596</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag166_1" id = "tag166_1" href = +"#note166_1">166.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = +"sidetext">[JULY?]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worchepful hosbond, I recommand +me to yow, and pray yow hertely at the reverence of God that ye be of +good comfort, and trost veryly be the grase of God that ye shall +overcome your enemys and your trobelows maters ryght welle, yf ye wolle +be of good comfort, and not take your maters to hevely that ye apeyr not +your self, and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page167" id = "page167">167</a></span> +thynk veryly that ye be strong inowe for alle your enemys be the grace +of God. My moder is your good moder, and takyth your maters ryght +hertely. And zif ye thynnk that I may do good in your maters yf I come +up to you, after I have knowlage of your entent it shall not be longe or +I be with you be the grace of God. And as for any othyr thyngs of sharge +that be in this contre, I hope I shall so ordeyn therfore that it +shall be safe. I have delyveryd your older sonne xx. mark that I +have received of Ric. Calle, and I kowd no more of hym syn ye departyd. +[And I send yow another bage of mony that was in your square cofyr.<a +class = "tag" name = "tag167_1" id = "tag167_1" href = +"#note167_1">167.1</a>] And I pray God hertely send us good tydyngs of +yow, and send the victory of your enemys. Wretyn in hast on Saterday. +<span class = "signature">Your M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, I take your sonne of your faders oode mony, that was in the lytyll +trussyng cofyr x. mark, for my broder Clement seythe that xx. mark was +to lytyll for hym.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note166_1" id = "note166_1" href = +"#tag166_1">166.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] Margaret +Paston, as will be seen by subsequent letters, was in London with her +husband in September 1465. This letter seems to have been written not +long before, when she first entertained the thought of going +thither.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note167_1" id = "note167_1" href = +"#tag167_1">167.1</a> +This sentence is struck out.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter597" id = "letter597">597</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[MARGARET PASTON?] TO ——<a class = +"tag" name = "tag167_2" id = "tag167_2" href = +"#note167_2">167.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465(?)</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Cosyn, I recommaunde me to yow, letyng yow wete that I am informid that +the parson of Brandeston is take be yowr sowdiors and led forth with +hem, and they have ryfelid his godis, and summe of myne husbondes also, +and of his ballyes, weche were left with the seyd parson to kepe. +Wherfore I avyse yow, and praye that he maye be lete go agayn, and to +have ower godes as were take fro hym; for and yowr sowdioris be of +sweche disposicion that they wyll take that they may gete, it shall no +wurchip be to you, nor profite in tyme to come; and therof wolde I be +sory. And if the seyd parson be othirwyse disposid thanne he owth to be, +I wyll helpe that he shall be +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page168" id = "page168">168</a></span> +chaysteysid as conciens and lawe requerith. I wolde ye shulde +remembre that ye have bore blame for sweche thynges before this tyme +that hath be do othirwise thanne lawe hath requerid. And God have yow in +His kepyng. Wrete at Norwiche.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note167_2" id = "note167_2" href = +"#tag167_2">167.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span> of this letter seems to be a draft in a +hand like that of James Gresham. It is anonymous and without address. +Even the writer is very uncertain. But it may not unlikely be a draft +letter from Margaret Paston to some neighbour who, while the Duke of +Suffolk was laying claim to Hellesden and Drayton, was not too mindful +of John Paston’s rights. Brandeston is about eleven miles from Norwich, +eight miles beyond Drayton. Thomas Hoop was parson of Brandeston from +1448 to 1475. He was presented to the living by Sir John Fastolf.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter598" id = "letter598">598</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN WYKE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag168_1" id = "tag168_1" href = +"#note168_1">168.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull mayster, Sir John Paston, be thys letter +delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +30</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> it your maistershyp to wyte, +uppon Satourday last, Mayster Wyll. Paston and I werre with my Lord the +Byshoppe of York, and enformyd hys Lordshyp of the entre that was made +at Haylesdon in the Duk of Suffolks name. And my Lord asked of ous +whether the C. marc wer payd or not, and we awnswered that it was payd +many day a goon. And than he sayd, ‘I dar swer uppon a boke that +the Duchesse of Suffolk hath no knowlych therof.’ And so he comaundyd +ous to a wayte uppon hym, for he wold be at London a yen uppon Tewysday +next; and soo we have non awnswer as yet.</p> + +<p>Item, I have spoken with Mayster Robert Kent for your maters, and +byddeth that ye shold not dowte therof; and as for the neglygens of your +wytnes, Mayster Robert sayth it ys but a jape, and shall be no hurt. And +the copys therof wer deliveryd or than I cam hom from Parker ys hands, +and that causyd me to spake no word to hym therof.</p> + +<p>Item, the Lord Scales sayd at a soper wher as he soped within thys +iiij. nyztys that he wold ryde home and enter in ij. fayre maners in hys +contray, and desyred Stanhope that shall wed Gernyngham ys suster to +ryde with hym. I suppose it be to entre in to Caster and Cotton; +wherfor maketh gode wache be tyme, for it ys mery to plede in +possession, &c.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page169" id = "page169">169</a></span> +<p>Item, I have send you an unce of myvers (?) by the beror of thys +letter, and thay cost me iiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Item, your gesseren<a class = "tag" name = "tag169_1" id = "tag169_1" +href = "#note169_1">169.1</a> and gaunteletts shall be send hom by the +next caryours, for ther be non hyre yete, &c. No more to you at thys +tyme. The Holy Trynyte have you in Hys kypyng. Wryten at London uppon +Tewysday next after Seynt Anne. +<span class = "signature">By youre servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Wyke.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note168_1" id = "note168_1" href = +"#tag168_1">168.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The date of +this letter is sufficiently apparent from the reference in the beginning +to ‘the entry made at Hellesden in the Duke of Suffolk’s name.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note169_1" id = "note169_1" href = +"#tag169_1">169.1</a> +A sleeveless coat of mail.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter599" id = "letter599">599</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag169_2" id = "tag169_2" href = +"#note169_2">169.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worschipful husband, John Paston, be this delyverd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. 7</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> wurchepfull husbond, I recomaund +me to you. Please it you to wete that I sent on Lammesse day<a class = +"tag" name = "tag169_3" id = "tag169_3" href = "#note169_3">169.3</a> to +Drayton, Thomas Bonde and Sir James Gloys to hold the court in your +name, and to clayme your tytill; for I cowde gete none other body to +kepe the court, ner that wuld go theder but the seide Thomas Bonde, be +cause I suppose thei were a ferd of the pepill that shuld be there of +the Duke of Suffolks parte. The said Thomas and James, as the Duke of +Suffolks men, that is to sey, Harlesdon, the parson of Salle, Mayster +Phillip and William Yelverton, the which was styward, with a lx. +persones or more be estymacion, and the tenauntes of the same town, sum +of hem havyng rusty pollexis and byllys, comyn in to the maner yard to +kepe the courte, met with them, and told them that thei were comyn to +kepe the court in your name, and to clayme your titill. Wherfore the +seid Harlesdon, with ought any mor words or occasion yovyn of your men, +comytted the seid Thomas Bonde to the kepyng +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page170" id = "page170">170</a></span> +of the new Baly of Drayton, William Dokett, seyng that he shuld go to my +lord and do his herand hym self, notwithstandyng that Sir James dede the +erands to them, and had the words; wherfor thei toke the seid Thomas +with ought occasion. Thei wuld have mad the seid Thomas to have had the +words, and the seid James told hem that had hem, because he was the more +pesibill man, whan afterward thei bade avoyde, and sithen led forth +Thomas Bonde to Cossey, and bownde his armes be hynde hym with whippe +cord like a theffe, and shuld have led hym forth to the Duke of Suffolk, +ner had be that I had spokyn with the juges in the morwyn or thei yede +to the shirehous and enformed hem of such ryottes and assaugthis as thei +had mad up on me and my men; the baly of Cossey and all the Duke of +Suffolks councell beyng ther present, and all the lerned men of +Norffolk, and William Jenney and my[che] pepill of the contre; the juge +callyng the baly of Cossey befor them all, and yaffe hym a gret rebuke, +comaundyng the shereffe to se what pepill thei had gadred at Drayton; +which came after to Helesdon to se the pepill ther, with weche [pe]pill +he held hym wele content; and fro thens he rode to Drayton to se ther +pepill, which wer avoyded or he came. And ther he desired to have +delivered the seid Thom. Bonde to hym; and thei excusid hem and seid +thei had send hym to the Duke of Suffolk. Notwithstandyng, afterward +thei sent hym to Norwhich to hym, desiryng hym that he shuld delivere +hym not withought he mad a fyne, be cause he trobilled the Kynges lete; +for which thei mad l<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . </span>to juges. But after that I understod it, +I sent Danyell of Mershlond and Thomas Bonde<a class = "tag" name = +"tag170_1" id = "tag170_1" href = "#note170_1">170.1</a> to enforme the +juges how the seide Thomas was entreted amonges hem, and so he ded. And +the juges were gretly<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . . </span>with the Dukes men, and forwith +comaunded the sheryf to delyver the seide Bone withoute any fyne +m[aking], seyng that he out non to make. And in goode feythe I founde +the juges ryght gentell and forborable to me +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page171" id = "page171">171</a></span> +in my matres, notwithstandyng the Duckes councell had made her compleynt +to them or I come in ther werst wice, noysyng us of gret gatheryng of +peopell and many riotes thynges don be me and your men. And after I +enformed the juges of ther untrouthe and of ther gidyng, and of our +gidyng in like wice. And after the juges undrestod the trouthe he gave +the baly of Cossey befor me and many other a passyng gret rebuke, seyng +without he amended hes condicion and governaunce, thei wuld enforme the +Kynge and helpe that he schuld be punyschet. And wher as ye avyced +me<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . . </span>a felaschip to kepe the +coorte at Drayton with easy cost, it was thought be your councell it wer +better otherwise, and not to gather no people, for it was told me that +the Dukes men had to the nombre of v. C. men, and your councel avised me +to gete a felischip to kepe my place at Heylesdon, for it was told me +that they schuld come and pulle me out of the place, weche cauced me to +kepe the place the strenger at that tyme. And as for kepyng of any coort +for you at Drayton, I can not wete how it cowde be brought a boute +withoute helpe of other but if there schuld growe gret inconvenyence of +it. And at the ass[izes]<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . </span>made gret labor to +endite your men, notwithstandyng it was letted. And as for the writtes +of replevyn, they were delyverd openly be for the juges to the scheryf, +and also other writtes wech Jamys Gresham brought; and aftre that Ric. +Calle spake with the high scheref for the servyng of hem. And so he +promysed to serve it and to send men of hes owne to serve it; and so he +sent ij. of his men with Ric. Lynsted, and with ij. of Scheperdes to +Cossey for the schepe. And ther they wer answer that Yelverton cleymeth +the properte, and so wer they answerd in all other places wher as any +catell was. And so they departed and come to the scheryf and enformed +hym; and I undrestande the scheryf taketh it for an answere; +notwithstandyng I send hym word withoute that Yelverton had ben ther in +hes owne persone he myte not cleyme the properte, and aviced hym to be +ware what retorne he made that he were not hurte by it. And so he hathe +made no retorne yet. What he wul doo I wat ner. He is stylle in this +contre yet and schal be this iiij. or v. dayes, but +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page172" id = "page172">172</a></span> +your councell thynketh it were well don that ye gete an <i>allias</i><a +class = "tag" name = "tag172_1" id = "tag172_1" href = +"#note172_1">172.1</a> and a <i>pluries</i> that it myght be sent don to +the scheryf and than he can mak non excuse but nedys<span class = +"enspace"> . . +. . .</span><a class = "tag" name = "tag172_2" id += "tag172_2" href = "#note172_2">172.2</a> it well (?) to make a retorne +as he wol abide by. I can not wete how the catell woll be goten +ayen withoute other processe be had more than we have yet.</p> + +<p>Item, on Tuesday next comyng schal the sescions of the pees be at +Wolsyngham. What schal be do ther I wot not yet; for as for any +indytementes that we schuld labor a yenst them it is but wast werk; for +the scheryf ner the jerrours wol no thyng do ayenst them.</p> + +<p>Item, wher as ye desire to knowe what gentelmen wolde do for you at +this tyme, in goode feythe I founde Herry Greye, Lomnor, Alblastre, +Wer<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . </span>(?), Berney of Redham, Skyppewith, and +Danyell of Merchelond, ryght weele disposed to you ward at this tyme in +helpyng and in zevyng ther goode avice to me for suche maters as I had +to doo. Ye schal have more pleyne undrestondyng of all thynges her after +than I may write to you at this tyme.</p> + +<p>Item, the <i>supersedias</i><a class = "tag" name = "tag172_3" id = +"tag172_3" href = "#note172_3">172.3</a> and the <i>supplicavit</i><a +class = "tag" href = "#note172_3">172.3</a> is delyverd to Alblastre and +to Wechyngham, and they have mad out bothe warantes and +<i>supersedias</i>;<a class = "tag" name = "tag172_4" id = "tag172_4" +href = "#note172_4">172.4</a> nevertheles ther is non servyd yet.</p> + +<p>Item, I received the box with the writt and the letter that Berney +sent to me on Friday last and non er [<i>no earlier</i>].</p> + +<p>Item, as for the pris of malte it is fallen here sore, for it is +worthe but ij<i>s.</i> viij<i>d.</i> j. quarter at Yermoth.</p> + +<p>Item, as for your wolle, I may selle a stoone for <ins class = +"correction" title = "printed in roman (non-italic) type">xl<i>d.</i></ins>, +so that I wol geve halfe yere day of payment. +I prey you sende me word how I shal do in this matre and in all +other, &c. And God kepe you. Wreten in haste the Wednesday next +aftre Lammes daye. +<span class = "signature">Your</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">M. Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note169_2" id = "note169_2" href = +"#tag169_2">169.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This is +another of the series of letters relating to Paston’s dispute with the +Duke of Suffolk about Drayton and Hellesdon in 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note169_3" id = "note169_3" href = +"#tag169_3">169.3</a> +August 1.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note170_1" id = "note170_1" href = +"#tag170_1">170.1</a> +At this point the letter is continued in a different ink upon a new +sheet of paper, which was formerly stitched to the first sheet. +A line which was formerly covered by the sewing shows that Margaret +Paston intended at first to have written: ‘to the justice, and he<span +class = "enspace"> . . +. . . </span>(<i>five words illegible, the +paper being cut</i>) thei toke the seid Thomas with ought warant, afftre +trobillyng of the lete.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note172_1" id = "note172_1" href = +"#tag172_1">172.1</a> +So in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note172_2" id = "note172_2" href = +"#tag172_2">172.2</a> +A word illegible.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note172_3" id = "note172_3" href = +"#tag172_3">172.3</a> +So in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note172_4" id = "note172_4" href = +"#tag172_4">172.4</a> +<i>Supersedeas</i> is a writ to stay certain proceedings; +<i>supplicavit</i> a writ for taking surety of the peace when violence +is threatened by any one.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">as for your wolle, I may selle a stoone for +xl<i>d.</i>,</span><br> +“d.” printed in roman (non-italic) type</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page173" id = "page173">173</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter600" id = "letter600">600</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag173_1" id = "tag173_1" href = +"#note173_1">173.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my cosyn, Margaret Paston, at Heylisdonn.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. 7</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomaund</span> me to you. And as for +the letter that I send yow touchyng John Russe, I will that ye and +your counsell see it openly; and kepe this bille to your self or to some +secret frend of yours. And I pray yow remembir ij. thynges; on, if ye +fynd hym in any maner wise disposed to leve his bargeyn, take it at his +offer, and take ayen the writyng that he hath of that bargeyn, or a +writyng of his owne hand of relesyng his bargeyn to me; for peraventure +at this tyme he woll be glad to leve his bargeyn, as I undirstand, and +whanne he sethe that I have peas he wolle calle theron ayen. Wherfore I +pray yow werk wisely herin, for he may in no maner wise aske the money +of me and kepe his bargeyn, for he hathe divers tymes desired me to have +take of hym more masse (?) therfore. Another, as sone as ye may, or ye +breke this mater with John Russe, make due serche with the fermours at +Akthorp what mony Russe hath reseyved ther in my tyme, that is to sey, +for Mighelmes the first, the ij., iij., iiij. yeres of Kyng E., of whech +he hath reseyved ij. payments, that is xij<i>li.</i> at the lest, or er +the maner was trobelid by Jenney or Yelverton. And I deme that he hath +reseyvid some sithen, but that he kepith counsell.</p> + +<p>Item, for as moch as Sir Thomas Howes gaderid for the xxxix. yere of +Kyng Herry, the seid John Russe woll, under colour of that surmytte, +that he reseyvid in my tyme was therfore, wherfore ye must make a serche +what he hath reseyvid sith Sir John Fastolff dyed, and what tyme; and +therupon ye shall undirstand what he hath reseyvid for me, and what for +hym; and in case he hathe reseyvid xii<i>li.</i>, and Richard hath payd +hym his dute as he promised, thanne growyth nat to John +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page174" id = "page174">174</a></span> +Russe past iiij. or v<i>li.</i>; notwithstanding fare fayre with hym and +resonabilly, so that he leve his bargeyn, and lend hym the remnaunt of +the xx<i>li.</i> upon suerte for xx<i>li.</i> He desireth to have outher +his dewte or borowyng at this tyme.</p> + +<p>Item, he that shall speke with the fermours of Akthorp, whos name is +Langham, he must inquere generally what mony he hath payd to all men +sith Sir John Fastolff dyed, and see his billes of payment, and take +therof a titelyng. Ric. Calle hath a bille of parcellis of every mannes +ferme, and he can serche this best, in case he be not to favorabill to +John Russe, wherfore I remitte this to your discrecion; but I suppose +John Russe woll telle yow what he hath reseyvid for hand bifore this +tyme wretyn by his seying what he had reseyvid, and I suppose and he +remembird that he seid to me, he wold not aske his mony in this forme; +nevirthelesse it shall do good, so he leve his bargeyn by this +meane.</p> + +<p>I mervyll that I here no tidyngges from yow hough ye have do at the +assisses. The berer of this letter is a comon carier, and was at Norwich +on Satirday, and brought me lettirs from other men, but your servaunts +inquere nat diligently after the comyng of cariers and other men. Wretyn +at London the Wednesday next after Lammes day.</p> + +<p>Ye shall have lettirs of me this weke. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note173_1" id = "note173_1" href = +"#tag173_1">173.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] It is +sufficiently clear from the reference to accounts of the 4th year of +Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, that this letter cannot be +earlier than 1465, which is the last year of the writer’s life.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter601" id = "letter601">601</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON AND OTHERS<a +class = "tag" name = "tag174_1" id = "tag174_1" href = +"#note174_1">174.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mastresse, Margret Paston, James Gresham and Ric. Calle.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomaund</span> me to yow, and have +reseyvid ij. lettirs from John Russe, wherin he remembirth me that I +shuld owe hym xix<i>li.</i>, or therupon, for divers parcelles whech he +seith he shuld have deliverid in to myn hows, wherof he seith +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page175" id = "page175">175</a></span> +xiiij<i>li.</i> was deliverid in to myn howse ij. yere g[oon], and that +I had a bille deliverid me therof, and the remnaunt sithen, and desireth +of me payment of the seid xix<i>li.</i> Wherfore I certi[fye] yow as I +undirstand in the mater; ye may lete John Russe come to yow and take +such a direccion in the mater as reason and trought woll. I lete +yow wete that abought ij. yer goo the seid John Russe deliverid me first +a bille of the seid xiiij. [<i>li.</i>], and I examined the parcelles; +and as I remembir xj<i>li.</i> was my dewte, wherof the certeyn somme is +writen in my blak book of foreyn reseytes that yere, and the remnaunt +was Ric. Calles dewte, wherof he was allowed, savyng apart was Elys +dewte. And as for the seid xj<i>li.</i>, I offerid the seid John +Russe payment in hand at that tyme, and desired hym he shuld no more +send in to myn howse, and warnyd yow and Richard that ye shuld no more +stuffe take in to myn hows without ye peyd in hand, nowther of hym ner +of non other. And the seid John Russe prayd me to remembir that I had +grauntyd hym the maner of Akthorp in Leystoft, at a certeyn prise, as it +apperyd by writyng undir my seall, and desired me that I wold take the +seid somme in party of payment. And I told hym that as for such mony +that shuld com from hym for that lond, I wold take it of hym and +ley it up by the self, that I myght purchase other lond therwith, +bicause I wold lesse Fastolffs lyvelode for the college, but I wold pay +hym his dewte without any stoppage. And he thanne desired me to take +that same xj<i>li.</i>, and ley it up to the same use, seying to me that +it was as good to do so as I for to take it hym, and he to take it me +ayen. And thus he and I agreed, and departed, and thanne he prayd me to +take more chafar of hym, whech I denyed. And nough I merveyll what shuld +cause hym to aske mony for that dewte; neverthelesse I deme he supposith +that he coud not opteyne his bargeyn by me, bicause of the trobill that +it standyth in; and for that or for some other cause he repentyth his +bargeyn and woll nomore of it. Wherfore send for hym, and take James +Gresham or some of your frends and Richard Calle, and fele what he +menyth; and if ye can fynd hym disposed to leve his bargeyn yet, though +I myght kepe stille the seid mony I wold he shuld +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page176" id = "page176">176</a></span> +not lese therby. Nevirthelesse if he woll refuse his bargeyn, thanne +take ayen the writyng that he hath of that bargeyn and a writyng of his +hand that he dischargyth me of the graunt that I mad hym of that same +bargeyn. And thanne loke that ye enquere what mony he hath reseyvid of +the seid maner in my tyme, wherof the ferme is vj<i>li.</i> yerly whech +I suffird hym to occupie to his owne use by fors of the seid bargeyn all +my tyme; and aftir the parcellis cast what I have had of hym; abbate +therof the mony that he hath reseyvid of the seid maner, and also as +moch of the xiiij<i>li.</i> as the seid Ric. Calle and Elys owen, wher +of he is alowid; and thanne see that the seid John Russe be content of +the remnaunt of his parcellis that is dew by me, but loke ye pay non +other mennes dewtes.</p> + +<p>Also the seid John Russe writyth in his lettir that rather thanne he +shuld fayle this mony that I wold lend hym asmoch to pay ayen at +Cristemasse; wherfore, if he leve his bargeyn I woll ye lend hym asmoch +mony over his dewte as shall make up xx<i>li.</i>, takyng of hym suerte +to pay ayen at Cristemasse, as he writyth; in case be that he will kepe +stille his bargeyn, thanne ye may answere hym it is no reason that he +shuld aske me any part of that mony ayen, for he owyth that and moch +more.</p> + +<p>Item, the seyd John Rus sent me heder a man for this mater only with +in thes ij. daijs. Wherfor let him know an ansue letyng (?) for I fel +well (?) he hath mad agret bargen but late, wherfor he hath mor nede of +mony now, and I wol do for hym that I may resonably. Nevertheles his +wryting merveylith me that he askith thes mony as dewte, wheche he toke +me for parte of my payment. I deme it comith not all of his owne +disposicion. Inquier ye that ye can what it menith. God kepe yow. Wret +the Wednisday nex Lammes. +<span class = "signature">Yowr <span class = "smallcaps">John +Paston</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +In cas ye han Drayton in any quiete take sewertie of yowr tenants for +paiment as I have wret befor.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note174_1" id = "note174_1" href = +"#tag174_1">174.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This is +evidently the letter referred to in the beginning of the last.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page177" id = "page177">177</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter602" id = "letter602">602</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN ESTGATE TO ——<a class = "tag" +name = "tag177_1" id = "tag177_1" href = +"#note177_1">177.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ser</span>, ze sent to me a letter conteynyng +the substaunce of the processe off Mr. Robert Ippyswell for the mater +off the codicill of Nicholas Pykeryng, &c. Me mervelyt gretly off +the certificat off Mr. Robert in that be halve, for this is the truthe +as forth forth as I kan remembre me. The codicill had nether day nor +place lymyte, qwer or qwan it xuld a ben mad; qwerfor to a reprovyd that +that nether was qualifyid with day nor place it had be gret foly, +&c. Therfor I askyd off the juge hys accounts, and specyally the +deposicionys and attestacionys off the wytteness that wer swor in the +seyd codicill, &c.; by the qwyche it mowth appere clerly qwan and +qwere this codicill xuld a be made and wrete. And this sen I mad +protestacion to for the seyde Mr. Robert that I wolde impugne the mater +as lawe requiryd. The qwych peticion I made diverse tyme to fore moche +recorde, judicialy syttyng the seyde M. R.,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag177_2" id = "tag177_2" href = "#note177_2">177.2</a> &c. The +qwyche peticion he wold not her, but seyde expresse that nether Will. +Pykeryng nor non other man xuld sen his accounts nor knowe qwat the +deposicion wer in that parte; this mater was comownyd to for Mr. John +Selet and my mayster and yours diverse tymys, and ever he seyde we xuld +not sen the seyde deposicions. And so qwat sum ever he hath certyfyid, +this is the truthe, God to wetenesse and all Seynts, qwo preserve zow +evermore.</p> + +<p>And I pray zow to declare this to my mayster and zours; and comende +me hertly to hys good maysterchep. And God sende hym victorye off all +hys elmyes, and so pray all hys well wyllers at Norwich. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Estgate.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note177_1" id = "note177_1" href = +"#tag177_1">177.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The writer of +this letter is reported to be dead in <a href = +"#letter604">No. 604</a>, which was written on the 18th August +1465. We have little doubt, however, that this belongs to the same year, +as the names of Robert Ippeswell and John Salet occur in the +correspondence more than once about this time.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note177_2" id = "note177_2" href = +"#tag177_2">177.2</a> +Master of the Rolls.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page178" id = "page178">178</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter603" id = "letter603">603</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILL OF NICHOLAS PICKERING<a class = "tag" name += "tag178_1" id = "tag178_1" href = "#note178_1">178.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465</p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>To alle trewe Cristen pepill the wiche these present letteres schall +se or here, Roberd Banyngham, confessour to Nicholas Pekeryng of Filby, +Alson the wyfe of the seide Nicholas, Roger Silveryn, John Herte of +Cowteshall, Robarde Yoxsale, Richarde Hawe, Robarde Manufrac (?), John +Case, servaunt of the forseid Nicholas, and Henry Becham, servaunt of +the seide Nicholas, and Thomas Page of Beston, sende gretyng in oure +Lorde. Where it is merytory nedefull to bere wytenesse of troughthe, +alle ye mot knowe us that we herde the forseide Nicholas Pekeryng seyn, +lying on his dede bedde, these wordes folwyng, as we willen answere +before God, that whanne William Pekeryng, sone of the seide Nicholas +rekenyd with his fadir for xx. quarteres barly that the seid William +cleymed of his faderys yifte to his mariage; and for vij. dayes cariage +of corne in hervest, and for als a thousande waltyle that his fadir had +fro ye seide Williams wyfes place, the wiche reknyng greved the seide +Nicholas his fadir, and seide, ‘Thou comyst in with many bak +rekenyngges. Remembre the that thou hast be the costlyest childe that +evere I hadde, and how that I yaf ye x. acres of fre londe, and<a class += "tag" name = "tag178_2" id = "tag178_2" href = "#note178_2">178.2</a> +a place in mariage, and many othir thyngges that is muche better +than all thi bak rekinyngges. And I have now yove ye other x. acres of +fre londe aftir my discesse; and me thynketh be the thou heldest the not +lowest, but woldest have all. But on thyng I shall sey to the; if thou +trouble John, thy brother, or ony of myn executores, or cleyme ony more +londes or goodys that evere were myne, I shal yeve ye Goddys curse +and myn, for thou hast be ever frowarde to me.’ In witnesse and recorde +herof we have sette oure sealys.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +To alle trewe Cristen pepill the qwiche these presente letters shal see +or here, John Herte of Couteshale, Roberd Yoxhale, Roger Silveryn, +Thomas Dawes, and Thomas Drye, sende gretyng in oure Lorde. Where it is +merytory, nedefull and medefull to bere witnesse of trought, all ye mot +knowe us, that we herde William Pekeryng, sone of Nicholas Pekeryng, +seyn that his fadir wolde he shulde have but x. acres of fre londe aftir +his decesse be syde other x. acres of fre londe that he yaf hym in +maryage. In wittenesse and recorde heer of we have setto oure +seales.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Endorsed:</i> A Testymonyall.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note178_1" id = "note178_1" href = +"#tag178_1">178.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] From the +contents of the preceding letter it is probable that this document was +drawn up in 1465. Blomefield, indeed, states (vol. ii. p. 221) that +Nicholas Pickering was buried in the steeple of Filby church in 1466. +But the date may be an error, for he certainly seems to have been dead +in or before 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note178_2" id = "note178_2" href = +"#tag178_2">178.2</a> +<i>and</i> repeated in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page179" id = "page179">179</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter604" id = "letter604">604</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag179_1" id = "tag179_1" href = +"#note179_1">179.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull mayster, John Paston, be thys letter delyveryd +in haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull husbond, I recomaund +me to you. Please it you to wyte that the cause that I wrote to you non +er [<i>earlier</i>] than I dyde after the sessyons was by cause that +Yelverton held sessyons at Dyrham and Walsyngham the next wyke after the +assyses, and to have knowlech what labour that was made ther, and to +have send yow werd therof. Ther was grete labours made by the bayly of +Coshay and other for to have endytyd your men both at Dyrham and at +Walsyngham, but I purvayd a mene that her [<i>their</i>] purpose was +lettyd at thos ij. tymes.</p> + +<p>Hugh a Fen ys in Flegge. Richard Call spake with hym thys wyke, and +he sayd to Richard that he and his wyff wold be with me here thys wyke +toward a place of hys that he hath purchasyd of Godehreds. Yf he come I +shall make hym gode chyre, for it ys told me of dyvers folks that have +spoke with hym sythen he com in to Norffolk as thay fele by hys sayng +that he awyth you ryght gode wyle.</p> + +<p>Item, as for my comyng to you, yf it please you that I come, +y hope I shull purvey so for al thyngs or I com that it shull be +sayff y nogh by the grace of God tyll I com ayen; but at the reverens of +God, yf ye may purvey a mene that ye may com hom your sylf; for that +shall be most profortabell to you, for men cut large thongs here of +other mens lether. I shull wryte to you ayen as hastely as I may. +God have you in +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page180" id = "page180">180</a></span> +Hys kypyng. Wryten in haste at Haylesdon, the Sonday next after the +Assumpsyon of our Lady.</p> + +<p>Item, my cosyn Elysabeth Clere ys at Ormesby and your moder purposyth +to be at her place at Caster thys wyke, for the pestylens ys so fervent +in Norwych that thay ther [<i>dare ?</i>] no lenger abyde ther, so +God help; me thynkyth by my moder that she wold ryght fayn that ye dyde +well and that ye myght spyde ryght well in your mater. And me thynkyth +by my cosyn Clere that she wold fayn have youre gode wyll, and that she +hath sworyn ryght faythfully to me that ther shall no defaute be founde +in her, nor noght hath be yf the trogh myght be understond, as she +hopyth it shull be herafter. She sayth ther ys no man a lyff that she +hath put her truste in so moch as she hath doon in you. She sayth she +wote well such langage as hath be reportyd to you of her other wyse then +she hath deservyd causyth you to be other wyse to her then ye shuld be. +She had to me thys langage wypyng, and told me of dyvers other thyngs +the whych ye shall have knowlych of herafter.</p> + +<p>As for the hygh shyrf [<i>sheriff</i>] he demenyd hym ryght well her +to me, and he sayd to me, as for replevyns he wold aske counseyll of +lernyd men what he mygt doo therin, and as largely as he mygt do ther +in, or in any other mater touchyng you, savyng hymsylf harmlys, he wold +doo for you and for yours that he mygt do.</p> + +<p>Item, I have do layd in [<i>caused to be laid in</i>] the +presentacyon of Drayton, and have presentyd Sir Thomas Hakon, parson of +Felthorp, the whych is hold ryght a gode man and wel dysposyd, and the +Duck of Suffolk hath layd in a nother; and ther shall be take an +inquisicyon ther uppon, and Mr. Styven ys your a voked [<i>your +advocate</i>] therin. Mr. John Estgade ys passyd to God on Thursday last +passyd, whos sawle God assoyle! Wherof in gode feyth I am ryght sory, +for I fynd hym ryght fayth full to you. They deyy ryght sore in +Norwych.</p> + +<p>John Rus sayth the profets that hath be take of the maner of Caister +syn Sir John Fastolf deyd hath be take by Sir Thomas Howys and Jenney. +<span class = "signature">By yours, M. P.</span></p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page181" id = "page181">181</a></span> +<p>I mervayll that ye had no tythyngs from me at that tyme that your +letter was wryten, for I send you a letter by Chytockys son that ys +prenteys in London, and the seyd letter was of the demenyng at the +assyes at Norwych and of divers other maters. I pray you send me +word yf ye have it. As for the replevyns Richard Calle sayth he hath +send you a awnswere of hem, and also the copys of them.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note179_1" id = "note179_1" href = +"#tag179_1">179.1</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 370.] That this letter was written in the year 1465 +appears clearly by the reference to the Assizes held at Walsingham +(<i>see</i> <a href = "#letter599">No. 599</a>), and the intention which +the writer intimates of visiting her husband in London. Moreover, the +first sentence of the letter, and also the postscript, are evidently +written in answer to her husband’s complaint in <a href = +"#letter600">No. 600</a>, that she had not written to him what she had +done at the Assizes.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter605" id = "letter605">605</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract"> +In the Introduction in Volume <span class = "smallroman">I.</span>, will +be found a document entitled ‘A remembrance of the worshipful kin +and ancestry of Paston, born in Paston in Gemyngham Soken.’ This paper, +which was printed in the preface to vol. v. of the original edition, p. +xliv., appears to have been composed during the lifetime of John Paston +by some one who owed the family no good will, not unlikely by Sir +William Yelverton. The contents agree very well with the imputation made +on John Paston, for which he was imprisoned in 1465, that he was a +bondman to the King. The original of this document I have not met +with.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter606" id = "letter606">606</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag181_1" id = +"tag181_1" href = "#note181_1">181.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Examinations Touching Fastolf’s +Will</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG.</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>John Paston examined by a commission of Thomas, Archbishop of +Canterbury, addressed to John Druell, LL.D., in the cause between Sir +William Yelverton, Knight, and William Worcester, pretensed executors of +Sir John Fastolf, and John Paston, Esq., and Thomas Howys, executors, as +is said, dated 8 July 1465.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page182" id = "page182">182</a></span> +<p>1. Whether Sir John Fastolf made his will, dated 14 June 1459, in +English, and sealed by him with his seal of arms? Answer. He made a note +of articles in his will, deponent thinks in Latin, probably on that day, +but it was not then sealed, and no executor was named.</p> + +<p>2. Whether before the will was fair copied an original note of it was +made on paper, and corrected and interlined by Paston? And whether that +note fair copied was the true will which was sealed by +Fastolf?—There was such a note, which being made, Paston went to +London and waited some time, when William Worcester informed him it had +been fair copied in the beginning of July. Had seen an old will long +before, in which some of the articles were the same, but Fastolf altered +them from time to time in consultations held with this deponent. Does +not know if he did interline, but the note will show, which was then in +the keeping of William Worcester, Fastolf’s clerk; nor does he know if +the will was drawn up from it, as he was not present at the engrossing +or sealing, but hears there were several things altered.</p> + +<p>3. Where the will is, in whose custody, and whether he have power to +execute it?—The parchment sealed by Fastolf, which Worcester says +was his will, was kept some time after his death at Caister, and +afterwards produced in audience of the Archbishop, and there +remains.</p> + +<p>28 Aug. Examined in the Fleet.—Said he was a prisoner, wished +first to speak with his counsel, and desired another notary joined with +Nicholas Parker, who was not indifferent.</p> + +<p>10, 11, 12 Dec. Appeared before the commissary in the treasurer’s +house of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Examination continued.</p> + +<p>4. Whether the said will was kept in the tower called the treasury of +Sir John Fastolf at Caister till his death, and whether Paston and Howys +afterwards entered and took it, and what was then done with it? Whether, +since Fastolf’s death it was exemplified in Latin, and sealed with +Fastolf’s seal, and by whom? And whether the Latin contained more or +less than the English? Who exhibited the English will in audience of +Canterbury? Was it the true will, or was it written and sealed after +Fastolf’s death?—Soon after Fastolf’s death the said parchment was +exhibited to Paston by Howes and Worcester. It afterwards remained in +the keeping of Howes and Paston, and has since been exhibited in the +audience of Canterbury. It was not translated into Latin after Fastolf’s +death, nor sealed, to Paston’s knowledge. Does not know any will, Latin +or English, to have been sealed after Fastolf’s death.</p> + +<p>5. Whether Paston exhibited any English will sealed in the audience +of Canterbury?—The note made in June contained an article relative +to Fastolf’s college, and lands in Norfolk and Suffolk granted +conditionally on their being refused by Paston. When Paston went to +London, and after a time Worcester came to him, Worcester told him this +note was put in parchment and sealed, with the other articles, by advice +of Master John Brakley, about the beginning of July. William Bukman, now +Abbot of Wymondham, then Prior of Yarmouth, was present when it was +sealed, and named as a witness. He and Thomas Ingham reported that +Fastolf told them at the time it was his will that Paston should have +those things he had granted at the time of the seisin of the said +feoffment delivered, whatever was written in the parchment. The said +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page183" id = "page183">183</a></span> +parchment (English) remains in the court. As to the Latin, Fastolf made +on paper a schedule of executors for the Latin parchment, and told +Paston and Howys that he did not mean all the executors to have +administration of his goods. He also told Paston, Bracley, and Clement +Felmyngham, after Paston returned from London, that he was informed the +Latin will gave equal powers to all the executors, which he never +intended. Fastolf made his last will in November, not altogether the +same.</p> + +<p>6. Who kept Fastolf’s seal of arms and signet after his death, how +long did it remain whole, and how many writings did Paston seal with +them?—At Fastolf’s death his seal was in a purse sealed with his +signet, and placed in a chest. The signet was on his finger at death, +but was afterwards placed in the chest in presence of deponent and +Thomas Howys, Master John Bracley, Master Clement Felmyngham, and three +servants of Fastolf’s chamber, and sealed with the seals of deponent, +Howys, and others. The chest remained in Fastolf’s chamber, sometimes in +custody of his servants, and sometimes in that of Howys. Afterwards the +seals were placed in a white box sealed in the presence of divers men in +the hall of the manor, which box was delivered along with certain rings +to John Stokys, who opened the box, and after inspecting the seals and +rings, sealed it up again and delivered it to Roger Malmesbury, in whose +custody they now remain. This deponent sealed nothing with them.</p> + +<p>7. Whether, after Fastolf’s death, Paston or any other wrote on a +schedule of paper a certain grant or bargain, viz., that Paston should +have Fastolf’s lands and tenements in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, for +4000 marks, and that Paston and Howys should have sole administration of +his goods so long as Paston was alive; and whether after Fastolf’s death +it was so recently written that Paston, to dry the writing, scattered +ashes over it? And if he say it was written during Fastolf’s life, by +whom was it written? By himself, or John Russe, or Friar Brakley, or +whom? And how long before Fastolf’s death, and in whose presence? And +whether that sum was specified in the schedule or a blank left for it? +And whether the contents of this schedule were extracted and put in a +new one? and by whom was that written? Whether by J. Russe? And +what time elapsed between the two writings? And whether the second +schedule contained more than the first, and what the additional matter +was, and by whom added? And whether this asserted will of Fastolf, made, +as Paston pretends, on Saturday, 3 Nov. 1459, was extracted or +imagined from the contents of the said bills, or either of them? And +what was the matter in the said will added to the matters in the +schedules? And how long it was before the said pretended will could be +formed to the satisfaction of John Paston?</p> + +<p>For two years before his death Fastolf had granted that Paston should +have the above lands after his death, without any condition, but for the +purpose that he should found a college at Caister of seven monks or +priests, and pay 5000 marks to be distributed for the soul of Sir John +Fastolf; and about that time he enfeoffed Paston and others in the said +lands, declaring that that enfeoffment was to the use of the said Sir +John for life, and afterwards of Paston<ins class = "correction" title = +". invisible">. </ins>After this, viz., in the said month of June, +Fastolf made the said articles in certain paper notes in Latin and +English. Master John Brakley kept copies, which +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page184" id = "page184">184</a></span> +he showed to Paston after his return to London. After that, viz., in +September and October, Fastolf several times requested Paston to engross +the agreements made between them about the college, saying he would +remit to him 1000 marks of the said 5000 marks. And in October and +November he recited in certain writings that in order that he might not +be disquieted with worldly affairs he had bargained with this deponent +that he should have the control of all his lands from which any profit +might be derived in England, and of the households and foreign expenses +belonging to him, so that he should put aside as much of his dues as he +could spare for the college; and that he should have all his lands in +Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, for 4000 marks, which he was to pay on +certain stated days to Fastolf’s executors for the benefit of his soul. +Two paper writings were made of the premises, one by the hand of Paston +and the other by Mr. John Brakley, which are severally remaining with +them. This agreement Brakley, by Fastolf’s order, got written out in +parchment indented, and read to Fastolf, who sealed it in his presence +as Brakley reported to Paston. Afterwards, another of the said writings +was read to Fastolf in the presence of Paston, Brakley, Mr. Clement +Felmyngham, and others, several times in October and November. Comments +were made on the reading of it by Fastolf on one occasion, when he said +a certain clause was not consistent with his intention, which was that +Paston and Howys should be sole administrators of his goods, and that as +to his lands in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, and the college to be +founded, he would dispose of them according to his agreement with +Paston,—the master to have a stipend of £10, and each of the +fellows of 10 marks, and that seven poor men should be found with 40s. +a year each, as stated in the will. Fastolf desired his will dated +in June to be corrected in these particulars, and written anew by Walter +Shipdam, for whom he frequently sent on this business. Meanwhile Brakley +and Paston wrote another paper in English as a memorial of Fastolf’s +intention, of which deponent delivered a copy under his own hand in +Court. The last two lines this deponent wrote and dried with ashes in +presence of Thomas Howys. The will of 14 June and that exhibited by +Paston and Howys differ little or nothing in effect, except in these +articles touching the college, and the sole administration given to +Paston and Howys.</p> + +<p>As to new writings after Fastolf’s death. Brakley translated those +words about the sole administration from English into Latin, partly +before his death and partly after. After Fastolf’s death Paston, Howys, +and Brakley caused the said Walter Shipdam to put into form (<i>fecerunt +dictum W. S. formare</i>) the last will and testament of the said +Fastolf, both of the said college and of the said single administration +(<i>de dicta singulari administratione</i>), and of other things in +the will of June not contrary to his last will and declaration, of which +several writings were drawn by Shipdam, first in paper and afterwards in +parchment. As to the writing of the agreements, Brakley kept it during +Fastolf’s whole life, and a year after, and a copy remained with this +deponent after Fastolf’s death; at which time deponent and Howys were +sitting in the hall of the manor of Caister at supper when William +Worcester came into the hall, and Paston and Howys, rising from supper, +had a talk with Clement Felmyngham, John Brakley, and William Worcester, +immediately after Fastolf’s death. At +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page185" id = "page185">185</a></span> +that time, by the advice of Brakley, a copy of the agreement was +delivered to William Worcester, at his request, folded up and sealed +that night by Brakley, Clement Felmyngham, and Howys. It remained in +Worcester’s keeping till he rode to London, and then he left it with the +said Master John Brakley, Clement Felmyngham, and Thomas Howys. Its +tenor was transcribed on parchment by Shipdam shortly afterwards.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note181_1" id = "note181_1" href = +"#tag181_1">181.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] Among the +Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> in the British Museum is a +small volume (Addit. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 27,450) of +132 pages, with a contemporary parchment cover, consisting entirely of +examinations of witnesses touching Sir John Fastolf’s Will. It is in two +parts, separated by a blank page, the first containing the depositions +of John Paston, taken in 1465, and the second those of the witnesses +brought forward by Yelverton and Worcester, which were taken in 1466. We +give here the substance of Part <span class = "smallroman">I.</span> +only. An abstract of Part <span class = "smallroman">II.</span> will be +found under its proper date.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">enfeoffment was to the use of the said Sir John +for life, and afterwards of Paston.</span><br> +final . invisible</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter607" id = "letter607">607</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGEST TO MARGARET PASTON<a +class = "tag" name = "tag185_1" id = "tag185_1" href = +"#note185_1">185.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mastras, Margaret Paston, be this deliveryd in hast, at +London.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +14</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Aftyr</span> all humbyll and most dwe +recomendacion, as lowly as I can, I beseche yow of your blyssyng. +Plesyt yow to wet that I have sent to my fadyr to have an answer of +syche maters as I have sent to hym for in hast, of whyche matyrs the +grettest of substans is for the maner of Cotton, besechyng yow to +remembyr hym of the same mater, that I may have an answer in the most +hasty wyse.</p> + +<p>Also I pray yow that myn Ante Poonyngys<a class = "tag" name = +"tag185_2" id = "tag185_2" href = "#note185_2">185.2</a> may be desyiryd +to send me an answer of syche materys as sche wotyth of, by hym that +schall brynge me an answer of the mater of Cotton.</p> + +<p>Also, modyr, I beseche yow that ther may be purveyd some meane that I +myth have sent me home by the same mesenger ij. peyir hose, j. peyir +blak and an othyr payir roset, whyche be redy made for me at the hosers +with the crokyd bak, next to the Blak Freyrs Gate, within Ludgate; John +Pampyng knowyth hym well jnow I suppose. And [<i>if</i>] the blak hose +be payid for he wyll send me the roset un payd +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page186" id = "page186">186</a></span> +for. I beseche yow that this ger be not forget, for I have not an +hole hose for to doon; I trowe they schall cost both payr +viij<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>My brodyr<a class = "tag" name = "tag186_1" id = "tag186_1" href = +"#note186_1">186.1</a> and my sustyr Anne,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag186_2" id = "tag186_2" href = "#note186_2">186.2</a> and all the +garyson of Heylysdon fare well, blyssyd be God, and recomand hem to yow +everychon.</p> + +<p>I pray yow voysyt the Rood of Northedor<a class = "tag" name = +"tag186_3" id = "tag186_3" href = "#note186_3">186.3</a> and Seynt +Savyour, at Barmonsey,<a class = "tag" name = "tag186_4" id = "tag186_4" +href = "#note186_4">186.4</a> amonge whyll ye abyd in London, and lat my +sustyr Margery<a class = "tag" name = "tag186_5" id = "tag186_5" href = +"#note186_5">186.5</a> goo with yow to pray to them that sche may have a +good hosbond or sche com hom ayen; and now I pray yow send us some +tydyngys as ye wer wonte to comand me; and the Holy Trinyte have yow in +kepyng, and my fayir mastras of the Fleet. Wretyn at Norwyche on Holy +Rood Daye. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and lowly servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Paston the youngest.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note185_1" id = "note185_1" href = +"#tag185_1">185.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 224.] It appears by Letter 610 following that Margaret +Paston was in London in September 1465. This letter must therefore have +been written in that year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note185_2" id = "note185_2" href = +"#tag185_2">185.2</a> +Elizabeth Paston, now widow of Robert Poynings; afterwards married to +Sir George Brown of Betchworth Castle, Surrey.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_1" id = "note186_1" href = +"#tag186_1">186.1</a> +Sir John Paston.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_2" id = "note186_2" href = +"#tag186_2">186.2</a> +Anne Paston, afterwards the wife of William Yelverton.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_3" id = "note186_3" href = +"#tag186_3">186.3</a> +The Cross at the north door of St. Paul’s.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_4" id = "note186_4" href = +"#tag186_4">186.4</a> +The Abbey of Saint Saviour at Bermondsey, in Surrey, was founded in +1081, 15th William the Conqueror, by Alwin Child of London; it was +surrendered in 1539, 31 Hen. <span class = "smallroman">VIII.</span>, +when it was pulled down, and a Fair House built on the site by Sir +Thomas Pope, Knight.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_5" id = "note186_5" href = +"#tag186_5">186.5</a> +Margery Paston; she afterwards married Richard Calle.—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter608" id = "letter608">608</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag186_6" id = "tag186_6" href = +"#note186_6">186.6</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mestresse, Margaret Paston by thys letter delivered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +(?)</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> your good mastreschep to have +knowlage that as thys day was Master Stevyn of Norwich at Caster, and +ther he told me he was yesterday at Hoxhon with the Byschop of Norwych; +and ther he seythe that ther is gret labor mad be Master Phylyp<a class += "tag" name = "tag186_7" id = "tag186_7" href = "#note186_7">186.7</a> +and be the baly of Cossey; in +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page187" id = "page187">187</a></span> +so moche ther is mad a comission on to Master John Salet and Master +Robert Ipyswell for an inquerry that the parson<a class = "tag" name = +"tag187_1" id = "tag187_1" href = "#note187_1">187.1</a> that my +master<a class = "tag" name = "tag187_2" id = "tag187_2" href = +"#note187_2">187.2</a> mad last at Drayton ys deed, as they sey, and in +so moche they purpose to put in the parson of Felthorp, as he hard sey, +for the Duk of Suffolk. And thes he thynkyth it were a gret urt to my +master tytyll. And also another inquerry howe [<i>who</i>] ys patorne of +the seyd chyrche; and thys is leke to come in revelicion but yf +[<i>unless</i>] ther be gret labore mad to morowe be tymys and that ye +have a man at Hoxhon in all hast for a newe comicion; and in that +commysion Master Stevyn wold that ye shuld have Master Jon Salet, Master +Symond Thornaham, Master Nicholl Stanton. And that it be mad be the +avice of Master Jon Bulman; for he told Master Stevyn he wold do for you +that he may, in so moche Master Stevyn hathe promyssyd hym a nobyll; and +so the seyd Master Stevyn wold ye shuld send hym a letter and late hym +have knolage that Master Stevyn shall reward hym that he shall hold hym +pleasyd.</p> + +<p>Item, a told me that a sent a letter to Sir William Maryys of all +this mater yesterday, weder ye have er not he can not sey, but in noo +wyse that ye dyskure not Master Stevyn, for he wold not for an +C<i>li.</i> that it ware knowe that ye knewe ther of by hym, for he +seythe gold gothe gret plenty at Hoxhon on ther part. And yf it be +labord be tymys it may be remevyd to Caunterbury. Also yet it is good to +send to Norwich to the seyd Sir William for the letter ar the massanger +goth, &c.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_6" id = "note186_6" href = +"#tag186_6">186.6</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +was probably written about or before the beginning of September 1465, as +the proceedings of Salet and Ipyswell on the commission of inquiry here +referred to are alluded to in a letter of Margaret Paston to her husband +on the 27th of that month.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note186_7" id = "note186_7" href = +"#tag186_7">186.7</a> +Doubtless Philip Lipgate.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note187_1" id = "note187_1" href = +"#tag187_1">187.1</a> +This must be John Flowerdew, presented by John Paston and Thomas Howes +in 1461.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note187_2" id = "note187_2" href = +"#tag187_2">187.2</a> +John Paston.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page188" id = "page188">188</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter609" id = "letter609">609</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag188_1" id = "tag188_1" href = +"#note188_1">188.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my Cosyn Margret Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +[21]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Myn</span> owne dere sovereyn lady, I +recomaund me to yow, and thank yow of the gret chere that ye mad me here +to my gret cost and charge and labour. No more at thys tyme, but that I +pray yow ye woll send me hedir ij. clue of worsted<a class = "tag" name += "tag188_2" id = "tag188_2" href = "#note188_2">188.2</a> for dobletts, +to happe me thys cold wynter; and that ye inquere where William Paston +bought his tepet of fyne worsted, whech is almost like silk, and if that +be mech fyner thanne that he shuld bye me after vij. or +viij.<sup>s.</sup>, thanne by me a quarter and the nayle therof for +colers, thow it be derer thanne the tother, for I wold make my doblet +all worsted for worship of Norffolk, rather thanne like Gonnores +doblet.</p> + +<p>Item, as for the mater of the ix.<sup>xx.</sup><i>li.</i> askyd by my +Lady of Bedford<a class = "tag" name = "tag188_3" id = "tag188_3" href = +"#note188_3">188.3</a> for the maner of Westthirrok, where as Sir Thomas +Howes saith that he hath no wrytyng therof, but that Sir John Fastolf +purchased the seid maner, and payd serteyn money in ernest, and +aftirward graunted his bargeyn to the Duc of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page189" id = "page189">189</a></span> +Bedford, and so the money that he toke was for the mony that he had +payd. Peraventure Sir Thomas hath writyng therof, and knowyth it not; +for if ther be any such mony payd upon any bargeyn he shall fynd it in +Kyrtlyngs bocks that was Sir John Fastolfs reseyver, and it was abought +such tyme as the Duc of Bedford was last in Inglond, whech, as it is +told me, was the viij. yere of Kyng Herry the fift, or the viij. yere of +Kyng Herry the sext, and the somme that he payd for the seid bargeyn was +CCC. marks. Also he shall fynd, the xxij. yere of Kyng Herry or ther +abought, in the acompts of on of Fastolfs Reseyvors at London, that ther +was take of Sir Thomas Tyrell, and of the Duchesse of Excestre,<a class += "tag" name = "tag189_1" id = "tag189_1" href = "#note189_1">189.1</a> +that was wif to Sir Lowes John, fermours of the seid maner, serteyn mony +for repayment of part of the seid CCC. marks. Also he shall fynd in +yeres after that, or in that yere, or ther aboutes, that Sir John +Fastolf reseyved mony of my Lord Revers<a class = "tag" name = +"tag189_2" id = "tag189_2" href = "#note189_2">189.2</a> that now is, by +the name of Richard Wydevile, for his owne dette dew to Sir John +Fastolf; wherfore, if Sir Thomas be trewe to his master, lete hym do his +devoir to make that Worseter, whech is uphold be hym with the deds +goods, to be trewe to his master, or ellis it is tyme for Sir Thomas to +forsake hym, and helpe to punyssh hym, or men mast sey that Sir Thomas +is not trewe; and more over lete +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page190" id = "page190">190</a></span> +Sir Thomas examine what he can fynd in this mater that I sent hym werd +of, whech mater he shall fynd in the seid Reseyvours bocks, if he list +to seke it.</p> + +<p>Item, on the day after your departyng, I reseyved letters by Will. +Ros from your sones to me, and to yow, and to Ric. Calle, &c.</p> + +<div class = "verse"> +<p>Item, I shall telle you a tale,</p> +<p>Pampyng and I have picked your male<a class = "tag" name = "tag190_1" +id = "tag190_1" href = "#note190_1">190.1</a></p> +<p>And taken out pesis<a class = "tag" name = "tag190_2" id = "tag190_2" +href = "#note190_2">190.2</a> v.,</p> +<p>For upon trust of Calles promise, we may soon onthryve;</p> +<p>And, if Calle bryng us hedir xx<i>li.</i>,</p> +<p>Ye shall have your peses ayen, good and round;</p> +<p>Or ellis, if he woll not pay yow the valew of the peses, there</p> +<p>To the post do nayle his ere;</p> +<p>Or ellis do hym some other wrongs,</p> +<p>For I will no nore in his defaut borough;</p> +<p>And but if the reseyvyng of my livelod be better plyed</p> +<p>He shall Crists ours and mine clene tryed;<a class = "tag" name = +"tag190_3" id = "tag190_3" href = "#note190_3">190.3</a></p> +<p>And loke ye be mery and take no thought,</p> +<p>For thys ryme is cunnyngly wrought.</p> +<p>My Lord Persy<a class = "tag" name = "tag190_4" id = "tag190_4" href += "#note190_4">190.4</a> and all this house</p> +<p>Recomaund them to yow, dogge, catte, and mowse,</p> +<p>And wysshe ye had be here stille,</p> +<p>For the sey ye are a good gille.<a class = "tag" name = "tag190_5" id += "tag190_5" href = "#note190_5">190.5</a></p> +<p>No more to you at this tyme,</p> +<p>But God hym save that mad this ryme.</p> +<p>Wret the of Sent Mathe,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag190_6" id = "tag190_6" href = "#note190_6">190.6</a></p> +<p>Be yowr trew and trustie husband, J. P.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note188_1" id = "note188_1" href = +"#tag188_1">188.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 90.] From the mention of ‘this cold winter’ at the +beginning of this letter we might naturally suppose that the feast ‘of +Sent Mathe,’ on or about which it was written, was that of St. Matthias, +which occurs on the 24th of February. But we believe the day of St. +Matthew to have been intended, so that the expression must have had +reference to some unusually cold weather in September. It is clear from +the contents of the letter that Margaret Paston had recently been with +her husband in London, and had just left him in company with Richard +Calle on her return towards Norfolk. Letters for her and Richard Calle +had arrived from her two sons since they departed. Now the only time, so +far as I can find, that Margaret Paston ever visited her husband in +London—at all events when her sons were grown up—was in +September 1465; and on that occasion Calle was with her, and everything +else agrees. Indeed, no one can doubt that the latter portion of the +letter immediately following was written in answer to this letter.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note188_2" id = "note188_2" href = +"#tag188_2">188.2</a> +Worsted is a small market-town in the most east part of the county of +Norfolk, formerly famous for the manufacture of those stuffs which still +bear its name, and of which, for the worship of Norfolk, J. Paston +desired his doublet to be made.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note188_3" id = "note188_3" href = +"#tag188_3">188.3</a> +Jaquetta, daughter of Peter of Luxembourg, Earl of Saint Pol, was the +second wife of John, Duke of Bedford, the Regent of France during Henry +<span class = "smallroman">VI.</span>’s minority. She was married to him +in 1433, and after his decease, in 1435, she became the wife of Sir +Richard Wydvile, and died in 1472.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note189_1" id = "note189_1" href = +"#tag189_1">189.1</a> +Anne, eldest daughter of John Montacute, third Earl of Salisbury, +married, 1st, Sir Richard Hankford, Knight; 2ndly, Sir Lewis John, +Knight (whose will was proved in 1442); and 3rdly, John Holland, who was +created Duke of Exeter 6th January 1443, and died in 1446. Fenn +erroneously supposed the lady to have been the widow of Thomas Beaufort, +a previous Duke of Exeter, who died in 1426. This Beaufort, Duke of +Exeter, married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Nevill, but +his wife did not survive him, as Fenn supposed, for at his death he was +found to have been tenant of her lands for life by the law of England. +Fenn’s note on this passage is, however, so interesting that we must +quote a part of it. Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was buried in the Abbey of +Bury St. Edmunds. ‘On digging,’ he says, ‘amongst the ruins of this +Abbey, the body of the Duke was found, on the 20th of February 1772, +wrapt in lead, and entire. The face, hair, and every part were perfect, +and the flesh solid, but being exposed to the air, the body soon became +offensive . . . . . +I procured some of the hair, which was of a fine brown colour, and +very flexible.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note189_2" id = "note189_2" href = +"#tag189_2">189.2</a> +Sir Richard Wydvile, in 1448, was created Baron Rivers of Grafton, in +Northamptonshire, and elected a Knight of the Garter. His daughter +Elizabeth afterwards became the Queen of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, who then advanced her father to the dignity of +Earl Rivers. He was seized by the Lancaster mutineers, and beheaded at +Banbury in 1469.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_1" id = "note190_1" href = +"#tag190_1">190.1</a> +Male, or Mail, is a trunk or portmanteau. It is to be observed that in +the original letter the verses do not finish the line but are written as +prose.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_2" id = "note190_2" href = +"#tag190_2">190.2</a> +Pieces of money.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_3" id = "note190_3" href = +"#tag190_3">190.3</a> +I do not understand this line.—F. Surely ‘ours’ must be a +misreading of ‘curs’ (curse)?</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_4" id = "note190_4" href = +"#tag190_4">190.4</a> +Henry, Lord Percy, son and heir of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, +who was killed at the Battle of Towton in 1461, by Eleanor, +granddaughter and heir of Robert, Lord Poynings.</p> + +<p>His father having been attainted, he continued to be called Lord +Percy; but he was afterwards fully restored both in blood and title.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_5" id = "note190_5" href = +"#tag190_5">190.5</a> +An agreeable companion.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note190_6" id = "note190_6" href = +"#tag190_6">190.6</a> +St. Matthew’s Day is the 21st September.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page191" id = "page191">191</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter610" id = "letter610">610</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag191_1" id = "tag191_1" href = +"#note191_1">191.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wourchipful husbonde, I +recomaunde me to yow, dyssyryng hertely to here of yowr welfare, +thankyng yow of yowr grett chere that ye made me, and of the coste that +ye dede on me. Ye dede more cost thanne my wylle was that ye choulde do, +but that it plesyd yow to do so, God gyf me grase to do that may plese +yow. Plesyt yow to wet that on Fryday after myn departyng frome yow I +was at Sudbury and spake with the schreve, and Ric. Calle toke hym the +ij. writts, and he brake them, and Ric. hathe the copes of them; +<span class = "apostille"> +Vic. Norfolk pro ovibus.</span> +and he seyde he wolde send the writts to hys undre-schryf and a leter +therwyth, chargyng hym that he schowlde do ther ine as largely as he owt +to do. +<span class = "apostille"> +Answer of the writts and of the replevyn.</span> +And I and Ric. informyd hym of the demenyng of hys undrchryf, how +parciall he hade be with the other partye, bothe in that mater, and also +for the accionnys beyng in the scher; and he was nothyng wel plesyd of +the demenyng of hys undreschef, and he hat wretyn to hym that he choulde +be indeferent for bothe partyes acordyng to the lawe, bothe for that +materys and for alle other. What the undreschryf wylle do therin I wot +ner, for he is not yet spokyn with.</p> + +<p>Item, as for Cotton, I entryd in to the plase as on Sunday last was, +and ther I abode tyll un Wednysday last pasyd. +<span class = "apostille"> +Margareta Paston intravit manerium Cotton die Dominica proxima ante +festum Michaelis.</span> +I have left ther John Paston the yonger, Wykes, and other xij. men for +to receive the profyttes of the maner; and ayenst the day of kepyng of +the corte, I hope ther shall be more to streynkyth them, yf it +nede. John Paston hath be with my lorde of Norfolk seyth [<i>since</i>] +we entryd, and dyssyryd his +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page192" id = "page192">192</a></span> +good lorchyp to streynth hym with hys howsolde men and other yf nede be; +and he hath promysyd he would do so. +<span class = "apostille"> +I thank yow of your demenyng at Cotton.</span> +And I sent Ric. Calle on Tusday to Knevett, dysyryng hym that he woulde +sende to hys baley and tenaunts at Mendlesham, that thei choulde be redy +to come to John Paston whan he sent for them; and he sent a man of his +forthwith, chargyng them in aney wyse that they choulde do so. +<span class = "apostille"> +Remembir Nakton.</span> +And he sent me wourde be Ric. and hys sonne also, yf wee were not +stronge inough, that owther he or hys sonne, or bothe yf nede were, +would come with suche feleschipp as they coude gett abowt them, and that +thei woulde do as feythfully as they kowde for yow, bothe in that mater +and in alle other.</p> + +<p>Item, on Saterday last was, Jenney ded warne a corte at Calcotte to +be holde ther in hys name as on Tusday last was, and Debenham de[d] +charge another court ther the Sunday next after to be holde ther the +same Tusday in hys name. And Daubeney had knowleche ther of, and he dede +send on Sunday at nyght to yowr elder sonne, for to have some men fro +thens; and so he sent Wykes and Bernay to hym on Monday in the mornyng. +<span class = "apostille"> +Mokenge of Jenney and Debenham at Calcotes the Tuisday next bifore Sen +Migchell.</span> +And assone as thei were come to Castre thei sent for men ther in the +contre, and so they gett them in to a iij.<sup>xx.</sup> men; and +Daubeney and Wekes and Bernay rod to Calcott the same Munday at nyght +with ther felechyp, and ther kept them prevye in the pl[a]se, so that +non of alle the tenaunts kneue them ther, saf Rysyngs wyff and her +howsolde, tylle the Theusday at x. of the cloke. +<span class = "apostille"> +Now your cost is doon, consideryng your frends be corayges and your +enemyes discoraged, gadir up the profits in all goodly hast, and that I +may see acompt for this trobill tyme.</span> +And than Sir Thomas Brews, Debunham the fadre,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag192_1" id = "tag192_1" href = "#note192_1">192.1</a> and the knyt +hys sonne,<a class = "tag" name = "tag192_2" id = "tag192_2" href = +"#note192_2">192.2</a> Jenney, Mykelfylde younger, Jermyn, and younge +Jernyngham, and the Baley of Motforde, with other to the noumbre of a +iij.<sup>xx.</sup> persones, coum fro the sessionnys at Becklys, the +whech thei hade keppt ther on the day byfor, coume to Seynt Olevys, and +ther thei teryed and dynyd. And whan thei had dynyd, Sir Gylberde +Debenham came to Calcott with xx. hors for to wett what felechipp ther +was in the plase. And than Wekes aspyed them commyng; and he and Bernay +and ij. with them rode owt to a’ spoke with them. And whan Sir Gilberd +aspyd them comyng, he and his felechipp flede and rode ayen to Seynt +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page193" id = "page193">193</a></span> +Olovys. And than they sent young Jernyngham and the Baley of Mottforde +to yowr men lettyng hem wete that the Justice of the Pese wer coum doune +with Debunham and Jenney, to se that the pese choulde be kepte, and that +thei choulde entre and kepe the courte in pesible wyse. And yowr men +answeryd and seyd that they knewe no man was possessyd ther in, ner hade +no ryght therin but ye, and so in your name, and in your ryght they seyd +they woulde kepyt. And so they yede ayen with thys answer, and wer put +fromme ther purp[o]se that day. And all the tenaunts bestes wer put fro +Calcalcott<a class = "tag" name = "tag193_1" id = "tag193_1" href = +"#note193_1">193.1</a> fee, and challe be tylle other remedy maye be +hadde. Yowr men woulde not kepe ther a cort that daye by cause it was +warnyd by the tother parte, but we wyl do warne a corte and kepyt, +I hope in hast. Ye wyll laugh for to here alle the processe of the +demenyng ther, wheche wer to longe to writt at thys tyme. +<span class = "apostille"> +Veneat (<i>sic</i>) Barney.</span> +Bernay challe telle yow whane he come; but he challe not come to yow +tylle after Seynt Feythesmesse,<a class = "tag" name = "tag193_2" id = +"tag193_2" href = "#note193_2">193.2</a> that he maye bryng yow answeres +of other materys. +<span class = "apostille"> +Cessiones Norwici et Dunwici Martis proximo post festum Michelis.</span> +It is tolde me the sessionys choulle be her at Norwiche on Tusday next +comyng, and in Suffolk the Sessionys challe be the same Tusday owther at +Dounwyche or at Ypswyche. I suppose ther challe be labowr ayenst +soume of our folks ther, but we cholle assay to lete ther pourpose yf we +maye. +<span class = "apostille"> +De prudencia custodiendi Heylesdon.</span> +It is tolde me yf ther hade no folks a’ be left here in thys plase whyll +I have be owt, they choulde a’ be neue masters her by thys tyme; therfor +it is not good to leve it alone yett.</p> + +<div class = "allclear"> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Tenentes comitis Oxoniæ pro custodia Cotton.</p> + +<p>Item, Arblaster hathe sent a letter to myn Lorde of Oxenefords +tenaunts that be nerrest abowt Cotton to help John Paston yf they be +sent to, &c.</p> + +</div> + +<p class = "apostille"> +Episcopus Norwici pro ecclesia de Drayton.</p> + +<p>Item, I was thys daye with myn Lorde of Norwyche at Thorppe, and +informyd hym of the demenyng of the mater for Drayton chyrche, and of +alle the demenyng and parcialte of Master John Solatt and Ypswell; and +also I informyd what disposission that they were of that were upon the +quest. +<span class = "apostille"> +Lete yowr counsell comone with hym, but thei may sey they knowe not myn +evidens nor titell, ner have no mor to do by my writynge that I sent yow +thanne to avyse hough I shall take myn accion, and that in that accion I +have as good titell as my Lord of Norwich hath to the chirch of +Thorp.</span> +And in good feyth me thynkyth by hym that he is ryght ille plesyd that +the mater was so gydyt. He seyde to me ryght +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page194" id = "page194">194</a></span> +pleynly that the Jugis dede not therin as thei owght to do, and he seyd +thowe I hadde hade noo councell, the he howght of ryght to have assyngyd +me councell suche as I hadde dyssyrid; but he seyde he wyst well he dede +in that mater as he have do in other materys byfor. Me thynkyth by suche +thynges I harde ther that the seyd Master John ner the tother is not +grettly in conseyt at thys tyme; and so tolde me Aschefylde in councell. +What the cause was he myght have no leyser to telle me. I mevyd my +lorde in the mater acordyng to the intent of yowr wrytyng yf aney axcion +wer take; and he seyd feythefully yf it myght prevayle yow, he woulde +with ryght good wylle that it choulde be doo; and ellys he woulde not in +noo wyse that it choulde be doo. And he dyssyryde me to sende to hym +suche as be of yowr councell lernyd, that they myght comune with hym +therin, for he seyd he woulde not ye choulde take non axcion therin +withowt it myght provayle. He was well payed that I tolde hym that ye +woulde not do therin withowt hys knowleche and assent; and he seyd he +woulde do therin as he woulde do yf the mater wer hys owne. Be avyse of +yowr councell, I purpose to sende Loumnowr and Playter to commone +with hym therin. He seyd he woulde feyne that ye wer owt of troble; and +he seyd, yf he myght doo owght to helppe yow forwarde in aney of yowr +materys, he swore by heys feythe he wode do hys parte feythfully therin. +<span class = "apostille"> +Episcopus apud London.</span> +He purp[o]syd to be at London thys terme, and thanne he seyd he woulde +speke with yow of maney thyngs; he wycheyd herteley that he myght have +spoke with yow on owr. He mevyd to me of a mater of a jentyllman of +Cornale. +<span class = "apostille"> +Cornwayle</span> +He seyd he woulde speke with yow therof her after; yf it myght be browt +to, it myght do meche good in maney thyngis. I harde yow onys speke +of the same; ye tolde me ye hade be mevyd to therof by other.</p> + +<p>Item, I received at letter frome yow yesterday, wherof I thanke yow +hertely, and I praye yow that I maye be as ye writt. And as for suche +materys as Sir Thomas Howys choulde be spoke to for<a class = "tag" name += "tag194_1" id = "tag194_1" href = "#note194_1">194.1</a> I sent +Ric. Calle this day to speke with hym, but he myght not speke with hym; +but as hastely +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page195" id = "page195">195</a></span> +as I may I challe do myn parte to spede the erands and other. +<span class = "apostille"> +Ecclesia de Mautby.</span> +It is tolde me that Sir Thomas wyll ressyng Mautby chyrche, and yf it +plesyd yow to geve it to on Sir Thomas Lyndis, I truste verely that +ye choulde leke hym ryght well, for he is rit a prystly man and vertusly +dysposyd. I have knowe hym this xx. yer and mor; he was brother to +the goode parsone of Seynt Michellys that ye lovyd ryght well; and yf he +myght havyt he woulde kepe an howsolde therupon and bylde (?) well the +plase (?); and therof have it grete nede, for it is now rit evyll +reparyd, and I wott well he woll be rulyd and gydyt as ye wyll have hym. +<span class = "apostille"> +Wursted.</span> +I praye yow, yf it plese yow that he have it, that it lekyth yow to +sende me an answer by the berrer herof.</p> + +<p>Item, I have do spoke for yowr worstede<a class = "tag" name = +"tag195_1" id = "tag195_1" href = "#note195_1">195.1</a> but ye may not +have it tylle Halowmesse; and thane I am promysyd ye challe have as fyne +as maye be made. Ric. Calle challe bryng it up with hym.</p> + +<p>Wretyn the Fryday next before Michelmas day.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note191_1" id = "note191_1" href = +"#tag191_1">191.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is apostyled in the handwriting of John Paston, and numbered ‘IIII.’ at +the head, showing that it is of the same sequence as the next, which is +numbered ‘V.’ and dated on the very same day. In fact, the latter is +clearly nothing but a postscript to this, and bears the address upon the +back, which this does not.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note192_1" id = "note192_1" href = +"#tag192_1">192.1</a> +Gilbert Debenham, senior, Esq.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note192_2" id = "note192_2" href = +"#tag192_2">192.2</a> +Sir Gilbert Debenham.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note193_1" id = "note193_1" href = +"#tag193_1">193.1</a> +So in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note193_2" id = "note193_2" href = +"#tag193_2">193.2</a> +6th October.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note194_1" id = "note194_1" href = +"#tag194_1">194.1</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#letter609">No. 609</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note195_1" id = "note195_1" href = +"#tag195_1">195.1</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#letter609">No. 609</a>, <a href = +"#note188_2">p. 188, Note 2</a>.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter611" id = "letter611">611</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag195_2" id = "tag195_2" href = +"#note195_2">195.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worschipfull husbond, John Paston, in haste.</p> + +<p class = "apostille"> +To get a copy [of] that he hath . . hed; +notwith­standyng [I] wote well thei have found non such evidens as +ye wene.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Item</span>, it was tolde me thys day that +Master John Salatt hathe made a serge in the regestre this monethe aftre +the wylles and testements or suche as hought the maners of Heylesdon and +Drayton this c. yere, and be that hathe they founde suche evidence as +schal be gret strenghthyng to the Duks tittle, as it is seide. +I undrestonde verely that Mastre John Salet is all on that partye, +and no thyng with you.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page196" id = "page196">196</a></span> +<p>Item, as for the bill that ye sent to Sir Thomas Howys touchyng on +Edmond Carvyll and on Fraunces, I wote ner whether he had hem or +nought, for he is not spoken with yett in the maters. As wee spede owr +materys, we chall sende yow answers of them as hastely as we maye. At +the reverense of God, spede ye yowr materys that ye maye come owte of +that loggyng that ye ar in as hastely as ye maye, for I have non fansey +with some of the felechipp. I tolde yow, as me thowth, I praye +yow be ware, &c.</p> + +<p>I praye yow yf it plese yow that I may be recommaundyd to my Lorde +Percy, and to myn mastres, and to my Lorde Abott. And I pray God bryng +yow and them owt of troble, and send yow good spede in alle yowr +materys. Wretyn in hast, the Fryday next afor Michellmes. +<span class = "signature">Be yowr,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Yf it plese yow to send aney thyng by the berer herof, he is trusty +inough.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note195_2" id = "note195_2" href = +"#tag195_2">195.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is apostyled in the handwriting of John Paston, and numbered ‘V’ at the +head. As it refers to Paston’s dispute with the Duke of Suffolk about +the manors of Hellesden and Drayton, it must belong to the year 1465. +The reader will also perceive that it contains an allusion to John +Paston’s imprisonment in the Fleet, and to my Lord Percy, who is +mentioned in Letter 609, and who must have been a fellow-prisoner of +Paston’s.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter612" id = "letter612">612</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag196_1" id = "tag196_1" href = +"#note196_1">196.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<em>[</em>To<em>]</em> his ryght worschypful <em>[</em>fa<em>]</em>dre +John Paston, beyng <em>[</em>in t<em>]</em>he Flete at London, be thys +delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> Worschypful Syr, in the most +lowly wyse I recomand me to you. Pleasyth it you to wet that I sente you +a letter but late agoo, in whych letter I lete you have understondyng +that if it pleasyd yow to grante and assente therto, Syr Thomas Howes +wolde resyngne the benefyse of Mawteby to a ful prestly man of Norwych +callyd Sir Thomas Lyndys, whom I suppose ye have knolech of. +Neverthelesse I wote wele he hath not ben grettly aquentyd with you. But +I and he have ben moch aquentyd to geder, and I +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page197" id = "page197">197</a></span> +understond and knowe hys vertews levyng and dysposicion ryght wele; +whyche heraffter, I wote wele, sholde please you ryght wele. And +that letter whyche I sente you as I understode syns Nycholas Calman the +berer ther of came not owte of Norwych iiij. or v. dayes after that the +bylle was delyveryd hym; wherefor I am in dowte whyther it is come to +your handes.</p> + +<p>Whych causyth me to wryght to you ageyn in thys wyse, besechyng yow, +if it plese yow that the seyd Sir Thōs Lyndys schal be of your +promotynge in the wyse above wretyn that there it lyke you that I may +have answer by the berer herof; whych schal tary at London a day or ij., +and not passynge<ins class = "correction" title = ". invisible">. +</ins>No more to yow at thys tyme, but Alle myghty God have yow in +guydynge. Wretyn at Heylesdon the Fryday next byfore Seynt Mychell. +<span class = "signature">By yowr older sone,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note196_1" id = "note196_1" href = +"#tag196_1">196.1</a> +[<span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in Pembroke College, Cambridge.] +This letter, as will be seen, was written in 1465 on the same day as +Margaret Paston’s two letters, <a href = "#letter610">Nos. 610, +611</a>.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">tary at London a day or ij., and not +passynge.</span><br> +final . invisible</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter613" id = "letter613">613</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag197_1" id = "tag197_1" href = +"#note197_1">197.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryth reverrend and worchepfull fadre, John Paston, be thys +delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. 3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Aftyr</span> all humbyll and most due +recomendacion, as lowly as I can, I beseche yow of your blyssyng. +Plesyt yow to have knowlege that as on Sonday next be for Myhelmas Day, +as my modyr came fro London ward, sche cam homward by Cotton, and sche +sent for me to Heylysdon to come to hyr thedyr, and so I have ben in the +plase ever sethyn. And as sone as Myhelmas Day was past, I begane +to dystreyne the tenants, and gadryd some syllvyr, as myche, +I trowe, as wyll pay for our costs; and yet I cepe here ryth a good +felawschep, and mor wer promysyd me, whyche +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page198" id = "page198">198</a></span> +that came not to me, wherby I was ner deseyvyd. For when Debnam herd sey +how that I began to gadyr sylvyr, he reysyd many men with in j. daye and +an halfe, to the nombyr of iij<sup>c.</sup> men, as I was credebly +assartaynyed by a yeman of the chambyr of my Lordys<a class = "tag" name += "tag198_1" id = "tag198_1" href = "#note198_1">198.1</a> that owythe +me good wyll, whech yeman, as sone as he had sene ther felauschep, rod +streyth to my Lord and informyd hym of it; and also he informyd my Lord +how that I had gadryd a nothyr gret felashschep, whyche felawschep he +namyd more than we wer by j<sup>c.</sup> and an halfe and yett more. And +he seyd on to my Lord and my Lady, and to their consell, that with owt +that my Lord took a dyrectyon in the mater, that ther wer leek to be do +gret harme on bothe oure pertyes, wheche wer a gret dysworchep to my +Lord, consederyng how that he takyth us bothe for hys men, and so we be +knowyn well inow. Upon whyche informacion, and dysworchep to my Lord, +that tweyn of hys men schold debat so ner hym, contrary to the Kyngs +pese, consedryd of my Lord and my Lady and ther cownsell, my Lord sent +for me and Syr Gylberd Debnam to come to hym to Framlyngham bothe, and +as it fortunyd well my modyr come to me to Cotton not half an owyr be +for that the mesenger came to me fro my Lord, wheche was late upon +Twysday last past at nyth; and the next day on the mornyng I rod to my +Lord to Framlyngham, and so ded Syr Gylberd also. And as sone as we wer +come, we wer sent for to come to my Lord, and when we come to my Lord, +he desiyryd of us bothe that we schold neythyrthyr gadyr no felawschep, +but syche men as we had gadryd that we schold send hem home a yen, and +that the coort schold be contenuyd in to the tyme that my Lord, or suche +as he wold asyngne, had spok bothe with yow and Yelverton and Jenney, +and that on indeferent man chosyn by us bothe schold be assynyd to kepe +the plase in to the tyme that ye and they wer spook with.</p> + +<p>And then I answed my Lord, and seyd how that at that tyme I had my +maistyr within the maner of Cotton, whyche was my modyr, and in to the +tyme that I had spook with hyr I cowd geve none answer; and so my Lord +sent Rychord Fulmerston, berer hereof, to my modyr thys day for an +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page199" id = "page199">199</a></span> +answer, whyche answer he schold bryng to my Lord to London, for my Lord +rod to Londons word as yesterday, and the soner be cause he trustyd to +have a good end of this mater and alle othyr be twyx yow, whyche he +takyth for a gret worchep to hym, and a gret avantage bothe, and he cowd +bryng this mater abowt, for then he wold trust to have your servyse, +alle whyche wer to hym gret tresour and avantage.</p> + +<p>And this was the answer that my modyr and I gave hym, that at the +instans of my Lord and my Ladye we wold do thus myche as for to put the +coort in contenuans, and no more to receyve of the profyts of the maner +than we had, and had dystresid for tyll in to the tym that sche and I +had werd ayen fro my Lord and yow, if so wer that they wold neythyr mak +entreys nor dystreyn the tenantys, nor chepe no coort mor then we wold +do. And we told Rychord Fulmerston that thys my modyr and I ded at the +instans and gret request of my Lord, be cause my Lord intendyd pes, +whyche resonably we wold not be ayenst, and yet we seyd we knew well +that we schold have no thank of yow when ye knew of it, with owt it wer +be cause we ded it at my Lordys instans. But be for thys answer we had +receyvyd as myche sylvyr full ner as Rychord Calle sent us bokys of for +to gadyryt bye; and as for the possessyon of the plase, we told hym that +we wold kepe it, and Syr Gylberd agreyd, so that Yelverton and Jeney +would do the same; for it was tyme for hym to sey so, for my Lord told +hym that he wold hym fast by the feet ellys, to be suyr of hym, that he +schold make non insurreccions in to the tyme that my Lord came ayen fro +London.</p> + +<p>I wene, and so dothe my modyr bothe, that thys appoyntment was mad in +good tyme; for I was deseyvyd of bettyr than an C. men and an halfe that +I had promyse of to have come to me when I sent for hem. Thys promes had +I befor that I sent to yow the last lettyr the daye aftyr Seynt Myhell. +Jenney herd seye that I cepyd Cotton, and he rod to Nacton, and ther +held a cort and receyvyd the profytys of the maner.</p> + +<p>I beseche yow that I may have knowlage in hast fro yow ye wyll that I +be demenyd in thys mater and in al othyr, and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page200" id = "page200">200</a></span> +I schal aplye me to fulfyll your intent in them to my power by the grace +of God, whom I beseche have yow in guydyng, and sende yow yowyr herts +desyir. Wretyn at Hemnalle Halle, in Cotton, the Thursday next befor +Seynt Feythe.</p> + +<p>My modyr recomandyth her to yow, and preyith yow to hold hyr excusyd +that sche wrytyth not to yow at thys tyme, for sche may have no leyser. +The berer her of schall informe yow whedyr Jeney wyll agre to thys +appoyntment or not. I thynk he dar do non othyr wyse. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and lowly servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note197_1" id = "note197_1" href = +"#tag197_1">197.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 80.] The signature of this letter, according to the +fac-simile referred to by Fenn, is that of Sir John Paston, the eldest +son of the person addressed. The date is undoubtedly 1465, as it will be +seen by <a href = "#letter610">Letter 610</a> that Margaret Paston +entered Cotton on Sunday before Michaelmas in that year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note198_1" id = "note198_1" href = +"#tag198_1">198.1</a> +The Duke of Norfolk.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter614" id = "letter614">614</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO JOHN PASTON, THE +YOUNGEST<a class = "tag" name = "tag200_1" id = "tag200_1" href = +"#note200_1">200.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To owr trusty and enterly beloved servaunt, John Paston, Esquyr.</p> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<span class = "smallcaps">The Deuke of Norff.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +12</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> welbeloved servaunt, y grete yow +hertly welle, sertefyng that we shulle be at fulle age on Fryday nexst +comyng. Wherfor, wele consayled be the Lordes of owr Consayle and oder +of owr Consayle, that ye, on of owr servaunts of howsholde, with oder, +be with us at London on Fryday or Saterday nexst comyng at the ffurdest, +too a companye us thann too owr worshyp, for we shull have thann levery +of owr landes and offyces; and that ye ffayle us +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page201" id = "page201">201</a></span> +not, as ye woll have owr good Lordeshyp in tyme comyng; and also that ye +doo warne owr ffeede men<a class = "tag" name = "tag201_1" id = +"tag201_1" href = "#note201_1">201.1</a> and servaunts, suche as be nye +too yow, that they be ther thann in owr leverey. Y wreton the xij. +day of October. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Norff.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note200_1" id = "note200_1" href = +"#tag200_1">200.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 62.] John Mowbray, third Duke of Norfolk, died on the +6th November 1461. It appears by the Inquisitions <i>post mortem</i>, +1 Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, No. 46, that John, +his son and successor in the title, was seventeen years old on St. +Luke’s Day (18th October) in that year. He must therefore have been born +on the 18th October 1444, and would have been of full age on Friday, +18th October 1465. The John Paston, Esq., to whom this letter was +addressed, must have been the youngest of that name, who, as we have +seen already, had been serving in the Duke’s household. His father was +at this time a prisoner in the Fleet, so that the letter could not have +been intended for him.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note201_1" id = "note201_1" href = +"#tag201_1">201.1</a> +Those who held lands of the Duke as their superior.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter615" id = "letter615">615</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE DUKE OF SUFFOLK’S ATTACK ON HELLESDON<a +class = "tag" name = "tag201_2" id = "tag201_2" href = +"#note201_2">201.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +14</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Thys</span> be the parcell underwryten of such +godys as were taken and beren away at Haylesdon, of John Pastons, hys +sones and hys servaunts by the Duk of Suffolk servaunts and tenaunts the +xiiij. day of October the v. yere of Kyng E. the iiij<sup>te</sup>, the +whych day the place of Haylesdon was broken and pullyd dowyn, +&c.</p> + +<p>In primis, ther was lost of John Pastons ther at that tyme in beddyng +ij. ffeder bedds with ij. bolsters, iiij. materas, with iiij. bolsters; +a grete seler with the testor, and iij. corteyns of whyte lynen +cloth, and a coverlyte of whyte werstede longyng therto.</p> + +<p>Item, a selere with a testore, and iij. corteyns of blewe bokeram +with a coveryng of blew werstede longyng therto; v. pylowys of dowyn, +vj. coverlyts of werk of dyvers colors, vj. payr blankettys, ij. payr +shytes of iij. webbys, ij. hedshytes of ij. webbys, vj. payre shytes of +ij. webbys, ij. basons of pewter, and iij. candelstykks of latyn for the +chamber.</p> + +<h5>The Botere.</h5> + +<p>Item, in primis, vj. bord clothys, vj. towellys, xij. napkyns, vj. +candelstykks of laton, ij. saltsalers of sylver, ij. saltsalers of +pewter, ij. basons of pewter with ij. ewers, a barell of vyneger, +a barell of vergyous, xij. ale stondys, ij. pantre knyves, +a pyce of sylver, a pype for brede, a ale stole, xij. +spones of sylver, &c.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page202" id = "page202">202</a></span> +<h5>The Browhern.</h5> + +<p>Item, a grete lede to brew v. comb malte with one plawyng, a +mayshsate, ij. kylyng sates, vj. kylers, ij. clensyng sates, +a taptrogh, a temps to clense, with a scyppe to bere malte, +a syff to syft malte, a bultyng pype, ij. knedyng satys, +a moldyng bord.</p> + +<h5>The Kychyn.</h5> + +<p>Item, ij. dosyn pewter vessell, iiij. grete bras pannes, iij. potts +of bras, j. greddyron, ij. broches, j. dressyng knyff, j. morter of +marbell with a pestell, j. litell panne of bras of di. galon, ij. +pothoks, ij. rakks of yron, ij. brendeletts, a almary to kepe in +mete, j. axe to clyve wode, ij. saltyng satys to salte in fflesh.</p> + +<h5>Gere taken owt of the Chyrch.</h5> + +<p>Item, in the stepell, ix. sheffe arwys, ix. bawys, ij. handgonnes, +iiij. chambers for gonnys, ij. mallys of lede, ij. jakks.</p> + +<p>Item, in the church, a purs and iij. gold ryngs, a coler of sylver of +the Kyngs lyvery and a nobyll of viij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> the whych +was Wykys.</p> + +<p>Item, a syde gowne of blewe of Wyks.</p> + +<p>Item, a stokke gonne with iij. chambers.</p> + +<h5>Gere taken owte of the Chaumber of Ric. Calle.</h5> + +<p>Item, a syde morrey gowne, a dobelet of blak satyn, a payre hosyn, +a jakks, the polronds of a payr bryganders of rede sateyn +ffugr.</p> + +<p>Item, a payr of large tabelles of box, pris vj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Item, a staffe, pris iij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Item, boke of Frensh, pris iij<i>s.</i> <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘iiija.’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">iiij<i>d.</i></ins></p> + +<h5>Gere taken away of Margeret Pastons.</h5> + +<p>Item, an unce of gold of Venyse, di. pype of gold damask, di. unc’ of +gold of Gene, an unc’ of sylk, a li. of threde, a close glasse +of yvery, a grete combe of yvere, a fyne kerchy of fyne Holond +cloth, a quarter of blak velwet.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page203" id = "page203">203</a></span> +<h5>Gere of Johanne Gayns.</h5> + +<p>Item, a ryng of gold with a dyamonics, a typet of sarsenet, +a nobyll of x<i>s.</i>, a nobyll viij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i></p> + +<h5>Gere of John Wyks.</h5> + +<p>Item, a dobelet of blak fusteyn, a hers harnys, vj<i>s.</i> a gray +hers, pris xl<i>s.</i>, ij. shertys, pris iiij<i>s.</i></p> + +<h5>Will. Bedford.</h5> + +<p>Item, a Normandy byll and a bawe, pris of them both vj<i>s.</i></p> + +<h5>John Boteler.</h5> + +<p>Item, a payr botys, a payr sporys, a shert, a cappe, a hatte, +a dobelet, a payr hosyn, a brydell, ij. crepers, v. ston +of wall, xxx. welfellys, a spere staff.</p> + +<h5>Shepe.</h5> + +<p>Item, taken away uppon Draytun grounde at on tyme by the baylly of +Cossey and others, CC. shepe callyd hoggys.</p> + +<p>Item, at a nother tyme, uppon the same ground, iiij<sup>xx.</sup> +hoggys and xl. theyves.</p> + +<p>Item, at a nother tyme, at Haylesdon, by the baylly of Cossey and +Bottesford and other, viij<sup>cc.</sup> moder shype and CCCC. +lambes.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +Memorandum, a gowne of Richard Calle, pris ix<i>s.</i>, j. peyr hosen, +iij<i>s.</i>, j. swerd, iij<i>s.</i>, ij. bonets, ij<i>s.</i> + . . . . j. jakk, xxvj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i>, j. schert, iij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Memorandum, the pullyng downe of the place at Heylesden, to the hurts +and skathes of ——</p> + +<p>Item, the pullyng downe of the logge of Heylesden.</p> + +<p>Item, the distroyng of the waryne at Heylesdon.</p> + +<p>Item,<span class = "enspace"> . . . . +</span>the maner and the warreyn.</p> + +<p>Item, memorandum, the rydyngs and costs off suthe.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page204" id = "page204">204</a></span> +<p>Memorandum, the assaw made uppon Marg. Paston, Sir John Paston, at +Heylysdon beeffor the place was<span class = "enspace"> +. . . . . +. .</span></p> + +<p>Memorandum, the imprisonment off Sir John Paston in the Flet and in +the Kyngs Benche.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note201_2" id = "note201_2" href = +"#tag201_2">201.2</a> +[From a Bodl. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span>]</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">Item, boke of Frensh, pris iij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i></span><br> +text has “iiij<i>a.</i>” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter616" id = "letter616">616</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag204_1" id = "tag204_1" href = +"#note204_1">204.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +17</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">On</span> Tuesday in the morwyn whas John +Botiller, otherwyse callid John Palmer, and Davy Arnald your cook, and +William Malthows of Aylsham, takyn at Heylesdon be the balyf of Ey +callid Bottisforth, and led for to Cossey, and ther thei kepe hem yet +with ought any warant or autoryte of Justice of Peas. And thei saye thei +will carie hem forth to Ey preson, and as many as thei may gete more of +your men and tenaunts, that thei may know that owe yow good wyll or hath +be to you ward, thei be thret to be slayn or presoned. The Duke came to +Norwich<a class = "tag" name = "tag204_2" id = "tag204_2" href = +"#note204_2">204.2</a> on Tuesday at x. of clok with the nombre of v. +hundred men. And he sent after the Meyr and Alderman with the Sherefs +desiryng hem in the Kyngs name that thei shuld take an enqueraunce of +the constablys of every ward with in the cyte what men shuld a go on +your party to have holpyn or socowryd your men at any tyme of thes +gaderyngs, and if any thei cowde fynde, that thei shuld take and arest +hym and correct hym, and also certifie hym the names on Wyndenesse day +[<i>Wednesday</i>] be viij. of clok. Which the Meyr dede, and wull do +anythyng that he may for hym and his. And her up on the Meyr hath +arestid on that was with me callid Roberd Lovegold, braser, and threte +hym that he shall be hanged be the nek; wherfor I wuld that ther +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page205" id = "page205">205</a></span> +myght come down a writ to remeve hym if ye thynk it be to do. He was not +with me not save that Harleston and other mad the assaught up on me and +Lammesse; he is right good and feythfull on to you, and therfore I wuld +he had help. I have non man at this tyme to avayte upon me that +dare be avowyd but Litill John. William Nawton is here with me, but he +dare not ben avowyd, for he is sore thret. It is told me the old Lady +and the Duke is set fervently ageyn us be the enformacion of Harlesdon, +the Bayly of Cossey and Andrewys and Doget the balys sone, and suych +other fals shrewys the which wuld have thes mater born ought for ther +owyn pleser; the which causith an<a class = "tag" name = "tag205_1" id = +"tag205_1" href = "#note205_1">205.1</a> evyll noyse in this contre and +other places. And as for Sir John Hevenyngham, Sir John Wyndefeld and +other wurchepfull men ben mad but her doggeboldes;<a class = "tag" name += "tag205_2" id = "tag205_2" href = "#note205_2">205.2</a> the whiche I +suppose wull turne hem to diswurchep here after. I spake with Sir +John Hevenyngham and enformed hym with the trough of the mater, and of +all owyr demenyng at Drayton, and he seid he wuld that all thyng wer +wele, and that he wuld enforme my lord as I seid to hym, but Harleston +had all the words and the rewle with the Duke here, and after his avyse +and Doctor Aleynes he was avysed here at this tyme.</p> + +<p>The logge and the remenaunte of your place was betyn down on Tuesday +and Wednesday, and the Duke rode on Wednysday to Drayton and so for to +Cossey whille the logge at Heylesdon was in the betyng down. And this +nyght at mydnyght Thomas Sleyforth, Grene Porter, and Joh. Botesforth +the Baly of Eye, and other, had a cart and fetched awey fetherbeddes, +and all the stuffe that was left at the parsones, and Thom Wateres hows +to be kept of owrs. I shall send you billes er after, as ner as I +may, what stuffe we have forborn. I pray you send me word how ye +will that I be demened, wheder ye wull that [I]<a class = "tag" name = +"tag205_3" id = "tag205_3" href = "#note205_3">205.3</a> abide at +Cayster or +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page206" id = "page206">206</a></span> +come to you to London. I have no leyser to write more. God have yow +in His kepyng. Wretyn at Norwich on Sent Lukes Evyn. +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note204_1" id = "note204_1" href = +"#tag204_1">204.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +is not addressed, but seems undoubtedly to have been intended for the +writer’s husband. The attack upon the lodge at Hellesden here referred +to was in 1465, as appears by the letter immediately following.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note204_2" id = "note204_2" href = +"#tag204_2">204.2</a> +‘Norwich.’—This word is interlined, the writer having originally +written ‘this town,’ and afterwards struck out the word ‘town.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note205_1" id = "note205_1" href = +"#tag205_1">205.1</a> +<i>an</i>—&, <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note205_2" id = "note205_2" href = +"#tag205_2">205.2</a> +The old word ‘dogbolt’ seems to have meant a servile follower, or one +bound to wait the commands of another. Thus in Lilly’s <i>Tragicall +Comedie of Alexander and Campaspe</i>, where Manes complains that he +serves a master whose house is a tub, Granichus remarks ‘That Diogenes +that dog should have Manes that dogbolt it grieveth nature and spiteth +art.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note205_3" id = "note205_3" href = +"#tag205_3">205.3</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter617" id = "letter617">617</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag206_1" id = "tag206_1" href = +"#note206_1">206.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull hosbond, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull hosbond, I recomand +me to you. Please it you to wyte that I was at Haylesden uppon Thersday +laste passyd, and sey the place ther, and in gode feyth ther wyll no +cryatur thynke how fowle and orubelly it ys arayed but yf they sey it. +Ther comyth moch pepyll dayly to wonder ther uppon, both of Norwych and +of other placys, and they speke shamfully therof. The Duck had be beter +then a m<sup>l</sup>.<i>li.</i> that it had never be don; and ye have +the more gode wyll of the pepyll that it ys so foylle don. And they made +youre tenauntys of Haylesdon and Drayton, with other, to help to breke +down the wallys of the place and the logge both,—God knowyth full +evyll ayenst ther wyllys, but that they derst no notherwysse don for +ferre. I have spoken with your tenauntys of Haylesdon and Drayton +both, and putte hem in comfort as well as I canne. The Duck ys men +rensackyd the church, and bare a way all the gode that was lefte ther, +both of ours and of the tenaunts, and lefte not so moch but that they +stode uppon the hey awter, and ransackyd the images, and toke a way such +as they myght fynd, and put a way the parson owte of the church till +they had don, and ransackyd every mans hous in the towne v. or vj. +tymys. And the chyff maysters of robbyng was the Baylly of Ey, the +Baylly of Stradbroke, Thomas Slyford, and Porter; and Slyford was the +chyff robber of the cherch, and he hath +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page207" id = "page207">207</a></span> +most of the robbery next the Baylly of Ey. And as for lede, bras, +pewter, yren, dorys, gatys, and other stuffe of the hous, men of Coshay +and Causton have it, and that thay myght not cary, thay have hewen it a +sonder in the most dysspytuose wyse. Yf it myght be, I wold som men +of wyrshop myght be send from the Kyng to see how it ys both ther and at +the logge, or than any snowys<a class = "tag" name = "tag207_1" id = +"tag207_1" href = "#note207_1">207.1</a> com, that they may make report +of the troth, ellys it shall not mo be seyn so playnly as it may +now.</p> + +<p>And at the reverens of God, spyde your maters nowe, for it ys to +orybell a cost and trobell that we have now dayly, and most have tyll it +be other wyse; and your men dar not goo abowte to geder uppe your +lyfflode, and we kype here dayly more than xxx. persons for savacyon of +us and the place, for, in very trowght, and the place had not be kypyd +strong, the Duck had come hether. Arblaster thynketh verely that Hugh a +Fen may do moch in your maters, and he thynkyth that he wole do for you +faythfully, yf ye wyll, &c.</p> + +<p>At the reverens of God, yf any wyrshypfull and profetabile mene may +be take yn your maters, for sake it not in eschuyng of our trobell and +gret costs and charges that we have, and may growe here after. It ys +thoght here that yf my Lord of Norffolk wolld take uppon hym for you, +and that he may have a comyssyon for to enquer of such ryotts and +robberyes as hath be don to you and other in thys contray, that then all +the contray wyll a wayte uppon hym, and serve your entent; for the +pepyll lovyth and dredyth hym more then any other lord except the Kyng +and my Lord of Warwyk, &c.</p> + +<p>God have you in Hys kypyng, and send ous gode tydyngs from you. +Wryten in haste, uppon the Sonday Seynt Symon and Jude ys Evyn. +<span class = "signature">By yours,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note206_1" id = "note206_1" href = +"#tag206_1">206.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 226.] The Eve of St. Simon and Jude is the 27th October. +It fell on Sunday in the year 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note207_1" id = "note207_1" href = +"#tag207_1">207.1</a> +Fenn remarks that if we may judge from the mention of snow in this +place, the winters began earlier in those days than they do now. But +perhaps Margaret was only urging the necessity of timely action, taking +into consideration the ordinary delays of suitors. We have seen, +however, from <a href = "#letter609">Letter 609</a> that in the year +1465 there must have been unusually cold weather even in the beginning +of September.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page208" id = "page208">208</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter618" id = "letter618">618</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MESSAGE TO SIR WILLIAM YELVERTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag208_1" id = "tag208_1" href = +"#note208_1">208.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +This is the Instruccion for the Messenger.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">That</span> ye grete well Sir William +Yelverton, letyng hym wete in our behalf we be informed that certeyn +persones, in the name of the right worshipfull our cosyn the Duc of +Suffolk, have enterid in the manoir of Drayton that was Fastolffes, and +have dreven from the seid manoir and other xiij<sup>c.</sup> shep and +other bestes pastured upon the seid manoir. Notwithstandyng, we merveyle +gretly that the seid Sir William, his sones and servauntes, as it is +seid, assiste and comfort the seid persones so entryng and withdrawyng +the seid catell, seying that he is named both feffe and executour. And +all be it so that there is variaunce bithwene hym and our welbelovid +John Paston in our coort, consernyng as well the seid manoirs as other +goodes that were Sir John Fastolffes, whom God assoyle, yit <ins class = +"correction" title = "text has ‘is’">it</ins> may not acorde with +worship and consiens for the seid Sir William to assiste the distruccion +of the seid manoirs and goodes in the meane tyme. Wherfore we desire hym +that he woll do his devoir effectually to help to save the seid manoirs +from all such pretense of titell, and to cause the seid catels to be +restored to the manoirs aforeseid, and not to be withdrawen and +distroyed as they be; and that he do his feithfull part in this behalf +acordyng to the trust that he was put in, as we may do for hym in tyme +to come.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note208_1" id = "note208_1" href = +"#tag208_1">208.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This appears +to be a message from the King rebuking Judge Yelverton for partizanship +in assisting the Duke of Suffolk against Paston in his entry into the +manor of Drayton. The date is therefore 1465. The <span class = +"smallroman">MS.</span>, however, is only a corrected draft, and it is +not certain that such a message was actually sent.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">yit it may not acorde with worship and +consiens</span><br> +text has “is may not”</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page209" id = "page209">209</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter619" id = "letter619">619</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN WYMONDHAM TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag209_1" id = "tag209_1" href = +"#note209_1">209.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my worchipful cosyn, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +10</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rygth</span> worchipful cosyn, I comaunde me +to yow. And forasmoch as ther was a child ded at Asteles, and on other +lik to be ded in the same place, what tyme that I rode oute aboute my +litil livelod, my lady and I bothe thoughte pite on my mastres your wif +to se her abide ther, and desirid here to com to my pore hous on to soch +tyme as ye shuld a be othirwise avised, wyche, if it plese yow, +I am right wel apaied.</p> + +<p>Sythen, I undirstande be my lady that ye desire to knowe whedyr that +I shulde abide here stille or nowe [<i>or no</i>]. As to that, +I have non other place that I wold abide at, and my lady seith how +she is avised to ende hir lif here. Also she seith how ye desire to have +a stabil with inne my plas; and as to that, afeith, sir, I have +none, but that must nedis serve for my wode. As for a chambre, ye shall +have on for your men al redy, and as touching a stabil, Sir John Sparham +and I have gote yow on ther [<i>where</i>] your hors stode the last tyme +ye +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page210" id = "page210">210</a></span> +were in this town, and an hows to ley inne hey and straw, and cost yow +not but making of a rak and a mangeour, and more to your ease there than +here; and yf ye wyl that it be made redy for yow, send werd be the +bringer of this letter. And, cosyn, as towching to paiment, I can +not sey how ye shal be pleasid with my pore fare, but aftir that ye arn +com home, and arn aqweintid there with, we shal so acorde as shal be +plesir to us bothe, with the grace of God, which have [you] in His +blissid governaunce, and send yow your moderis blissing.</p> + +<p>Wreten at Norwich, on Seint Martyn is Even. +<span class = "signature">Your poer cosyn and ffrend,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Wymondham.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +And how that ever ye do, hold up your manship.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note209_1" id = "note209_1" href = +"#tag209_1">209.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 240.] As to the date of this letter, we can only +reproduce what is said of it by Sir John Fenn: ‘John Wymondham, Esq., +the writer of this letter, married Margery, the daughter of Sir Robert +Clifton, Knight, of Denver, in Norfolk, and widow of Sir Edward +Hastings, of Elsing, Knight. He therefore calls her “My Lady.” He died +in 1475.</p> + +<p>‘He purchased the manor and estate at Felbrigg, of the trustees of +Sir Simon Felbrigg, where he had resided; but once in his absence Sir +John Felbrigg made a forcible entry, and dragging out his Lady by the +hair of her head, who had locked herself up in a chamber to keep +possession, got into possession, and retained it till Wymondham obtained +the King’s order to Thomas Montgomery, Esq., High Sheriff of the county, +to put him again into possession. The dispute was then settled with Sir +John Felbrigg, and upon Wymondham’s paying to him 200 marks [£133 : +6 : 8] he released his claims, &c.</p> + +<p>‘This letter seems to have been written during the time that he was +dispossessed of Felbrigg, and which must have been either before the +year 1461 or 1466, those being the years in which Sir Thomas Montgomery +was Sheriff of Norfolk, and as J. Paston at this time seems to have +been under misfortunes, it was probably near the latter year. +I have therefore ventured, though doubtfully, to date the letter in +1465.’</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter620" id = "letter620">620</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag210_1" id = "tag210_1" href = +"#note210_1">210.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my Rightwurshipfull hosbond, John Paston, be this delyveryd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1441-65<br><span class = +"sidetext">NOV.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Riht</span> worchipfull hosbond, I recomand me +to yow, praying yow to wete that I have receyvid the mony that Mayster +Brakle had of yow, wherof he hath ageyn v. marc. uppon pledgis of the +too basonys that ye had of hym tyll ye come hom. As for cloth for my +gowne, I can non gete in this town better than that is that I send +yow an exsample of, whiche me thynkith to symple bothe of colour and of +cloth. Wherfor I pray yow that ye woll vouchesauf to do bey for me iij. +yerdis and j. quarter of seche as it pleasith yow that I shuld have, and +what colour that pleaset yow, for in gode feyth I have do sowte all the +draperis schopis in this town, and her is right febill cheys. Also I +pray yow that ye woll do bey a loff of gode sugour and di. j. lb. +[<i>half one pound</i>] of holl synamun, for ther is non gode in this +town; +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page211" id = "page211">211</a></span> +and as for mony, ther is non of your tenantis ne fermouris bryngith non +as yett. As for tydyngis in this countre, Herry Ingloses men have slayn +ij. men of Tonsted on Thursday last past, as it is seyd, and all that +countre is sore trobelid therwith; and if he had abedyn at home he had +be lyke to have be fechid owte of his owyn hows, for the peple ther +abowght is sor meved with hym. And on Saterday last past he come ryding +thorow this town toward Framyngham; and if he had abedyn in this town he +shuld have ben arestyd; for men of Tonsted and of the countre pusewid +after hym in to this town, and made agrett noyse of hym, and required +the mayre and sheryves that he ne his men shuld not pas the town, but +that they shuld do as it longed to here parte to do, and told hem the +cause why; and as it is seyd the sergeantis were fals, and lete hym have +knowleche ther of, and he hythid hym hens in hast, &c. The blyssyd +Trynyte have yow in His keping. Wreten att Norwyche on the Weddenesday +next after Seynt Martyn. +<span class = "signature">Be yowris,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note210_1" id = "note210_1" href = +"#tag210_1">210.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 33,597, f. 2.] The year in +which this letter was written is altogether uncertain.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter621" id = "letter621">621</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract"> +The letter of John Payn to John Paston (No. 126 in vol. ii.), which, on +account of the circumstances to which it refers, we have placed in the +year 1450, was written, as appears by the contents, fifteen years later, +<i>i.e.</i> in 1465. We therefore call the reader’s attention to it in +this place.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter622" id = "letter622">622</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">FUNERAL OF LADY KATHARINE HOWARD<a class = "tag" +name = "tag211_1" id = "tag211_1" href = +"#note211_1">211.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1465</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">This</span> wrytenge, made at Stokeneylond the +v<sup>th</sup> yer of Kynge Edward the iiii<sup>th</sup> and the morowe +next affter Sowlemesse day, wytnesseth that this day and yer a bove said +my lady, dame Kateren Howard, departed to God, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page212" id = "page212">212</a></span> +and my master spent uppon her at this day a bove wreten at her beryinge, +and also at her vij<sup>th</sup> day, more than +<span class = "sum">xx<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<table class = "money plain"> +<tr> +<td> +<p>Also my master spent uppon her at her xxx<sup>ti</sup> day, in +almesse and in odre costes, in primis to v.<span class = +"smallroman">M</span><sup>l</sup>. and ccc. of pore folke every pece +takenge i<i>d.</i> +<span class = "sum">Summa</span></p></td> +<td class = "number">xxij<i>li.</i> v<i>s.</i></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master gaff to vi<sup>xx</sup>ix. prestes and clerkes +every pece vj<i>d.</i> +<span class = "sum">Summa</span></p></td> +<td class = "number">iij<i>li.</i> iiij<i>s.</i> vj<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master gaff to lxviii. cheldren in the quere every pece +ii<i>d.</i> +<span class = "sum">Summa</span></p></td> +<td class = "number">x<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master paid for blakke cloth for gownes for his men +vij<sup>xx</sup> yerdes prise of every yerde iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> +<span class = "sum">Summa</span></p></td> +<td class = "number">xxj<i>li.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master bout as myche waxe for torches and taprys as cost +hym</p></td> +<td class = "number">viij. markis. iij<i>s.</i> ij<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master paid for xiij. pore mennes gownes for the clothe +and for the makengs</p></td> +<td class = "number">lij<i>s.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent in all maner of spyces as myche as +drew</p></td> +<td class = "number">liij<i>s.</i> xj<i>d.</i></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent in wyne at the said day</p></td> +<td class = "number">iij. pypes.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent in maltt for brewenge</p></td> +<td class = "number">viij. seme.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent in bere at the same day</p></td> +<td class = "number">xxxij. barelles.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent in whete to make brede and odre +bakenge</p></td> +<td class = "number">xiij. seme.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, my master spent at the said day in brawne</p></td> +<td class = "number">ij. gret bores.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in beff</p></td> +<td class = "number">xij. gret oxsen.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in moton</p></td> +<td class = "number">xl. shepe.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in porke</p></td> +<td class = "number">xij. hogges.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in pygges</p></td> +<td class = "number">lxx.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in swannes</p></td> +<td class = "number">xij.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in geese</p></td> +<td class = "number">iiij<sup>xx</sup>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in conyis</p></td> +<td class = "number">c. cowple.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in capons</p></td> +<td class = "number">xxiiij.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in chekens</p></td> +<td class = "number">vij<sup>xx</sup>.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in venyson</p></td> +<td class = "number">xxx. dois.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page213" id = "page213">213</a></span> +<p>Item, in pertryches</p></td> +<td class = "number">iiij. doseyn.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in fesauntis</p></td> +<td class = "number">xiv.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in pekokkes</p></td> +<td class = "number">vij.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in mallardes</p></td> +<td class = "number">iij. doseyn.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in plovers</p></td> +<td class = "number">iij. doseyn.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in eggis</p></td> +<td class = "number">viij. C.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in mylke</p></td> +<td class = "number">xxx. galons.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Item, in hony</p></td> +<td class = "number">iij. galons.</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note211_1" id = "note211_1" href = +"#tag211_1">211.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 38.] ‘Soulmas,’ +or All Souls’ Day, is the 2nd November, and it appears that Lady +Katharine died on the morrow of that day in 1465. As these expenses run +into December, we place them at the end of the year.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter623" id = "letter623">623</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGER<a +class = "tag" name = "tag213_1" id = "tag213_1" href = +"#note213_1">213.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To John Paston the younger.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Before 1466</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I grete</span> you wele, letyng you wete +that as for<a class = "tag" name = "tag213_2" id = "tag213_2" href = +"#note213_2">213.2</a> your sustrys<a class = "tag" name = "tag213_3" id += "tag213_3" href = "#note213_3">213.3</a> beyng with my Lady, if your +fader wull aggrey therto I hold me right wele pleasyd; for I wuld be +right clad that she shuld do her servyse be for any other, if she cowde +do that shuld pleas my ladyes good grace. Wherfor I wuld that ye shuld +speke to your fader therof and lete hym wete that I am pleasid that she +shuld be ther if he wuld, for I wuld be right glad and she myght be +preferrid by mariage or be servyce, so that it myght be to her wurchep +and profight in dischargyng of her frendis; and I pray you do your parte +therin for your owyn wurchep and herys. And assone as ye may with ought +daunger, purvey that I may have ageyn the vj. marks that ye wote of, for +I wuld not that your fader wust it. Item, if ye pas London, send me +ageyn my chene and the litill chene that I lent you be for, be sum +trusty person; and if ye wull have my good wille, eschewe such thyngis +as I spake to you of last +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page214" id = "page214">214</a></span> +in owr parisch chirch. I pray God make you as good a man as ever +was any of your kynne, and Goddis blissyng mote ye have and myn, so that +ye do wele, &c. Wretyn the Sonday next after your departyng.</p> + +<p>And I pray you, send me sum tydyngis as sone as ye may after that ye +be comyn to London, how your fader spedyth and your brother in here +materes. +<span class = "signature">Be your moder.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note213_1" id = "note213_1" href = +"#tag213_1">213.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 208.] This letter +was written at a time when John Paston, the writer’s husband, and one of +his sons, was in London, while the other, to whom this letter is +addressed, was going thither. The date must therefore be before May +1466, but what particular year or month it is impossible to say.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note213_2" id = "note213_2" href = +"#tag213_2">213.2</a> +‘affor,’ <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note213_3" id = "note213_3" href = +"#tag213_3">213.3</a> +This may be either Anne or Margery Paston. Who ‘my lady’ was does not +appear.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter624" id = "letter624">624</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RADCLIFF OF ATTLEBOROUGH TO JOHN PASTON<a +class = "tag" name = "tag214_1" id = "tag214_1" href = +"#note214_1">214.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght trusty and welbelovyd Frend, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rygth</span> trusty and welbelovid, I cummaund +me un to zow, lattyng zow wytte that there ys a tenawnt off Thyrnyng, on +[<i>one</i>] Wyllyam Rust, whos dur ys selyd be a offycer off zowrys. +Wherffor I pray zow that ze wyll se that the forsay tenawnt be not hurt; +and yff there be oni thyng that ys dw for to pay, I wyll se that +hyt schall be content. And therfore I pray zow that hyt may be repytyd +un tyll the tyme that I speke with zow. No more at thys tyme, but the +Hole Trinite hawe zow in kepyng. Wretyn at Attylburgth the xvij. day off +Dyssembyre. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Radclyff De +Attylburgth.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note214_1" id = "note214_1" href = +"#tag214_1">214.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 223.] The +principal lordship in the manor of Thurning belonged to the Radcliff, or +Ratcliff, family, afterwards Earls of Sussex; but it seems there was +another lordship which belonged to John de Mauteby in the ninth year of +Edward <span class = "smallroman">II.</span> From this very likely +Margaret Paston derived some claims, and John Paston through his wife. +<i>See</i> <a href = "#letter634">No. 634</a>. The year of this letter, +however, cannot be ascertained.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page215" id = "page215">215</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter625" id = "letter625">625</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN FELBRIGGE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag215_1" id = "tag215_1" href = +"#note215_1">215.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my Cosyn Paston, be thys letter delyverd yn haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +[20]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> reverent and worshyppeful cosyn, +y comawnd me on to you, desyryng to her off your welfare, the whyche +Almyghty Jesu preserve to Hys plesawns, and to your own herts desyres. +Forthermore and yff yt please your gentylnesse to be my trusty frend, as +my ful truste ys yn you, as for swyche materys as the brynger off this +lettre shall enforme you, and beth effectualy my frend, and brynge yt +abowte, and by my trowthe y shall geve you an C. marke for your labowr. +For yn trowthe y am aferde that Roberd Radclyff hathe deseyvyd me, for +he laboryd to me dayly by my Lords comawndement off Warwyk, and brought +with hym Yllyngworthe and oder off my Lords cownsel, and seen my +evydens; and so we stoden uppon apoyntement, and y for to have had an +unswere sent to Felbrygge Halle, and yff ne had be for ffendyng off my +Lords lordschyppe, y myght have had my money for my ryght or y cam +owt off London, as my man schall enforme you. For yn trowthe y muste now +make an schiffte, for Wyndham hathe sold hys ryght, and rathere than yt +schuld go that way to, y had lever my Lord had yt ij. C. marke with +yn the pryse that y grawnt yt laste, and therfor y be scheche you to +labowr to my Lord that y may have an unswer. And thies many townes +longithe thereto, Felbrygge, Aylinton, Ronton, Colby, Bannyngham, +Ingworthe, Styrston, besyde hamelets.</p> + +<p>No mor to you at this tyme, but the Holy Trinyte have +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page216" id = "page216">216</a></span> +you yn His kepyng. Wryten at Felbrygg, the Monday affor Seynt Augnetes +Day.<a class = "tag" name = "tag216_1" id = "tag216_1" href = +"#note216_1">216.1</a> +<span class = "signature">By your cosyn,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Felbrygge.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note215_1" id = "note215_1" href = +"#tag215_1">215.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 242.] The date of this letter cannot be ascertained with +very great precision; but as it belongs most probably to about the same +period as <a href = "#letter619">Letter 619</a>, which we have referred +to November 1465, we may assign this to the January following.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note216_1" id = "note216_1" href = +"#tag216_1">216.1</a> +The modern version in Fenn reads ‘the Monday <i>after</i> Saint Agnes’s +Day,’ and the date subjoined at the bottom of the page is in accordance +with this reading. But it is more likely the text as printed in the old +spelling is correct. St. Agnes’ Day is the 21st January. The Monday +before it would have been the 20th in 1466.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter626" id = "letter626">626</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN WYKES TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag216_2" id = "tag216_2" href = +"#note216_2">216.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Un to the ryght wyrshypfull mayster, Sir John Paston, Knygt, be thys +letter <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘delyverya’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">delyveryd</ins>.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. +17</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> wyrshypfull and my especyall gode +mayster, I recomaund me unto your gode maystershyp, letyng you wyte that +the berour herof told me that ye had grete mervyll that I send to you no +word ne letter of awnswer of the letters that ye had send to me to +London. As for on letter ye send to me by Rychard Playtorys man, and +therof I send you an awnswer in a letter by a man of the Prior of +Bromholm; and as for other letters, ther com no more to me but that +on.</p> + +<p>Item, Mayster Flemmyng lokyth dayly for hys hors, and at every tyme +that I mete with hym, he askyth of me when hys hors shuld com, and when +I here any word from you. Wherfore I pray you send me word in a letter +how he shall be awnswerd, and yf the hors shall com, lette me knowe +when; for and he had not trustyd theruppon, he wold have purveyd hym in +a nother place, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, John Oter ys not yet payd, but as I suppose it shall +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page217" id = "page217">217</a></span> +not be long to tyll he have it, for he hath spoken to my mayster your +fader a yer therfor; and as for Gylmyn, he hath not spoken to my mayster +as yet, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, I truste he wylbe your gode fader, for John Say hath told hym +playnly of hys demenyng ayenst you, and told hym that he had the lasse +favour for your sake, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, the Erle of Arundell ys<a class = "tag" name = "tag217_1" id = +"tag217_1" href = "#note217_1">217.1</a> son hath weddyd the Quyne ys +suster.</p> + +<p>Item, the Lord Lovell ys son<a class = "tag" name = "tag217_2" id = +"tag217_2" href = "#note217_2">217.2</a> hath weddyd my Lady Fytzhugh ys +doghter, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, Jenney desyryth a trety with my mayster, and spake to my +mayster therof hym sylf in Westminster Hall.</p> + +<p>Item, all felaws in the Kyngs hows fareid well, and wold have you +ther.</p> + +<p>No more to you at thys tyme, but the Holy Trynyte have you [in] +kepyng. Wryten at London, the Monday next after Seynt Volentyn. +<span class = "signature">Your servant,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Wykys.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note216_2" id = "note216_2" href = +"#tag216_2">216.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 246.] As this letter was written after Edward <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span>’s marriage, and before the death of John +Paston the father, the date must be either 1465 or 1466. Fenn assigns it +to the latter year, and I think he is right, though he does not state +his reasons. I find that John, Lord Lovel, died on the 9th January +1465, leaving his son and heir, Francis, only nine years old, so that +even if we date this letter 1466, the young lad was married at the early +age of ten. This was probably owing to his wardship having been obtained +by Lord Fitzhugh, or some person interested; but as the inquisition on +his father’s death (<i>Inq. p. m.</i>, 4 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>, No. 27) was not taken till October 1465, +there seems no ground for believing that he could have been forced into +wedlock a month after he was left an orphan.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note217_1" id = "note217_1" href = +"#tag217_1">217.1</a> +Thomas Fitz Alan, Lord Maltravers, eldest son of William Fitz Alan, Earl +of Arundel, married Margaret, second daughter of Richard Widville, Earl +Rivers, and sister to Elizabeth, Queen of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> He succeeded his father as Earl of Arundel in +1487, 3 Hen. <span class = "smallroman">VII.</span>, and died in +1524, 16 Hen. <span class = "smallroman">VIII.</span>—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note217_2" id = "note217_2" href = +"#tag217_2">217.2</a> +Francis Lovel, son and heir to John, Lord Lovel, married Anne, daughter +of Henry, Lord Fitz Hugh. It is curious that she is here called ‘Lady +Fitz Hugh’s daughter,’ when her father was alive.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">be thys letter delyveryd.</span><br> +text has “delyverya” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter627" id = "letter627">627</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">CLEMENT PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag217_3" id = "tag217_3" href = +"#note217_3">217.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To hys rythe worchypfwll mayster, John Paston, Sqwyer.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rythe</span> worchypfwll broder, I recomawnde +me to zow. And as for zour letter to my Lorde Chawnceler I have not +delyveryd it; for I askyd avysse there in, and I was aunsweryd there in +that sythen he was takyn to baylle, the Chawncelerer<a class = "tag" +name = "tag217_4" id = "tag217_4" href = "#note217_4">217.4</a> cowde +not compelle the swertes to bryng hym in +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page218" id = "page218">218</a></span> +befor hys day. Also me thowte zour letter was not most plesauntly wrytyn +to take to swyche a lorde. And as for the tresorer, hys name is Sir John +Fooge, but he is not in London nor wythe the Kyng, so I kan [not] have +the letter sent hym but if I hyeryd a man to bere it. And as for zour +question of the patentes, Grenfeld and Catesby and Sterkey holdyn it a +good question, for the statute is, <i>Patentes dez tenements dount null +titill est trouve pur le roy de recorde sount voydez</i>, anno xviij. H. +<span class = "smallroman">VI.</span> ca. vj. But I trowe in zour cas +that be ther opiniounis the Acte of the Parlement is a tytyll of +recorde. It is said to the contrary intent, thow the londs be forfetyd +of record, yet ther is no certificacion of recorde qwat londes they be, +nor wer [<i>where</i>] nor in qwat place they lye; but and thys clawse +be in the patents, <i>Non obstante quod nulla inquisicio pro nobis inde +est inventa</i>, by Grenfelde is consayle the patents xwld be clerly +goode. But me semythe that amendyt not the mater, for be for the makyng +of the statute above sayde, patents graunttyd of londs be fore +inquisicion were goode and effectuell and the statute is +generall:—<i>Patents dount null tytill, &c. sount voydez</i>. +Thanne it folowyt well if the Acte of Parlement be no tytyll for the +Kyng thann is ther no tytyll for the Kyng of recorde, for that clawse in +the patente is no tytyll; than if ther [be] no tytyll, ergo the patents +voyde.</p> + +<p>My suster<a class = "tag" name = "tag218_1" id = "tag218_1" href = +"#note218_1">218.1</a> standythe in the same casse with my Lord of +Kent.</p> + +<p>Broder, I pray zow send mor mony for my nevew John, for he mwst ellys +com hom azen; for the Kyng gothe into Scotlonde, and he is nowther +horsyd nor harneysyd, for his grett hors is lykly to dye; and if ze wyll +sende it to me or to Christofyr Hanyngton it xall be save for hym. +I send zow a letter from hym closyde herin. And I pray spek to my +moder that my hors faylle not on Passyon Swnday,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag218_2" id = "tag218_2" href = "#note218_2">218.2</a> for thann xall +I be redy and thanne xall ower redyng be don. Wrytyn on Twesday nexst +after Seynt Gregory is Day. +<span class = "signature">Zowr broder,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Clement Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>On the back.</i>—The man wold not tak my letter but I wass +fayen to gyve hym <ins class = "correction" +title = "printed in roman (non-italic) type">ij<i>d.</i></ins> +for the beryng.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note217_3" id = "note217_3" href = +"#tag217_3">217.3</a> +[From Paston Letters, B.M.] The reference to the dispute between +Elizabeth Poynings and the Earl of Kent, which is alluded to in a +subsequent letter, proves this letter to have been written in the year +1466. The earl in question was only so created on the 3rd of May 1465, +and John Paston, to whom the letter is addressed, died in May 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note217_4" id = "note217_4" href = +"#tag217_4">217.4</a> +So in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note218_1" id = "note218_1" href = +"#tag218_1">218.1</a> +Elizabeth, widow of Robert Poynings.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note218_2" id = "note218_2" href = +"#tag218_2">218.2</a> +23rd March.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">I wass fayen to gyve hym ij<i>d.</i> for the +beryng.</span><br> +“d.” printed in roman (non-italic) type</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page219" id = "page219">219</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter628" id = "letter628">628</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">FRIAR JOHN MOWTH TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag219_1" id = "tag219_1" href = +"#note219_1">219.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my worchepful mayster, John Paston the holdest, be this letter +delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 12</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> reverent and worchepful sire, I +hartyly recomende me on to your reverens, thankyng yow for the gret cher +and comfortabyll words that ye yovyn on to me wat tyme that I was last +yn yowr presens; desyryng ful specyaly of Almity God, owt of al your +wordly tribulacyonys and adversyte, gracyowus delyverans, and yn al +vertuows prosperite, good encres and contynuans. If yt like your +maysterchep to know the cause of this wrytyng, it ys thys; it is nowth +unknow<a class = "tag" name = "tag219_2" id = "tag219_2" href = +"#note219_2">219.2</a> on to yow that Mayster Brakle (Cryst rest hys +sowle!), delyveryd to Wyllam Paston, your broder, certayn oblygacyonys, +of the weche the dute xuld grow to my convent yn Norwyche. I have +spoke on to Wyllam Paston her of, and he excuseth hym and seyth on this +wyse; that be the wyl of Mayster Brakle, wat tyme that Sire Tomas +Todenham,<a class = "tag" name = "tag219_3" id = "tag219_3" href = +"#note219_3">219.3</a> Knyth, xuld be put on to hys deth, he delyveryd +hem on to hys confessor; the weche, as he seth, xuld a be Grey fryer, +hows name he knowyth nowt; also he seyth that after the deth of the +forseyd Knyt, he spake with the Fryer, confessor on to the Knyth, and +hasked hym aftyr the forseyd oblygacyonys, and as he seyth, the Fryer +seyd on to hym that he had delyveryd hem on to [the] Knyth Marchall. +Werfor I beseche you, as specyaly as I may, that, now wyl your broder is +at London, that ye of your grace wyl know the trowthe in this mater, for +the comfort of the dede, and profyth of my +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page220" id = "page220">220</a></span> +convent. Nomor at this tyme, but that I be seche Almyty God in Trinyte +conserve your, and kepe yow in all vertuows prosperite. Amen.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Heylysdon in gret hast, the xij. day of May, in your maner +aftyr mete. The cause wy the mayster delyveryd hem to hym mor than to +yow, was, as he seyd on to me, for as meche as ye had so many maters yn +hand for yowr self, and also for the dede, that he durst not attempt yow +with all; and al so be cause he had lesse for to do hys hope was that he +xuld asped yt mor redyly.</p> + +<p>Fr[e]re Willam Thorp dwellyng at Salisbury. +<span class = "signature">By yowr pore orator and bedman,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Frier Jan Mowth.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note219_1" id = "note219_1" href = +"#tag219_1">219.1</a> +[From Fenn, i. 256.] Friar Brackley, who is here mentioned as dead, is +spoken of in John Paston’s deposition of December 1465, without any +indication that he was at that time deceased (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter606">No. 606</a>). We may presume, therefore, that he died +between that time and May 1466, in which month and year died John +Paston, to whom this letter is addressed.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note219_2" id = "note219_2" href = +"#tag219_2">219.2</a> +<i>Nowth unknow.</i> I believe this to be the true reading of the +original <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Fenn prints it ‘nowthn +know.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note219_3" id = "note219_3" href = +"#tag219_3">219.3</a> +He was beheaded on Tower Hill in February 1462.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter629" id = "letter629">629</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag220_1" id = "tag220_1" href = +"#note220_1">220.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. 13 +(?)</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I grete</span> you wele and send you +Goddis blissyng and myn; letyng you wete that I send you be the berer +herof xl<i>li.</i> of Ryall which I have chevysshed and borwed for you, +be cause I wuld not take that was leyd ought for you at Norwich; for, as +I am enformed be Mayster John Smyth, the Chaunceller, and other that we +ben all a cursed that we have thus mynystred the dedis godes with ought +licence or auctorite, and I wene we spede all the wers there fore. At +the reverence of God, gete you a licens of my Lord of Caunterbery in +dyschargyng of my conscyens and yowris, to mynystre a certeyn summe of +iij. or iiij<sup>c</sup> marcs, enfourmyng hym how that your lyffelod +hath stond this ij. yer in such trobill that ye myght right nought have +of it, ner yet can take of it with ought ye shuld hurt your tenauntis, +thei have so ben vexid be on trew meanes before this tymes, And ye have +many grete +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page221" id = "page221">221</a></span> +materis on hand and may not have to bere them ought, ner to save your +ryght, withaught ye myght for a tyme takyn of your faderis godes. And +this I hope shall discharge owr conscyens of that we have mynystred and +spend be fore. For we have nomor to acquite this xl<i>li.</i> and bere +all other charges but the xlvii<i>li.</i> that your unkyll and ye is +privy to, that was leyd up at Norwich. I wuld ye were ware of large +theftis and rewardis gevyng, as otheris folkis avyse you to do, for +though ye have nede thei wull not be right redy to help you of ther +owyn; and that ye may understand be that that thei have taken a wey from +you be for this tyme. I wuld not in no wyse ye shuld put your self +in no daunger to hym but as litill as ye may; for if ye do, it shall be +right wele remembred you her after. And be ware how ye ben bownd in any +obligacion to any creature but if it be leyd in endifferent handis and +trosty for yowr part. And remembre to gete the obligacion that ye mad to +the Duchesse of Suffolk; for though it be in my Lord Chancelleris hande +it is jepartows, be cause of perell of deth. Item, understand wele the +poyntis that ben in my cosyn Arblasteris letter that arn wretyn in +yowrs, and purvey redily ther for for your owyn a vayll. Item, send me +home answeris of sueche materis as arn now sent you bethen (<i>sic</i>) +mowth and wrytyng at this tyme as hastly as ye can, or ells it shall +hurt yow mor than ye or I can yet understand. Item, me semyth, if ye +shall not comyn home this Crystmesse, or if ye shuld be at my Lady of +Suffolk, it [were<a class = "tag" name = "tag221_1" id = "tag221_1" href += "#note221_1">221.1</a>] necessary to have Playter there with you if ye +shuld engroos any appoyntementis with here at that tyme. For she is +sotill and hath sotill councell with here; and therfore it were wele do +ye shuld have summe with you that shuld be of your councell. If John +Paston be with you at London desire hym to take hede to yowris materis +and in what case thei ben left at your departyng, that if nede be he may +help you to labore for such causes as Wykes shall telle yow be mowth; +and if he be not with yow, and ye wull I shall send hym to you. Item, +spare of<a class = "tag" name = "tag221_2" id = "tag221_2" href = +"#note221_2">221.2</a> the xl<i>li.</i> as mych as ye may that ye may +perfourme by the mony that the Duchesse of Suffolk shuld have, in cas +that it may not be gadered of the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page222" id = "page222">222</a></span> +lyvelode. Send home Wykes a sone as ye can, and how ye will that I do in +your materis and lyvelode at home. God have you in His kepyng. Wretyn +the Thursday next Sent Martyn. +<span class = "signature">Be your Moder.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note220_1" id = "note220_1" href = +"#tag220_1">220.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 99.] This letter +was written before administration had been obtained of John Paston’s +will; presumably therefore in the year in which he died, 1466. It may be +observed, likewise, that in 1467 ‘my lord of Canterbury’ would probably +have been called ‘my lord Cardinal.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note221_1" id = "note221_1" href = +"#tag221_1">221.1</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note221_2" id = "note221_2" href = +"#tag221_2">221.2</a> +<i>of</i> repeated in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter630" id = "letter630">630</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag222_1" id = "tag222_1" href = +"#note222_1">222.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right wurchipfull husbond, John Paston, be this deliverd in +hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Year uncertain<br><span class = +"sidetext">NOV.</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchepfull husbonde, I recomande +me to yow. Plesyth yow to weet that Thomas Grene was with me as on +Saterday last paste, and let me have knowlage that the scherre schold be +as thys day at the Gyld Hall in Norwyche, and <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘be’">he</ins> desyiryd me that the swte that ye have +ageyns Thomas Jeryng and othyr myth be sesyd as for thys schere; and I +seyd that I durste do ryth not there in. And he tolde me that Thomas +Jeryng was with yow in Flegge the laste tyme that ye wer ther, and ye +seyd to hym that he scholde not be hurte by the swte. And Thomas Grene +told me that if the seyd Jeryng and othyrs in the same wryte mad not an +end with yow by the nexte schere, the whyche schall be thys day monyth, +that he the seyd Thomas Grene wole purchese a new wryte of hys owne +coste ayens that daye. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page223" id = "page223">223</a></span> +I woste not that the scher shuld be so sone when I wrote to yow +yowyr laste lettyr. And he remembyryd the trobulus werd [<i>world</i>] +that is nowe, and also that they wer nowtye felawys that ye suyd, and +ther fore he thowte that it war best to let it be respyte at thys tyme, +and so they schall be respyth at thys tyme. I have sent to Jaferay +Spyrlyng for the bokys that ye sent to me fore, and he seyth that he +hathe none there of, for he seyth he lefte hem with yow when he was with +yow in the Northe contre; for he seyth ye left hym behynd yow at +Lynkcolne. He supposyth they be at Kaster.</p> + +<p>Item, my cosyn Crane recomandyth hyr to yow, and prayith yow that ye +wole wychesave to spek to Jamys Gresham for to swe ferthe the mater +betwyx Dame Margaret Spurdans and hyr; and sche prayith yow at the +reverens of God that ye wole tendyr that mater well, for all hyr troste +is in yow.</p> + +<p>Item, the tenauntys at Sweynysthorp prayid me for to wryte to yow for +to pray yow for Goddys sake that ye wole help for to get hem a good baly +of the hundyryd that they be in; for they sey that they have be gretly +hurte by swyche offyserys as they have had ther be fore tyme. Folk wold +fayne in thys contre that Heydon scholde be purveyd for, that he goo not +so at large as he dothe, for he is in thys towne nere every wek, and +hathe be ever syne ye yd hens. And also it is seyd in thys towne that ye +have be good maister thys terme to Yatys, and many be ryth sory ther of, +and that he dothe so well as it [is] seyd here that he dothe. It is seyd +that he is scapyd all dangerys, and he hathe tak new accionys ageyns hys +neyborys, as it is seyd. Othyr tydyngys have we none here but that ye +have more pleynly there. And the Blyssyd Trinyte have yow in Hys kepyng, +and send yow good sped in all yowyr materys. Wretyn in haste at Norwyche +the Monday next be fore Seynt Edmunde the Kynge. +<span class = "signature">Be yowyr,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +My modyr wold ryth fayne know how that ye and my brodyr Wyllam wer +acordyd, sche wold ryth fayne that all wer well betwene yow.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note222_1" id = "note222_1" href = +"#tag222_1">222.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] I find no +very satisfactory evidence touching the date of this letter. Allusion is +made to John Paston having been at Lincoln. The occasion referred to +might have been in 1458, when, as we know by No. 373, he went into the North as far as +Doncaster; or it may have been in the spring of 1461. (<i>See</i> Nos. +452 and 458.) It is not probable, however, that this letter was earlier +than the latter date, as there is no appearance at that time of any +dispute having arisen between John Paston and his brother William. On +the contrary, William Paston is in correspondence with his brother in +April 1461 (No. 450). On the other hand, +if the occasion referred to when John Paston was at Lincoln was in the +spring of 1461, this letter could hardly have been written in the same +year; for it cannot be supposed that he left books at Caister on his +return south, when Caister was in the possession of the Duke of Norfolk. +The date, however, being so uncertain, I prefer to place this +letter at the end of John Paston’s correspondence rather than assign it +doubtfully to any particular year.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">and he desyiryd me that the swte that ye +have</span><br> +text has “be desyiryd me”</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page224" id = "page224">224</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter631" id = "letter631">631</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">B. D. M. S. TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" name += "tag224_1" id = "tag224_1" href = "#note224_1">224.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Be this delyvered to Mastyr John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recomaunde</span> me unto you as +unknowyn. And as for the wryting I send unto you, the cause why yt was +nate endossed was, for the berer ther of knew yow wel i now. And as for +youre Cossyn Mary, she ys no longer with us, as a pon Seynt Mathewys +Evyn she departyd from me, and went to Awdry Croxeston, and she told me +that ye wold pay for her borde ther. But on thyng I let you know; she +hathe demenyd her ful symply bothe for youre worship and also for her +awne. Ther ys but few within oure plasse but they know how yt is with +her, and al by her awne bessynes of her tunge. And I had knowyn as myche +at the begynnyng as I have don sythe, I wold not have delt in the +mater nat for xl. pound; for I wys she ys no thyng so sadde as I wold +she wer.</p> + +<p>No more to you at thys tyme, but the Holy Gost have you in His +kepyng, and send you youre hertys esse. I pray you hertly that I +may sp[e]ke with you. +<span class = "signature">B. D. M. S.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note224_1" id = "note224_1" href = +"#tag224_1">224.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 262.] There is no evidence of the date either of this or +of the four following letters beyond the fact that this and the two next +are addressed to John Paston, while the two last are addressed to +Margaret Paston during her husband’s life. None of them, therefore, can +be later than 1466.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter632" id = "letter632">632</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag224_2" id = +"tag224_2" href = "#note224_2">224.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Richard Suthwell to John Paston, +Esquire.</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Thanks him for speaking to the Mayor and Recorder for the appearance +of certain persons at this last session, as he wrote from Walsingham. +Thomas Wolvesby and Colyns make great labor for the poor men’s undoing. +Begs him to move the Mayor to have pity, considering their trouble at +Walsingham, when they were prisoners.</p> + +<p>Thetford, Shere-Thursday.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note224_2" id = "note224_2" href = +"#tag224_2">224.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page225" id = "page225">225</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter633" id = "letter633">633</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag225_1" id = +"tag225_1" href = "#note225_1">225.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">John Paston, Junior, to his Father, John +Paston</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Has spoken ‘with Warwyk and Stwkle’ for the place and lands in +Arleham. Declined their offer of 6<i>d.</i> an acre, they keeping the +place in repair; but Stwkle has promised all the lands shall be purveyed +for, as for this year. Warwyk this day offered my mother 7<i>d.</i> an +acre for the lands in Arleham, but I counselled her to hold out for a +longer term. Kook will no longer hold the place for 7<i>d.</i> or +8<i>d.</i> an acre, and will only give 6<i>d.</i>, if he is to keep it +in repair. Has spoken with Dame Alice Weche and Geoffrey Spyrlyng, who +have agreed to set a tenant to occupy the lands in dispute till Paston +comes home.</p> + +<p>St. Martin’s Even.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note225_1" id = "note225_1" href = +"#tag225_1">225.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter634" id = "letter634">634</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag225_2" id = +"tag225_2" href = "#note225_2">225.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Thomas Gnatyshale to Mrs. Paston</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>I hope the young man I sent will please ‘my master and you.’ +I hope you will not receive him at this time, and when my master +comes home refuse him. As for your lands at Sparham, there are not many +lands to let. Has inquired at Salle. Master Edward<a class = "tag" name += "tag225_3" id = "tag225_3" href = "#note225_3">225.3</a> is clearly +answered of £18 a year and 7<i>s.</i> or 8<i>s.</i> more. Bryston, +Thyrnyng, and Owleton are let, which belong to the manor of Salle. So he +is clearly answered twice a year at London, besides the fees, viz., of +the receiver 26<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i>, of the steward 20<i>d.</i>, and of +the bailliff 26<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Sparham, Wednesday before Ascension.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note225_2" id = "note225_2" href = +"#tag225_2">225.2</a> +<i>Ibid.</i></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note225_3" id = "note225_3" href = +"#tag225_3">225.3</a> +Probably Edward, son of Robert Mauteby. He was Margaret Paston’s +uncle.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter635" id = "letter635">635</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag225_4" id = +"tag225_4" href = "#note225_4">225.4</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">T. Gnatyshale to Mrs. Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +James and Robert Radclef mean to take away my goods, and I shall be +taken if I be at Norwich at next shire. Pray let my master know. +I suppose +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page226" id = "page226">226</a></span> +it was by their commandment that my two neat were taken on Saturday last +at Lyng, ‘for one that is under bailly of Richmond took hem.’ John +Everyton will tell you more. The receipts of the manor of Sparham with +costs are £10, 3<i>s.</i> 11½<i>d.</i> If any man of yours come to +Norwich please send me your advice. +<span class = "signature">(Signed) ‘<span class = "smallcaps">T. +Gnat.</span>’</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note225_4" id = "note225_4" href = +"#tag225_4">225.4</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter636" id = "letter636">636</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag226_1" id = +"tag226_1" href = "#note226_1">226.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">James Arblaster to John Paston, +[Squire]</span><a class = "tag" name = "tag226_2" id = "tag226_2" href = +"#note226_2">226.2</a></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +John à Berney of Wychyngham wishes to disinherit him of his liberty of +faldage in Colyette. Desires the help of one of Paston’s men. As for my +Lady of Oxford, ‘I have get you a trusty man against Tuesday or +Wednesday next.’</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[There is no distinct evidence of the date of this letter, except that +it is probably not later than 1466, when John Paston died, though it may +have been addressed to his younger son John. Compare Nos. 232, 233, and +234, in vol. ii.]</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note226_1" id = "note226_1" href = +"#tag226_1">226.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note226_2" id = "note226_2" href = +"#tag226_2">226.2</a> +This designation is added on the address, but is struck out.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter637" id = "letter637">637</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON’S FUNERAL<a class = "tag" name = +"tag226_3" id = "tag226_3" href = "#note226_3">226.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +Expences paid by Gloys at Norwich the day the Cors was ther and +befor.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Fyrste</span>. The iiii. orders of fryers, +viii<i>l.</i> Item, almesse, ii<i>s.</i> vii<i>d.</i> Item, to xxiii. +susters of Normandys,<a class = "tag" name = "tag226_4" id = "tag226_4" +href = "#note226_4">226.4</a> with the gardian eche of them, +iiii<i>d.</i>, and the gardian, viii<i>d.</i>—viii<i>s.</i> Item, +in offering on Pentecost Tuesday<a class = "tag" name = "tag226_5" id = +"tag226_5" href = "#note226_5">226.5</a> for my master, i<i>d.</i>; for +the herse, xl<i>s.</i> For xxiiii. yerdes of brod wythtys for gowns, +xxvii<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i>; for dyeng of the same, iiii<i>s.</i> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page227" id = "page227">227</a></span> +For settyng on the tents, vi<i>d.</i> For xxii. yerdes and iii. quarters +of brod wythts, xxxiiii<i>s.</i> iii<i>d.</i> For grownedyng, +iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> For dyeng, iiii<i>s.</i> To xxxviii. prests +at the dyryge at Norwyche, when the cors lay ther, xii<i>s.</i> +viii<i>d.</i> To xxxix. schyldern with surplyces within the schurche and +without, iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> To xxvi. clerks with iiii. kepers of +the torches, eche of them ii<i>d.</i>, iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> To the +clerks of St. Peters and St. Stevens for the ryngers ageyn the cors, +ii<i>s.</i> To the iiii. orders of fryers that rede ageyn the +cors——. To the Prioress of Carow, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> +To a maide that came with her, xx<i>d.</i> To the ancors +[<i>anchoress ?</i>] xl<i>d.</i> In almesse, xv<i>s.</i> To a woman +that came from London with the cors to Norwyche, vi<i>s.</i> +viii[<i>d</i>].</p> + +<h5>Payments be Gloys and Calle at Bromholme.</h5> + +<p>Fyrste. To the Prior, be my masters bequest, xl<i>s.</i> To ix. +monks, eche of them vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i>, iii<i>l.</i> To an other +monke, who was of the same place, xx<i>d.</i> For brinnyng of the Abbes +with the torches, xx<i>d.</i> To the Priors boteler for bred, +ii<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> For wasshyng of napry, xii<i>d.</i> To the +boteler for hys reward, xx<i>d.</i> To the baker for cccx. eggs, +xix<i>d.</i> To hym for hys reward, iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> To +xxviii. bedds with —— of clothys, and wasshyng of the same, +v<i>s.</i> To ii. men that fyllyd the grave, viii<i>d.</i> To brueng of +v. kome malte, xx<i>d.</i> For ix. pownd candyl, xi<i>d.</i> To the +clerks of Bromholm, viii<i>d.</i> For viii. peces of peuter lost of the +Priors, xx<i>d.</i> Geven among the men of the bakhouse, xx<i>d.</i> To +the parisshe schyrche of Bromholm, x<i>s.</i> To xii. schyrchys, +l<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> To the prest that cam with the cors from +London, iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> To servytors that awaytyd upon hym by +the komawndment of W. Paston, xxi<i>d.</i> To Playters for hys +offering, iiii<i>d.</i> To the vyker of Upton, ii<i>s.</i> To the sexton +of Bromholm for xxii. crossys geven to Marget and Modeley, <i>per</i> +John Paston, iiii<i>s.</i> vi<i>d.</i> To xiiii. rynggars, vii<i>s.</i> +To xxiiii. servertors, eche of them iiii<i>d.</i>, viii<i>s.</i> To lxx. +servertors, eche of them iii<i>d.</i>, xvii<i>s.</i> vi<i>d.</i> Paid to +Dawbeny for servertors, vii<i>s.</i> For fyshh the day after the +enterment, vi<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> For vi. barells bere, xii<i>s.</i> For +a roundlet of red wine of xv. gallonys, &c., xii<i>s.</i> +xi<i>d.</i> To +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page228" id = "page228">228</a></span> +a hors hyer for iii. days for Sir James, xii<i>d.</i> For a quarter +malte, v<i>s.</i> For iiii. bushels wete, xxxii<i>d.</i> For a quarter +of otys, ii<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> For x. kombe malte brueng, +xl<i>d.</i> For the boord of Rychard Hermer, wrythe, iii. days, and for +hys hyer the sayde tyme, xiii<i>d. ob.</i> For William Yonge, barbor, v. +days mete and drynke, and hys hyer the sayde tyme, xvi<i>d.</i> For vi. +pownd candyl, vii<i>d. ob.</i> To xii. pore men beryng torches from +London to Norfolk be vi. day, i<i>s.</i>, takyng eche of them on the day +iiii<i>d.</i>, and for iii. dayes in goyng homerward, takynge every day +vi<i>d.</i> Geven to Martyn Savage and Denschers awaytyng upon my master +at London be vii. dayes before that he was caryed, ii<i>s.</i> +x<i>d.</i> For bred bowthe, xxiiii<i>s.</i> For vii. barels bere, +xvii<i>s.</i> vi<i>d.</i> For a barel of the grettest assyse, +iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> For iiii. barells of alee, xiii<i>s.</i> +iiii<i>d.</i> For bred and alee for xii. men that bare torches, +xiii<i>d. ob.</i> To a dole at Bromholm, v<i>l.</i> xiii<i>s.</i> +iiii<i>d.</i> To William Colens, one of the botelers at Bromholm, +xii<i>d.</i> To Wate Webster, another boteler, xii<i>d.</i> To Greg. +Worsteler, one of the porters at Bromholm, iiii<i>d.</i> The parson at +Mauteby,<a class = "tag" name = "tag228_1" id = "tag228_1" href = +"#note228_1">228.1</a> and Sir Thomas Lynes, to the prestes at the +deryge at Bromholm, xliii<i>s.</i> In almesse, xlvii<i>s.</i> +vi<i>d.</i>; more, xx<i>s.</i> To the glaser for takyn owte of ii. panys +of the wyndows of the schyrche for to late owte the reke of the torches +at the deryge, and sowderyng new of the same, xx<i>d.</i> [This part of +the roll, according to Blomefield, or his continuator, seemed to be +written by Gloys, above mentioned, in an indifferent hand. The remainder +is in a very neat and curious old hand, which was supposed to be that of +Margaret Paston.]</p> + +<h5>Vittelles bought by Richard Charles.</h5> + +<p><i>First.</i> For xxvii. gees, xvii<i>s.</i> For xxvii. frankyd gees, +vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> lxx. caponnes, xvii<i>s.</i> vii<i>d.</i> For +xxix.<a class = "tag" name = "tag228_2" id = "tag228_2" href = +"#note228_2">228.2</a><span class = "enspace"> +</span>xvii. chekons, xvi<i>s.</i> vi<i>d.</i> For x. chekons, +x<i>d.</i> For xli. pygges, xiii<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> For xlix. calvys, +iiii<i>l.</i> xiii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> For xxxiiii. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page229" id = "page229">229</a></span> +lambys, xxvii<i>s.</i> ii<i>d.</i> For xxii. shep, xxxvii<i>s.</i> +v<i>d.</i> x. nete, iiii<i>l.</i> xvi<i>s.</i> i<i>d.</i> For ii. +napronnes to Richard Lynstede, x<i>d.</i> For claretts and fawcetts, +vi<i>d.</i> <span class = "smallroman">MCCC.</span> eggs, vi<i>s.</i> +vi<i>d.</i> For xx. galons milk, xx<i>d.</i> For viii. galons creme, +ii<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> For iiii. pints of butter, iiii<i>d.</i> For +i. quarter and ii. bushels of whete mele, vii<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> To the +parson of Crostweyt for i. quarter of whete, vi<i>s.</i> For xiiii. +galons of ale, ii<i>s.</i> To a labourer for iii. days, xii<i>d.</i> To +xxiiii. galons of ale, iiii<i>s.</i> For xiii. salt fysshe, +iiii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> For the purveying of bred, ale, and fysshe, +iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> To William Reynolds for lodgyng of Master +Prowet, the Prior of the White Freres, the parson of Mautby, Sir Thomas +Lynds, and other, by ii. nyghtis, vi<i>d.</i> For bred, ale, and possets +to the same persons, vi<i>d.</i> To Herman, fleying bests by iii. days, +ii<i>s.</i>, and to John Foke, by iii. days, xx<i>d.</i> For purveying +of all the velys, lambes, x. beefins, certain piggs and polaly +[<i>poultry</i>], xl<i>d.</i></p> + +<h5><span class = "smallcaps">Bill of the Prior of Bromholm.</span></h5> + +<p>Memorandum. The Prior toke to bord diverse persons laboryng abought +the enterment, begynnyng the Thursday in Pentecost weke, the vi. yere of +Kyng Edward the iiiith.</p> + +<p>On Thursday I<a class = "tag" name = "tag229_1" id = "tag229_1" href += "#note229_1">229.1</a> find 3 persons who had xii<i>d.</i> for their +board and hire; on Friday 5 who had xv<i>d.</i>; on Saturday 8 who had +xxiii<i>d.</i> On Monday all were employed; and on the day after I find +4 to be allowed for their board iiii<i>d. ob.</i>, and for their hires +v<i>d.</i>,—ix<i>d. ob.</i> Delivered by the Prior to Richard +Charles:—Fyrst, v. quarters of otes, xiii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i>; +v. swyne, xii<i>s.</i> vi<i>d.</i>; ii. bushel of mestlyn, xv<i>d.</i>; +v. pownd of candell, v<i>d.</i>; xx. quarters of malte, xiii<i>s.</i> +iiii<i>d.</i>, and with gryndyng and brewyng, xviii<i>s.</i> For a +cartfull of hey, iii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> For ii. swyne, v<i>s.</i> +For ii. bushel otes, viii<i>d.</i> For a quarter of herryng, vi<i>d.</i> +For half a quarter makerell, vii<i>d. ob.</i> To the parson of St. +Peters for his fee of the wax abought the coors, beside ii. candels of +i. <i>lb.</i> and i. hert candel of a pound, xx<i>d.</i> At my masters +xxx. day for offeryng, i<i>d.</i> Geven to churches and in almes by +Gresham, toward Bromholm, v. +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page230" id = "page230">230</a></span> +<i>marks</i>. To the clerk of St. Peters of Hungate<a class = "tag" name += "tag230_1" id = "tag230_1" href = "#note230_1">230.1</a> his felaship +for ryngyng when the coors was in the church, xii<i>d.</i> To Dawbeney +for bests and other stuffe for the enterment, xx<i>l.</i> To him in gold +for to chaunge into small mony for the dole, xl<i>l.</i> To +W. Pecok, in iii. bags to bere to Bromholm, in copper, the 20th +day, xxvi. <i>marks</i>. To Medeley for his reward, iiii. <i>marks</i>, +and the same to Maryot. To Maryot for costs he bare by the way to +Bromholm, iii<i>l.</i> xii<i>d.</i> More to Medeley for mony paid by +him, xli<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> To the keper of the inne where myne husband +dyed, for his reward, xx<i>s.</i> To Paston chirch, x<i>s.</i> To Bakton +chirch, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> To Gresham the London carrier, in full +payment for the Chaundeler of London, v<i>l.</i> xix<i>s.</i> +iiii<i>d.</i> More in almes mony, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> More for +wyne and bere, vii. <i>marks</i>. To the parson of St. Peters, +vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> For wyne for the seingers when the coors was +at Norwich, xx<i>s.</i> To Skolehouse in part of his bille for torches +and wax made at Bromholm, for to brenne upon the grave, iiii. +<i>marks</i>. For x. yerds of narow blak for the viker of Dallynge and +Robert Gallawey, and for iii. yerds and quarter of brod cloth for Illee, +xx<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> To Freton chirch, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> For a +cope called a frogge of worsted for the Prior of Bromholm, xxvi<i>s.</i> +viii<i>d.</i> For bred at the enterment, ix<i>s.</i> In almes, +viii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> In wyne and spices, l<i>s.</i> To Dom. John +Loveday for cloth for a ridyng cope for himself, xiiii<i>s.</i> +ii<i>d.</i> To the makyng of Redham Stepill, viii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> +To John Orford, wax chandeler, for xii. torches and one candell of i. +<i>lb.</i>, lv<i>s.</i> ii<i>d. ob.</i> To John Dewe for grey lynen +cloth and sylk frenge for the hers, vi<i>l.</i> xvi<i>s.</i> ii<i>d.</i> +Given to the Austeners at the chapter at the<span class = +"enspace"> . . . +. . . </span>of Yarmouth, lxxv<i>s.</i> To +Daubeney for to kepe the yere day at Bromholm the first yere after his +dethe, viii<i>l.</i> ii<i>s.</i> iiii<i>d.</i> Given at Castor to xxv. +howsholders, every houshold iii<i>d.</i> the said tyme, vi<i>s.</i> +iii<i>d.</i> To viii. pore men the said tyme, xviii<i>d.</i> To the +master of the College the said tyme, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> To <ins +class = "correction" title = +"text has ‘Mastkr’: corrected from Blomefield">Master</ins> +Clement Felmyngham the said tyme, vi<i>s.</i> +viii<i>d.</i> To viii. prests at Castor the said tyme, ii<i>s.</i> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page231" id = "page231">231</a></span> +viii<i>d.</i> To childern in surplices and other pore folk at the said +tyme, xiii<i>d.</i> To the parson of Hungate, vi<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> +To the said parson for a certeyn<a class = "tag" name = "tag231_1" id = +"tag231_1" href = "#note231_1">231.1</a> unto Mighelmesse next after the +said yere day, viii<i>s.</i> viii<i>d.</i> To Skolous, wax chandeler, +for makyng of the hers at Bromholm, xxii<i>l.</i> ix<i>s.</i> +viii<i>d.</i> To Philip Curson, draper, for cloths, ix<i>l.</i> iii<i>s. +ob.</i> To Aubrey, draper, xxxiiii<i>s.</i> For a quarter of makerell, +xii<i>d.</i> To the Prior of Bromholm for malte spent at the enterment, +xl<i>s.</i> For light kept on the grave, x<i>s.</i> Geven at Cristemasse +next after the said yereday, to eche of the iiii. orders of friers, +x<i>s.</i>,—xl<i>s.</i> To the vyker of Dallyng for bryngyng home +of a pardon from Rome, to pray for alle our frends sowles, viii<i>s.</i> +iiii<i>d.</i> For a black gowne to the said viker, viii<i>s.</i></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note226_3" id = "note226_3" href = +"#tag226_3">226.3</a> +[From Blomefield’s <i>Norfolk</i>, vi. 483. Folio edition, iii. 692.] +The original of this document was probably among the Paston <span class += "smallroman">MSS.</span> when Blomefield composed his <i>History of +Norfolk</i>, but where it is at present cannot be ascertained. It is +cited by Blomefield, or perhaps by his continuator, Mr. Parkin, as +‘a very long but narrow roll,’ then in his possession. The text, +however, does not seem to be printed entire, as the Editor only +professes to give ‘several particulars therein.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note226_4" id = "note226_4" href = +"#tag226_4">226.4</a> +At Norwich.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note226_5" id = "note226_5" href = +"#tag226_5">226.5</a> +27th May 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note228_1" id = "note228_1" href = +"#tag228_1">228.1</a> +Robert Coteler, who was presented to the living by John Paston in 1465, +on the resignation of Thomas Howys.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note228_2" id = "note228_2" href = +"#tag228_2">228.2</a> +A short blank occurs in Blomefield after ‘xxix.’ and before ‘xvii.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note229_1" id = "note229_1" href = +"#tag229_1">229.1</a> +Blomefield or his continuator here speaks in his own person.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note230_1" id = "note230_1" href = +"#tag230_1">230.1</a> +A church in Norwich, rebuilt by John Paston in 1460, the advowson having +been acquired by him and Margaret, his wife, in 1458. The date of the +rebuilding is engraved in stone on a buttress by the north door.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note231_1" id = "note231_1" href = +"#tag231_1">231.1</a> +Masses called ‘certeynes’ are referred to in No. 53 (vol. ii. p. +64).</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">To Master Clement Felmyngham the said +tyme</span><br> +text has “Mastkr”: corrected from Blomefield</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter638" id = "letter638">638</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">FASTOLF’S GOODS<a class = "tag" name = +"tag231_2" id = "tag231_2" href = "#note231_2">231.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Declaracio</span> bonorum mobilium Johannis +Fastolf militis ad manus Johannis Paston armigeri deveniencium et +possidencium tam ex liberacione Thomæ Howys, Rectoris de Pulham, unius +executoris dicti militis, quam ex Rapto aliorum hominum serviencium et +tenencium suorum. Ac valorem in possessione dominiorum maneriorum +terrarum et tenementorum suorum in eorum prima perquisicione per dictum +militem solutorum et per heredem dicti Paston clameatorum pro nichilo +solvendo, cum custubus edifficacionis eorundem. Et pro quibus omnibus +supra specificatis executores dicti militis petiunt de heredibus et +executoribus dicti Johannis Paston, solucionem restitucionem ac +satisfacionem de dampnis occasione hujusmodi retencionis.</p> + +<h5>In primis.</h5> + +<p>Die octava mensis Novembris anno xxxviij. Regni Regis Henrici Sexti, +videlicet tercio die post obitum Johannis Fastolf +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page232" id = "page232">232</a></span> +militis, Thomas Howys clericus, co-executor dicti Johannis Fastolf, +deliberavit Johanni Paston armigero de bonis dicti Johannis Fastolf +existentibus ad tunc sub salva custodia in abbathia Sancti Benedicti de +Hulmo de parte majoris summe in auro, videlicet in nobilibus antiquis +boni et justi ponderis ij<sup>ml.</sup> cccc. nobilia, precii nobile +viij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i>, faciunt m<sup>l</sup><i>li.</i>, et alia +vice in moneta argenti xxiiij<i>li.</i> xvij<i>s.</i> ij<i>d.</i>; unde +summa +<span class = "sum">m<sup>l.</sup>xxiiij<i>li.</i> xvij<i>s.</i> +ij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Thomas liberavit Johanni Paston dicto mense Novembris apud +Norwicum, de vasis argenti diversarum specierum ad tunc habitarum extra +thesauraium dicti militis manerij de Castre, iiij<sup>ml.</sup> xxiij. +unciarum ponderis Troie, precium uncie ij<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i>, faciunt +v<sup>c.</sup>lxix<i>li.</i> xviij<i>s.</i> vj<i>d.</i> Et eidem Johanni +apud Norwicum alia vice, de vasis argenti, ponderis lvij. unciarum, +precium uncie ut supra, vij<i>li.</i> iiij<i>s.</i> x<i>d.</i> Et eidem +Johanni alia vice apud dictum Castre liberantur de vasis argenti Cxij. +unciarum precium ut supra xv<i>li.</i> xvij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i>; unde +summa +<span class = "sum">v<sup>c.</sup>iiij<sup>xx.</sup>viij<i>li.</i> +viij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Thomas liberavit eidem Johanni Paston apud Norwicum dicto +mense Novembris, in cyphis et vasis auri triati et finati, +iij<sup>xx.</sup>xv. unciarum ponderis Troie, precium uncie xl<i>s.</i> +<span class = "sum">Cl<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Thomas liberavit dicto Johanni ad faciendum certum prestitum +comiti de Salysberye de bonis dicti Johannis Fastolf, unde idem Johannes +Paston habet sufficientem securitatem et obligacionem Episcopi +Norwicensis xxxiij<i>li.</i> vj<i>s.</i> viij<i>d.</i> Et consimili modo +liberavit dicto Johanni ad faciendum certum prestitum<span class = +"enspace"> </span>domino de Fitzwater, unde idem +Johannes habet sufficientes securitates, xxxiij<i>li.</i> vj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i> +<span class = "sum">lxvj<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, dictus Johannes Paston cepit de bonis dicti militis existentibus +sub custodia Willelmi Worcetyr, contra agreamentum suum, et tradita per +ipsum ad salvo custodiendum Thome Plummer de London scryvaner et Johanni +Gressham de eadem capper, videlicet in vasis argenti diversarum +specierum m<sup>l.</sup>viij<sup>c.</sup>iiij<sup>xx.</sup>x. unciarum, +precium uncie ut supra, CClxviij<i>li.</i> v<i>s.</i> Et consimiliter +cepit cyphum coopertum de +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page233" id = "page233">233</a></span> +puro auro ponderis Troie xxiij. unc’, j. quart. di., precium uncie +xl<i>s.</i>, xlvj<i>li.</i> xv<i>s.</i> Et similiter cepit unam cathenam +auri puri, ponderis Troie xxiij. unc’ et dimidii, precium unc’ ut supra +xlvij<i>li.</i> +<span class = "sum">CCClxij<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Johannes Paston cepit consimili modo de bonis dicti militis +traditis Willelmo Worcetyr ad custodiendum, dicto mense Novembris, +videlicet London, apud domum dicti Thome Plummer, ultra Cxl<i>li.</i> +per dictum Worcestre solutas pro panno nigro pro liberatis togarum datis +erga funeralia dicti militis, et pro serico pro baneretis pictis cum +armis, necnon pro vino et speciebus, videlicet viij<sup>c.</sup>j. +nobilia antiqua boni et justi ponderis, precium nobile viij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i>, iij<sup>c.</sup>xxxiij<i>li.</i> xv<i>s.</i> Et +liberantur dicto Johanni Paston per manus dicti Thome Howys, London, de +moneta tradita in custodia dicti Thome Plummer lxij<i>li.</i> +xj<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i>; pro toto +<span class = "sum">CCCiiij<sup>xx.</sup>xvj<i>li.</i> vj<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, dictus Johannes Paston cepit consimili modo de Willelmo Worcestre +certa notabilia monilia et jocalia auri cum lapidibus preciosis +garnizata, videlicet unum monile ditissimum vocata Anglice <i>a White +Rose</i> nuper domini ducis Eborum<a class = "tag" name = "tag233_1" id += "tag233_1" href = "#note233_1">233.1</a> cum magno precioso lapide +vocato <i>a poynted dyamant</i>, qui in prima empcione constabat, ut +dicitur iiij<sup>or</sup> m<sup>l.</sup> marcarum, ac alia duo jocalia +nuper dicti domini ducis tradita in plegio quando dictus Johannes +Fastolf obligatus fuit pro dicto duce in tribus milibus libris +executoribus cardinalis Anglie<a class = "tag" name = "tag233_2" id = +"tag233_2" href = "#note233_2">233.2</a> super certis denariis prestitis +dicto duci, et unde idem, dominus dux debebat dicto Johanni Fastolf in +denariis prestitis CCCClxvj<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> Et pro +aliis justis causis CClxvj<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> Et +predicta tria jocalia per assensum dicti domini ducis sub sigillo +armorum in scriptis tradita assignata fuerunt dicto Johanni Fastolf ut +bona sua propria ad vendendum et disponendum in recompensacione debiti +sui et aliis magnis laboribus et vexacionibus dicti militis pro dicto +duce sustentatis et habitis dum modo locum tenens pro Rege fuit in +Francia, ac postea in Anglia +<span class = "sum">vij<sup>c.</sup>xxxiij<i>li.</i> vj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page234" id = "page234">234</a></span> +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, predictus Johannes Paston recepit exitus et proficua omnium +maneriorum, terrarum et tenementorum dicti militis in comitatibus +Norffolk, Suffolk, Essex et Surrie per manus ministrorum et servorum +sine consensu executorum dicti militis, diversis annis ex quo obiit, per +propinquam estimacionem +<span class = "sum">m<sup>l.</sup><ins class = "correction" title = +"‘c.’ printed as subscript">vj<sup>c.</sup></ins>lxvj<i>li.</i> +xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, dictus Johannes Paston recepit diversa alia catalla et bestias +dicti militis, videlicet equos et palefridos principales suos valoris +xxx<i>li.</i> ac oves et animalia minuta cubancia in pasturis de Castre +et aliis maneriis, videlicet ij<sup>m.</sup>iiij<sup>c.</sup>lvj. oves +diversorum generum precium capitis xiiij<i>d.</i> Cxliij<i>li.</i> +v<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> Et in precio xiij. magnarum bestiarum +vj<i>li.</i> Et in valore vj<sup>m.</sup> cuniculorum apud Warennam de +Haylysdon anno quo dictus miles obiit per Warennarios ibidem per +propinquam estimacionem assessatos precium m<sup>l.</sup> xv<i>s.</i>, +xlv<i>li.</i> Similiter in precio vellerum lane ovium de stauro suo apud +Haylysdon ante obitum suum remanencium, xxvj<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i> per ipsum recept’ +<span class = "sum">CCl<i>li.</i> xviij<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Johannes Paston recepit apud Castre predictam stuffuram et +ordinacionem pro defensione patrie in artilleria, videlicet colubrinas +librillas<a class = "tag" name = "tag234_1" id = "tag234_1" href = +"#note234_1">234.1</a> diversorum magnitudinum cum cameris in decem +carectis oneratis ac in curassys, brigandinis jakkis, salectis, +basnetes, habourjonnys, lanceis, crossebowes de calibe [<i>chalybe</i>], +longbowes, arcubus, sagittis, gonnepowder, gonnestonys, et cetera +hujusmodi defensibilia valoris +<span class = "sum">Cl<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, recepit apud Castre per supervisum dicti Thome Howys in valore +librorum pertinencium capelle ac in utenciliis garderobe dicti militis +ibidem, videlicet in costeris et lectis de pluma et coopertoria de arras +et tapestria ac penulis de martys cum togis necnon utencilia aule +camerarum coquine et cetera hujusmodi, ut per billam de particulis +patet, Cxxj<i>li.</i> vij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> Et simili modo de +utenciliis Warderobe et camerarum remanencium apud manerium suum in +Suthwerk, valoris xx<i>li.</i>, +<span class = "sum">Cxlj<i>li.</i> vij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, dictus Johannes recepit per manus dicti Thome Howys, Willelmi +Paston, Thome Playter, Thome Plummer +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page235" id = "page235">235</a></span> +de London, scryvaner, Christofori Hansson armigeri et Luce Nantron ad +diversas vices tam Londoniis quam in Suthwerk, ut patet per billam de +parcellis, +<span class = "sum">Ciiij<i>li.</i> xj<i>s.</i> viij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Willelmus Worcestre mense Julii anno v<sup>to</sup> regni +Regis Edwardi quarti solvit uxori dicti Thome Plumer pro debito dicti +Johannis Paston ut pro panno nigro ac prestita facta et liberaciones +argenti fact’ suo mandato diversis personis, +<span class = "sum">xxxij<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, idem Johannes recepit in valore et precio panni lanei nigri +coloris per ipsum dati diversis hominibus de affinitate sua propria, +ultra Clij<i>li.</i> ut in precio panni lanei nigri coloris provisi et +dati amicis et servientibus dicti Johannis Fastolf erga funeralia sua +tenenda, xl<i>li.</i> Et similiter idem Johannes Paston fecit prefatum +Thomam Howys exponere et tradere diversis hominibus in regardis et +solucionibus circa propria negocia dicti Paston expedienda London’ et +alibi xxx<i>li.</i> xvj<i>s.</i> j<i>d.</i> Et consimiliter idem +Johannes fecit dictum Thomam exponere et solvere in expensis victualium +hospicii tenti apud Castre anno primo quo idem miles obiit, tam circa +extraneos et notos supervenientes de affinitate et amicicia sua sine +causa apud Castre Maner trahentes ibidem moram inutilem, ad summam +iiij<sup>xx.</sup>x<i>li.</i>, prout evidenter patebit per certam +declaracionem, +<span class = "sum">Clx<i>li.</i> xvj<i>s.</i> j<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, ultra predicta bona sic sibi applicata, prefatus Johannes Paston +pretendebat habere et possidere, sine racione et scripto autentiquo, +omnia dominia, terras et tenementa dicti militis in comitatibus, +Norffolk, Suffolk et Norwico, ac sine solucione alicujus summe que +constabant dicto militi in prima empcione ultra edifficaciones et +repparaciones dictorum maneriorum, +<span class = +"sum">ix<sup>ml.</sup>viij<sup>c.</sup><i>li.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, considerandum est quod, ultra dictas perquisiciones, edifficacio +manerii de Castre velut fortalicium defensionis patrie constabat in +triginta annis vj<sup>ml.</sup><i>li.</i> Et edifficacio manerii de +Haylysdon, cum clausura bosci et warenne, ac edifficacione duarum +domorum vocatarum <i>lez logges</i> apud Haylysdon et Drayton, +v<sup>c.</sup>xlviij<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i> Et custus +imparcacionis parci in Cotton cum repparacione manerii +iiij<sup>c.</sup><i>li.</i> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page236" id = "page236">236</a></span> +Et repparacio principalis mesuagii sui in villa de Jernemouth +CC<i>li.</i> Edifficacio et repparacio tenementorum suorum in civitate +Norwici CCxl<i>li.</i> +<span class = "sum">vij<sup>ml.</sup>CCCiiij<sup>xx.</sup>viij<i>li.</i> +xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Item, ultra ista, prefatus Johannes Paston retinet in custodia sua +principales evidencias maneriorum dicti militis vocatorum Dedham +Netherhall et Dedham Overhall in comitatu Essex; que quidem maneria, in +defectu dictarum evidenciarum per ipsum non prosequutorum a tempore +obitus dicti militis pro recuperacione eorundem, et hucusque, existunt +extra possessionem, in maximum prejudicium defuncti, pro eo quod dictum +manerium vocatum Dedham Netherhall constabat dicto militi in prima +empcione m<sup>l.</sup><i>li.</i>, et predictum manerium vocatum Dedham +Overhall Clx<i>li.</i> Et exitus et proficua dictorum maneriorum que ad +manus executorum dicti militis medio tempore non devenerunt secundum +ratam xl<i>li.</i> per annum ascendunt ad CCiiij<sup>xx.</sup><i>li.</i> +Sic in toto, +<span class = "sum">m<sup>l.</sup>iiij<sup>c.</sup> +xl<i>li.</i></span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note231_2" id = "note231_2" href = +"#tag231_2">231.2</a> +[From a <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in the Tower of Magd. +College, Oxford.] This is a paper drawn up by William Worcester after +John Paston’s death in 1466. The errors in grammar are characteristic of +the writer.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note233_1" id = "note233_1" href = +"#tag233_1">233.1</a> +Richard, Duke of York, father of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note233_2" id = "note233_2" href = +"#tag233_2">233.2</a> +Probably Cardinal Beaufort; but it may be Cardinal Kemp.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note234_1" id = "note234_1" href = +"#tag234_1">234.1</a> +<i>colubrinas librillas</i>, <i>i.e.</i> culverins.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">Item, predictus Johannes Paston ... +m<sup>l.</sup>vj<sup>c.</sup>lxvj<i>li.</i> xiij<i>s.</i> +iiij<i>d.</i></span><br> +“c.” (100) printed as subscript</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter639" id = "letter639">639</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag236_1" id = +"tag236_1" href = "#note236_1">236.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Examinations Touching Sir John Fastolf’s +Will</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY</span> and +<span class = "sidetext">JUNE</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>A.D. 1466. The following witnesses were examined secretly and apart +on behalf of Sir William Yelverton, ‘deceased,’<a class = "tag" name = +"tag236_2" id = "tag236_2" href = "#note236_2">236.2</a> in the house of +the treasurer of St. Paul’s Cathedral by John Druell, LL.D.:—</p> + +<table> +<tr> +<td class = "number">May 17.</td> +<td>John Monke <i>alias</i> Smyth.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">19.</td> +<td>John Dawson and John Gyrdyng.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">20.</td> +<td><p>William Boswell, Robert Inglys, Ric. Horne, and Thos. +Pykeryng.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number"> +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page237" id = "page237">237</a></span> +21.</td> +<td><p>Henry Clerke, John Tovy, Thos. Hert, William Shawe, and Nich. +Cherche.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">22.</td> +<td><p>Thos. Newton, Th. Spycer, and Thos. Neve.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">23.</td> +<td><p>John Rugge, John Clerke, and Rob. Bunche.</p></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">June 10.</td> +<td>Stephen Scrope.</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class = "number">11.</td> +<td>Ric. Fastolf.</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>I. John Monke, a smith of the parish of St. James, Pokethorpe, in +Norwich, illiterate, of free condition, thirty-two years old and over, +alleges bribery of witnesses by Paston and Howys, who offered to sell +John Russe lands at Leystofte at little more than half their value. +Howes made Russe a present of salt, barley, and malt to the value of +£20, and promised him a full discharge of his account for goods of the +testator in his custody to the value of £200 and over. He paid Robert +Cutteler, vicar of Caster, ‘colore cujusdam ultimi <i>vale</i> dicti +testatoris prius non debite’ (<i>sic</i>), money and corn to the value +of 20 marks, and promised to present him to the living of Mawdeby +whenever Thomas Howse resigned it. They gave Felmyngham an annuity of 8 +marks, and 40s. to a boy who is his servant. They gave Robert Boteler a +fee (<i>feodum</i>) of 5 marks [a year] for life, and the farm of a +close called Mawdeby close, besides some other gifts which are +specified. Hence the said John Russe, Rob. Cutteler, Clement Felmyngham, +and Rob. Butteler, falsely deposed in answer to the second interrogatory +that on the Saturday before the testator’s death they were present in a +certain low room (<i>bassa camera</i>) in the manor of Caister, where +the testator was principally between the hours of 8 and 11 <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, and that with them were the said John Paston +and John Brakley, and no others; for in reality there were present in +the chamber with the testator on that day, and especially during those +hours, the said Rob. Fitzrauf, Nich. Newman, and John Loer continually, +and the said Dan John Davye, Dan Thomas Howys, Friar John Bernard, +physician, and Henry Barbour, and several others [at intervals]. +Moreover, Cutteler, Felmyngham, and Butteler, said Russe was present on +that occasion, whereas both he and Cutteler were in other places. +Moreover, bribes were given by Paston and Howes in various forms during +the months of January, February, and March 1462[-3], and at other times +in the parishes of Caister and Yarmouth, and in the city of London, to +Ralph Lampet, brother William Bukenham, and the said Rob. Cutteler. +Paston promised to promote Bukenham to the priory of Yarmouth, and also, +as a reward for his testimony, to give him 13 acres of the testator’s +land in Scroudby and Caister called Isabell, to the use of the prior and +convent of Norwich. Hence the testimony of these witnesses was false, +that Fastolf, about the beginning of Autumn five years ago, had made to +John Paston estate and feoffment and livery of seisin of his manor of +Caister, and other lands in Cos. Norf. and Suff., and the city of +Norwich, to the use of the said testator while he lived, and afterwards +to that of the said John Paston and his heirs; for if any such thing was +done (which is not admitted) it was on the 16th October 1457, in the +36th year of Henry <span class = "smallroman">VI.</span>, after the +Autumn of the said year, and not to the use of Paston and his heirs, but +to the use of Fastolf himself, and for the accomplishment of his will. +Further, the testimony of Russe, Cutteler, Bukenham, Felmyngham, and +Butteler was untrue as to the alleged will of Fastolf that John +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page238" id = "page238">238</a></span> +Paston should obtain the King’s license for the foundation of a college +at Caister. It was in truth Fastolf’s will that the executors should +obtain the King’s license to found a college there of seven Benedictine +monks of the same profession as the monastery of St. Benet at Hulme, of +whom one should be prior, and of seven poor men, and that they should be +endowed out of his lands to the extent of 300 marks a year, all charges +deducted, to pray for the soul of Lady Milicent, his wife, his parents +and benefactors; and if the executors were unable to obtain this +license, they were to give the abbot and convent of St. Benet’s lands +and money for the maintenance of six new monks and seven poor men in +that monastery with a like object. Further, it is not true as alleged +that on Saturday before his death, viz., 3rd Nov., between eight and +eleven <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, the testator openly +declared his will with a clear voice in the hearing of bystanders, for +he was so ill and weak from want of breath that he was unable to speak +distinctly at any time that whole day, especially during the hours above +mentioned.</p> + +<p>Moreover, bribes were offered by Paston and Howes in May and June +1465, in the parishes of Caister and Yarmouth, and in the city of +London, to Thomas Thorald, Robert Lawes, Will. Waterman, John Osbern, +John Heydon, Will. Pykeryng, John Symmys, and John Shawe, for their +testimony in this matter, viz. that they should have 20s. besides +travelling expenses and divers other sums which were offered to them in +Paston’s name by Cutteler, vicar of Caister, and Ric. Calle; and John +Paston promised the said William Pykeryng that he should recover certain +lands in the tenure of his brother John Pykeryng, in Fylby, to the value +of 40s. Influenced by these bribes, Thos. Thorald deposed that on the +Saturday before Fastolf’s death, Bartholomew Elys and John Davys came to +his house in Belton, two miles and more from Yarmouth, about eight <span +class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, when he was in his grange, and asked +him to come with them to divers manors of the said Sir John, to receive +certain grain from his farmers; after which they drank in Thorald’s +house, and he went with them to Freton, and to the manor called Calcote +hall, and other places in Lothynlond until midday. Robert Lawes also +deposed that on Friday before Fastolf’s death he went to Becclys, and +next day, viz. Saturday, returning homeward (<i>rediens domorsum</i>), +met on the way the said Bartholomew Elis, John Davy, and Thomas Thorald +going to Freton, when Davy called him and bade him tell Thomas Howys or +John Rus that on Monday or Tuesday next he would go to Caister and give +an account of his stewardship. Afterwards, about two <span class = +"smallroman">P.M.</span>, Lawes came to Caister and told John Rus his +business in the absence of Howys. But the said William Waterman, being +bribed as aforesaid, falsely declares that on the Saturday before +Fastolf’s death Barth. Elys and John Davy came to his house at Gorlyston +about seven <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, and that he went +with them to Thorald’s house, and that they went and spoke with Thorald +at the grange while he waited for them at the gate. Afterwards they all +entered the hall of Thomas Thorald and drank beer together, and all four +went together to Calcote-halle and waited there till ten <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, when Watyrman left the other three and +returned home. And about two <span class = "smallroman">P.M.</span> Elys +and Davy returned and drank beer at Watyrman’s house. But the truth is +that Elys and Davy were at Yarmouth that day from seven till past eleven +<span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span></p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page239" id = "page239">239</a></span> +<p>Further, John Osberne, Will. Pykerynge, and John Heydon were corrupt +witnesses. John Osberne said that on Saturday before the Feast of St. +Leonard, when Fastolf was ill of his last illness, the said Osberne, +Pykerynge, and Heydon came to Caister to receive certain monies of John +Rus for barley sold to him by Osberne; that about eight <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span> they entered the hall of the manor and found +Robert Hert and others, servants of Fastolf, sitting at breakfast; and +that John Russe immediately came to Osberne and talked to him about the +payment. At last Russe took them into the <i>claustrum</i>, and leaving +them, entered Fastolf’s chamber; then, after remaining two hours and +more, returned into the <i>claustrum</i> and delivered the money to +Osbern. This testimony was confirmed by Heydon and Pykeryng; but the +truth is that Russe that Saturday, from seven till near twelve o’clock +(<i>a principio horæ septimæ usque ad finem horæ undecimæ</i>), and +Robert Hert from seven to ten <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, +were at Yarmouth, three miles off.</p> + +<p>Further, John Symmys and John Shawe were corrupt witnesses, the +former saying that Robert Hert was present in the said manor-house of +Caister at eight <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> on the said day, +and even at nine o’clock at dinner-time (<i>tempore prandii</i>), and +that he saw the said Robert Hert sitting among Fastolf’s other servants +at breakfast (<i>jentaculum</i>); and that he (Symmys) and Henry +Wynstall, Fastolf’s barber, were occupied together in shoeing horses in +the said manor from breakfast-time aforesaid to dinner-time, and that at +dinner-time Symmys saw the said Henry sitting in the hall with others; +and that on the said Saturday, about eight <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, and even at noon, Symmys saw John Rus in the +hall of the said manor. Also John Shawe deposed that on the Saturday +before Fastolf’s death he saw John Rus and Henry Wynstall in the hall of +the said manor, both at eight <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> at +breakfast and at dinner at midday, and he also saw Robert Hert, porter +at the gate of the manor, at those hours; and that between breakfast and +dinner Shawe and Wynstall were occupied along with John Symmys in +shoeing Sir John’s horses. But the truth is that both Rus and Hert were +absent as above-mentioned, and Wynstall was with Fastolf in his chamber +from nine <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> to half-past ten. Also +Symmys, William Pykeryng, Heydon, Osberne, and Lawes were all absent the +whole of that Saturday, and certainly between eight and eleven <span +class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> And notwithstanding that the contrary +is alleged against them, John Davy, Barth. Elys, John Bokkyng, John +Davy, chaplain, Thos. Upton, Nich. Newman, John Loer, Wm. Eton, Robert +Lynne, John Marshall, Wm. Lynne, Henry Wynstall, Robert Hert, and Robert +Fitzrauff, gave honest testimony in behalf of Yelverton and Worceter, +being men of good repute, sufficiently rich, and well worthy of +credit.</p> + +<p>Additional exceptions on the part of Yelverton and Worcester to the +testimony of John Rus and Clement Felmyngham, showing that Paston had +offered to let to the former a tenement in Yarmouth for less than its +true value, and had promised the latter 100 marks for the Austin Friars +at South-Town,<a class = "tag" name = "tag239_1" id = "tag239_1" href = +"#note239_1">239.1</a> which was not bequeathed in Fastolf’s will; also +that he had given Master Robert Popy, besides his expenses, 20 marks for +his testimony, and remitted to him 10<i>s.</i> of the rent of a fishery +which was five years in arrear, and that he had +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page240" id = "page240">240</a></span> +also released to him 40 marks of a penalty of 100 marks due by Popy upon +a bond; in consequence of which Popy deposed that on the 30th October +three years previously,<a class = "tag" name = "tag240_1" id = +"tag240_1" href = "#note240_1">240.1</a> John Paston had reported to him +at Caister that he had made an agreement with Fastolf by which he was to +have all Fastolf’s lands in Norfolk, Suffolk, and the city of Norwich, +after his death, paying for the same 4000 marks, and was to found a +college in the manor, etc.; on hearing which Popy returned to Fastolf, +and related to him what Paston had said to him, and Sir John confirmed +it, requesting him to show the same goodwill towards Paston, as he had +done to himself. But in truth Fastolf never asserted or confirmed any +such thing.</p> + +<p>Answers to interrogatories by the same deponent, viz.—1. As to +his knowledge of the parties and witnesses.</p> + +<p>2. As to the alleged instances of bribery, and the absence of Rus on +the day referred to. The latter fact deponent says he knows, because he +and Rus lay together in the chamber of Thomas Howys, and on Friday +before Fastolf’s death Rus went to Yarmouth to buy victuals, and left +with him the key of the chamber, Howys being then at Blowfeld; and Rus +remained at Yarmouth all that Friday and the Saturday following, and +returned on Sunday.</p> + +<p>4. As to the condition of Fastolf on the Saturday before his death. +He was so weak for want of breath that he could not speak distinctly; +those about him could not hear what he said without inclining their ears +to his mouth, and even then they could hardly understand him. And this +deponent says he knows, because on Friday and Saturday before his death +he was frequently in Sir John’s chamber, and when people spoke to him to +comfort him in his illness he only answered by sighs, so that deponent +and others could not tell what he meant. Moreover, Sir John was +accustomed when in health daily to say certain prayers with his +chaplain, but on that day the chaplain said the service alone, while +Fastolf lay on his bed and said nothing.</p> + +<p>6. As to Russe and Hert being at Yarmouth, he says he heard Thomas +Howys that Saturday morning order the latter to take horse and ride +thither to get provisions for the household, and he saw him ride out of +the manor accordingly about seven <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, and also saw him return with the provisions +about ten <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> [In the margin here is +written ‘Nititur deponere de absencia Hert, sed non probat.’]</p> + +<p>7. Knows that Henry Wynstall was absent from the hall of the manor +from about nine to half-past ten, for he saw him enter the chamber with +his instruments to shave Sir John, and wait there an hour and a half, +and he could not have left without deponent seeing him. Moreover, John +Symmys did not shoe horses in the manor that Saturday, for deponent had +the custody of the forge and kept the keys.</p> + +<p>Answers to another set of interrogatories proposed on behalf of +Paston and Howes, and here quoted at length, to the following effect, +viz.: 1. Where each witness has lived since he was born, and whether he +be in the service of the party producing him? 2. As to his knowledge of +the witnesses on the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page241" id = "page241">241</a></span> +other side? 3. What particulars he can give as to any bribery he imputes +to them, and what was its special object? 4. By what means he knew it, +and by whom he has been asked to give testimony, and whether he has +conferred with his fellow-witnesses; whether they have received +instructions what to depose; how often he has come up to London to give +evidence and returned without being called; and how much he was promised +for coming? 5. Each witness is to declare how he knows the facts, and to +be charged not to reveal to the others on what subjects he was +questioned.</p> + +<p>The only point of interest in these replies is that deponent was +asked by William Worcester in the city of Norwich on Sunday eight days +to give his testimony in the cause. He denies all communication with his +fellow-witnesses, &c.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Note.</i>—The evidence of this first witness runs to five or +six times the length of any other, and we have noted all the material +points in it. Of the depositions of the others we shall not give any +summary, but mention briefly any new statements that seem to be of +interest:—</p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>II. John Dawson, husbandman (<i>agricultor</i>), of Blowfeld, where +he has been for four years, having formerly lived five years in the +manor of Caister, and before that in Cambridge three years, +<i>literatus, liberæ conditionis</i>, about thirty years old.</p> + +<p>His testimony generally agrees with that of Monke, and he says the +covenant of Akethorpe was made in the February before Fastolf’s death. +Between Christmas and Easter after his death deponent heard Howes in the +manor of Caister say to Robert Cutteler the vicar that he should have 6 +marks for his labour in giving evidence about Fastolf’s will; and +afterwards Howes in his chamber in the said manor paid him 6 marks. +Paston also promised him a benefice worth 40 marks. He says, about a +month before Fastolf’s death, he heard Howes and Paston frequently +repeat publicly in the household the tenor of Sir John Fastolf’s will. +About St. John Baptist’s day last he was at Yarmouth, and heard John +Symmys and John Shawe say they were hired by Paston and Howes to give +evidence in the proving of Fastolf’s will.</p> + +<p>III. John Gyrdynge of Fretenham, where he has lived four years; +before which time he lived with the Prior of St. Faith’s two years, +before that in the manor of <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged: Gairdner’s usual spelling is ‘Caister’">Caster</ins> +four years, before that with John Emeryngale of Wroxham two years, +and before that in Norwich as an apprentice with Henry Toke five years; +a cook, illiterate and of free condition, thirty-two years old and +over.<a class = "tag" name = "tag241_1" id = "tag241_1" href = +"#note241_1">241.1</a> Agrees with the evidence of corruption against +Rus and others. Was present in Fastolf’s room that Saturday forenoon, +and saw the two chaplains celebrating mass. H. Wynstall the barber +was present till ten <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span></p> + +<p>IV. William Boswell of Thetford, who was four years with Friar +Bracley, &c., <i>literatus</i>, of free condition, thirty years old +and more. Heard Howys, Paston, and Rus frequently confer at Caister +about the sale of a house in Yarmouth, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page242" id = "page242">242</a></span> +which Howys, at the request of Paston, at length granted to Rus at £20 +less than its value, to the end that Rus might bear witness in their +favour and in the proving of Fastolf’s will. [Here occurs a marginal +note by another hand, ‘Male sonat. Quod alius consensit non probatur.’ +At the head of this deposition also it is said that this witness has +been proved corrupt.]</p> + +<p>V. Robert Inglys of Lodon, gentleman, who has lived there two years, +and before that in the parish of Hopton three years, before that with +Henry None, Esq., for more than a year, before that with Sir John +Fastolf two years, before that with the Abbot of Langley two years, and +before that in Hopton with his father; illiterate, and of free +condition, thirty years old and more.</p> + +<p>VI. Richard Horne of Brundall, Norwich diocese, husbandman +(<i>agricultor</i>), who has lived there four years, and before that +with Thomas Howys six years, and before that in the parish of St. +George, Southwark, three years; illiterate, of free condition, +twenty-six years old.</p> + +<p>VII. Thomas Pykeryng of Wroxham, Norwich diocese, who has been a +schoolmaster at Norwich and Aylesham, and is now clerk to Robert +Norwich, steward of the Abbot of St. Benet’s, Hulme.</p> + +<p>VIII. Henry Clerke of Blowfeld, husbandman (<i>agricultor</i>), once +in the service of Sir John Fastolf, illiterate, twenty-eight years old, +of free condition. Says that on the Saturday before Fastolf’s death +Howys sent him and John Shawe to Yarmouth about seven <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, with a cart-load of malt to one named Chirche; +that they arrived about eight, and were spoken to by John Rus and Robert +Cutteler in the market-place; that they waited with their cart till two +<span class = "smallroman">P.M.</span>, when deponent took leave of Russ +and Cutteler in the street, having repeatedly seen them there in the +interval. Also that at eight and nine <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span> he saw Robert Hert in Yarmouth, who soon after +his arrival delivered him a sack containing meat, bought, as he said, by +Rus for Fastolf’s household. He says also that between eight and nine he +spoke with the said John Symmys, William Pykeryng, and John Osbern in +Yarmouth.</p> + +<p>Marginal notes are appended to the above statements, affirming that +bribery had been proved against this witness by four others, and that he +stood alone in his testimony.</p> + +<p>IX. John Tovy of Caister, where he has lived ever since he was born, +<i>agricultor, literatus</i>, of free condition, twenty-four years old +and more; cannot depose of his own knowledge to the bribery of John Rus +and the others. He says John Rus was not present in the manor on the +said Saturday, having to be at Yarmouth to provide victuals for the +household. About eight <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span> witness +conveyed to the said manor some linen, which his mother had washed, for +she was Sir John’s washerwoman, and waited there, sometimes in the hall +and sometimes in Sir John’s chamber, till after midday, but did not see +John Rus or any of the others named, as he would have done if they had +been present.</p> + +<p>X. Thomas Hert of Caister, <i>agricultor</i>, who has lived there +from his birth, illiterate, of free condition, twenty-three years old. +Cannot depose to bribery except from hearsay. Was sent to Caister by his +father on the Saturday before Fastolf’s death with capons to be sold to +John Rus, purveyor of victuals for the household, but on inquiring for +him, found he was absent, and delivered the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page243" id = "page243">243</a></span> +capons to Sir Thomas Howes. Waited till nine <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span> and saw neither Rus, Cutteler, Boteler, nor +Robert Hert, but was told Rus was at Yarmouth, and Boteler sick in his +chamber. John Symmys had nothing to do with the shoeing of Sir John’s +horses that day. Was asked to bear witness in this cause a fortnight ago +by Sir William Yelverton’s servant at Caister.</p> + +<p>XI. William Shave, roper of Yarmouth, illiterate, of free condition, +fifty-eight years old. On the Saturday before Fastolf’s death, was at +the house of John Balle, at the sign of the Cock, in Yarmouth, in a +parlour near the public street, when Sir Thomas Howes informed John Rus, +there present, that he had been desired by John Paston to remit to him +£20 of the price of a house sold to Rus by the said Thomas, and +thereupon he remitted to him the said £20 and 5 marks, in which he was +bound to Sir John Fastolf. He also promised him the lands of Akethorp +Hall for 40 marks less than any other, provided he would favour the +intention of Howes and Paston. [It is remarked in the margin that +witness does not say what intention.] William Lynde, a servant of +Sir John Fastolf, was present, besides others. He saw Russ and Cutteler +that Saturday at Yarmouth, between nine and twelve <span class = +"smallroman">A.M.</span>, and spoke with them and drank in the house of +Thomas Lounde. As to Thomas Torald, witness was at Yarmouth one +Saturday, when he heard Robert Cutteler and Torald conversing; and the +former told the latter that Sir Thomas Howes loved him well, and that +John Paston could do him much good, and in the name of Paston and Howes +he promised Torald 20<i>s.</i> for his labour, besides expenses, if he +would depose for them. Knows that on the Saturday before Fastolf’s death +Bartholomew Elys was in Yarmouth from half-past eight to eleven <span +class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, for he and witness bought fish called +roches together, sold some, and divided others in Elys’s house. That day +he saw John Rus in Yarmouth several times every hour from seven to +eleven <span class = "smallroman">A.M.</span>, for he was in the +market-place all that time on his business, and at vespers he saw John +Rus in the parish church of the said town. Next day, Sunday, he also saw +him there at matins and at mass.</p> + +<p>XII. Nicholas Chirche of Yarmouth, merchant, <i>literatus</i>, of +free condition, forty years old and more. Testifies concerning a +conversation held in John Balle’s parlour at the Cock in Yarmouth after +the Christmas following Fastolf’s death, with Sir Thomas Howes, John +Paston, John Rus, Friar Clement Felmyngham, Dan Robert Cutteler, Robert +Boteler, Thomas Neve, and others, when Howes remitted to John Rus £20 of +the price of a house he had sold him, and 5 marks of the arrears of his +accounts. He also testifies to other acts of the same nature on that +occasion, and to the absence of Rus and Cutteler at Yarmouth on the +Saturday above referred to, &c.</p> + +<p>[In the margin it is remarked that this witness has been proved +corrupt by three others.]</p> + +<p>On the 22d May John Naseby, proctor for Yelverton and Howes, produced +as a witness one John Rugge, in presence of Master Robert Kent, Paston’s +proctor.</p> + +<p>XIII. Thomas Newton of Burgh, <i>agricultor</i>, illiterate, of free +condition, fifty years old and more.</p> + +<p>XIV. Thomas Spycer of Southtown, by Yarmouth, tailor, illiterate, of +free condition, fifty years old and more.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page244" id = "page244">244</a></span> +<p>XV. Thomas Neve of Jernemuth [<i>Yarmouth</i>], merchant, +<i>literatus</i>, of free condition, forty years old and more.</p> + +<p>XVI. John Rugge, mariner, of Yarmouth, illiterate, of free condition, +fifty years old.</p> + +<p>XVII. John Clerke of Gorlaston, <i>agricultor</i>, illiterate, of +free condition, fifty years old. Heard Clement Felmyngham report to him +at the Austin Friars in Southtown that Paston and Howes had given him a +pension of 8 marks a year for life, and 40<i>s.</i> for his servant, to +say masses for the soul of Sir John Fastolf. Cannot witness of bribery +otherwise. A little after Michaelmas, two years before Fastolf’s +death, William Worceter in Fastolf’s name delivered possession of six of +his manors in Lodylond, viz. Spytlyng in Gorlaston, Bradwell Hall in +Bradwell, Hadlounde in Bradwell, Calcotes in Freton, Beytons in Belton, +and Akethorpe in Leystoft, to Sir Thomas Howes and others, his +co-feoffees named in a charter of enfeoffment, to the use of Sir John +during his life, and to execute his will afterwards. This he knows, +because he rode with Howes to the said manors when he took possession, +and saw and heard Worceter deliver possession thereof. Thomas Torald +reported to witness in Lent last that Paston and Howes had promised and +paid him 20<i>s.</i>, besides his expenses, to give evidence in the +proving of Fastolf’s will, and had given each of his fellow-witnesses as +much.</p> + +<p>XVIII. Robert Bunche of Yarmouth, mariner, <i>literatus</i>, of free +condition, fifty years old. Swears to having seen John Rus that Saturday +at Yarmouth between seven and eight. [A marginal note says that +being afterwards produced as a witness by Paston, he admitted having +been suborned, and having deposed falsely.]</p> + +<p>On the 22d July Yelverton’s proctor, Naseby, produced in presence of +Paston’s proctor, Kent, two witnesses, viz.—Stephen Scrope, Esq., +and Richard Fastolf.</p> + +<p>XIX. Stephen Scrope, Esq., of free condition, seventy years old or +about. Says he was several times with Sir John Fastolf in his manor of +Caister within the two years before his death, when Sir John told him he +had made his will, and had ordered his executors to erect a college of +six or seven monks and seven poor men at Caister, and that they should +have lands and goods to the value of 300 marks a year, if a license +could be obtained from the King to that effect; otherwise that the +number of monks at St. Benet’s should be increased, and seven poor men +supported in the monastery. [In the margin it is remarked that this +witness proves nothing against the accused witnesses, but only +endeavours to depose concerning the will of the deceased.]</p> + +<p>XX. Richard Fastolfe, of the parish of St. Mary Eldermary, in London, +tailor, where he has lived for two years, and before that in the parish +of St. Michael, Crokydlane, London, for a quarter of a year, formerly +with the Duke of York, <i>literatus</i>, of free condition, thirty-two +years old. Went to Caister about the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy +Cross preceding Fastolf’s death, along with one Thomas Plummer, +<i>scriptor</i>, of London, now deceased. Found Sir John walking about +his chamber led by two servants, when Plummer petitioned him to help +deponent with goods that he might marry, as he was one of Sir John’s +relations. To this Sir John made answer that he had within a +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page245" id = "page245">245</a></span> +few [days] preceding made his will, which he would not alter, and that +he had made mention of deponent therein. He also said to Plummer that if +he had come in good time, he should have written his will.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[Throughout all the above depositions will be found marginal comments in +another hand, a few of which we have noticed incidentally, tending +to show that the testimony given is insufficient to prove the bribery of +Paston’s witnesses, or to invalidate their statements.]</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +‘Responsiones personaliter factæ per Johannem Paston, armigerum, xxixº +die mensis Julii anno Domini MºCCCClxv<sup>to</sup>, Indictione +xiij<sup>ma</sup>, pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini +nostri, domini Pauli Divina providencia Papæ Secundi anno primo, in domo +habitationis venerabilis mulieris Elisabethæ Venor in le Flete +vulgariter nuncupat’ infra parochiam Sanctæ Brigidæ Virginis in +suburbeis civitatis London’ situata, [et] x., xj., et xij<sup>mo</sup> +diebus mensis Decembris anno Domini supradicto, Indictione +xiiij<sup>ma</sup>, pontificatus dicti sanctissimi patris domini Pauli +Papæ Secundi anno secundo, in domo thesaurarii ecclesiæ Cathedralis +Sancti Pauli London’ in parochia Sancti Gregorii civitatis London’ +situata, coram venerabili viro Magistro Johanne Druell, utriusque juris +doctore, commissario et examinatore in hac parte specialiter deputato, +in præsentia mei, Nicholai Parker, notarii publici, scribæ in ea parte +assumpti et deputati, de et super interrogatoriis per partem venerabilis +viri domini Willelmi Yelverton militis et Willelmi Worceter, executorum +testamenti domini Johannis Fastolf militis ministratis, productum.’</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note236_1" id = "note236_1" href = +"#tag236_1">236.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The following +examinations are contained in the same volume as the depositions of John +Paston of which an abstract will be found in <a href = "#letter606">No. +606</a>. They begin at page 21, immediately after Paston’s depositions, +a single blank page intervening.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note236_2" id = "note236_2" href = +"#tag236_2">236.2</a> +By a singular mistake in the record, Sir William Yelverton is here +spoken of as deceased instead of John Paston:— ‘per partem +venerabilis viri domini Willelmi Yelverton militis defuncti contra +testes Johannis Paston armigeri et domini Thomæ Howys.’ Yelverton +certainly lived for some years after this, and was continued as judge by +Henry <span class = "smallroman">VI.</span> on his restoration +(<i>see</i> Foss), but John Paston died on the 26th May 1466.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note239_1" id = "note239_1" href = +"#tag239_1">239.1</a> +South-Town, Yarmouth, sometimes called Little Yarmouth.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note240_1" id = "note240_1" href = +"#tag240_1">240.1</a> +‘Quod dictis Johannes Paston apud Castre penultimo die Octobris ultimo +præterito ad tres annos proxime elapsos sibi retulit.’ It would seem by +this that Popy’s testimony must have been given within three years of +Fastolf’s death.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note241_1" id = "note241_1" href = +"#tag241_1">241.1</a> +The residences of every one of the witnesses are given from the time of +his birth; but we have given these details only in one or two cases as +specimens.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">before that in the manor of Caster four +years</span><br> +text unchanged: Gairdner’s usual spelling is “Caister”</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter640" id = "letter640">640</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Extract from ‘An Index to Deeds and Writings +in the Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford’</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +‘34. The testimony of Th. Howes concerning the testament of Sir John +Fastolf, touching which controversies arose between John Paston the +elder, and Thos. Howes of the one party, and William Yelverton, Knight, +and William Worcetyr on the other.’</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page246" id = "page246">246</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter641" id = "letter641">641</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">EDWARD IV. TO THE BAILIFFS OF YARMOUTH<a class = +"tag" name = "tag246_1" id = "tag246_1" href = +"#note246_1">246.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<span class = "smallcaps">By the Kinge (Edward the Fourth)</span><a +class = "tag" name = "tag246_2" id = "tag246_2" href = +"#note246_2">246.2</a></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +17</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Trusty</span> and welbeloved, we greet yow +well, letting yow wete that our trusty and welbeloved knight Sir John +Paston, our welbeloved William Paston, and Clement Paston, with other, +have been before us and our councell worshipfully declared of the +surmise of great charge that was laid on our behalfe unto John Paston +deceased and them, jointly and severally; so that we hold them and every +of them sufficiently declared in that matter, and take and repute them +as gentlemen descended lineally of worshipfull blood sithen the Conquest +hither; and over that, have commanded that plenare restitution of the +manner of Castor, and of all other lands and tenements, with goods and +cattell, that the said John Paston deceased had of the gift and purchase +of Sir John Fastolfe, Knight, shall wholly be restored unto our said +Knight Sir John Paston, like as the said John Paston deceased had in any +time of his daies. Wherefore, in as much as our said Knight intendeth to +make his abideing in Castor, we desire and pray yow that, for our sake +and contemplation, ye will be friendly and neighbours unto him in his +right; and such other things as may be to his profitt and ease, wherein +ye shall do unto us full and good pleasure. Yeaven under our signet in +our Castle at Windsore the xvij<sup>th</sup> day of July.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +Subjoined to the above in Sandford’s Genealogy is ‘the coppie of a +warrant sent +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page247" id = "page247">247</a></span> +from Kinge Edward the Fourth to restore Sir John Paston to the lands and +possessions which he purchased of Sir John Fastolfe, whereof the +originall remaineth in the custody of Edw. Paston, Esq.’ It is addressed +‘To all tenaunts, fermors, or occupiers of all the lands and tenements, +and of every part of them, that late were John Paston’s, Esq., now +deceased, by way of inheritance, or Agnes Paston, Margaret Paston, +William Paston, and Clement Paston, or any of them, and to all such +persons what so they be, now being in the manner or place of Castor, or +in any lifelode that was the said John Paston, Esq., by way of gifte or +purchase of late Sir John Fastolfe, or of any other, within our counties +of Norff., Suff., and Norwich, and to all the tenants, fermors, baylies, +or occupiers of the same, and of every part thereof; and to all mayers, +shreves, eschetors, bayliffs, and other our officers, as well within +franchise as without our counties aforesaid, hereing or seeing these our +letters.’ The King mentions in this warrant that ‘great part of the said +lands, tenements, and manors had been seized into our hands’; and the +tenants, farmers, bailiffs, and occupiers of the said lands are charged +thenceforth to pay the whole issues and profits thereof to Sir John +Paston; and the mayors, sheriffs, escheators, and others the King’s +officers are charged to be ‘assisting, helping, and strengthening.’ The +warrant is ‘Yeven under our signet at Windsore, the xxvj<sup>th</sup> +day of July, the sixth yeare of our reigne.’</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note246_1" id = "note246_1" href = +"#tag246_1">246.1</a> +This letter is reprinted from the <i>Norfolk Archæology</i>, where it +was first published by Mr. Worship from a transcript made by Sandford in +his <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Genealogy of the Paston +family, compiled in 1674. Sandford states that ‘the originall under the +King’s seale remaineth in the custody of Edward Paston, Esq.’ The date +is rendered certain by the warrant subjoined.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note246_2" id = "note246_2" href = +"#tag246_2">246.2</a> +We have placed the words ‘Edward the Fourth’ in parentheses, though they +are not so printed by Mr. Worship, and are probably not so written in +Sandford’s <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span>, because we suspect +that they were not in the text of the original document, but were added +by Sandford by way of explanation.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter642" id = "letter642">642</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag247_1" id = +"tag247_1" href = "#note247_1">247.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +20</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Latter clause of a writ of <i>supersedeas</i> to an escheator +directing him not to make inquisition <i>post mortem</i> on the lands of +John ——, until further notice.</p> + +<p>Westminster, 20 July.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[From the time of year at which this writ is dated, it may have been +issued after the death of John Paston, who died in May 1466, the +inquisition on his lands not having been taken till October following. +But it may possibly have applied to the lands of Sir John Fastolf, who +died in November 1459, the inquisition after his death not having been +taken till October 1460.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note247_1" id = "note247_1" href = +"#tag247_1">247.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter643" id = "letter643">643</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANCESTRY OF THE PASTONS</span></h3> + +<p class = "annotation"> +The following document is derived from a transcript made by Sandford in +the Genealogy mentioned in <a href = "#letter641">No. 641</a>, and some +previous papers, and is likewise reprinted from Mr. Worship’s article. +Prefixed to it in Sandford’s <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> are +these words:— ‘The Briefe followinge was delivered to Edward +Paston, Esq., amonge other evidence, by his uncle Clement Paston, and it +is written in an old hand.’ It would appear, however, from the wording, +not to be a ‘brief’ or abstract, as Sandford considered it, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page248" id = "page248">248</a></span> +but an extract from some certificate made in the King’s name in behalf +of Sir John Paston, setting forth what had been proved on examination as +to the gentility of his ancestry.</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">They</span> shewed divers great evidences and +court rolles, how that they and their ancetors had been possessed of a +court and seniory in the town of Paston, and of many and sundry bondmen, +sithen the time that no mind is to the contrary; and how that Agnes +Paston, wife to the said William Paston, father to the said John, +William, and Clement, in title of her dower, is in possession of +bondholders, and also of bondmen, whose ancetors have been bondmen to +the ancetors of the said John Paston sithen the time that no minde is to +the contrary. And they shewed divers fines, some leavyed in the time of +the begining of the reigne of our noble progenitor, Edward the First, +son of Kinge Henry, son of King John, of liveloude whereof they and +theire ancetors have been possessed ever since to this day.</p> + +<p>Also they shewed divers inquests which is matters of record. Also +they shewed divers deeds and grants before time of mind, how that their +ancetors had licence to have a chaplen and have divine service within +them. And that divers of their ancetors had given lyvelyhood to houses +of religion to be prayed for, and confirmacions under the Great Seale of +our noble ancestor Kinge Henry the Third, son of Kinge John, confirming +the same grants.</p> + +<p>Also they shewed divers old deeds, some without date, insealed under +autenticke seales, of divers particular purchases in the town of Paston, +reciting in the said deeds that the land was holden of the ancetors of +the said<span class = "enspace"> . . +. . . </span>Paston, as of the chiefe lord +of the fee, and by homage, and had ward, marriage and reliefe. Also they +shewed how their ancestors were infeoffed in divers men’s mannors and +lands in trust. Also they shewed a great multitude of old deeds, without +date and with date, wherein their ancetors were alwaies sett first in +witness, and before all other gentlemen. Also they shewed how their +ancetors had, in old time and of late time, married with worshipfull +gentlemen; and proved, by deeds of marriage and by other deeds, how +their ancetors had indowed +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page249" id = "page249">249</a></span> +their wives, and by discents of livelyhood, and by testaments and wills +of their ancestors under seale; and made open by evident proofe, how +they and their ancetors came lineally descended of right noble and +worshipfull blood, and of great lords, sometime liveing in this our +realme of Ingland. And also they made open proofe how they were nere of +kin and blood to many of the worshipfullest of the country, and also +nere to many and sundry great estates and lords of this realme, and was +openly proved and affirmed, without contradiction or proofe to the +contrary.</p> + +<p>They shewed how they had kept pl’ce with divers<span class = +"enspace"> . . . . </span>and +with Plays that had wedded the Earle Warren’s daughter, the third yeare +of Edward the First. They shewed a lineall discent, how their first +ancetor, Wulstan, came out of France, and Sir William Glanvile together, +his kinsman, that after founded the pryory of Bromholme by the towne of +Paston and the towne of Bentley; and how Wulstan had issue Wulstan, +which bare armes gould flowret azure; and how he had issue, Raffe and +Robert; which Raffe, senior, bare armes as his father, and Robert the +younger bare silver flowret azure. And Robert had issue Edmund and +Walter; which Edmund the elder bare as his father; and his brother, +because he married Glanvile’s daughter, a cheife indented gold, the +field silver, flowret azure; and how their ancetors after bare with +lesse number; and how Sir John Paston was heire to all those, for they +died sans issue. And this was shewed by writinge of olde hand, and by +old testaments and evidences.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter644" id = "letter644">644</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILL OF AGNES PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag249_1" id = "tag249_1" href = "#note249_1">249.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">SEPT. +16</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">To</span> all to whom this present writting +xal come, I, Agnes Paston, late the wife of William Paston, Justice, +send greting in God everlasting, lating hem know that I, the forseid +Agnes, of goode and hole mende, the xvj. day of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page250" id = "page250">250</a></span> +Septembre, the vj. yere of the reigne of Kyng E. the iiij<sup>th</sup> +and the yere of our Lord a M<sup>l</sup>CCCClxvj., make and ordeyne my +last will in al the maners, londes, tenementes, rentes, services, +mesuages, and places, that ony person or persones bene seased of to myn +use and behof with in Norwiche, Norffolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshere, +or in any other shere with in Englond, praying and desiring al the +personez so feffed to myn use, after this my will, writtyn and inceled +under my seale, be shewed unto them, that they wol make astate to the +persones lemited in my seid will according.</p> + +<p>And inasmoche as myn husbond, whos soule God assoile, dyverse tymes, +and specialy among other the day of the moneth, rehersed to me that the +lyvelod whiche he had assigned to his ij. yongest, William and Clement, +by his will in writting, was so littill that they mizt not leve thereon, +withouzt they shuld hold the plowe to the tayle; and ferthermore, seying +that he had dyvers oder maners, that is to say, the maner of Sporle, +Sweynsthorp, and Bekham; which maner of Bekham he was purposed to +chaunge with the maner of Pagrave; and if he myzt bring it abouzt, then +xuld on of his ij. yongest sones have the seid maners of Sporle and +Bekham, and no more, and the other yongest sone xuld have al the +remenaunt. And he that had the maner of Sweynsthorp xuld be bound in a +gret some to the prior of the Abbey of Norwiche, to paie dayly for ever +to the monke that for that day singeth the masse of the Holy Goste in +our Lady Chapell in Norwiche, where he purposed to leye his body, every +day iiij<i>d.</i>, to sing and pray for his sowle and myn, and al the +sowles that he and I have hade any goode of or be beholdyn to pray for. +And after that the ——<a class = "tag" name = "tag250_1" id = +"tag250_1" href = "#note250_1">250.1</a> day of +————<a class = "tag" href = +"#note250_1">250.1</a> next folowing my seid husbond lying seke in his +bed, in the presens of John Paston, his sone and myn, John Bakton, John +Dame, and of me, declared his will towching certein of his children and +me, at whiche tyme he assigned to the seid John Paston the maner of +Gressham in honde, and the revercion of suche lyvelode as he zave me +after my decesse, askyng hym the question wheder he held hym not content +so, seying to him in these termes, ‘Sir, and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page251" id = "page251">251</a></span> +thow do not I doo, for I will not geve so mekyll to on that the +remenaunt xal have to littill to leve on. At the whiche<a class = "tag" +name = "tag251_1" id = "tag251_1" href = "#note251_1">251.1</a><span +class = "enspace"> . .</span>’</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note249_1" id = "note249_1" href = +"#tag249_1">249.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note250_1" id = "note250_1" href = +"#tag250_1">250.1</a> +Blanks in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note251_1" id = "note251_1" href = +"#tag251_1">251.1</a> +Here the fragment ends at the bottom of a leaf written only on one +side.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter645" id = "letter645">645</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILL OF AGNES PASTON<a class = "tag" name = +"tag251_2" id = "tag251_2" href = "#note251_2">251.2</a></span></h3> + +<p>B.—And after that the —— day of the monethe my seyd +husbond lyyng seke on hys bede sent for me, John Paston, Bakton, and +John a Dame, to here hiis wyll rede; and in owr presens all he began to +reede hiis wylle, and spak fyst of me, and assynyid to me the maners of +Paston, Latymer, and Schypden and Ropers, in Crowmer, for terme of my +lyffe, and the manerys of Merlyngforthe, Stonsted, and Horwelbury, +whyche wasse myn owne enheritans, and Oxned, whyche wasse my jontor, and +[prayd me to hold me contente so, for]<a class = "tag" name = "tag251_3" +id = "tag251_3" href = "#note251_3">251.3</a> hadde do to lityll to ony +it wasse to me, for somme he faryd the better, and so devedede (?) he +ded for not of hem all, but he hadde more to care for, wyche myn as well +as hys. And than he red John parte, and assynyd to hym and to hys wyffe +the maner of Gressam, and after my desesse the maner of Oxned; and he, +thynkyng by John Pastons demenyng that he wasse not plesyd because<span +class = "enspace"> . . . .</span></p> + +<p>C.—Swynne of slowyth that hiis wyll wasse not made up, but wot +swm ever cwm of me, Dame, I wyll ze know my wyll, and seyd that +swyche lond as he hadde not wrytyn in hiis wyll wott xwlde he do with +all, he wold his ij. yongest sonnys, Wyllam and Clement, xwlde have, and +owte of Sweynthorpe to have hiis perpetuell masse. And of thys prayd me +to reporte recorde and berre wyttnesse; in qwyche disposicion and intent +he continuyd in on to the day of hiis dethe, and I +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page252" id = "page252">252</a></span> +darre rytgh largely deposse that that same wasse hiis last wyll the tyme +of hiis dethe; qwyche wyll immediatly after my husbondes decesse I +hopynd and declaryd to John Paston and al the other executores of my +husbond, desyeryng hem to have performyd it. And the seyd John Paston +wold in no wysse agree ther to, seyying that by the lawe the seyd +manerys xulde be hiis, in as moche as my husbonde made no wyll of hem in +wrytyn, and gatte the dedis owte of my possession and estat of the +feffees in the seyde manerys, myn unknowyng.</p> + +<p>And after that swyche tresowre of my husbons as wasse leyde in the +Abbey of Norwyche by the seyd John Paston, John Bakton, John Dam, and +me, to delyvere azen to us all, the seyde John Paston owte of the seyde +Abbey unknowyn to the priour or ony oder person of the seyde Abbey, and +withowte my wetyn[g] and assente, or ony of owre felawys, toke and bare +awey all, and kepyng it styll azens my wyll and all the tother +executores wyllys, nothere restoryng the seid Wyllam and Clement to the +forseyd land, nother recompensyng them of my husbonds tresor, and +ordeynyng for my husbonds sowle in havyng of hiis perpetuell masse +acordyng to his wyll. Werfor, in as moche as I know and understonde +verrely that it wasse my husbonds wyll the tyme of hys dethe, that the +seyd Wyllam and Clement xwlde have the seyd manerys of Sporle, +Sweynsthorp, and Bekham, and the annuyte for hys perpetuell masse to be +going owte of the seyde maner of Sweynthorp, and that the possessioners +of the seyd manerys at thys day wyll in no wysse by any fayer menez or +spekyng tender my seyd husbonds sowle and myn, ner perform the wyll of +my seyd husbond, I wyll have and xall by the gras[e] of swyche +lyvelode as I have in my possession, that is for to sey, the maners of +Stonsted, Marlyngforthe, and Horwellbury, that swm tym wasse my faders +and my moders, and cwm on to me by them as myn enheritance. And after my +decesse if I wolde soffer it to desend, xwld goo to the wronge +possessioners of the seyd manerys of Sporle, Sweynsthorp, and Bekham, +qwyche xall not be lettyd for me, but if it be thorow her owne defaute, +make, sta[b]lesse and ordeyn myn husbonds perpetuell masse and myn, and +of the remenaunt, as swerly as +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page253" id = "page253">253</a></span> +can be made by the lawe, I wyll the seyd Wyllam and Clement be +recompensyd to the valew of the seyde manerys of Sporle, Sweynthorpe, +and Bekkam, zerly [<i>yearly</i>], on to the tyme that they be restoryd +to the forseyd manerys of Sporle, Sweynthorp, and Bekkam, in lik forme, +and lyke astat as xall be afterwards lymytyd in thys my last<a class = +"tag" name = "tag253_1" id = "tag253_1" href = "#note253_1">253.1</a> +[will; chargyng and requiryng the seyd Wyllam and Clement that after +that they be restoryd to the manerys of Sporle, Sweynsthorp, and Bekam, +they restore myn heyres to Marlyngforthe, Stons[ted], and +Orwelbury.]</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note251_2" id = "note251_2" href = +"#tag251_2">251.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>] The following +appear to be three separate fragments of an original draft of Agnes +Paston’s will, written on two sides of a small scrap of paper. Two of +these fragments have the letters B and D prefixed to them, showing that +they were intended as insertions in a part of the text now lost.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note251_3" id = "note251_3" href = +"#tag251_3">251.3</a> +These words are struck through with the pen.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note253_1" id = "note253_1" href = +"#tag253_1">253.1</a> +The word ‘will’ is omitted in the <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span>, +and the words ‘my last’ repeated. What follows is crossed out.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter646" id = "letter646">646</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>In the Paston Genealogy drawn up by Sandford, to which we have +several times before alluded, occurs another extract from the will of +Agnes Paston, as follows:—</p> + +<p>‘Also I bequeath to the Whight Fryers of the said city of Norwich, +for I am there a suster, to helpe to pay hir [<i>their</i>] debts, +xx<i>li.</i>, which I will be gathered of the arrerage of my lyvelode. +Also I bequeath to the auter of Gracion of the said House, whereas mine +husband and I have a perpetuall masse, a vestment which they have +for a prist to judge in or [<i>of ?</i>] rede satern. Also to the +mendinge of the chappell of our Ladie within the said place, whereas Sir +Thomas Gerbrege, my grandfather, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, and Sir +Edmond Berrye my father, and Dame Alice his wife, be buried, and Clement +Paston my sonn.’</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter647" id = "letter647">647</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILLIAM PASTON’S WILL<a class = "tag" name = +"tag253_2" id = "tag253_2" href = "#note253_2">253.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">On</span> the Thurseday at nyght before Our +Ladys Day the Assumpcion,<a class = "tag" name = "tag253_3" id = +"tag253_3" href = "#note253_3">253.3</a> betwixt xj. and xij. of the +clokk, in the yer of Our Lord God MCCCC. and xliiij., the Sondays lettre +on the D., died my husbond, God assoyle his +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page254" id = "page254">254</a></span> +sowle. And on the Fryday after I sent for John Paston, John Dam, &c. +And on the Wedynysday after cam John Paston, &c. And on the Fryday +John Paston, John Dam and I yede into the chambre, and they desyred of +me to see the wyll. I lete them see it. And John Dam redde it; and +when he had redde it, John Paston walkyd up and down in the chambere. +John Dam and I knelyd at the beddys fete.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note253_2" id = "note253_2" href = +"#tag253_2">253.2</a> +[From Fenn, iii. 15.] The following memorandum relative to the death of +her husband was written by Agnes Paston, probably about the time she +made her will.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note253_3" id = "note253_3" href = +"#tag253_3">253.3</a> +The Assumption of Our Lady was the 15th August.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter648" id = "letter648">648</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag254_1" id = +"tag254_1" href = "#note254_1">254.1</a></span></h3> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Roll of paper containing a draft in English of part of the +inquisition on the death of John Paston, relating more especially to the +foundation of Fastolf’s college. In the latter part the jury find that +John Paston died on the 22nd May<a class = "tag" name = "tag254_2" id = +"tag254_2" href = "#note254_2">254.2</a> last, and that Sir John Paston, +Knight, is his son and next heir, and is of the age of 24 years and +more.</p> + +<p>⁂ Copies of the original inquisition, as returned into Chancery, and +of that on the death of Sir John Fastolf, exist among the Paston <span +class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> in the Bodleian Library.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note254_1" id = "note254_1" href = +"#tag254_1">254.1</a> +[Addit. Roll, 17,258, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note254_2" id = "note254_2" href = +"#tag254_2">254.2</a> +The date in the inquisition returned into Chancery (6 Edw. <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, No. 44) is 21st May.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter649" id = "letter649">649</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag254_3" id = "tag254_3" href = +"#note254_3">254.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght wyrshypfull mayster, Sir John Paston, Knyzt, be thys letter +delyveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +29</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I grytte</span> you well, and send you +God ys blessyng and myn, desyryng you to send me werd how that ye spede +in youre maters, for I thynk ryght leng tyll I here tydyngys from you; +and in alwyse I avyse you for to be ware that ye kepe wysly your +wrytyngys that ben of charge, that it com not in her [<i>their</i>] +handys that may hurt you herafter. Your fader, wham God assole, in hys +trobyll seson set more +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page255" id = "page255">255</a></span> +by hys wrytyngys and evydens than he dede by any of hys moveabell godys. +Remember that yf the wer had from you, ye kowd never gyte no moo such as +the be for your parte, &c.</p> + +<p>Item, I wold ye shold take hyde that yf any processe com owte a yenst +me, or a yenst any of tho that wer endyted a fore the coroner, that I +myght have knowlych therof, and to purvey a remedy therfor.</p> + +<p>Item, as for your fader ys wyll, I wold ye shold take ryght gode +counsell therin, as I am enformyd it may be prevyd, thogh no man take no +charge thys twelfmonth. Ye may have a letter of mynystracyon to such as +ye wyll, and mynyster the godys and take no charge. I avyse you +that ye in no wyse take no charge therof tyll ye know more than ye doo +yet; for ye may verely knowe by that your unkell Will. seyd to you and +to me, that thay wyll lay the charge uppon you and me for moo thyngys +then ys exprest in your fader ys wyll, the whych shud be to grete for +you or me to bere; but as for me, I will not be to hesty to take it +uppon me, I ensure you.</p> + +<p>And at the reverens of God, spede your maters so thys terme, that we +may be in rest herafter, and lette not for no labour for the season, and +remember the grete cost and charge that we have had hedyr toward, and +thynk verely it may not lenge endur. Ye know what ye left when ye wer +last at hom, and wyte it verely ther ys no mor in thys countray to bere +owte no charge with. I awyse you enquer wysely yf ye canne gyte any +more ther as ye be, for els by my feth I feer els it will not be well +with ous; and send me word in hast hough ye doo, and whether ye have +your laste dedys that ye fayled, for playnly they er not in thys +contrey. It ys told me in consell that Ric. Calle hath nyer conqueryd +your uncle Will. with fayre promyse twochyng hys lyflode and other +thyngs, the whych shold prevayll hym gretly, as he sayth. Be ware of hym +and of hys felowe be myn avyse. God sende you gode spede in all your +maters.</p> + +<p>Wryten at Caster, the moreu next after Symon and Jude, wher as I wold +not be at thys tyme but for your sake, so mot I ches. +<span class = "signature">By your Moder.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note254_3" id = "note254_3" href = +"#tag254_3">254.3</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 272.] The date of this letter is shown by the contents +to be shortly after John Paston the father’s death, probably in the same +year.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page256" id = "page256">256</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter650" id = "letter650">650</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag256_1" id = +"tag256_1" href = "#note256_1">256.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Sir James Gloys to Sir John Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +10</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Was at Snaylwell on Sunday, but could get no money. Most of the +tenants away at Canterbury or elsewhere. The rest said when you were +there last you had given them till Candlemas, ‘so that thei myght malt +ther corn and brynge it to the best preffe.’ Warned them to be ready by +Tuesday before St. Edmond the King, when Richard Calle would visit them. +A thrifty man beside Bery is willing to take the farm; but every +one says the last farmer was undone by it. Advises Paston not to +overcharge his farms. I have seen Catelyn’s corn, and your tenants +say it is sufficient to content you. Your shepherd wishes to know if you +will continue him, for no one has spoken to him since my master your +father died. Men of Fordham have occupied your ground these two years +that my master has been in trouble. I think you should speak to my +Lord of Worcester, as he and Woodhous are lords of the town. I have +bid the farmers at Snaylwell sow some wheat land, and have warned the +tenants at Sporle, Pagrave, and Cressingham to be ready to pay. Advises +him to keep up his place at Langham’s. If ‘my master’ had lived he would +have exchanged it for the parsonage. Supped on Monday night at a place +of the Duke of Suffolk’s with the parson of Causton, a chaplain of +the Duchess, ‘and they talked sore of my Lady’s bargain, and were right +sorry that she should forsake it.’ The parson asserted that the feoffees +had put her in possession of the manors. Talk over this with your +counsel; for if the feoffees be compelled to release in Chancery it will +be nought, because of the estate they made before; so when you expect to +be most quiet you will be most troubled. There was also the parson of +Brampston, and he said W. Yelverton had sent a letter to the +bailiff he has set at Guton, but what it meant I could not find out. +W. Yelverton has put the parson of Heynford out of his farm. +I did not speak with your mother before writing this, as she was at +Caister.</p> + +<p>Norwich, St. Martin’s Even.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +From the mention of John Paston the father as dead, and the trouble he +had been in for two years, it would appear that this letter must have +been written in 1466, the year of his death. The letter is endorsed in a +contemporary hand: ‘Literæ anno vj. et vij. Edwardi +iiij<sup>ti.</sup>’</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note256_1" id = "note256_1" href = +"#tag256_1">256.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page257" id = "page257">257</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter651" id = "letter651">651</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag257_1" id = +"tag257_1" href = "#note257_1">257.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Thomas Grene to William Yelverton, +Esq.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +22</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Desires his favour for Frere John Chesteyn and John Russe of +Yarmouth, who are suspected by Lord Scales of having treasures or jewels +of my Master Paston’s. He never trusted them with any, knowing they were +familiar with William Jenney and Sir Thomas Howes. Is sure he put no +treasure into any place in that town, religious or other, for he often +said he wondered any thrifty man would live in it, ‘there were so much +riotous people therein.’ Begs his favour for my mistress Paston, ‘which +is now under your governance.’ Hopes to see her hereafter ‘as worshipful +and well at ease as ever she was, and a great deal better when these +troubles be passed; for I am sekir whan God woll that she be passed them +she would not suffer them again for right great riches.’</p> + +<p>Norwich, morrow of St. Thomas Apostle.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[This letter has a great appearance of having been written shortly after +John Paston’s death. We place it therefore in the year in which he +died.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note257_1" id = "note257_1" href = +"#tag257_1">257.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter652" id = "letter652">652</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag257_2" id = "tag257_2" href = +"#note257_2">257.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To Mestresse Margrete Paston, be thys delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Date uncertain</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Please</span> it yow to weete that I sende yow +by Barker, the berer heroff, iij. tracle pottes of Geane [<i>Genoa</i>] +as my potecarie swerytht on to me, and mooreovyr that they weer never +ondoo syns that they come from Geane. Wheroff ye shalle take as many as +pleasyth yow; neverthe lesse my brother John sente to me for ij., +therfor I most beseche yow that he maye have at the lest on. Ther is on +potte that is morkyn ondre the bottome ij. tymes with thyes letteris +M. P., whyche potte I have best truste on too, and nexte hym to the +wryghe potte; and I mystruste moost the potte that hathe a +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page258" id = "page258">258</a></span> +krotte abovyn in the toppe, lesse that he hathe ben ondoone. And also +the other ij. pottys be prentyd with that marchauntys marke too tymes on +the coveryng, and that other pott is butt onys morkyn but with on +prente, notwithstondyng I hadde lyke othe and promyse for on as well as +for alle.<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_1" id = "tag258_1" href = +"#note258_1">258.1</a></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note257_2" id = "note257_2" href = +"#tag257_2">257.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 264.] This and the two letters following are without any +certain date, but they are all addressed to Margaret Paston, most +probably after her husband’s death.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_1" id = "note258_1" href = +"#tag258_1">258.1</a> +The signature of this letter, Fenn says, is torn off the original <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter653" id = "letter653">653</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_2" id = +"tag258_2" href = "#note258_2">258.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Edward Mawdby to his Niece Margaret +Paston</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Has a tenant, a widow in Sall, building a house on his ground. +She has been threatened with having it pulled down. Send for Aleyn Roos, +my receiver, and take his counsel what is to be done.</p> + +<p>London, 24 Nov. Signed ‘By your nevew Edward Mawdby’; although +addressed ‘my most trusty and well beloved niece.’</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note258_2" id = "note258_2" href = +"#tag258_2">258.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter654" id = "letter654">654</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_3" id = +"tag258_3" href = "#note258_3">258.3</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">E. Clere<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_4" id += "tag258_4" href = "#note258_4">258.4</a> to Margaret Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +My little cousin your son<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_5" id = +"tag258_5" href = "#note258_5">258.5</a> is a fair child. Wishes certain +evidences of Frethorp, which she delivered to Margaret Paston’s husband +to make award between her and Rammesbury, a paper book of the +customs of Ormesby and a roll called ‘domysday,’ &c. Your +father-in-law<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_6" id = "tag258_6" href = +"#note258_6">258.6</a> was of counsel both with my mother<a class = +"tag" name = "tag258_7" id = "tag258_7" href = "#note258_7">258.7</a> +and with my mother-in-law.<a class = "tag" name = "tag258_8" id = +"tag258_8" href = "#note258_8">258.8</a> Supposes there may be other +evidences, as of Tacolneston, Therston, Reynthorp, Rusteynes in +Wymondham, Kesewik, and Stratton. Sends back some rolls brought by a man +from Norwich, which belong to Margaret Paston and not to the writer.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_3" id = "note258_3" href = +"#tag258_3">258.3</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_4" id = "note258_4" href = +"#tag258_4">258.4</a> +Elizabeth, widow of Robert Clere of Ormesby. She died in 1492.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_5" id = "note258_5" href = +"#tag258_5">258.5</a> +This must be one of the younger sons of John and Margaret Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_6" id = "note258_6" href = +"#tag258_6">258.6</a> +William Paston, Justice.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_7" id = "note258_7" href = +"#tag258_7">258.7</a> +Margaret, wife of Thos. Owydale or Dovedale, of Tacolneston, daughter +and heir of William Reeves.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note258_8" id = "note258_8" href = +"#tag258_8">258.8</a> +Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Branch, and wife of John Clere, Esq. +of Ormesby; after whose death she married again Sir John Rothenhale. +<i>See</i> No. 15 in vol. ii.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page259" id = "page259">259</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter655" id = "letter655">655</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag259_1" id = "tag259_1" href = +"#note259_1">259.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1466(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Item</span>, Arb[l]aster must mak a proctyr by +yowr advyce, and iff he lyst to make the seyd Master John Halfnothe he +maye, elles he must sende uppe an other; and he most also make a letter +of waraunt to the seyde Master John Halfnothe undre hys selle by yowre +advyce in thys forme:—</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +Master John, &c. I recomande me, &c., letyng yow weet that +I have made yow my proctor towchyng the testement off John Paston, +Esquier; wherffor I praye yow that ye on my behalve reffuce the +admynystracion of hys seyde testamen, fur I woll nowt have ado ther +with. Wherffo[r] loke that ye on my behalve reffuce all admynestracion, +entresse or besynesse, that I myght have there by. And thys shewys yow +my wyll here in, and shall be to yow a dyscharge att any tyme. No moor, +&c. +<span class = "signature">Yowr frend,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">James Arblaster.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I wolde nat that myn oncle William scholde cawse hym to take on hym as +hys felawe, for iff myn oncle William doo thus moche in the corte I +suppose it may here afftre doo ease. For as God helpe me I cannot sey +verrely iff my fadre (God have hys sowle!) agreyd that he shold be one, +but in my sowle he never thowt that he sholde be, for he never namyd no +moor butt my modre and me, and afftre, yow, whan I rehessyd myn oncle +Clement, yow and Arblaster, and than he chase yow, seyng he thoght that +ye were good and trewe. Kepe thys secrett. Iff myn oncle be noon +executor, it maye happely brynge ageyn a trussyng coffre with CC. old +peyse noblis, whyche he toke from me as executor.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note259_1" id = "note259_1" href = +"#tag259_1">259.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The <span +class = "smallroman">MS.</span> from which this letter is printed is a +draft in the handwriting of Sir John Paston. There can be little doubt +it was addressed to his brother John, and as it refers to the +administration of their father’s will, we place it in the year of his +death.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page260" id = "page260">260</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter656" id = "letter656">656</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN RUSSE TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag260_1" id = "tag260_1" href = +"#note260_1">260.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the worshypfull and my right honorabyll maistresse, Maistresse Marget +Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">After 1466</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull and myn right +honourable and good maistresse, I recomaund me to you in my most +humble wyse, besekynge youre maistresshyp to take no dyspleasure of the +longe forberyng of youre mony, whiche is ix<i>li.</i> xvj<i>s.</i> +viij<i>d.</i> now. Be my trouthe, Maister Fen had of me l. marke at hyse +beyng here fore custum, wherof a gret part is owyng me tyl I may be +leysere<a class = "tag" name = "tag260_2" id = "tag260_2" href = +"#note260_2">260.2</a> gather it up. I thynke of every day a wyke +tyl ye be content, and I thanke God I owe not al the world so myche as I +do you. In as goodly haste as I can, youre maistresship shal have it +with ever my servise and preyer, for ye do a meritory dede; it hathe +savyd my pore honestie and gretly avayled me; wher as if it had leyn in +youre coferys, as, I doute not, a M<sup>l</sup><i>li.</i> more +dothe, no profit shuld have growe to any man; it is a meritory dede to +helpe them that mene trewly, whiche, for Godis sake, maistresse +consedre. I truste I am of that substans that, what soever caswelte +fortunyd, yourre maistresship shuld not lese on pene of yourre dute. +Every ourre (?) may be distreynid of myn the value of C. marke in +shyppis and literys, and owe not but to you C<i>s.</i>, I dare +afferme. Also, maystresse, ye have an obligacion of me of xl<i>li.</i> a +byll of xx<i>li.</i>, and abil of xx<i>li.</i>, and a byll of +x<i>li.</i>; for Godis sake, maistresse, spare me for a tyme, the rather +for the affeccion that my maister<a class = "tag" name = "tag260_3" id = +"tag260_3" href = "#note260_3">260.3</a> had to me, whos soule Jhesu +assoyle. Hyse maistirshyp grauntyd me many tymez to have lent me of the +dedys goodis xl<i>li.</i>, to have payd hym ageyn in v. yeer; and so I +doute not but I shuld have had if hyse maistirshyp had levyd. +I lost a gret losse of hese departyng; for hyse sake, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page261" id = "page261">261</a></span> +maystresse, shewe me the more favour. I intende not to debarre you +of oon peny, so Jhesu helpe me, but in as goodly haste as I can to +contente you; be my trouthe, at thys seasun I have not in my pocession +x. marke which is right litil, what casewelte that ever fortune. +I am deseyvid of many men; be my trouthe there is owyng me in thys +town xl. marke of iij. yeer passyd, that thow I shuld go to prison I +knowe not to have xx<i>s.</i> of ony of hem. Right worshypfull and my +right honourable maistresse, I beseke Almyghti Jhesu, ever preserve +you from adversite. Maistresse, for the servise that to my pore powyr I +aught my maister youre husbonde I am the werse by xx<i>li.</i> and more +sylvir; for Godis sake therfor, maistresse, yit favour me a season; +I aske not ellys. +<span class = "signature">Yourre bedeman and servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Russe.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note260_1" id = "note260_1" href = +"#tag260_1">260.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 226.] This letter +must have been written some time after John Paston’s death, but probably +not many years later. Compare <a href = "#letter651">No. 651</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note260_2" id = "note260_2" href = +"#tag260_2">260.2</a> +<i>Sic.</i></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note260_3" id = "note260_3" href = +"#tag260_3">260.3</a> +John Paston.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter657" id = "letter657">657</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">J. STRANGE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag261_1" id = "tag261_1" href = +"#note261_1">261.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rith worchipfull and good master, Ser John Paston, Knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Between 1467-9</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> worchupful ser, after dewe +recomendacion, plesyt zow to understond the cause of my wrytyng ys for a +maryage for my Masterys <ins class = "correction" +title = "text unchanged">Nargery</ins>, zowr suster. For my nevyewe, +John Straunge, wold make her sur of xl<i>li.</i> joynture and CC. marke +be zer of inherytaunce; and yf zee and zour frendes wole agreve herto, +I trost to God that xall take a conclusion to the plesur of God, +and worchup to both partyes.</p> + +<p>Moreover, and yt plesyth zow to wete, I am sore troblyd with Bedston, +as wele be the wey of tachements owte of the Chauncer as oderwyse. +I must beseche zow of zowr good mastershepe and help in secrete +maner as the Ser Thomas +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page262" id = "page262">262</a></span> +Lynes, the brynger of thys, shall enforme zow. I xall be att London +in the begynnyng of thys terme, be the grace of God, qwych preserve +zowe.</p> + +<p>Wretyn att Norwych in hast, the Monday after Twelthe Day. +<span class = "signature">By yowr,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Strange.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note261_1" id = "note261_1" href = +"#tag261_1">261.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 286.] This letter being addressed to Sir John Paston +touching a proposal of marriage for his sister, must have been after the +death of his father in 1466, and, of course, before the actual marriage +of Margery Paston to Richard Call, which seems to have taken place +towards the close of 1469.</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">a maryage for my Masterys Nargery, zowr +suster</span><br> +text unchanged</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter658" id = "letter658">658</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN AND LADY HOWARD<a class = "tag" name = +"tag262_1" id = "tag262_1" href = "#note262_1">262.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +22</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">This</span> wrytenge made at London the +vj<sup>te</sup> yer of Kynge Edward the iiij. and the xxij. day of +Jenever wytnesseth what stoffe my master Sir John Howard hath delyverd +to my Lady his wyfe in this monyth of Jenever.</p> + +<p>Ferst ij. rynges of goolde set with good dyamawntes, the wyche the +quene yaff my master.</p> + +<p>Item, a rynge of goolde with a fyne rubye.</p> + +<p>Item, a nowche of goolde set with a fyne safyre, a grete balyse and +v. perles.</p> + +<p>Item, my master yaff here a fyne pece of holand clothe as good as +Reynes conteynenge in length xl. yerdes, the yerde was wele worth +iiij<i>s.</i></p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a noder pece of holand clothe, corser, +conteynenge in lengthe more than xl. yerdes, the yerde was worthe +ij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i></p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a longe gowne of fyne cremysen velvet furred +with menyver and purfeled with ermynes.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a longe gowne of fyne grene velvet furred +with menyver and purfeled with ermynes.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her vij<sup>xx</sup> scynnes of fyne +ermynes.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her vij. yerdes and di. of fyne grene +velvet.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff here vij. yerdes of cremyson velvet.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page263" id = "page263">263</a></span> +<p>Item, my master gaff here a devyse of goolde with xiiij. lynkes and +the ton halffe of the lynkes enamyled set with iiij. Rubyis iij. +dyamawntes and vij. perles.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her an nothe devyse of goolde of the same +fassyon with odre xiiij. lynkes, and theryn vij. Rubyis and vij. +perles.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a gyrdyll of clothe of goolde and the +harneys of goolde.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a gyrdyll of grene damaske and the harneys +of sylver and gylte.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her iij. edges of blak velvet set with lviij. +perles.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff here a longe gowne of blak velvet furred with +martrys and purfeled with marteres.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a longe gowne of murrey furred with menever +and purfeled with ermynes.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff here a coler of goolde with xxxiiij. roses and +sonnes set on a corse of blak sylke with an hanger of goolde garnyshed +with a saphyre.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her iiij. owches of goolde garnyshed with iij. +rubyis, a saphyre, an amytes, an emerawde and xv. perles.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff here a peyr of bedes for a gentylwomannes nekke +gawdeid with viij. <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged: error for ‘gawdeis’?">gawdeid</ins> of goolde and viij. +perles.</p> + +<p>Item, a rynge with a grete saphyre.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a nother ryng with an amytes.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her iij. Agnus Dei of goolde.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a gret sygnnet of goolde with the +vernycle.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her v. odre ryngis of goolde withowt stones.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a cheyne of goolde with a lokke of goolde +gernyshed with a rubye.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a lytell gerdyll of sylke and goolde called +a demysent and the harneys of goolde.</p> + +<p>Item, my master gaff her a <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged: missing word ‘gowne’ or similar?">longe</ins> of vyolet +engreyned furred with martres and purfeled with martres.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page264" id = "page264">264</a></span> +<p>Item, the xviij. day of Feverer my master delyverid to my Lady to +have to Braye a bed of cremysen damaske embrowdered with Cyle +counterpoynte and testour all affter one.</p> + +<p>Item, the same day my master delyverid my Lady a bede, a cyle, +a counterpeynt and a testor of Aras with out goolde.</p> + +<p>Item, a pece of Aras for hangenge conteynenge in length xj. yerdes +and iij. quarters.</p> + +<p>Item, a nother pece of Aras conteynenge in length viij. yerdis and +iii. quarters.</p> + +<p>Item, a nother pece conteynenge vij. yerdis a quarter and di. in +length.</p> + +<p>Item, a nother pece of Aras conteyneng v. yerdes and iij. quarteres +in length.</p> + +<p>Item, delyverd to my said Lady iiij. peces of new Aras wyche cam late +fro Caleys wereof on is a covertore fore a bedde and the todde +[<i>sic</i>] iij. ar tapettes conteynenge all iiij. peces in flemesh +elles square C iiij<sup>xx</sup> xij.</p> + +<p>Item, my master left at London at his departynge to Braye in his +place in Bathe Rowe the xx. day of feverer ij. brede clothes of +Blewe.</p> + +<p>Item, the vij<sup>th</sup> yer of Kynge Edward the iiii<sup>th</sup> +and the xvj. day of March, my master sent to my Lady to Bray a longe +coshon of cremesen velvet and iij. schorte coshones of cremesen velvet. +Item, a longe coshon of grene velvet and ij. short cushones of +grene velvet.</p> + +<p>Item, the same tyme my master delyverd her a cheyne of goold of the +olde facyon prise iiij. markis.</p> + +<p>Item, the yere above said and the xvj. day of Apryll, my master +delyverd to my Lady v. sylver spones.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +<i>Added in Sir John Howard’s own hand:</i>—And the vij. zere of +the kenge and in the monithe of Janever I delyvered my wyffe a pote of +selver to pote in grene genger that the kenge gaffe.</p> + +<div class = "annotation"> +<p>On the back of this <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> is the +following unfinished memorandum:—</p> + +<p>‘M<sup>d</sup> that I John Legge hawe bownde mey self to John Osberne +yn an oblygacyon——’</p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note262_1" id = "note262_1" href = +"#tag262_1">262.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 51.] The date is +taken from the head of the document, but there are additions of later +dates to January 1468.</p> + +<div class = "correction"> +<p><span class = "citation">a peyr of bedes for a gentylwomannes nekke +gawdeid with viij. gawdeid of goolde</span><br> +text unchanged: error for “gawdeis of goolde”?</p> + +<p><span class = "citation">my master gaff her a longe of +vyolet</span><br> +text unchanged: missing word “gowne” or similar?</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page265" id = "page265">265</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter659" id = "letter659">659</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag265_1" id = "tag265_1" href = +"#note265_1">265.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my mastyr, Sir John Paston, logyng in Fletstret, be thys +delyveryd.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +27</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Syr</span>, lyekyth it yow to wet that thys +day my modyr sent me your lettyrs, wer by I undystand, blessyd be God, +all thyng standyth in good wey. Also I undyrstand by your lettyr sent to +my modyr and me that ye wold have your lyvelod gadyrd as hastyly as we +myght do it. Syr, as to that, and othyr folk do no wers ther dever +[<i>devoir</i>] in gaderyng of othyr manerys then we have don in Caster, +I tryst to God that ye schall not be long unpayid; for thys day we +had in the last comb of barly that eny man had owyth in Caster towne, +not with standyng Hew Awstyn and hys men hathe crakyd many a gret woord +in the tym that it hathe ben in gaderyng. And twenty comb Hew Awstyns +man had doun cartyd redy for to have led it to Yarmowth. And when I herd +ther of I let slype a sertyn of whelpys that gave the cart and the barly +syche a torn that it was fayn to tak covert in your bakhous systern at +Caster halle, and it was wet within an owyr aftyr that it cam hom, and +is nye redy to mak of good malt all, ho ho! William Yelverton hathe ben +at Gwton and hathe set in a new bayly ther and hathe dystreynyd the +tenauntis, and hathe geve hem day till Candyllmas to pay syche mony as +he axyth of hem. Also the seyd Yellverton hathe ben at Saxthorpe, and +hathe dystreynyd the fermour ther and takyn of hym swerte to paye hym. +And thys day the seyd Yelverton and viij. men with hym, with jakys and +trossyng dobletis all the felawshep of hem, wer redy to ryd; and one of +the same felawschep told to a man that sye hem all redy +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page266" id = "page266">266</a></span> +that they shuld ryd to tak a dystres in sertayn maners that wer Syr John +Fastolffys; wherfor I suppose veryly that they be to Gwton and Saxthorp. +Wher for to morrow I purpose to send Dawbeney thedyr to wet what they +do, and to comand the<a class = "tag" name = "tag266_1" id = "tag266_1" +href = "#note266_1">266.1</a> tenauntis and fermors that they pay no +mony to nobody bot to yow. John Grey, othyrwyse callyd John Delesbay, +and John Burgeys they be Yelvertons kapteyns, and they ryd and go dayly, +as well in Norwych as in othyr plasys of yours and othyr menys, in the +contre in ther trossyng dowblettis with bombardys and kanonys and +chafeveleyns, and do what so ever they wyll in the contre; ther dar no +pore man dysplese theym, for what so evyr they do with ther swordys they +make it lawe; and they tak dystressys out of mens howsys, hors or +catell, or what they wyll, thow it be not on that for that they ask the +dwte for. Wher for, me thynkys with esy menys ye myth get a prevy seall +of the Kyng to be dyrectyd to the meyer of Norwyche, as for the towne of +Norwyche, and for the countre a nothyr prive seall, dyrect to me and to +som othyr good felaw, Syr William Calthorp, for he hatyth Grey,<a class += "tag" name = "tag266_2" id = "tag266_2" href = "#note266_2">266.2</a> +for to arest the seyd felaws for syche ryot and to bryng hem to the next +prison, ther to abyed with out bayle tyll syche tym as the Kyng sendyth +othyrwyse woord, and they that the prive sale shall be dyrect to, to be +chargyd vpon peyne of ther alegeans to execut the Kyngis comandement; +and, this done, I warant your lyvelod that my lord delys not with +shall be gadyrd pesybylly. As to that lyvelod that my lord clemys I +shall do my dever, our logyng kep, to tak as myche profyt of it as I may +by the grase of God, Whom I pray send you the acomplyshement of your +hertys desyir, and other por folys thers. All my felawshep ar mery and +well at ease, blyssyd be God, and recomandyth hem all on to yow. Wretyn +the Twesday next befor Kandylmas. +<span class = "signature">Your brodyr,</span> +<span class = "signature">J. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note265_1" id = "note265_1" href = +"#tag265_1">265.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 33,597, f. 3.] This letter +appears to have been written in the year 1467, like <a href = +"#letter661">No. 661</a>, which bears date eleven days later. Besides +what is said here of Yelverton, note the reference to John Grey and John +Burgeys, whose names appear in the other letter also.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note266_1" id = "note266_1" href = +"#tag266_1">266.1</a> +‘the’ repeated in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note266_2" id = "note266_2" href = +"#tag266_2">266.2</a> +‘Syr William—Grey’ is an interlineation.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page267" id = "page267">267</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter660" id = "letter660">660</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">T. DAVERSE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag267_1" id = "tag267_1" href = +"#note267_1">267.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right good mayter, Sir John Paston, Knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +29</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">My</span> right especiall good mayster, I +recomand me to yow, thankyng you right hertely of your gentell letter +late send to me. And as to Pynchester mater, &c., I wulde I +were youre nygh kynnesman, yef hit plesed God, and than shuld I know yef +hit shuld greve your herte asmeche as hit dothe other of my kynne and +frendes to see me thus cowardly hurte and maimed<a class = "tag" name = +"tag267_2" id = "tag267_2" href = "#note267_2">267.2</a> by Pynchester, +causeles; and of myn entente in that mater, Wylliam Rabbes shall telle +you more. All so I beseche yow to recomand me to my Lordes good grace, +as to hym whom of erthely estates, next my dewte, I moste love and +drede, and that shuld he well knowe and hit lay in my power, praying you +hertely to declare his Lordship such mater as Wylliam Rabbes shall +enfourme yow, and to send me my Lordes answere.</p> + +<p>All so in asmoche as I understode by yow that money shuld cause you +conclusion in your mater this next terme, and ye wull be at London on +Monday at nyght or Tewsday by none, I truste that I have studyed +such a mene that, up on surete as ye may make, to gete yow an +C<i>li.</i> or CC. mark to be lante un to yow for an halfe yere, with +oute any chevysshaunce or losse of good by yow, as Wylliam Rabbes shall +telle you more, &c.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page268" id = "page268">268</a></span> +<p>And as to Ovyde ‘De Arte Amandi,’ I shall send hym you this next +weke, for I have hyt not now redy; but me thenkeyth Ovide ‘De Remedio’ +were more mete for yow, but yef [<i>unless</i>] ye purposid to falle +hastely in my Lady Anne P.<a class = "tag" name = "tag268_1" id = +"tag268_1" href = "#note268_1">268.1</a> lappe, as white as whales bon, +&c. Ye be the best cheser of a gentell woman that I knowe, &c. +And I pray you to recomaunde me to my Lord of Oxford,<a class = "tag" +name = "tag268_2" id = "tag268_2" href = "#note268_2">268.2</a> and to +my goods Maysters Nedeham, Richemond, Chyppenham, Stavely, Bloxham, +Stuard, and Ingulton in speciall, and all other good masters and frendes +in generall, &c. And, sir, Maystres Gaydade recomand me [? +<i>her</i>] to yow and said bessyng fare for charite, and she said me +she wuld fayne have a new felet, &c.</p> + +<p>Wreten at London, this xxix. day in Janyver. +<span class = "signature">With herte and servyse your,</span> +<span class = "signature">T. D.<a class = "tag" name = "tag268_3" id = +"tag268_3" href = "#note268_3">268.3</a></span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note267_1" id = "note267_1" href = +"#tag267_1">267.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 172.] The precise date of this letter is by no means +certain. Fenn dates it merely between 1463 and 1469; but if it be ‘my +Lady of Oxford,’ and not ‘my Lord,’ who is spoken of near the end +(<i>see</i> page 268, footnote 2), it may be many years later. The +Earl of Oxford was committed to the Tower in the latter part of the year +1468. In 1470 he took part in the brief restoration of Henry <span class += "smallroman">VI.</span>, and on the return of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> he was obliged to quit the country. If the Earl, +therefore, is alluded to as living in England, the date cannot well be +later than 1468. Probably it is about the year 1467. In that year the +29th January fell on a Thursday, which would allow a reasonable time for +the writer to suggest to Sir John Paston the expediency of his being in +London on Monday or Tuesday following.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note267_2" id = "note267_2" href = +"#tag267_2">267.2</a> +The words ‘and maimed’ are inserted from the right-hand copy in Fenn. +They are not in the left-hand copy, having been overlooked, apparently, +by the transcriber.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note268_1" id = "note268_1" href = +"#tag268_1">268.1</a> +Who my Lady Anne P. was I cannot tell. The expression ‘as white as +whale’s bone’ is rather a strange one.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note268_2" id = "note268_2" href = +"#tag268_2">268.2</a> +The modern version in Fenn reads ‘my Lady of Oxford,’ but ‘my Lord of +Oxford’ is right.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note268_3" id = "note268_3" href = +"#tag268_3">268.3</a> +Fenn says this subscription is explained by ‘T. Daverse’ being written +under the direction, as he believes, in the hand of the receiver.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter661" id = "letter661">661</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag268_4" id = "tag268_4" href = +"#note268_4">268.4</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">FEB. 7</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Syr</span>, it is so that thys Saterday John +Rus sent me word by Robert Botler, that William Yelverton hathe ben thys +iij. dayis in Yermothe for to get new wytnessys up to London; and, as it +is thowt by the seid John Rus and Robert Botler, ther wytnessyng is for +to prove that it was Sir John Fastolfs wyll that ther schold be +morteysyd iij.<sup>c.</sup> mark by yer to the colage, and also that +syche astat as my fadyr took +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page269" id = "page269">269</a></span> +her at Caster at Lames next befor that Sir John Fastolf dyid, was +delyveryd to my fadyr to the intent for to perform the seyd wyll.</p> + +<p>Bartholomew Elys, John Appylby, and John Clerk ar the wytnessys; and +as for Barthew Elys, he is owtlawyd, and also men say in Yermowthe that +he is bawde betwyx a clerk of Yermowthe and hys owne wyfe; and as for +John Appylby, he is half frentyk, and so take in the towne, +notwithstandyng he is an attorny, as Barthew Elys is, in the Baylys +Coort of Yermowthe; and as for John Clerk of Gorleston, he is owtlawyd +at Sir John Fastolfys swte, and at dyvers othyr menys, notwithstandyng +he is thorow with Sir T. Howys<a class = "tag" name = "tag269_1" id += "tag269_1" href = "#note269_1">269.1</a> for Sir John Fastolf, for +thys cause, that the seyd Clerk was on of Sir T. Howys<a class = +"tag" href = "#note269_1">269.1</a> last wytnessys befor thys.</p> + +<p>I trow John Loer shall be anothyr wyttnesse. As for Barthew Elys and +John Appylby, they lye thys nyht at Blyborowgh onward on her wey to +Londonward. Make good weche on hem.</p> + +<p>I pray yow send us some good tydyngs. Wretyn the Saterday, lat at +nyght, next aftyr Kandylmas Day.</p> + +<p class = "space"> +I pray yow remembyr John Grey and John Burgeys. We have hom the most +part of your barly, save fro Wynterton, and that I trost to have this +next wek, or ellys we wyll strat [<i>distrain ?</i>] for it by the +grace of God, whom I beseche mak yow good.</p> + +<p>I thynk ther comyng up is for to dysprove your wyttnessys that he had +in to the Chancery. +<span class = "signature">J. P.<a class = "tag" name = "tag269_2" id = +"tag269_2" href = "#note269_2">269.2</a></span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note268_4" id = "note268_4" href = +"#tag268_4">268.4</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 276.] This letter must have been written in February +1467. It was evidently after Sir John Paston had succeeded to his +father’s estates, but before any arrangement had been come to between +him and Yelverton. It will be found hereafter that on the 11th January +1468 Sir John Fastolf’s executors, including Yelverton, released their +rights in Caister and other manors to Sir John Paston. On the back of +this letter, Fenn says, is written in an ancient hand, ‘Testes idonei ad +negandum veritatem, ut patet infra.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note269_1" id = "note269_1" href = +"#tag269_1">269.1</a> +Fenn has ‘Sir Thowys’ in his left-hand copy, which we cannot help +thinking a misreading of ‘Sir T. Howys.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note269_2" id = "note269_2" href = +"#tag269_2">269.2</a> +Fenn says this letter ‘has neither subscription nor date’; nevertheless +these initials stand at the foot of the text as he has printed it.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page270" id = "page270">270</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter662" id = "letter662">662</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag270_1" id = "tag270_1" href = +"#note270_1">270.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my brother, John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">MARCH</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worschypful and verrely +welbelovyd brother, I hertely comande me to yow, thankyng yow of yowr +labor and dyligence that ye have in kepyng of my place at Castr so +sewerly, both with yowr hert and mynde, to yowr gret bisynesse and +troble; and I ageyn warde have hadde so lytell leyser that I have not +spedde bot fewe of yowr erendys, ner kannot befor thys tyme.</p> + +<p>As for my Lady Boleynes<a class = "tag" name = "tag270_2" id = +"tag270_2" href = "#note270_2">270.2</a> dysposicion to yow werds, I +kannot in no wyse fynde hyr a greable that ye scholde have her dowter, +for all the prevy meanes that I kowde make, inso moche I hadde so lytell +comfor by all the meanes that I kowde make, that I dysdeyned in myn own +p[e]rson to comon with hyr ther in. Neverthelesse, I undrestande +that sche seythe, ‘What if he and sche kan agre I wyll not lette it, but +I will never advyse hyr therto in no wyse.’ And uppon Tewesday last +past, sche rood hom in to Norfolke. Wherfor as ye thynke ye may fynde +the meane to speke with hyr yowr selfe, for with owt that, in myn +conceyt, it wyl not be.</p> + +<p>And as for Crosseby, I undrestand not that ther is no maryage +concluded betwen them, neverthelesse ther is gret langage that it is +lyke to be. Ye be personable, and peraventure yowr beyng ones in the +syght of the mayde, and a lytele descuveryng of your good wyl to her, +byndyng hyr to kepe it secret, and that ye kan fynde in yowr hert, with +som comfort of hyr, to fynde the meane to brynge suche a mater abowt as +schall be hyr pleasur and yowrs, but that thys ye +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page271" id = "page271">271</a></span> +kannot do with owt som comfort of hyr in no wyse; and ber yor selfe as +lowly to the moder as ye lyst, but to the mayde not to lowly, ner that +ye be to gladde to spede, ner to sory to fayle. And I alweys schall be +your herault bothe her, if sche com hydder, and at home when I kome hom, +whych I hope hastly with in xl. dayes at the ferthest. My modre hathe a +letter, whych can tell you mor, and ye may lat Dawebeney se it. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston, K.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I suppose and ye kall welle upon R. Calle, he schall purvey yow mony. +I have wretyn to hym inow.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note270_1" id = "note270_1" href = +"#tag270_1">270.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 326.] This letter is evidently of the same year as +<a href = "#letter666">No. 666</a> following, and a little earlier in point +of date.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note270_2" id = "note270_2" href = +"#tag270_2">270.2</a> +Anne, widow of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn. She was daughter of Thomas, Lord Hoo +and Hastings. Sir Geoffrey had by her three daughters, of whom the +youngest, Alice, is here referred to. This Alice was afterwards married +to Sir John Fortescue.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter663" id = "letter663">663</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">RICHARD CALLE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag271_1" id = "tag271_1" href = +"#note271_1">271.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght reverent and worschipfull mayster, Sir John Paston, +Knight.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Plesith</span> it you to wete that I have +spoken with Henre Inglouse, and I fynde hym disposid weele; hough be it +he hath be labored to nough of late be divers, nevertheles he woll not +come withoute he have a suppena, and if he come up be suppena, he can +sey nor nought woll sey, any thynge that schulde be prejudice or hurte +to your mater, and so he hathe tolde them that hath labored to hym for +it, weche hym thynkyth causith them to have no grete hast to have hym +up. He tellith me that the Abbot of Langley schal come up and +Wichyngham. Thes have her writtes of suppena delyverd unto them. Also +ther cometh up Doctor Vergraunt and Frier Bernard. And as for Robert +Inglouse, I have spoken with hym, and I fynde hym no thyng so weele +disposid as his brother is; he hath be sore labored be the meanes of my +Lord +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page272" id = "page272">272</a></span> +of Norffolk and of my Lord of Suffolk; he seyth largely that he knoweth +moche of this mater, seyng to me that if he schulde be examyned be for a +juge, he wolde my master your uncle<a class = "tag" name = "tag272_1" id += "tag272_1" href = "#note272_1">272.1</a> wer his juge, for he knoweth +the mater as weele as any man. He seith if he be sworn be fore my Lorde +Chaunceler, he woll desire of my Lord that Maister William schulde be +sworn as weele as he; nevertheles I have so mevyd hym that withoute ther +come a suppena for hym he woll not come, as he seth it is hard to truste +hym. It were weele doo if ther were no suppena out for hym to cauce that +ther schulde non come, nouther to hym nor to hes brother, &c. +I can not undrestonde of no moo that schulde come up yet, but I +schal enquere, and sende you word as hastely as I can. I have not +spoken with John Maryot yet, but I schall speke with hym within this +iij. dayes and sende you worde. &c.</p> + +<p>Ferthermore, sir, like you to remembre the lees of the maner of +Sporle; your fermours goth out at Michelmes next comyng. Henry Halman +wolde have it for his sones, and if be schulde have it he wolde wete at +this tyme, be cauce he wolde somerlay<a class = "tag" name = "tag272_2" +id = "tag272_2" href = "#note272_2">272.2</a> and tylle the londe, +otherwise then it is; it were tyme to lete it, wo so ever schulde have +it. Henry woll geve for it but xx<i>li.</i>; wherfor, if ye wol that he +have it, plese you to sende word how we schal do with all, &c. +Almyghty Godde spede you in all youre maters, and sende you hastely a +goode ende in hem. Wreten at Castre on Friday next after Esterne Day. +<span class = "signature">Your own Servaunt, <span class = +"smallcaps">Ric. C.</span></span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note271_1" id = "note271_1" href = +"#tag271_1">271.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] This letter +seems to relate to the summoning of witnesses to London for the probate +of Fastolf’s will, and being addressed to Sir John Paston, we may +presume that it was written in the year after his father’s death, and +before the final settlement of the dispute.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note272_1" id = "note272_1" href = +"#tag272_1">272.1</a> +William Paston.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note272_2" id = "note272_2" href = +"#tag272_2">272.2</a> +Halliwell gives the expression ‘to summerland a ground’ which is used in +Suffolk, meaning to lay it fallow a year. For this he refers to Ray.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page273" id = "page273">273</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter664" id = "letter664">664</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">[WILLIAM PASTON] TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag273_1" id = "tag273_1" href = +"#note273_1">273.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my right worshipfull nevew, Sir John Paston, knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +(?)</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Myne</span> suster,<a class = "tag" name = +"tag273_2" id = "tag273_2" href = "#note273_2">273.2</a> Arblaster<a +class = "tag" name = "tag273_3" id = "tag273_3" href = +"#note273_3">273.3</a> and I have apoyntyd that we chall kepe no howsold +this terme,<a class = "tag" name = "tag273_4" id = "tag273_4" href = +"#note273_4">273.4</a> but go to borde; wer for we avyse zow to purvay +for us a logyng ner a bowt my lord Chanseler that be honest, for +Arblaster will non oder.</p> + +<p>Item, as for zow, we avyse zow in any wyse gete zowr chamer assynyd +with in my Lordis place, and gete chamer a lone iff ze may, that +Arblaster and I may have a bed ther in ziff it fortune us to be late +ther with zow.</p> + +<p>Item, take hed to get suyrtees for the pore men that come up and that +they may be sent hom a zen forthe with with owt taryyng, and take avyse +so that the proses may so go forthe that they may be qwett at the next +assyssys; take avyse of Townysend.</p> + +<p>As for Yelverton, fynd the menys that he speke not with my Lord till +we come.</p> + +<p>Iff any labore be mad to my Lord to asyne men to here the mater +indefferently, make labore to my Lord that the men be nat namyd till we +come, for we can inffurme hym soche as be parciall be ther dedis here +affore, qweche peraventure my Lord wold thynk wer indefferent i now till +he be infurmyd; it may be answerid be my Lord that he will nat prosede +no +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page274" id = "page274">274</a></span> +ferther in the mater till Arblasters comyng and myn for we can best +infurme the mater.</p> + +<p>Item, send a letter to Richard Kalle and to Sir Jamys Gloys to come +up to London in any wyse. For ther is no man can do in dyvers materis +that they can do in answeryng suche mater as Zelverton wyll ley a zen +zow. And also they can best mak the bill that ze schuld put a zens hem; +and ther for remembre.</p> + +<p>Item, wrythe a letter to myn suster for the C. marcs for my Lady +Soffolk, for we have no verry dyrect answer of her weder sche wyll send +it ar nat.</p> + +<p>Item, speke to zowr atorney in the Kyngis benche that he take hed to +all maner indytamentis both old and new and to all oder materis that +hangyng ther.</p> + +<p>Item, do Pampyng comyn with owr sperituall concell suche mater as +nedyn ther. And have newe wretyn the attestacion that lakkyn. The same +man that wrott the oder may wrythe that. For Zelverton mad gret avawnt +that ye schuld be hyndrid in that.</p> + +<p>Wrythe a letter to myn nevew John zonger to come up to prove the +wyll.</p> + +<p>Speke with Sir Gilberd Debenham qwill he is in cownt to leve uper +Cotton.</p> + +<p>Item, Zelverton, Howys and Worceter make meche that we have put them +owt off possescyon of the lond; qweche they sey is contrary to my Lord +Chanseler comandement, and in trowth Sir Jamys and Calle meche spokyn to +the tenantis in my lordys name; For Zelverton thynketh that he may now +breke the trete. Qwer for, take a vyse her in off M<sup>r</sup> Tresham +and of Master Staneley, and informe my Lord how my broder<a class = +"tag" name = "tag274_1" id = "tag274_1" href = "#note274_1">274.1</a> +qwas all way in possescion till he was put owt for the mater of bondage, +and how ze fynd the colage, and qwat an hurt it wer to zow in noyse off +contre iff any oder man schuld now receyve any proffitis off the londis. +They will labor that indefferent men schuld receyve, and that wer nat +good. My Lord may say that he will end the mater, but as for the +possescyon, he will nat put zow owt. Labor this in all hast posible.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page275" id = "page275">275</a></span> +<p>I pray yow send me an answer of all such thyngis as requirith an +answere in this contre, for Arblaster purposeth to be with yow on Sonday +sevenygth and I purpose to be with yow ij. dayes afore.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note273_1" id = "note273_1" href = +"#tag273_1">273.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 33,597, f. 8.] This is not a +formal letter but a set of memoranda on a long slip of paper. It is in +the handwriting of William Paston, son of the judge, and addressed to +his nephew, Sir John. The date may be about April 1467. <i>See</i> +<a href = "#letter663">No. 663</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note273_2" id = "note273_2" href = +"#tag273_2">273.2</a> +This must be his brother John’s widow, Margaret, who was in London in +the spring of 1467. <i>See</i> <a href = "#letter662">No. 662</a>, p. +271.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note273_3" id = "note273_3" href = +"#tag273_3">273.3</a> +James Arblaster, a confidential friend of the family.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note273_4" id = "note273_4" href = +"#tag273_4">273.4</a> +Easter term began on the 15th April in 1467.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note274_1" id = "note274_1" href = +"#tag274_1">274.1</a> +John Paston, son of the judge. Dead in 1466.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter665" id = "letter665">665</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag275_1" id = "tag275_1" href = +"#note275_1">275.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">My</span> hand was hurte at the torney at +Eltham upon Wednesday last. I would that you had been there and +seen it, for it was the goodliest sight that was sene in Inglande this +forty yeares of so fewe men. There was upon the one side, within, the +Kinge, my Lord Scalles, myselfe, and Sellenger; and without, my Lord +Chamberlyn, Sir John Woodvyle, Sir Thomas Mountgomery, and John Aparre, +&c. +<span class = "signature">By your brother,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">John Paston</span>, +Mil.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note275_1" id = "note275_1" href = +"#tag275_1">275.1</a> +This extract from a letter of Sir John Paston to his brother is quoted +in Sandford’s <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Genealogy of the +Paston family, and is here reprinted from Mr. Worship’s article on that +genealogy in the <i>Norfolk Archæology</i>. The original letter I have +not been able to find. The tournament here referred to probably took +place shortly after Easter. The next letter is evidently written in +reply to this.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter666" id = "letter666">666</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag275_2" id = "tag275_2" href = +"#note275_2">275.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Syr</span>, plesyth yow to weet that my modyr +and I comonyd this day with Freyr Mowght to undyrstand what hys seying +shall be in the coort when he cometh up to London, wheche is in this +wyse:— He seyth at syche tyme as he had shrevyn Master Brakley, +and howsyllyd hym bothe, he let hym wet that he was enformyd by dyvers +personys that the seyd Master Brakley owt for to be in gret consyens for +syche thyngys as he had doone and seyd, and causyd my fadyr, whom God +asoyle, for to do and seye also, in proving of Sir +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page276" id = "page276">276</a></span> +John Fastolfys wyll. To whom the seyd Mastyr Brakley answerd thus +agayne: ‘I am ryght glad that it comyth to yow in mynd for to meve +me with thys mater in dyschargyng of my consyens ayenst God,’ seying +ferther mor to the seyd Freyr Mowght, be the wey that hys sowle shold +to, that the wyll that my fadyr put into the coort was as veryly Syr +John Fastolfys wyll as it was trew that he shold onys deye. This was +seyd on the Sonday when the seyd Brakley wend to have deyid then. On the +Monday he revyvyd a yen, and was well amendyd tyll on the Wednysday, and +on the Wednysday he sekyned a yen, supposyng to have dyeyd forthe with. +And in hys syknes he callyd Freyr Mowght, whyche was confessor on to +hym, of hys owne mosyon, seyng on to hym in thys wyse:— ‘Syr, wher +as of your owne mosyon ye mevyd me the last day to tell you aftyr my +consyens of Sir John Fastolfys wyll lyek wyse as I knew, and now of myn +owne mocyon, and in dischargyng of my sowle, for I know well that I may +not askape, but that I must dye in hast, wharfor I desyr you that wyll +report after my dethe, that I took it upon my sowle at my dying that +that wyll that John Paston put in to be provyd was Syr John Fastolfys +wyll.’ And the seyd Brakley dyid the same Wednesdaye.</p> + +<p>And wher as ye wold have had Rychard Calle to yow as on Sonday last +past, it was thys Twyisday or I had your lettyr; and wher as it plesyth +yow for to wyshe me at Eltam, at the tornay, for the good syth that was +ther, by trowththe I had lever se yow onys in Caster Hall then to se as +many Kyngs tornay as myght be betwyx Eltam and London.</p> + +<p>And, syr, whar as it lyekyth yow to desyir to have knowlage how that +I have don with the Lady Boleyn,<a class = "tag" name = "tag276_1" id = +"tag276_1" href = "#note276_1">276.1</a> by my feythe I have don nor +spokyn nowght in that mater, nor not wyll do tyll tyme that ye com hom, +and ye com not thys vij. yer. Not withstandyng, the Lady Boleyn was in +Norwyche in the week aftyr Estern, fro the Saterday tyll the Wednysday, +and Heydons wyfe<a class = "tag" name = "tag276_2" id = "tag276_2" href += "#note276_2">276.2</a> and Mastras Alys<a class = "tag" name = +"tag276_3" id = "tag276_3" href = "#note276_3">276.3</a> bothe, and I +was at Caster, and wyst not of it. Hyr men seyd that she had non othyr +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page277" id = "page277">277</a></span> +erend to the towne but for to sport hyr; bot so God help me, +I suppose that she wend I wold have ben in Norwyche for to have sen +hyr dowghter. I beseche yow with all my hart hye yow hom, thow ye +shold tery but a day; for I promyse yow your folk thynk that ye have +forgetyn hem, and the most part of them must depart at Whytsontyd at the +ferthest, they wyll no lenger abyd. And as for R. Calle, we can not +get half a quarter the mony that we pay for the bare housold, besyd +menys wagys. Daube nor I may no mor with owt coynage. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Paston.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note275_2" id = "note275_2" href = +"#tag275_2">275.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 330.] This letter appears by the contents to have been +written more than a week after Easter. The year must be 1467, as the +dispute with Yelverton touching Sir John Fastolf’s will seems to have +come to an end before the January following (<i>see</i> <a href = +"#letter680">No. 680</a>). In 1467 Easter Day fell on 29th +March.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note276_1" id = "note276_1" href = +"#tag276_1">276.1</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#note270_2">Note 2, p. 270</a>.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note276_2" id = "note276_2" href = +"#tag276_2">276.2</a> +Anne, second daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note276_3" id = "note276_3" href = +"#tag276_3">276.3</a> +Third daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter667" id = "letter667">667</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag277_1" id = +"tag277_1" href = "#note277_1">277.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 1</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +‘Bill indented’ 1 May, 7 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, +between Sir John Paston and Thomas Lomnor, whereby the latter sells to +the former an ambling horse ‘upon this condition, that if the marriage +betwixt the Lord Charles, son and heir to the Duke of Burgon, and the +Lady Margaret, sister to our Sovereign Lord the King’ take effect within +two years, Sir John agrees to pay 6 marks for the horse on the day of +the marriage; but if it do not take effect within that period he will +pay only 40 shillings.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[There is a modern copy of this document in the Heralds’ College, in the +collection called Brooke’s <i>Aspilogia</i>, vol. i. f. 47, +where a drawing is given of Sir John Paston’s seal, which seems to have +been attached to it when the transcript was made. It has been since +removed at some time or other.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note277_1" id = "note277_1" href = +"#tag277_1">277.1</a> +[From <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> Phillipps, 9735, No. +192.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter668" id = "letter668">668</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO SIR JOHN HOWARD<a class = +"tag" name = "tag277_2" id = "tag277_2" href = +"#note277_2">277.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<span class = "smallcaps">The Duc Of Norffolk.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">MAY 18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rygth</span> trusty and enteerly beloved +cousyn I comaunde me to you with all myn herte. And lyke it you to wete +that God hath vyset me with grete infirmite and dissease, wherthurgh I +neyther can nor may at this season and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page278" id = "page278">278</a></span> +comynge of the Bastard of Burgoyne attende to th’execucion off myn +offyce, as my wyll and duete were to, in myn owne persone. Wherfor of +verray necessite I must depute suche a person in all goodly hast to +ocupye as my deputee and to have my full power undere me at that season +as is bothe of byrthe honorable and one all other wyse lykly. How be it +that of long tyme contynnuynge I have ben enured of your stedfaste and +preved feythful good cosyngnage and tendyrnesse to me shewed unfeyned to +my gret refute<a class = "tag" name = "tag278_1" id = "tag278_1" href = +"#note278_1">278.1</a> and hertes ease at all seasons. Wiche emboldeth +me to call uppon you now; and also remembrynge the honour of the offyce +doynge and the neighnesse of blode that ye be of to me, I thenke no +person so convenable to ocupye in myn absence as you. For myn excuse, +therfore, I specyally pray you, as my feythfull truste is holy in +you, to take the labour uppon you and to do theryn be your discrecion to +the most honour of the kynge, the realme, and be lyke as I am asured +that ye can and wyll, puttynge you in surete that I wull become +tributary to your costes and charges in that behalve. And as for all +suche duteis as schall belonge to me at that tyme by reason of myn +offyce, I gyff theme you for parcell of your said costes; and at +such tyme as ye and I and myn counsell mete next ye schal not fayle to +be agreid with, to your pleasure for the residue, by Goddis grace, Wiche +ever preserve you. And, cousyn, I sende you be the berer herof the +double of this lettre, praying that ye will subscribe it with your owne +hande and send it me a geyn be hym. Wryten under my signet the xviij. +day of May.</p> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my rigth trusty and rigth enteerly belovyd cousyn, Sir John Howard, +knygth.</p> + +<p>And this letter is assigned with my lordes own hande.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note277_2" id = "note277_2" href = +"#tag277_2">277.2</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 59.] The famous +tournament between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy took place at +Smithfield on the 11th and 12th June 1467. See <i>Excerpta +Historica</i>, 176<ins class = "correction" title = ". missing">. +</ins>This paper is evidently a copy of the original letter.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note278_1" id = "note278_1" href = +"#tag278_1">278.1</a> +<i>Sic</i> in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">See <i>Excerpta Historica</i>, 176.</span><br> +final . missing</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page279" id = "page279">279</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter669" id = "letter669">669</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN HOWARD<a class = "tag" name = +"tag279_1" id = "tag279_1" href = "#note279_1">279.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">JUNE</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">This</span> wrytenge made at London the +vij<sup>th</sup> yer of kyng Edward the iiij<sup>th</sup> and the +——<a class = "tag" name = "tag279_2" id = "tag279_2" href = +"#note279_2">279.2</a> day of June wytnessyth what Jakettes my master +Sir John Howard geveth at the fytenge betwyx my Lord Scales and the +Bastard of Burgoyne.</p> + +<div class = "list double"> +<p>John Alpherde</p> +<p>Brome</p> +<p>William Noryse</p> +<p>Herry Straunge</p> +<p>Robert Cumberton</p> +<p>Hastynges</p> +<p>John Fowler</p> +<p>John Nyter</p> +<p>Thomas Moleyns</p> +<p>John Waleys</p> +<p>Robart Thorppe</p> +<p>John Bleaunt</p> +<p>Thomas Thorppe</p> +<p>Davy Horell</p> +<p>Robert Cooke</p> +<p>Robart Clerke</p> +<p>John Hobbes</p> +<p>Wynche</p> +<p>John Wady</p> +<p>William Fernwale</p> +<p>Raff Barlyscose</p> +<p>Thomas Seynclew</p> +<p>Whyttebye</p> +<p>Kechyn</p> +<p>John de Spayn</p> +<p>Jenyn Saunpere</p> +<p>John Kyngton</p> +<p>Lytell Edmond</p> +<p>John Coles</p> +<p>Thomas Mershe</p> +<p>Rechard Leder</p> +<p>John Gylder</p> +<p>Rechard Waleys</p> +<p>Ravenysbye</p> +<p>Thomas a Chambre</p> +<p>Thomas Whytenge</p> +<p>Thomas Grymston</p> +<p>Roger Jewell</p> +<p>Colson</p> +<p>John Squyre<a class = "tag" name = "tag279_3" id = "tag279_3" href = +"#note279_3">279.3</a></p> +<p>Scarlett<a class = "tag" href = "#note279_3">279.3</a></p> +<p>William West<a class = "tag" name = "tag279_4" id = "tag279_4" href = +"#note279_4">279.4</a></p> +<p>John Dykynson</p> +<p>Thomas Bowden</p> +<p>William Denny</p> +<p>John Starkeweder</p> +<p>George Hardwyn</p> +<p>Thomas Caunterbury</p> +</div> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page280" id = "page280">280</a></span> + +<div class = "list double"> +<p>Dyott</p> +<p>Robart Messeden</p> +<p>John Mynshe</p> +<p>Richard Pulton</p> +<p>John Wakeleyn</p> +<p>Nicholas Shakerley</p> +<p>Hew Flynte</p> +<p>Thomas Newton</p> +<p>William Clerke</p> +<p>Robart Nosbet</p> +<p>Herry Nudygate</p> +<p>William Yngram</p> +<p>John Brodebryge</p> +<p>Aleyn Cowper</p> +<p>Rechard Roger</p> +<p>Herry Cooke</p> +<p>Edward Holman</p> +<p>Rechard Halbroke<a class = "tag" name = "tag280_1" id = "tag280_1" +href = "#note280_1">280.1</a></p> +<p>Robart Sleper</p> +<p>John Cheynour</p> +<p>John Hylle</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note279_1" id = "note279_1" href = +"#tag279_1">279.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 61.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note279_2" id = "note279_2" href = +"#tag279_2">279.2</a> +Blank in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note279_3" id = "note279_3" href = +"#tag279_3">279.3</a> +These two names, John Squyre and Scarlett, are bracketed together, and +the name ‘Alford’ written opposite.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note279_4" id = "note279_4" href = +"#tag279_4">279.4</a> +Opposite this name is written ‘Wal’ in the margin.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note280_1" id = "note280_1" href = +"#tag280_1">280.1</a> +Opposite this name is written ‘chad’ in the margin.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter670" id = "letter670">670</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JAMES GRESHAM TO SIMON DAMME<a class = "tag" +name = "tag280_2" id = "tag280_2" href = +"#note280_2">280.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my worshipfull cosyn, Symond Damme, <em>[</em>at<em>]</em> Lyncoln +Inne, at London, <em>[</em>be<em>]</em> this delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +2</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull sir, and as in my +trost my veray speciall good maister, I recomande me to you with al +the servyce I can and may. Lyke it you to wytte that I have do my +bysynes to enquere for suyche dedes as ye wrot for on to me, and, so God +me helpe, I can not wytte where I shuld spede to have ony suyche +dedes. I spak to a persone that is your good lover, the whiche +tolde me that ther was a gret plee bytwene my Lord of Suffolk and Sir +John Fastolf for the maner of Drayton, for whiche matier William Wysetre +was sent to enquere for evydencez touchyng the Pooles lyvelond in suyche +places as thei were lords of in their +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page281" id = "page281">281</a></span> +dayes. And the seid Wysetre fonde evydencez that touched a maner called +Mundham maner, sum tyme longyng to the Pooles that were owenners of +Drayton, the whiche evydences eased meche Sir John Fastolf; but the seid +persone that enfourmed me of this can not telle the armes, ne what +evydencez tho shuld be in certeyn, savyng he thynkyth indoubted that +William Worcetre shuld not be unremembred of this. Wherfore it is +thought to the same persone that enfourmed me of this and by me also, +that it shuld be expedyent for you to comune of this matier by your +wysdam with the same William Wysetre, now beyng at London, for he by +lyklyhod can telle you a certeynte. And as touchyng my maister, Sir +Thomas Mongomery, I trost veryly that he nothyr hath ne shall have +cause of grudger by my defaut, for I can not understond ony cause of +grudger; for ever whanne my cosyn Damme<a class = "tag" name = +"tag281_1" id = "tag281_1" href = "#note281_1">281.1</a> hath spoken +with my seid maisters attourne to have knowelage by writyng of what +thyng shuld be the cause of callyng on you, he answerith that my +maister, W. Paston, hath a bille therof, but my cosyn can non gete. +Wherfor I deme that the seid attourne meneth not weel. I entende +noon other but in als meche as in me is to se your indempnyte with the +grace of God, who ever mote be your guyde and protector. Wretyn at +Norwich the ij. day of Juylle.</p> + +<p class = "signature"> +Your servaunt in that he can and may to his powar, +<span class = "signature smallcaps">I, James Gresham.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Cosyn, an noon after this was wretyn, had I knowelage of the massageris +comyng to London berar of this, and I had thought to have wretyn the +letter above wretyn newe, by cause of the foule wrytyng and +interlynyeng, but now I lakke leyser. Wherfor I pray you understond the +pyth of my seid wrytyng, and enfourme my seid maister Sir John P. of the +same, for I wold fayne do that shulde please hym, &c. And the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page282" id = "page282">282</a></span> +persone that enfourmed me dar not be a knowe of his name, ne he wold not +it shuld be understond to them that be of counsell ageyn my maister. It +was the parson of Heylesdon, &c. More over, as I have wretyn to you +of late, Palmer, undershireve of Norffolk, hath sent his letter to his +depute to acomplyssh our entent for Chyldes matier as ye and I were +accordet. This told Wykes me for verray certeyn, &c., the ij. day of +Juylle.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +On the back of this letter are some scribblings in another hand, +viz.:—First, a partial copy of the address; second, the name +‘John Dode’; third, the following inscription, ‘Orate pro anima Johnnes +(<i>sic</i>) de Boys <i>armenger</i> de Londonn.’</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note280_2" id = "note280_2" href = +"#tag280_2">280.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] As this +letter has reference to the disputes between the Duke of Suffolk and the +Paston family about Drayton, it might be supposed to have been written +about the year 1464, but that the entire absence of any mention of John +Paston the father makes it probable that the true date is after his +death. It is therefore not unlikely to be of the same year as <a href = +"#letter671">No. 671</a>, in which Margaret Paston mentions the +probability of Hellesdon being taken again out of their hands, and also +desires an answer to a letter that she had sent to her son, Sir John, +‘by James Gresham’s man.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note281_1" id = "note281_1" href = +"#tag281_1">281.1</a> +As it appears by the postscript that this letter was hurriedly +despatched, we may perhaps presume that it was intended in the first +instance for Sir John Paston, but that as ‘my cousin Damme’ required to +be informed of the same particulars, it was afterwards addressed to him, +with instructions to communicate the contents to Sir John.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter671" id = "letter671">671</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">MARGARET PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag282_1" id = "tag282_1" href = +"#note282_1">282.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To Sir John Paston, Knyght, be this delivered in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +11</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I grete</span> you wele, and send you +Godds blissyng and myn, letyng you wete that Blykklyng of Heylesdon came +fro London this weke, and he is right mery, and maketh his bost that +with in this fourtnyght at Heylesdon shuld be bothe new lords and new +officers. And also this day was brought me word fro Caystr that Rysyng +of Freton shuld have herd seid in diverse places, ther as he was in +Suffolk, that Fastolf of Coughawe maketh all the strenght that he may, +and proposith hym to assaught Caystr, and to entre ther if he may, in +samych that it is seyd that he hath a v. score men redy, and sendyth +dayly aspies to understand what felesshep kepe the place. Be whos power, +or favour, or supportacion that he wull do this, I knowe not; but +ye wote wele that I have ben +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page283" id = "page283">283</a></span> +affrayd ther befor this tyme, whan that I had other comfort than I have +now, and I can not wele gide ner rewle sodyours, and also thei set not +be a woman as thei shuld set be a man. Therfor I wold ye shuld send home +your brothers, or ell[es] Dawbenye, to have a rewle, and to takyn in +such men as wer necessary for the saffegard of the place; for if I wer +ther withought I had the mor sadder or wurchepfull persones abought me, +and ther comyn a meny of knavys, and prevaylled in ther entent, it shuld +be to me but a vylney. And I have ben abought my liffelode to set a +rewle ther in, as I have wretyn to you, which is not yet all performed +after myn desyre, and I wuld not goo to Caystr till I had don. +I wull no mor days make ther abowtyn if I may; therfor in any wyse +send sume body home to kepe the place, and whan that I have do and +performed that I have be gunne, I shall purpose me thederward if I +shuld do ther any good, and ell[es] I had lever be thens.</p> + +<p>I have sent to Nicholas, and such as kepe the place, that thei shuld +takyn in sume feles [<i>fellows</i>] to assiste and strengh them till ye +send hame sume other word, or sume other man to governe them that ben +therin, &c.</p> + +<p>I marvayll gretly that ye send me no word how that ye do, for your +elmyse [<i>enemies</i>] begynne to wax right bold, and that puttith your +frends bothyn in grete fere and dought. Therfor purvey that thei may +have sume comfort, that thei be no more discoraged; for if we lese our +frends, it shall hard in this troubelous werd [<i>world</i>] to kete +them ageyn.</p> + +<p>The blissid Trynyte spede you in your mater, and send you the victory +of your elmyse, to your herts eas and ther confusyon. Wretyn at Norwich, +the Saterday next befor Relyke Sonday,<a class = "tag" name = "tag283_1" +id = "tag283_1" href = "#note283_1">283.1</a> in hast.</p> + +<p>I pray you remembre wele the maters that I wrote to you for in the +letter that ye had be James Greshames man, and send me an answer ther of +be the next man that comyth, &c. +<span class = "signature">Be your moder,</span> +<span class = "signature">M. P.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note282_1" id = "note282_1" href = +"#tag282_1">282.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 294.] This letter must have been written some time after +Sir John Paston had obtained possession of Caister by virtue of the +King’s warrant of the 17th July 1466 (<a href = +"#letter641">No. 641</a>), and before the Duke of Norfolk laid +claim to it again in 1469. Thus the date is certainly either 1467 or +1468. But in the latter year Sir John Paston and his brother were both +in Flanders at the marriage of the Princess Margaret to the Duke of +Burgundy; and Daubeney could not have been with them, as he was when +this letter was written, for John Paston the younger says he had sent +him five shillings by Calle’s man. Thus 1467 appears to be the only year +possible.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note283_1" id = "note283_1" href = +"#tag283_1">283.1</a> +Relic Sunday (the third Sunday after Midsummer Day) was the 12th July in +1467.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page284" id = "page284">284</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter672" id = "letter672">672</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">DECLARATION OF SIR THOMAS HOWYS<a class = "tag" +name = "tag284_1" id = "tag284_1" href = +"#note284_1">284.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +21</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Be</span> it knowen to all men that this +present wrytyng shall rede, see, or hyre. Forasmoche as I understande +nowe late ther ys a newe contryved processe concernyng the variaunce +uppon my maister Sir John Fastolf is testament and last will, whos soule +God assoyle, made by Sir John Paston, Knyght, and his counsell in the +seyd Pastons name and myne, ayenste Sir William Yelverton, Knyght, and +William Worcetter, that is exhibited and putte in my lordys courte of +Audience be fore his auditoure, me unwetyng or assentyng, in the vigille +of Seint John Baptiste; in wheche processe ys surmyttyd and made mencion +that William Worcetter in his owne persone, and by others in his name, +hathe promysed and gevyn money to corupte certayne wytnesse to depose +untreuly in a processe exhibit in John Pastons lyf tyme by Sir William +Yelverton, Knyght, the sayd William Wissetter ayenste John Paston +decesed and me; and wheche witnesse were Stephan Scrope, Squier, Richard +Fastolf, gentilman, Thomas Neve, gentilman, William Boswell, clerk, John +Monke, Nicholas Churche, John Rugge, John Daunson, Richard Horne, Thomas +Pykeryng, Harry Clerk, John Tobye, Thomas Hart, Thomas Neuton, John +Gyrdyng, Thomas Spycer, and others, frome the moneth of August into the +moneth of March, the yere of Cryst M<sup>il.</sup>CCCClxv., yn +Yermouthe, Castre, Fretenham, Bloofeld, Thetford, Brundale, Wroxham, +Borough, Southetoune, Yermouthe, Gorleston, Suthewerk, Norwych, and +London; so they to be corupted in all the forseyd named tounes wyth +prayer, price, and money to hem promised and gevyn, be syd har expences, +her costs, and her labours, to be conducted to depose with Sir William +Yelverton and William Worcetter partye ayenste the seyd John Paston and +mee: I the sayd Thomas Howys so made partye, and unwetyng and +assentyng, a yenste the [said]<a class = "tag" name = "tag284_2" id += "tag284_2" href = "#note284_2">284.2</a> Sir William Yelverton and +William +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page285" id = "page285">285</a></span> +Worcestre, sey and afferme for trouth in this matyer to be knowen, that +for declaracion of trouth in this processe and mater, and for the +discharge of my conscience and the trewe acquietall to my sayd Master +Fastolf that putte me in grettyst charge of hys testament, and for grete +remorse I have in my soule of the untrewe forgyng and contryvyng +certayne testamentes and last wyll by naked wordes in my sayd Maister +Fastolf name aftyr he was desesyd; y, in the name of the seyd Sir +William Yelverton and William Worcetter, required and prayed the sayd +above named witnesse and alle other wytnesse produced in Sir William +Yelverton and William Wyssetter name before that tyme, excepte the +forsayd Stephan Scrope, Esquier, and Richard Fastolf, to come to London, +and appere in my lords house of audience before his auditour, and there +to say, depose, and witnesse the trouthe as they knewe in especiall, in +the absense of John Russe, Sir Robert Cotiler, late vycar of Castre, +Robert Botyler beyng oute of the chamber of Sir John Fastolf, Knyght, +there he lay seke in his maner of Castre, the Saterdaye next before the +seid Sir John Fastolf discesyd, namely, from viij. tylle xj. atte belle +affore mydday, and present in other placez, where diverse of the sayd +named wytnesse and diverse other witnesse sawe ham. And the sayd +Worcestre nother promysed ne yave hem gode, money, nother reward, +neyther relessed no debtes, not soo nought payed not for har costes, +nother dispenses by the wey comyng to London, taryeng, ne returnyng a +yen, that lawe and reson wold understonde the sayd witnesse ought have +for har costes and labours, weche was payed by my handes, I beyng +present dayly and tymely diverse tymes most conversaunt at Jermuth wyth +hem; and in especiall whan they taryed more than xxiiij. dayes in London +or they coude be examyned; and I knowe well the sayd Sir William +Yelverton, nouther the seyd William Worcestre promysed ne payed no maner +money ne godes worth, nouther relessyng har dutes, yf any they axed they +knowe yt not, as the seyd named witnesse wylle sey and certyfye the +trouth. And as for ij. witnesse called Bunch and Shave, lete hem be +examynyd, yf the seyd Sir William or William Worcestre fyrst procured, +moved, or excited hem +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page286" id = "page286">286</a></span> +at Yermouth, or any other place, to come to London to depose in the said +maters, or promysed or payed hem ony money, or any man for ham promysed +or payed; and yf they be of trewe disposicion, they woll discharge the +seyd Sir William Yelverton and William Worcestre, for ther was none in +especiall but I, that labored hem alle to come to London to my lordis +audience yn the seyd Yelvertons and Worcestre names; but I pryncipally +required them to depose treuly as they knewe, be the owte promyse, mede, +rewarde, or money, yn the discharge of my conscience, and for the +trouthe of the mater to be knowen to all the worlde, as I am redy to +preve, whyle God lendeth me lyffe, and yn the same quarell to dye. And I +evyr seth that I understode the seyd John Paston is untrewe demenyng in +the contryvynge of my Maister Fastolf testament and last wille, and was +compellyd to appere before my lord ys auditour at Lambyth, to be sworn +atte my ffree will to declar the trouth of my seyd maister trewe +testament and last wyll befor my seyd Lord of Canturbury is auditur of +his courte of audience, I nevyr varyed ne held aftyr wyth John +Paston, but alwey have ben stedfast wyth the processe that I have +enfourmed my Lord of Canterbury, and divers others astates also in like +wyse have declared to the sayd Sir William Yelverton and William +Worcestre to precede, and soo evyr woll be stedfaste. And in witness for +trouth, I sele this declaracion wyth my signet, and subscrybe it +wyth my hand and name, in presence of Maister John Prentyse, Sir Edmond +Hall, John Smyth, John Robynson, Thomas Hoore, John Bullok, and Richard +Batilmewe, the xxj<sup>th</sup> day of Jule the yer of Crist +M<sup>il.</sup>CCCC<sup>mo</sup> lxvijº. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">T. Howys.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note284_1" id = "note284_1" href = +"#tag284_1">284.1</a> +[From a <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in the tower of Magd. +Coll., Oxford.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note284_2" id = "note284_2" href = +"#tag284_2">284.2</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page287" id = "page287">287</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter673" id = "letter673">673</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON TO HIS MOTHER<a class = "tag" name = +"tag287_1" id = "tag287_1" href = "#note287_1">287.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worchepfull modyr, I recomand me +onto you, lowly besechyng yow of your blyssyng. Plesyt yow to we +[<i>sic</i>] that my brodyr and I be in good hele, blyssyd be God, and +all our felawshep; and as for me I tryst to God to + . . . yow by Halowmes or within iiij. +dayes aftyr at the ferthest; at whyche tyme I tryst to fynd the menys + . . . dyscharge yow of syche folk as +ye kepe of my brodyrs, and that must I do by myn owne menys; for as for +my brodyr, by my trowthe he is not of power to do it; for this I ensure +yow, so God help me, he hathe at thys season not a peny in hys purs, nor +wotys not wher to get eny. And as for Bekham I warant, and ye wyll send +the plate whych ye and I comond of for to helpe to paye hys dettis, and +for to swe forthe for hys jwgement thys terme, it sholl neythyr be +morgagyd nor sold. Wherfor, modyr, I and he bothe beseche yow that +ye wyll send hym the plate by Jwde; or ellys, so God help me, I wot +not how he shall do; for by the feythe that I ow to God he lokyth every +day to be arestyd, and so I wene he sholl, so God helpe me. Jwde had ned +to be sped hastyly lest syche arestys falle in the tyme. And as for my +Lord of Norffolk, it is promysed me to have hys good lordshep, but I +must tery a whylle, as my Lady told yow, for the maners sake. And as for +tydynges her, so God help, neythyr the Kyng nor the Lordis can as yet +undyrstand no serteynte, whedyr they shall go togedyr ayen by the werre +or not. When I here the serteynte I shall send yow word. Ye may send +mony by Jwde for my sustyr Annys hood and for the tepet of sersenet, +viij<i>s.</i> a yerd of damask and v<i>s.</i> for sarsenet; +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page288" id = "page288">288</a></span> +hyr hood wyll take iij. quarters. No mor for lak of leyser, but I pray +God send yow your hertis desyir and othyr pore folys thers. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and humbyll servant,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">J. Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note287_1" id = "note287_1" href = +"#tag287_1">287.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 196.] The date of +this letter is difficult to fix, but from the two brothers being +together (which was rather a rare occurrence), and both in good health, +the summer of 1467 seems not improbable. (<i>See</i> <a href = +"#letter671">No. 671</a>.) The date must at least be earlier than Nov. +1469, when Sir John Paston, as we shall hereafter find, actually +executed an indenture for the sale of East Beckham. It seems quite +impossible, moreover, that this letter can be of the year 1469.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter674" id = "letter674">674</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO LORD BEAUCHAMP<a class = +"tag" name = "tag288_1" id = "tag288_1" href = +"#note288_1">288.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the Lord Bechampe<a class = "tag" name = "tag288_2" id = "tag288_2" +href = "#note288_2">288.2</a></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">And</span> forasmuch as I am credibly enformed +that my lord of Winchestre hath sent to you desiring that ye shold +ensele dyvers writinges of graunt and relesse of your estat in alle such +maners, londes and tenementes as late wer of J. Fastolf knyght, and +wheryn ye togider with other be jointly enfeffed to th’ use of the seid +J. Fastolf, I, considering the honorable disposition and great +sadnesse of my seid lord of Winchestre which<a class = "tag" name = +"tag288_3" id = "tag288_3" href = "#note288_3">288.3</a> hath now taken +upon [him]<a class = "tag" name = "tag288_4" id = "tag288_4" href = +"#note288_4">288.4</a> th’ administracion of testament of the seid +J. F., trusting veryly that my seid lord wol as conscience +requireth consider my title and interest in that behalf, praie you right +hertely that not withstonding any labour or mocion on my part or for me +in tyme passed made to you to ensele any writyng of graunt or relesse of +your seid estat to me or to myn use, that ye wol now ensele and +perfourme the entent and desir of my seid lord of Winchestre now made +unto you. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Sir John Paston, k.</span></p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +<i>Indorsed:</i> Dominus de Bewchamp.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note288_1" id = "note288_1" href = +"#tag288_1">288.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 35,251, f. 25, B.M.] This +letter apparently was written in 1467, probably in August, just before +<a href = "#letter675">No. 675</a>. The original is a corrected +draft.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note288_2" id = "note288_2" href = +"#tag288_2">288.2</a> +This address is written in the margin, with a note a little way below: +‘To myn oncle Wylliam in lyke forme.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note288_3" id = "note288_3" href = +"#tag288_3">288.3</a> +Here occurs an interlineation of an incomplete clause: ‘is feffe of the +seid—— (<i>word crossed out</i>) and also therein +and——.’</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note288_4" id = "note288_4" href = +"#tag288_4">288.4</a> +Omitted in <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span></p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page289" id = "page289">289</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter675" id = "letter675">675</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>The following is an extract from ‘An Index to Deeds and Writings in +the Tower, Magdalen College, Oxford’:—</p> + +<h5>Documents relating to Norf. and Suffolk, No. 47.</h5> +</div> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. +28</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>‘Thomas Archiep. Cant., Willielmus Episcopus Winton., et Johannes +Beauchamp dominus de Beauchamp, juxta formam barganiæ et effectum ultimæ +voluntatis Johannis Fastolf in curia Audientiæ, &c., concedunt +Johanni Paston militi totum jus in maneriis de Castre vocatis Vaux, +Bosoms, et Redhams, Spensers in Heringby, Reggisley, Reps, cum aliis +terris in diversis villis; necnon in manerio de Guton cum advocatione +ecclesiæ de Heinford in Saxthorp vocat. Loundhall, cum aliis terris in +diversis villis, et in manerio de Caldecots et Akethorp, Spitlings, +Habeland, &c., habit, ex feoffamento Rad. dom. de Sudley et +aliorum.</p> + +<p>Aug. 28. Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> 7.’</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter676" id = "letter676">676</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag289_1" id = +"tag289_1" href = "#note289_1">289.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">AUG. +31</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>A small slip of paper close written on both sides with accounts of +wages. In the margin on one side is the name John Braham, with the +memorandum, ‘Thys wrytynge, made the iiij<sup>th</sup> yere of Kynge +Edward the iiij<sup>th</sup>, and in the monyth of Novembre, wytnessez +of the wagez that my master payith to his men.’ A blank seems to +have been left below this at first, but it was afterwards filled up in a +different hand: ‘Memorandum that the v<sup>e</sup> yer of Kyng Edward +the iiij<sup>e</sup> I rekenyd wyth my master at Stoke; and on the v. +day of Aprylle for the yerys that I have be wyth my mastyr, whesche shal +be at Hocke Monday next cumyng v<sup>e</sup> yer and an halfe; for the +whesche yerys I have reseyvyd at sondery tymeys v<i>li.</i> and +iiij<i>s.</i>, and thys seyd v. day I reseyvyd of my master v. +marcs.’</p> + +<p>On the other side, in the first hand, is an account extending from +the 11th April, 5 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> (1465) +to the last day of August, 7 Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> (1467), of payments to a female named Rose,<a +class = "tag" name = "tag289_2" id = "tag289_2" href = +"#note289_2">289.2</a> for wages by ‘my master,’ Braham and Thorpe. +These sums vary from 3<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> to 8<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i>, at +a time; but there are also two items for presents made to her, viz. for +4 ells of Holland cloth at 8½<i>d.</i> the ell, 2<i>s.</i> 10½<i>d.</i>, +and for a pair of hosen, 12<i>d.</i> On the 7th Oct. 6 Edw. <span +class = "smallroman">IV.</span> (1466) it is said, ‘My master toke her +for wages at Stoke, 5<i>s.</i>’</p> +</div> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note289_1" id = "note289_1" href = +"#tag289_1">289.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note289_2" id = "note289_2" href = +"#tag289_2">289.2</a> +It appears by other letters that she was a servant ‘dwelling before Mrs. +Paston’s gate.’</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page290" id = "page290">290</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter677" id = "letter677">677</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">NOTE</span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract"> +The following is another extract from the Index referred to in <a href = +"#letter675">No. 675</a>:—</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. 2</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +‘12. Concessio Joh. Paston militis Johanni Duci Norfolk et aliis manerii +sui vocati Hemnales in Cotton in Com.’ Suff., ac manerii sui de +Haynford, et advocationis ecclesiæ ejusdem in Com.’ Norff., habit’ ex +dono Th. Archiepisc. Cant. et Willielmi Episc. Wynton., cum littera +attor. ad deliberandum seisinam. Oct. 2. Edw. <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span> 7.’</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter678" id = "letter678">678</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag290_1" id = +"tag290_1" href = "#note290_1">290.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">Petition of John Herlyng of Basyngham to +‘Lady’ Paston</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1467 or later</p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +Requests ‘her Highness’ to confirm some grants of her late husband to +him of land at Basyngham. William Swan claims, and has taken from him 2 +perches of ground in breadth near his (Swan’s) gate, which has always +been parcel of Herlyng’s tenement of Greyve’s during his and his +father’s time. John Pykerell, too, has made mean to the Abbot of St. +Benet’s to remove a boundary stone which has stood there sixty years. +Pykerell also took the writer’s horse and used it in his field without +leave, on Friday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 6 Edw. +<span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, which made the beast +unserviceable till Fastegong next following. Pykerell has also done him +other injuries.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[As this petition refers to the ‘Fastegong’ or Shrovetide after +Holy-Rood Day 6 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> as a past +date, it cannot have been drawn up earlier than the year 1467. The manor +of Basingham, in Norfolk, belonged to the Mauteby family, and came to +John Paston by marriage. This paper, therefore, was addressed to his +widow Margaret.]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note290_1" id = "note290_1" href = +"#tag290_1">290.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page291" id = "page291">291</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter679" id = "letter679">679</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">CECILY DAWNE TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag291_1" id = "tag291_1" href = +"#note291_1">291.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the right worshipfull, and with my faithful hert and service full +entyerly beloved gode maister, Sir John Paston.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1463-7<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. +3</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull Sir, and with my +faithfull herte and service full entierly beloved gode maister, in my +moste humble wyse I recommaund me unto your goode maistreship. Pleace it +the same to wite that I thenke right longe to I have veerey knolege of +your welfare, the which undrestande wil be to me right grete comfort. +And that causeth me to write unto you as nowe. And also to late you wite +that I herde reperte ye shuld be wedded unto a Doughter of the Duchez of +Somerset, which mater, and I spake with you, I couth enforme your +maistership that were to longe to write as nowe. But I shal and do pray +God dayly to sende you such one unto your worldes make that wil drede +and faithfully unfeyned love you above alle othir erthely creatures. For +that is most excellent richesse in this worlde, as I suppose. For +erthely goodes bene transsitory, and wedding contynues for terme of +lyfe, which with some folke is a full long terme. And therfore, Sir, +savyng your displeasir, me semez wedding wolde have goode avysement. +Moreover, Sir, like it your maistership to undirstond that wynter and +colde weders draweth negh, and I have but fewe clothez but of your gift, +God thanke you. Wherefore, Sir, and it like you, I besech your gode +maisterschip that ye will vouchsafe to remembre me your servaunte with +some lyverey, such as pleaseth you, ayens this wynter, to make me a gown +to kepe me from the colde wedders. And that I myght have it and such +answare as ye pleace in the premisses sente unto me be the bringer +herof. And I schal contynuwe your oratrix and pore servaunte and +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page292" id = "page292">292</a></span> +hertely pray to God for your prosperite, Whom I besech have you, Right +worshipful Sir, and with my faithful herte and service full entierly +beloved gode maister, in His blessed governaunce. Writen at Hellowe the +iii<sup>de.</sup> Day of Novembre. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Cecile Daune.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note291_1" id = "note291_1" href = +"#tag291_1">291.1</a> +[Add. <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> 34,889, f. 166.] This letter +is of course not earlier than 1463, when Sir John Paston received his +knighthood, but probably belongs to a period before his flirtations with +Anne Haute, who first appears on the scene in the summer of 1468.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter680" id = "letter680">680</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag292_1" id = +"tag292_1" href = "#note292_1">292.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">JAN. +11</span></p> + +<div class = "abstract"> +<p>Release by William, Bishop of Winchester, John, Lord Beauchamp, Sir +John Howard, Sir William Yelverton, Justice of the King’s Bench, Thomas +Lytelton, Justice of the Common Pleas, William Jenney, Serjeant-at-Law, +William Paston, Esq., Thomas Howys, clerk, and William Grene, to Sir +John Paston, Knight, of the manors of Castre, in Flegge, called Vaux and +Bosoms, and the lands in Castre called Redham, the manors or tenements +in Heryngby called Spensers and Fennes, a third part of the manor +of Runham, the manor of Wynterton, called Begvyles, with a windmill, the +manor of Reppes in Bastewyk, and messuages, &c., in Yarmouth; the +lands called Billes in Stokesby and Cattes in Heryngby, &c.; the +manors of Guton in Brandeston, Heynford, the manor of Saxthorp, called +Loundhalle, with a watermill, the manor of Lincolnhalle, in Boyton, +&c., in Norfolk; and the manor called Caldecotes in Freton, Suff.; +the manors of Akethorp in Lowestoft and Spitlyngges in Gorleston, and +lands called Havelound in Bradwell, &c.; also in the manor of +Tichewell, &c., in the hundred of Smethedon, Norf.; and the manor of +Hempnales in Cotton, and Burnevyles in Naketon, Suff.; all which the +said Bishop and the others had, <i>inter alia</i>, of the gift of Ralph, +Lord Sudeley, Sir William Oldhall, Richard Waller, Esq., Thomas West, +Esq., William Wangford, and Nicholas Girlyngton.</p> + +<p>Dated 11th Jan. 7 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span></p> +</div> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note292_1" id = "note292_1" href = +"#tag292_1">292.1</a> +[<span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in Bodleian Library.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page293" id = "page293">293</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter681" id = "letter681">681</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">WILLIAM WORCESTER TO MARGARET PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag293_1" id = "tag293_1" href = +"#note293_1">293.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght worshypfull maistras, Margyt Paston, wedowe.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468(?)</p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> worchypfull maistras, aftyr dew +recomendacion, please your gode maistrasshyp to wete that I comyned late +wyth your entier welbelovyd son, Sir John Paston, of the fundacion of my +Maister Fastolf Collage myght ben at Cambrygge, yn case hyt shall nat +bee at Castre, nether at Seynt Benetts, because that Universyte lyeth +neere the cuntree of Norffolk and Suffolk; for albe it my Lord of +Wynchestr ys disposed to found a Collage yn Oxford for my seyd maister +to be prayd for, yhyt wyth moch lesse cost he myght make som othyr +memorialle also yn Cambrygge, and yt weere of ij. clerkys, iij. or iiij. +scolers, founded at leest wyth the value of gode benefices and ryche +parsonages, that myght be purschased the advowsons, wyth moch lesse +goodes then lordshyppes or maners may; and I fonde your son well +disposed to meofe and excyte my seyd Lord. Also now the Cristmasse weke +next before the feest att London, my Lord Wynchester called me to hym yn +presence of Sir John, and desyrid hym effectually to be my gode wyller; +and maister wold hafe no wordes rehersed on my behalf, and he seyd full +welle. Wold Jesu, Maistras, that my gode maister that was som tyme your +husbond, yn my seyd Maister Fastolf lyfe dayes, as he shewed to me, +their coude hafe founded yn hys hert to hafe trusted and lovyd me as my +Maister Fastolf dyd, and that he wold not hafe geven credence to the +malyciouse contryved talys that Frere Brakley, W. Barker, and +othyrs ymagyned ontruly, savyng your reverence, +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page294" id = "page294">294</a></span> +of me. And now ye may opynly ondrestand the sothe, and your son Sir John +also; and yhyt for all that I put nevyr my Maister Fastolf lyfelode yn +trouble, for alle the unkyndnesse and covetuse that was shewed me, as I +hafe declared to the berer heroff, that I know ye trust welle, to whom +yn thys ye may gefe credence at thys tyme.</p> + +<p>God amend J. Russe. I wold he had ben at Irland for one day ys sake. +<span class = "signature">Your,</span> +<span class = "signature">W. W.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +And I thank you hertly for my pore woman, she shuld com to you at your +commaundment late or rathe, but for gelosye and mysdemyng of peple that +hafe me yn greete awayt; and ye know welle, maistras, better ys afrende +unknow then knowen; the world ys to mysdemyng and redy to make dyvysyon +and debate that comyth of an envyouse disposicion. And I am ryght glad +that Castr ys and shall be at your comaundment, and yowres yn +especialle. A ryche juelle yt ys at neede for all the cuntre yn +tyme of werre; and my Maister F. wold rather he had nevyr bylded yt then +hyt shuld be yn the gouvernaunce of eny sovereyn that wole oppresse the +cuntree. And I fynde the relygyoux of Seynt Benetts full unkynde toke +away a chambre, the elder Abbot had put me yn possessyon for my solace, +when I myzt com thedr and desport me, and toke that chambre to Maister +John Smyth, that Sir Thomas Howys seyd to me, was none holsom counceller +yn the reformacion of the last testament made but ij. executors to hafe +the rule allone. I wold he had nevyr medled of yt, that councell +made moch trouble. I pray you kepe thys letter close to your sylf, +as I trust you and Sir Jamys, and also yn R. Toly that I undrestand hym +close and just.</p> + +<p>I had no tyme to speke withyn now late, when I was but one day at +Norwych. W. Barker sclaundred me yn certeyn maters of gode to the +some of v<sup>c.</sup> mark that Reynold Harneys shuld kepe and take me +half. Wold Jesu B[a]rker had seyd true, hyt myzt hafe do me moch gode! +And, Maistras, as I dar desyre you, I pray you recomaund me to my +best maistras, your moder Agnes, for she favorued me and dyd me grete +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page295" id = "page295">295</a></span> +cherytee, to be the better disposed to hyr son, Maister John, and by my +soule yt made me the hertyer to safe the lyfelode fro trouble or from +claymes, as I support me to alle the world, I put nevyr maner ne +lyfelode of my Maister Fastolf yn trouble, ne entitled no crettur to na +place, and ye may speke wyth hyr herof when ye be allone.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note293_1" id = "note293_1" href = +"#tag293_1">293.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 280.] It seems probable that this letter was written +about the beginning of the year 1468. As to the time of year, we may +judge by one expression that it was not very long after Christmas; and +as the writer congratulates Margaret Paston that Caister is to be at her +command, we may with great probability suppose the date to be about the +same as that of the preceding document.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter682" id = "letter682">682</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">HUGH FENN TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag295_1" id = "tag295_1" href = +"#note295_1">295.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the right worchepfull Sir John Paston, Knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">[APRIL +12]</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worchepfull sir, I recommand me +to you. Like you wete a distresse was take in Caster by Thomas Pekok, +I trowe your servant, a besy man, called of a full true sowle, +John Hadynet of Haryngby, a pore man his plow hath loyn ever sith, +he seith; I understonde it is for Catts landes. I sent my +clerk to my mastresse, your moder, and the seid John with hym therfor; +and my mastresse wold hym come ageyn a nother day, for Pecok was not +thanne at home; so he ded, and can not have it, as he seith, but that ye +wold I shuld speke with you at Castr therof, and of other maters he +tolde me this day. And by cause of my moders yereday holden this day, +God have hir sowle, and to morwe shal be a good day, I wol by +Goddes grace dispose me to His mercy ageyns Thursday, as I have used; +therfor I pray you pardon my comyng. In the weke after Ester, +I entend to se you and my seid mastresse certeynly; it is loong +seth I sy hir, me semeth. And if ye be not thanne at Castr, I pray +you send me worde that I may come soner to you to comon with you in this +mater, and in all other what ye wil, and sone departe to London fro +thens; and therfor I wil abide with you a good while.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page296" id = "page296">296</a></span> +<p>Sir, as to Catts ye be remembred what I seid to you at London at ij. +tymes. I am the same man; I have sith I cam geten th’evidences +in to myn handes, and I am redy to shewe them what lerned man her that +ye wol assigne. The mater is cler to my thynkyng. Titleshale that solde +it to Sir J. Fastolf myght as wele a solde hym your lande or myn; +and if the sale be lawfull, I shal leve my hands at the first as I +said at London. The distresse to be kept for that, I wisse it nede +not, and it was unlawfully taken. Like it you to do delyvere the pore +man his goods ageyn, I am redy to answer you for elde and new as +right wol. I shal breke no day to be assigned, for to leve all +other thyngs.</p> + +<p>By the blissed Lady I beleve that ye wol dispose you wele, and so I +pray God ye do, and have you in His blissed governaunce. Wretyn at the +hede town of Norffolk this Tuysday. +<span class = "signature">Your owen,</span> +<span class = "signature">H. atte <span class = +"smallcaps">Fenne</span>.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note295_1" id = "note295_1" href = +"#tag295_1">295.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 290.] This letter was written on the Tuesday before +Easter, probably in the year 1468, <i>i.e.</i> after the other executors +of Fastolf had released to Sir John Paston. The date could hardly be +later than 1469, when Sir John was driven out of Caister by the Duke of +Norfolk; and in 1469 he does not seem to have been residing there about +Easter.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter683" id = "letter683">683</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">EDWARD IV. TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag296_1" id = "tag296_1" href = +"#note296_1">296.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Paston, Knight.</p> + +<p class = "salutation"> +<span class = "smallcaps">By the King.</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">APRIL +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Trusty</span> and welbeloved, we greet yow +well. And where it is accorded betwixt us and our cozen the Duke of +Burgundye that he shall wedde our derrest sister, Margaret, and that in +shorte while we intende to sende her into the parts of Flanders for the +accomplishment and solempnizacion of the marriage so concluded; at the +which time it behoveth her to be accompanied with great nobility of this +realme, for the honour thereof, of us and our said sister: We therefore, +wele understanding and remembering the good +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page297" id = "page297">297</a></span> +affection ye bere towards us all, our pleasure is, and our said sister, +whereupon we greatly trust, desire and pray yow right effectuously that, +every excuse or delaye laide aparte, ye will dispose yourselfe to the +saide intent and purpose against the first day of June next cominge, +according to your honour and degree, and that ye faile not so to doe, as +we singularly trust yow, and as ye intend to do us justys, +pleas<sup>s</sup>.<a class = "tag" name = "tag297_1" id = "tag297_1" +href = "#note297_1">297.1</a> Yeven under our signet at our mannor of +Greenwich, the xviij. day of Aprill.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note296_1" id = "note296_1" href = +"#tag296_1">296.1</a> +This letter is reprinted from Mr. Worship’s article on Sandford’s +genealogy of the Paston family in the <i>Norfolk Archæology</i>. The +original was transcribed by Sandford, but is not now to be found. +Margaret, sister of Edward <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, was +married to Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, at Bruges, on the 3rd +July 1468.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note297_1" id = "note297_1" href = +"#tag297_1">297.1</a> +So, as printed in the <i>Norfolk Archæology</i>.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter684" id = "letter684">684</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGER TO MARGARET PASTON<a +class = "tag" name = "tag297_2" id = "tag297_2" href = +"#note297_2">297.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght reverend and worchepfull modyr, Margaret Paston, dwellyng at +Caster, be thys delyveryed in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY 8</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryth</span> reverend and worchepfull modyr, I +recomaund me on to you as humbylly as I can thynk, desyryng most hertly +to her of your welfare and herts ese, whyche I pray God send yow as +hastyly as my hert can thynk. Ples yt yow to wete, that at the makyng of +thys byll, my brodyr and I, and all our felawshep, wer in good helle, +blyssyd be God. As for the gydyng her in thys contre, it is as +worchepfull as all the world can devyse it, and ther wer never Englyshe +men had so good cher owt of Inglong that ever I herd of.</p> + +<p>As for tydyngs her, but if it be of the fest, I can non send yow; +savyng my Lady Margaret<a class = "tag" name = "tag297_3" id = +"tag297_3" href = "#note297_3">297.3</a> was maryd on Sonday<a class = +"tag" name = "tag297_4" id = "tag297_4" href = "#note297_4">297.4</a> +last past, at a towne that is callyd the Dame, iij. myle owt of Brugys, +at v. of the clok in the mornyng; and sche was browt the same day to +Bruggys to hyr dener; and ther sche was +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page298" id = "page298">298</a></span> +receyvyd as worchepfully as all the world cowd devyse, as with +presession with ladys and lordys, best beseyn of eny pepyll, that ever I +sye or herd of. Many pagentys wer pleyed in hyr wey in Bryggys to hyr +welcomyng, the best that ever I sye. And the same Sonday my Lord the +Bastard,<a class = "tag" name = "tag298_1" id = "tag298_1" href = +"#note298_1">298.1</a> took upon hym to answere xxiiij. knyts and +gentylmen, with in viij. dayes at jostys of pese; and when that they wer +answeryd, they xxiiij. and hym selve schold torney with othyr xxv. the +next day aftyr, whyche is on Monday next comyng; and they that have +jostyd with hym into thys day, have ben as rychely beseyn, and hymselve +also, as clothe of gold, and sylk and sylvyr, and goldsmyths werk, myght +mak hem; for of syche ger, and gold, and perle, and stanys, they of the +Dwkys coort, neythyr gentylmen nor gentylwomen, they want non; for with +owt that they have it by wyshys, by my trowthe, I herd nevyr of so +gret plente as ther is.</p> + +<p>Thys day my Lord Scalys<a class = "tag" name = "tag298_2" id = +"tag298_2" href = "#note298_2">298.2</a> justyd with a Lord of thys +contre, but not with the Bastard; for they mad promyse at London that +non of them bothe shold never dele with othyr in armys; but the Bastard +was one of the Lords that browt the Lord Scalys in to the feld, and of +mysfortwne an horse strake my Lord Bastard on the lege, and hathe hurt +hym so sore, that I can thynk he shalbe of no power to acomplyshe up hys +armys; and that is gret pete, for by my trowthe I trow God mad never a +mor worchepfull knyt.</p> + +<p>And as for the Dwkys coort, as of lords, ladys and gentylwomen, +knyts, sqwyers, and gentylmen, I hert never of non lyek to it, save +Kyng Artourys cort. And by my trowthe, I have no wyt nor remembrans +to wryte to yow, half the worchep that is her; but that lakyth, as it +comyth to mynd I shall tell yow when I come home, whyche I tryst to God +shal not be long to; for we depart owt of Brygys homward on Twysday next +comyng, and all folk that cam with my Lady of Burgoyn owt of Inglond, +except syche as shall abyd her styll with hyr, whyche I wot well shall +be but fewe.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page299" id = "page299">299</a></span> +<p>We depart the soner, for the Dwk<a class = "tag" name = "tag299_1" id += "tag299_1" href = "#note299_1">299.1</a> hathe word that the Frenshe +Kyng<a class = "tag" name = "tag299_2" id = "tag299_2" href = +"#note299_2">299.2</a> is purposyd to mak wer upon hym hastyly, and that +he is with in iiij. or v. dayis jorney of Brugys, and the Dwk rydyth on +Twysday next comyng, forward to met with hym; God geve hym good sped, +and all hys; for by my trowthe they are the goodlyest felawshep the ever +I cam among, and best can behave them, and most lyek gentylmen.</p> + +<p>Othyr tydyngs have we non her, but that the Dwke of Somerset,<a class += "tag" name = "tag299_3" id = "tag299_3" href = "#note299_3">299.3</a> +and all hys bands depertyd welbeseyn owt of Brugys a day befor that my +Lady the Dwches cam thedyr, and they sey her, that he is to Qwen +Margaret that was, and shal no more come her ayen, nor be holpyn by the +Dwk. No more; but I beseche yow of your blyssyng as lowly as I can, +whyche I beseche yow forget not to geve me ever day onys. And, modyr, +I beseche yow that ye wolbe good mastras to my lytyll man, and to +se that he go to scole.</p> + +<p>I sent my cosyn Dawbeney v<i>s.</i> by Callys man, for to bye for hym +syche ger as he nedyth; and, modyr, I pray yow thys byll may +recomend me to my sustyrs bothe, and to the mastyr, my cosyn Dawbeney, +Syr Jamys,<a class = "tag" name = "tag299_4" id = "tag299_4" href = +"#note299_4">299.4</a> Syr John Stylle, and to pray hym to be good +mastyr to lytyll Jak, and to lerne hym well; and I pray yow that thys +byll may recomand me to all your folkys, and my wellwyllers. And I pray +God send yow your herts desyr.</p> + +<p>Wretyn at Bruggys the Fryday next aftyr Seynt Thomas. +<span class = "signature">Your sone and humbyll servaunt,</span> +<span class = "signature"><span class = "smallcaps">J. Paston</span>, +the yonger.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note297_2" id = "note297_2" href = +"#tag297_2">297.2</a> +[From Fenn, ii. 2.] As this letter gives an account of the marriage of +the Princess Margaret to Charles, Duke of Burgundy, there is no doubt of +the year in which it was written.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note297_3" id = "note297_3" href = +"#tag297_3">297.3</a> +Margaret, sister of King Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note297_4" id = "note297_4" href = +"#tag297_4">297.4</a> +3rd July.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note298_1" id = "note298_1" href = +"#tag298_1">298.1</a> +Anthony, Count de la Roche, commonly called the Bastard of Burgundy, +a natural son of Duke Philip the Good.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note298_2" id = "note298_2" href = +"#tag298_2">298.2</a> +Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales, afterwards Earl Rivers.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note299_1" id = "note299_1" href = +"#tag299_1">299.1</a> +Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note299_2" id = "note299_2" href = +"#tag299_2">299.2</a> +Lewis <span class = "smallroman">XI.</span></p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note299_3" id = "note299_3" href = +"#tag299_3">299.3</a> +Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note299_4" id = "note299_4" href = +"#tag299_4">299.4</a> +Sir James Gloys, a priest.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter685" id = "letter685">685</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag299_5" id = +"tag299_5" href = "#note299_5">299.5</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +16</span></p> + +<p class = "abstract"> +General pardon to William Paston, son of the judge, for offences +committed before the 15th April last. The grantee is described by +different <i>aliases</i>, as William Paston of London, of Caster, of +Norwich, and of Wymondham, gentleman. Westminster, 16th July, +8 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span> <i>Great Seal +attached.</i></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note299_5" id = "note299_5" href = +"#tag299_5">299.5</a> +[From Add. Charter 17,248, B.M.]</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page300" id = "page300">300</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter686" id = "letter686">686</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THE EARL OF OXFORD TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag300_1" id = "tag300_1" href = +"#note300_1">300.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To Sir John Paston, Knyght.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +18</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Right</span> worshipfull, and my especiall +true hertid frende, I commaunde me un to you, preying you to ordeyne me +iij. horsse harneys as godely as ye and Genyn kan devyse, as it were for +yourselfe; and that I may have thyme in all hast, ordere. Also Skerne +saith ye wolde ordeyne ij. standarde stavys; this I pray you to +remembre, and my wife shalle deliver you silver,—and yit she most +borowed it; vj. or vij<i>li.</i> I wold be stowe on a horsse harneys, +and so Skerne tolde me I might have. The Lord Hastings had for the same +price, but I wolde not myne were lik his; and I trust to God we shalle +do right welle, who preserve you. Wreten at Canterbury in hast, the +xviij. day of Juyll. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Oxynford.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note300_1" id = "note300_1" href = +"#tag300_1">300.1</a> +[From Fenn, ii. 26.] The writer of this letter was committed to the +Tower in November 1468, and though afterwards released, it was not long +before he became a declared enemy of Edward <span class = +"smallroman">IV.</span>; so that, after the brief restoration of Henry +<span class = "smallroman">VI.</span> in 1470, he was obliged to leave +the kingdom. The date of this letter, therefore, is not likely to be +later than the present year, but it may be a year or two earlier.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter687" id = "letter687">687</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO MRS. ANNE<a class = "tag" +name = "tag300_2" id = "tag300_2" href = +"#note300_2">300.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To Mastresse Annes.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">JULY +22</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Rythe</span> it is so that I may not, as oft +as I wold, be ther as [<i>i.e.</i> where] I might do my message +myselff, myn owne fayir Mastresse Annes, I prey yow to accept thys +byll for my messanger to recomand me to yow in my +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page301" id = "page301">301</a></span> +most feythfull wyse, as he that faynest of all other desyreth to knowe +of yowr welfare, whyche I prey God encresse to your most plesure.</p> + +<p>And, mastresse, thow so be that I as yet have govyn yow bot easy +[<i>i.e.</i> little] cause to remembyr me for leke of aqweyntacion, yet +I beseche yow, let me not be forgotyn when ye rekyn up all yowr +servaunts, to be sett in the nombyr with other.</p> + +<p>And I prey yow, Mastresse Annes, for that servyse that I owe yow, +that in as short tyme as ye goodly may that I myght be assarteynyd of +yowr entent and of your best frends in syche maters as I have brokyn to +yow of, whyche bothe your and myn ryght trusty frends John Lee, or ellys +my mastresse hys wyff, promysyd befor yow and me at our fyrst and last +being togedyr, that as sone as they or eyther of theym knewe your entent +and your frendys that they shold send me woord. And if they so do, +I tryst sone aftyr to se yow.</p> + +<p>And now farewell, myn owne fayir lady, and God geve yow good rest, +for in feythe I trow ye be in bed.</p> + +<p>Wretyn in my wey homward on Mary Maudeleyn Day at mydnyght. +<span class = "signature">Your owne,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Mastresse Annes, I am prowd that ye can reed Inglyshe; wherfor I prey +yow aqweynt yow with thys my lewd [<i>uncouth</i>] hand, for my purpose +is that ye shalbe more aqweyntyd with it, or ellys it shalbe ayenst my +wyll; but yet, and when ye have red thys byll, I prey yow brenne it +or kepe it secret to yoursylff, as my feythefull trust is in yow.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note300_2" id = "note300_2" href = +"#tag300_2">300.2</a> +[From Fenn, ii. 294.] The Mrs. Anne to whom this letter was addressed +seems to have been a Mrs. Anne Haute, to whom Sir John was for a long +time engaged. That it was written before the year 1469 will appear +probable on referring to Margaret Paston’s letter written on Easter +Monday (3rd April) in that year, in which she wishes to know for certain +if he be engaged; and we have therefore little difficulty in referring +it to the year 1468, when Sir John was over in Flanders at the marriage +of the Princess Margaret to Charles of Burgundy. Mrs. Anne appears to +have been a lady of English extraction, who was either born abroad or +had passed most of her life on the Continent. She was, moreover, related +to Lord Scales, and is therefore not unlikely to have been the daughter +of one William Haute of Kent, who married at Calais, in 1429, the +daughter of a certain Richard Wydeville. (See <i>Excerpta Historica</i>, +p. 249.) But she could speak and even read English; and Sir John, who +was now returning homewards to England, designed in this letter to open +a correspondence with her. He appears, however, not to have despatched +it, as the original remained among the papers of the Paston family; or +else perhaps it was returned to him on the breaking off of the +engagement.</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page302" id = "page302">302</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter688" id = "letter688">688</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">THOMAS HOWES TO CARDINAL BOURCHIER<a class = +"tag" name = "tag302_1" id = "tag302_1" href = +"#note302_1">302.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my moste honorabyl Lord Cadenall, and Archibushop of Caunterbury.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +10</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Moste</span> reverent and my ryght good Lord, +I recomaund me to your gracyous Lordshyp yn my moste humble wyse. Please +your Lordshyp to wete that my Lord Norffolk councell hath now late mevyd +Sir Wylliam Yelverton, Knyght, and me to be preferryd for to purchasse +the maner of Castre, and certeyn other lordshypps that wer my Maystyr +Fastolf, whom God pardon, owt excepted the maner of Gunton that yowr +Lordshyp desyryth to purchasse, and othyr certeyn maners that my Mastyr +Fastolf frendys hafe desyred to be preferryd. And be cause the pretens +bargayn that John Paston yn hys lyffe surmytted, bye colour of which he +entended to hafe all my Mastyr Fastolf londes in Norffolk and Suffolk +for nought, savyng the hygh reverence of your astate, was not juste ne +trew; and be cause that I wyth othyr of my Master Fastolf executors may +have wher of to dyspospose yn cheryte full dedys to do for hys sowle; +I have condescended the rather that my seide Lord of Norffolk shall +be preferryd to the purchasse of the seyde maner of Castre, and othyr +maners that may be sparyd to th’encresse of hys lyfelode yn thys land; +and thys covenantys to be engroced upp wythynne shorth tyme, as by all +Halowaunce, in case yowr Lordshyp be agreed and plesyd wyth all; wher +uppon I wold beseche yowr nobyll Lordshyp to lete me wete your good +plesur and avice yn thys behalfe.</p> + +<p>And be cause my seyd Lord Norffolk ys so nere of blode to yowr +hyghnesse knyghted, that meevyd me to be the more wyllyng to condescend +to the forseyd purchasse, and so trustyng +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page303" id = "page303">303</a></span> +your Lordshyp wold be ryght well pleased wyth alle. Wretyn at Norwich +the x. day of Octobyr, anno viij. R. E. <ins class = "correction" +title = "text has ‘iiij^t’ alone, without punctuation: corrected from Fenn">iiij<sup>ti</sup>.</ins> +<span class = "signature">Yowr pore chapleyn,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">T. Howys.</span></p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note302_1" id = "note302_1" href = +"#tag302_1">302.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 298.]</p> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">anno viij. R. E. iiij<sup>ti</sup>.</span><br> +text has “iiij<sup>t</sup>” alone, without punctuation: corrected from +Fenn</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter689" id = "letter689">689</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag303_1" id = +"tag303_1" href = "#note303_1">303.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract"> +[<i>Circa</i> 1468.] Long declaration in English (on a paper roll) by +Thomas Howes, ‘for the discharge of his conscience,’ impugning the +authenticity of the will nuncupative, said to have been made by Sir +J. Fastolf on the day of his death, and propounded by John Paston +and the said Thomas in opposition to an earlier will propounded by Sir +W. Yelverton and W. Worcetyr; containing details intended to +prove that the alleged will was fabricated by Paston. Amongst other +things, Howes says that at Paston’s desire he did, a year before +Fastolf’s death, move Fastolf that Paston might buy three of his manors +and live in his college, ‘and the seyd Fastolf, mevyd and passyoned +gretely in his soule, seyd and swar by Cryst ys sides, “And I knewe that +Paston woolde by ony of my londes or my godes he shulde nevyr be my +feffe, nother myn executor.” Albeyt he seyde that he wolde suffer that +the said Paston for terme of hys lyf shall have a loggyng yn a +convenyent place yn the seyd maner of Castre withoute denyance of ony +havyng intrest yn the seyd maner.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note303_1" id = "note303_1" href = +"#tag303_1">303.1</a> +[From a <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> in Magdalen College, +Oxford.] This Abstract is derived from Mr. Macray’s Report on the +Muniments of Magdalen College, printed in the Fourth Report of the +Historical <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span> Commission.</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter690" id = "letter690">690</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ANONYMOUS TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag303_2" id = "tag303_2" href = +"#note303_2">303.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To Maistyr Syr John Paston, Knyght, at London, with my <ins class = +"correction" title = "text has ‘Lorae’ (italic ‘a’ for ‘d’)">Lorde</ins> +the Archebisshop of Yorke, be this letter delyverid.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">OCT. +28</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">I recommand</span> me unto you. It is +tolde me that the man that ye wote of cam ridyng by my Lady Suthfolk and +by Cotton, which is in gret decay; and Barnay tolde him that Edward Dale +tolde hem he durst no lenger serve him of +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page304" id = "page304">304</a></span> +ale, for it was warnid hym that my Lady Suffolk<a class = "tag" name = +"tag304_1" id = "tag304_1" href = "#note304_1">304.1</a> wolde entyr, +and whan she shulde enter few men shulde knowe, it shulde be do so +sodenly. She taryeth but of tythynges fro London. He spak nat with hyr. +I pray you speke to my Lorde of Zorke<a class = "tag" name = +"tag304_2" id = "tag304_2" href = "#note304_2">304.2</a> for the subpena +in the Chanceri ayen William Paston that he take noon hurte. He desyrith +to write to yow for it. My Lorde of Northfolk men have warnid the +tenantis to pay you no mony, and thai speke alle in the Kynges name. Ye +may tell my Lorde of Yorke that it is open in every mannys mouth in this +contre the language that my Lorde of Yorke and my Lord of Warwik had to +my Lorde of Norfolk in the Kings chambre, and that my Lorde of Yorke +saide, rathir than the londe shulde go so, he wolde com dwell ther hym +sliff. Ye wolde mervaile what harts my Lords hath goten, and how this +language put peeple in comforte. My Lorde of Norffolk answerde that he +wolde speke to my Lady his wiff, and entret hir. And your adversarys +reherce that my Lorde shall never be Chanceleer til this mateer be +spede,<a class = "tag" name = "tag304_3" id = "tag304_3" href = +"#note304_3">304.3</a> for ther bargans ar made condicionall, to holde +and nat holde as afftir my Lorde be Chaunceler and nat. Sothwell is all +the doar, and he hath saide that my Lorde of Zorke licensid hym to +labour in the mateer. My Lorde of Norwich shuld by xl. marke of the same +lond. Thai entende to have a man of my Lady of Suthfolks sheryve, and +specially Harcort. My Lorde coude nat bileve it but if [<i>i.e.</i> +unless] he harde it, how it is rejoysshid in som place that he is nat +Chaunceleer. Ther cam oo man into the contre with a newe patent, saying +that my Lorde was Chanceler, and at that was the first patent that was +sealid sithen he was officeer. The tythandes did goode <i>pro +tempore</i>. Ther are witnes labourid, as it is said, to witnes and +swere ageyn you of men of c<i>li.</i> a yeer, and many oder men, som +that knew never of the mateer nor never harde Sir John Faskolff speke; +ye know what jure is in this contre in maters that ar favoured by them +that ar now ageyn you. It is harde whan a mateer restid by jure in this +contre, som of the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page305" id = "page305">305</a></span> +same quest that founde you bondeman shall witnesse ayens you. Syr Thomas +Howys comyth to London, and if my Lorde of Zorke wolde entret frendely +my Lorde of Ely,<a class = "tag" name = "tag305_1" id = "tag305_1" href += "#note305_1">305.1</a> and get feithfully his promyse that my Lorde of +Ely sende for Hawys, he shulde make Hawys to go home ageyn and leve all +his fellowis post allon; and that my Lorde wolde entret my Lorde +Tresaurer, my Lord Penbrok,<a class = "tag" name = "tag305_2" id = +"tag305_2" href = "#note305_2">305.2</a> my Lady Bedford,<a class = +"tag" name = "tag305_3" id = "tag305_3" href = "#note305_3">305.3</a> +and remembre the bargan is not yit made, it may be better lettid affor +than afftyr; and if the mateer spede my Lorde getith gret worshipp and +gret thanke. I doute not he undirstondyth it, for it is well +undirstonde what he hath saide. And pray his Lordeshipp to remembre a +shereve this yeer, for ther is mych to be undirstonde in the shereve. +And sende me worde if my Lorde Penbrok be go, and if my Lorde be +Chaunceler. Et memorandum, Sir William Terell your testimoniall. Et +memorandum, my Lorde Cardynall to sende answer to Sir Thomas Howys; and +though my Lorde Cardynall be nat ther now, yit lat Townysende make it +redy ageyns my Lords commyng. If Sir Thomas Howys wer handelyd by +Maister Tressam and made byleve and put in hope of the moone shone in +the water and I wot nat what, that such labor wer made that eythir he +shulde be a pope or els in dyspeyr to be depryved <i>de omni beneficio +ecclesiastico</i> for symony, lechory, perjory, and doubble variable +pevyshnesse, and for admynystryng without auctoryte; and how he promisid +bi his feith to my Lord t’obey his rewle and brak it, and what he hath +saide to my lords in this mateer; and if ye recur in the courte, he +shall be undo, and this mateer tolde hym by my Lorde of Ely and Maister +Tresham, halff in game and halff in ernest, it shulde make hym to +departe, for Yelvyrton and he ar halff at variance now. And entret my +Lords servaunts to speke in your maters to all such persones as nede is. +And I shall be hastyly with you by the grace of God, whom have yow in +kepyng. Writen on Seynt Simonde Day and Jude. +<span class = "signature">By your owne.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note303_2" id = "note303_2" href = +"#tag303_2">303.2</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.] The reference +to the Earl of Pembroke, who was only so created in 1468, and who was +beheaded in July 1469, fixes the date of this letter to the former +year.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note304_1" id = "note304_1" href = +"#tag304_1">304.1</a> +Alice, widow of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note304_2" id = "note304_2" href = +"#tag304_2">304.2</a> +George Nevill, Archbishop of York.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note304_3" id = "note304_3" href = +"#tag304_3">304.3</a> +The Great Seal was taken from Archbishop Nevill on the 8th June 1467. +Apparently in 1468 he was hoping to be made Chancellor again.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note305_1" id = "note305_1" href = +"#tag305_1">305.1</a> +William Grey, Bishop of Ely.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note305_2" id = "note305_2" href = +"#tag305_2">305.2</a> +William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note305_3" id = "note305_3" href = +"#tag305_3">305.3</a> +<i>See</i> <a href = "#note188_3">page 188, Note 3</a>.</p> +</div> + +<p class = "correction"> +<span class = "citation">with my Lorde the Archebisshop of +Yorke</span><br> +text has “Lorae” (italic “a” for “d”)</p> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page306" id = "page306">306</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter691" id = "letter691">691</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR JOHN PASTON TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag306_1" id = "tag306_1" href = +"#note306_1">306.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my ryght welbelovyd brother, John Paston, Esqer, beyng at Caster, or +to John Dawbeney there, be this letter delyvered.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468<br><span class = "sidetext">NOV. 9</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Ryght</span> welbelovyd brother, I comand me +to yow, letyng yow wete that I have wagyd for to helpe yow and Dawbeney +to kepe the place at Castr, iiij. wel assuryd and trew men to do al +maner of thyng what that they be desyryd to do, in save gard or +enforcyng of the seyd place; and mor ovyr they be provyd men, and +connyng in the werr, and in fetys of armys, and they kan wele schote +bothe gonnys and crossebowes, and amende and strynge them, and devyse +bolwerkys, or any thyngs that scholde be a strenkthe to the place; and +they wol, as nede is, kepe wecche and warde. They be sadde and wel +advysed men, savyng on of them, whyche is ballyd, and callyd Wylliam +Peny, whyche is as goode a man as gothe on the erthe, savyng a lytyll he +wol, as I understand, be a lytel copschotyn [<i>high-crested</i>], but +yit he is no brawler, but ful of cortesye, meche uppon James Halman; the +other iij. be named Peryn Sale, John Chapman, Robert Jakys Son, savyng +that as yit they have non harneyse comyn, but when it komyth it schall +be sent to yow, and in the meane whyle I pray yow and Dawbeney to purvey +them some.</p> + +<p>Also a cople of beddys they most nedys have, whyche I pray yow by the +help of my modre to purvey for them, tyl that I com home to yow. Ye +schall fynde them gentylmanly, comfortable felawes, and that they wol +and dare abyde be ther takelyng; and if ye undrestond that any assawte +schold be towardys, I sende yow thes men, becawse that men of the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page307" id = "page307">307</a></span> +contre ther about yow scholde be frayed for fer of losse of ther goods; +wherfor if ther wer any suche thyng towards, I wolde ye take of men +of the contre but few, and that they wer well assuryd men, for ellys +they myght discorage alle the remenant.</p> + +<p>And asfor any wryghtyng fro the Kyng, he hathe promysyd that there +schall come non; and if ther do his unwarys [<i>without his +knowledge</i>], yowr answer may be thys, how the Kyng hathe seyd, and so +to delay them tyll I may have worde, and I schall sone purvey a +remedy.</p> + +<p>I understond that ye have ben with my Lorde of Norfolke now of late. +What ze have done I wete not; we se that he shal be her ageyn thys daye. +Mor ovyr, I trow John Alforde schall not longe abyde with my Lorde; +I schall sende yow tydyng of other thyngys in haste, with the grace +of God, who, &c. Wretyn on Wednysday nexte befor Seynt Martyn. +<span class = "signature smallcaps">John Paston.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +I fer that Dawbeney is not alther best storyd to contenew howsold longe; +lete hym send me worde in hast, and I wyll releve hym to my power, and +or longe to I hope to be with yow.</p> + +<p>Roger Ree is scheryff of Norfolke, and he schall be good jnow. +Th’excheter I am not yit assertaynyd of.</p> + +<p>Also, that thes men be at the begynnyng entretyd as corteysly as ye +can.</p> + +<p>Also, I pray yow to sende me my flowr<a class = "tag" name = +"tag307_1" id = "tag307_1" href = "#note307_1">307.1</a> be the next +massanger that comyth.</p> + +<p>Also, as for my Lorde Fytz Waters oblygacion, I know non suche in myn +adward as yit.</p> + +<p>Also, the obligacion of the Bisshop of Norwychys oblygacion, +I never sye it that I remembre; wherfor I wolde and prey my modre +to loke it up.</p> + +<p>Also, as for the Byble<a class = "tag" name = "tag307_2" id = +"tag307_2" href = "#note307_2">307.2</a> that the master hath, I wend +the +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page308" id = "page308">308</a></span> +uttermost pryse had not passyd v. mark, and so I trowe he wyl geve it: +wet, I pray yow.</p> + +<p>Also, as for Syr Wylliam Barber and Syr Wylliam Falyate, I wolde, if +they kan purvey for them selfe, folfayne be dyschargyd of them.</p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note306_1" id = "note306_1" href = +"#tag306_1">306.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 302.] The original of this letter, Fenn informs us, was +written upon a whole sheet of paper, of which a quarter was cut away +before the letter was finished, so that the bottom part of it was only +half the width of the upper. Roger Ree was made Sheriff of Norfolk in +1468, which fixes the date.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note307_1" id = "note307_1" href = +"#tag307_1">307.1</a> +This may mean flour for household use; or it may signify his flower, his +device or cognisance.—F.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note307_2" id = "note307_2" href = +"#tag307_2">307.2</a> +This must mean some <span class = "smallroman">MS.</span> copy, for at +this time there was only one printed edition of the Bible, which would +have sold even then for a much greater sum than is here mentioned. +I mean ‘Biblia Latina Mogunt. per J. Fust et P. Schoiffer, +1462.’—F.</p> +</div> + + +<h3><a name = "letter692" id = "letter692">692</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ELIZABETH POYNINGS TO SIR JOHN PASTON<a class = +"tag" name = "tag308_1" id = "tag308_1" href = +"#note308_1">308.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To the worshipful Sir John Paston, Knyght, be thys delveryd in hast.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468(?)<br><span class = "sidetext">DEC. +15</span></p> + +<p class = "first"> +<span class = "firstword">Worshipfull</span> and with all myn hert +interly wilbeloved nevoue, I recomaunde me to yow, desyryng to here +of your prosperite and wilefayr, which I pray All mighti God maynteyn +and encres to His plesour and your herts desir, thankyng God of your +amendyng and helth; furthermore, certefying yow that Sir Robert Fenys +hath doon grete hurte in the lyvelode whiche perteyned to my husbond and +me in the Shire of Kent, wherein William Kene and other persones arn +enfeffid, and gretly troubleth hit, and receyveth the issuez and +profitez of gret part of theym. And as of my seid husbonds lyvelode, +aswell in the same shire as in other +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page309" id = "page309">309</a></span> +shirez, besyde myn jounter, my seid husbond, whan he departyd towarde +the feld of Saint Albons, made and ordeyned his wille, that I shuld have +the rewell of all his lyvelode, and of Edwarde his soon and myn, and to +take the issuez and profitez of the seid lyvelode, to the fyndyng of his +and myn seid son, to paie his dettez, and to kepe the right and title of +the same lyvelode, which I myght nat accordyng occupie for Sir Edwarde +Ponyngs, myn seid husbonds brother; and so sith myn seid husbonds +departyng, I assigned that the seid Sir Edwarde for certeyn yereez +shuld have and take the revenuez of the maners of Westwode, Estwell, +Levelond, Horsmonden, Totyndon, Eccles, Staundon, and Combesdon, parcell +of the seid lyvelode, which arn clerely yerely worth lxxvj<i>li.</i> +xiij<i>s.</i> iiij<i>d.</i>, to the entent that the seid Sir Edwarde +shuld paye myn husbonds dettez, for he wold not suffer me to be in rest +without that he myght have a rewell in the lyvelode; and after the seid +assignement made, the seid Robert Fenes, contrary to trowth, and +withoute cause of right, interupted me and the seid Sir Edwarde, aswell +of and in the seid maners as of other maners undirwretyn; wher uppon the +same Sir Edwarde suet unto the Kyngs Highnesse, and hade the Kyngez +honorable lettres undir his signet, directed to the said Sir Robert +Fenys, the tenour wherof I send unto yow herin inclosid; and as for +residue of the lyvelode of myn seid husbonds and myn, within the same +shire of Kent, wherin the said William Kene and other arn enfeffed, that +is to say, the maner of Tyrlyngham, Wolverton, Halton, Newyngton, +Bastram, Rokesley, and Northcray, with th’appurtenauncez, I of +them, by myn seid husbonds wille, shuld have residue, and take the +issuez and profitez of theym, contrarye to right and conciens, takyng +away my ryght, and brekyng my said husbonds wille, the seid Robert Fenys +hath doon gret wast and hurte ther, and long tym hath take upe the +revenuez and profitez of the same, wher thorough I have not my ryght, +and the seid wille may not be performed.</p> + +<p>Wherfor I hertely pray yow that ze will labour unto the Kynges +Highnes, at yt lyketh hym addres his honorable lettres to be directed to +the seid Robert Fenys, dischargyng hym +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page310" id = "page310">310</a></span> +utterly of the menuraunce, occupacion, and receyt of the revenuez of the +said maners of Tyrlyngham and other, accordyng to the tenour of the +lettres labored by Sir Edwarde, for the maners assigned to hym from the +Kyngs Highnes, directyd to the same Robert Fynes, or strayter if hit may +be, and that I and myn assignez may peasseble rejoie theym; and if eny +person wold attempt to do the contrarye, that a comaundement, yf it ples +the Kyngs Hignes, by hym myght be yevyn to my Lorde Chaunceller to seall +writtyngs sufficiaunt with his gret seall, in eydyng and assisting me +and myn assignez in this same.</p> + +<p>And as for the maners of Esthall, Faukham, Asslie, and Chelsfeld, +with th’appurtenauntez in the seid schire of Kent, whereof my hysbond at +his departur was seassed, and my son sethens, unto the tyme that the +Erle of Kent<a class = "tag" name = "tag310_1" id = "tag310_1" href = +"#note310_1">310.1</a> without eny inquission or title of right for the +Kyng, by colour of the Kynges lettres patentes, entret into theym, and +hym therof put owte, and now my Lorde of Essex<a class = "tag" name = +"tag310_2" id = "tag310_2" href = "#note310_2">310.2</a> occupieth them +in lyke maner and forme; yf eny remedy therin wilbe hade, I pray +yow attempt hit.</p> + +<p>Also, forther more, I hertely pray yow that if eny generall pardon be +grauntyd, that I may have on for John Dane my servaunt, whom the said +Robert Fenys of gret malice hath endyted of felonye, and that ze +secretly labour this, and send me an aunswer in writtyng in as godly +hast as ze may. As soon as that may ples yow to send me passels of +costes and expences ze bere and pay for the said causez, I will +truely content yow hit of the same, and over that rewarde yow to your +plessour by the grace of Jesu, quo have yow in His blessed keping. +Wrettyn in Suthwerk the xv<sup>th</sup> daie of Decembyr. +<span class = "signature">Be your awnt,</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">Elizabeth Ponyngs.</span></p> + +<div class = "footnote"> +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note308_1" id = "note308_1" href = +"#tag308_1">308.1</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 266.] Elizabeth Paston, as we have seen (No. 374), +had married Robert Poynings by the +beginning of January 1459. We must, however, correct a slight inaccuracy +in the preliminary note to that letter, where it is said that by the +year 1470 they must have been married several years. Their union, in +fact, lasted little more than two years; for Robert Poynings was slain +at the second battle of St. Albans on the 17th February 1461. The +inquisition <i>post mortem</i>, taken some years afterwards (9 and +10 Edw. <span class = "smallroman">IV.</span>, No. 49), gives that +day as the date of his death. His son and heir, Edward, named in this +letter (who was afterwards Lord-Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Henry +<span class = "smallroman">VII.</span>), was probably born towards the +close of the year 1459, for he is mentioned at the date of the +inquisition (31st Jan. 49 and 1 Hen. <span class = +"smallroman">VI.</span>, <i>i.e.</i> 1471) as eleven years old and over. +Elizabeth Poynings must have remained a widow some years; but before +1472 she had married Sir George Browne of Betchworth, Surrey. This +letter is certainly of later date than <a href = "#letter627">No. +627</a>, for the lands which she was then endeavouring to recover from +the Earl of Kent were now occupied by the Earl of Essex. It may perhaps +have been a year or two after 1466, but it was probably not later than +1469, as in 1470 Henry <span class = "smallroman">VI.</span> was +restored, and Essex, being a Yorkist, would not have been so powerful. +The year 1468 must be a tolerable approximation to the true date.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note310_1" id = "note310_1" href = +"#tag310_1">310.1</a> +Edmund Grey, Lord Grey of Ruthin, and Baron Hastings, who was created +Earl of Kent in 1465.</p> + +<p><a class = "tag" name = "note310_2" id = "note310_2" href = +"#tag310_2">310.2</a> +Henry, Viscount Bourchier, created Earl of Essex in 1461.</p> +</div> + + +<span class = "pagenum"> +<a name = "page311" id = "page311">311</a></span> +<h3><a name = "letter693" id = "letter693">693</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">ABSTRACT<a class = "tag" name = "tag311_1" id = +"tag311_1" href = "#note311_1">311.1</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "abstract header"> +<span class = "smallcaps">The King to Sir Robert Fynys</span></p> + +<p class = "sidenote">1468</p> + +<p>Commanding him not to levy the rents of Westwode, Estwell, Levelond, +Horsmonden, Totyngdon, Eccles, Stondon, and Comebesdane in Kent.</p> + +<p class = "annotation"> +[This was evidently the copy of the writ obtained by Sir Edward Poynings +referred to in the preceding letter. Below is written, ‘The copie of the +lettre myssyve endossid by the Kynges awn handes.’]</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note311_1" id = "note311_1" href = +"#tag311_1">311.1</a> +[From Paston <span class = "smallroman">MSS.</span>, B.M.]</p> + + +<h3><a name = "letter694" id = "letter694">694</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">SIR GEORGE BROWNE TO JOHN PASTON<a class = "tag" +name = "tag311_2" id = "tag311_2" href = +"#note311_2">311.2</a></span></h3> + +<p class = "salutation"> +To my trusty and welbelowyd cosyn, Jhon Paston, Esquyer, in haste.</p> + +<p class = "sidenote">Date uncertain</p> + +<p>Loyawlte Ayme. +<span class = "signature">Be zowr howne</span> +<span class = "signature smallcaps">G. Browne.</span></p> + +<p class = "allclear"> +Hyt schal newyr cum howt for me.</p> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note311_2" id = "note311_2" href = +"#tag311_2">311.2</a> +[From Fenn, iv. 100.] The writer of this brief and enigmatical letter +was the second husband of Elizabeth Paston, as mentioned in the +preliminary note to <a href = "#letter692">No. 692</a> preceding. If the +John Paston, Esquire, to whom it is addressed be the first of that name, +that is to say, Elizabeth Paston’s brother, the date is not later than +1466; but as it was certainly some years later before the writer became +connected with the Pastons by marriage, the person addressed is more +probably John Paston the youngest, brother of Sir John. The date of this +communication, however, is unimportant. Its purport, of which Fenn has +suggested rather a complicated explanation, appears to me simply a +promise of secrecy on some subject: ‘<i>Loyauté, aimé</i> (<i>i.e.</i> +Honour bright, my dear friend). It shall never come out for me.’</p> + +</div> + +<!-- end div letters --> + + +<h6>END OF VOLUME IV</h6> + +<p> <br> </p> + +<hr class = "mid"> + +<p class = "center smaller"> +Printed by T. and A. <span class = "smallcaps">Constable</span>, +Printers to His Majesty<br> +at the Edinburgh University Press</p> + + +</div> +<!-- end div maintext --> + +<div class = "endnote"> + +<h4><a name = "contents" id = "contents">Contents of Volume IV</a><br> +<span class = "subhead">(added by transcriber)</span></h4> + +<table class = "contents"> +<tr> +<th>Year</th> +<th>Letter</th> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1461</td> +<td><a href = "#letter488">488</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1462</td> +<td><a href = "#letter504">504</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1463</td> +<td><a href = "#letter535">535</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1464</td> +<td><a href = "#letter555">555</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1465</td> +<td><a href = "#letter575">575</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1466</td> +<td><a href = "#letter625">625</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1467</td> +<td><a href = "#letter658">658</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td>1468</td> +<td><a href = "#letter680">680</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<h4><a name = "titletext" id = "titletext" href = "#titlepage">Title +Page</a></h4> + +<div class = "frame"> + +<p>THE</p> + +<p class = "largest">PASTON LETTERS</p> + +<p><span class = "smallroman">A.D.</span> 1422–1509</p> + +<p>NEW COMPLETE LIBRARY EDITION</p> + +<p class = "smaller">EDITED WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION</p> + +<p class = "smaller">BY</p> + +<p class = "extended">JAMES GAIRDNER</p> + +<p class = "smallest">OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE</p> + +<p> </p> + +<p class = "extended"><i>VOLUME IV</i></p> + +<table class = "titlepage"> +<tr> +<td> +<span class = "extended">LONDON</span><br> +CHATTO & WINDUS +</td> +<td> +<img src = "images/leaf.png" width = "18" height = "42" +alt = "leaf"> +</td> +<td> +<span class = "extended">EXETER</span><br> +JAMES G. 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