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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Paston Letters.Volume II.by James Gairdner.THE PASTON LETTERS _Early Doc.u.ments_ Be
The Paston Letters.Volume II.by James Gairdner.THE PASTON LETTERS _Early Doc.u.ments_ Before entering upon the correspondence of the Paston family, in the reign of Henry VI., we have thought it well to give the reader a brief note of such deeds and charte
- 1 The Paston Letters.Volume II.by James Gairdner.THE PASTON LETTERS _Early Doc.u.ments_ Before entering upon the correspondence of the Paston family, in the reign of Henry VI., we have thought it well to give the reader a brief note of such deeds and charte
- 2 The Castell of Bakuile.The Castell of Bellacombyr.The Castell of Douyle.The Castell of Likone.The Castell of Ankyrvile.The Abbey of Seint Katerinz.These er the gates names of Roon, and how the lordys lay in sege, and to fore what gate, and also the derth
- 3 [Sidenote: 1424]Be it remembred that where, on the nyght next biforne the feste of the Circ.u.mcision of owre Lord Jesu, the [second][12.2] yeer of the regne of Kyng Henry the s.e.xte, certeyns maffaisours, felons, and brekeres of the kynges peas vnknowyn
- 4 [Sidenote: 1425 / SEPT. 24]Bill witnessing a concord made 24 Sept. 4 Hen. VI. between John Kertelyng, clerk, general attorney to Sir John Fastolf, on the one part, and Richard Boson, Esq., on the other, viz.: That Fastolf shall have in fee-simple the mano
- 5 and Maister John Blodwelle,[27.6] a weel lerned man holden, and a suffisant courtezan of the seyd court, and all these acorden to the seyd Maister Robert Sutton. Nought with stondyng that I herde nevere of this matier no maner lykly ne credible evidence u
- 6 [Sidenote: 1427-43]Is he to deliver to John Halleman Paston's evidences belonging to the manor of Wodhalle in Pagrave, and under what form? Hopes to see him at Norwich, on Tuesday or Wednesday after Michaelmas-day. Cressingham, 20 Sept.On the back ar
- 7 _Articles de Monsr. de Warrewyk[34.3] touchant le bon regime du Roy, etc._[34.4][Sidenote: 1432 / NOV. 9]For the goode reule, demesnyng and seuretee of the Kynges persone, and draught of him to vertue and connyng, and eschuyng of eny thing that mighte yev
- 8 (1429-30) or that of 12 Hen. VI. (1433), which sat till 21st December. Probably the latter.[Sidenote: 1434(?)]Plese it to Commines of the present Parlement, that William Paston, on of the Justice of oure Saverayne Lorde Kyng, takyth diverse fees and rewar
- 9 32 ABSTRACT[43.1][Sidenote: 1438 / AUG. 18]Sir H. Inglose notifies his agreement with John Topy of Wyndham, jun., in an action for trespa.s.s done to him at Stalham. Dilhams, Monday after the a.s.sumption of Our Lady, 16 Henry VI.[Footnote 43.1: [Add. Cha
- 10 No more atte this tyme, b.u.t.te the Trynyte have you in proteccion, &c.; and qwan your leysyr is, resorte ageyn on to your college, the Inner Temple, for ther ben many qwych sor desyr your presence, Welles and othyr, &c.Wretyn in le fest de touts Seynts,
- 11 41 ABSTRACT[51.1][Sidenote: 1441 / OCT. 14]Sir Thomas Keryell, lieutenant of Calais, notifies that his servant, John a Bekkes, mariner, master of his s.h.i.+p _Bonaventure_, has sold it to Sir John Fastolf, and that he agrees to the sale. Calais, 14th Oct
- 12 [Footnote 54.1: The celebrated Thomas Netter of Walden, provincial of the Carmelite order in England; a great opponent of Wycliffe.][Footnote 54.2: Richard II. was committed to the Tower in 1399, just before his formal resignation of the crown.]47 MARGARE
- 13 51 JAMES GRESHAM TO WILLIAM PASTON[61.1]_To my right worthy and worshepfull Lord, William Paston, Justice, in hast._ [Sidenote: 1444 / JAN. 29]Please it your good Lords.h.i.+p to wete that the Chief Justice of the Kynggs Benche[61.2] recomaundeth hym to y
- 14 This letter appears to have been used as a wrapper for others. It is endorsed, 'Literae diversorum directae J. Paston receptae apud London per diversos annos ante festum Michaelis anno x.x.xiiij Hen. VI.Literae Fastolff pro Costid (?). Literae W. Way
- 15 CATHERINE, d.u.c.h.eSS OF NORFOLK, TO JOHN PASTON[71.1]_To our right trusty and hertily welbeloved John Paston, Squier._ {_Kateryn, d.u.c.h.esse_} {_of Norff._ } [Sidenote: After 1444 (?)]Right trusty and entierly welbeloved, we grete you wel hertily as w
- 16 Wretyn at Geddyng, the xv. day of September.Your Cosyn, SIR ROGER CHAMBERLEYN.[Footnote 75.1: [From Fenn, iii. 38.] Nothing can be said as to the date of this letter, except that it is evidently after the death of William Paston.]65 THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
- 17 _Tradatur Johanni Paston, of the Inner In in the Temple, att London._ [Sidenote: 1447(?)]Ryth worschipfull brothir, I recomaund me to yow, &c. I preye write to myn modre of your owne hed as for to consell her howh that sche kepe her prevye, and tell no bo
- 18 Small seal, on the paper, with a straw round it.[Footnote 81.1: [From MSS. in Magd. Coll., Oxf.]][[The empty brackets after "Hickling 104" are in the original.]]73 ABSTRACT[82.1][Sidenote: 1447 / NOV. 29]Indenture, dated St. Andrew's Eve, 2
- 19 LORD SCALES TO THOMAS GNATESHALE[87.1]_To Thomas Gnateshale._ [Sidenote: Date uncertain]Thomas Gnateshale, I wul ze wite it was oute of my remembrance that Paston hade pout in my determinacion the discort betwene you and hym.I was the more favourable to y
- 20 [Footnote 90.2: [From Fenn, i. 190.] It appears, by John Paston's pet.i.tion presented to Parliament two years later, that after he had been dispossessed of Gresham by Lord Molyns in February 1448, communications pa.s.sed between his counsel and that
- 21 All my brethir wenyth that I schyd no forthir goo than to the Byschope, and undir that colour schal I weel go forthe to the Courte. I haf gret stody til I haf tydings fro zow. Avyr mor All mythi Good haf zow in kepyng, bodi and soule.Writtin in hast, the
- 22 [Sidenote: 1449(?)]Ryt wurchipful hwsbond, I recomawnd me to zu, and prey zw to gete som crosse bowis, and wyndacs[101.2] to bynd them with, and quarrels;[101.3]for zour hwsis her ben so low that ther may non man schet owt with no long bowe, thow we hadde
- 23 [Footnote 106.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] As it appears from Margaret Paston's letter of the 2nd April 1449 that William Paston was a student at Cambridge in that year, the date of this must be about the same period.][Footnote 106.2: Word omitted.][F
- 24 95 JOHN DAMME TO JOHN PASTON[111.2]_To my ryght worshepfull master John Paston at London in the Inner Temple._ [Sidenote: 1449 / NOV. 30]Plese it your good maistershep to knowe that my maisteresse your wyff recomaundeth here to yow and fareth well, blysse
- 25 RICHARD, EARL OF WARWICK, TO SIR THOMAS TODENHAM[117.1]_To owr ryght trusty and welbelovyd Frend, Ser Thomas Todenham._ [Sidenote: 1449(?) / NOV. 2]Ryght trusty and welbelovyd frend, we grete you well, hertely desyryng to here of yowr welfare, which we pr
- 26 Item, suth the matier first moeved of the convencyon of trewes and pees by twenne you and your seid grette enemeye Charlys, callyng hem selfe kyng of Fraunche, wheroppon by grete diberacyon ye, by the advyse of your Councell, have send many solempne amba.
- 27 I seyd to hem, as for seche servys as they had do to zw and to me, I desyr no mor that thei xuld do nother to zw ner to me. Thei seyd I myt an had of them att Gressham qhat I hadde desyryd of hem, and had as moche as I desyryd. I seyd, nay; if I mytz an h
- 28 Search the accounts of Drayton Heylesdon, &c., these thirteen years.[Footnote 137.1: [From a modern copy by Blomefield on the fly-leaf of a Letter addressed to him. Headed, 'Gave this original letter of Sir John's to Sir Andrew Fountain.'--
- 29 [Footnote 139.2: [Douce MS., f. 101.]]113 LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[140.1]_To my right trusty and welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier._ [Sidenote: Year uncertain]Right trusty and welbeloved frend, I grete you wel; and for as myche as there is certayn v
- 30 [Footnote 142.2: John de la Pole, who succeeded him as Duke of Suffolk.][Footnote 142.3: This heading looks as if copied by Fenn from an endors.e.m.e.nt, which is probably not quite contemporaneous.][Footnote 143.1: These words in brackets were chafed and
- 31 W. L.[Footnote 146.1: [From Fenn, i. 38.] The date of this letter is perfectly determined by the events to which it relates.][Footnote 146.2: 4th May.][Footnote 146.3: 30th April.][Footnote 146.4: 2nd May.][Footnote 147.1: An allusion to Friar Hauteyn
- 32 My lord wole not to Leicestre.[150.7] My Maister Danyell desireth yow thedir. I shall ride thiderward on Friday by tymes.Wretyn in hast at Wynche,[150.8] the xiij. day of May.I pray yow to thynk upon my mater to my mastresse your wyf, for my mastresse Ann
- 33 [Footnote 153.2: Jack Cade and his followers encamped on Blackheath on the 11th June 1450, and again from the 29th of June to the 1st July. Payn refers to the latter occasion.][Footnote 153.3: Sir John Fastolf (who is dead at the date of this letter) left
- 34 129 ABSTRACT[159.3]JAMES GRESHAM TO [JOHN PASTON?].[Sidenote: About 1450]Inquiry made as to the injury of Sporle wood for lack of hedging. The three years' growth of the wood availeth no man. The farmers now cannot sell it the better, so it must be e
- 35 [Footnote 162.4: Cherbourg surrendered to the French on the 12th August 1450. --_See_ Stevenson's _Reductio Normanniae_, p. 367.][Footnote 162.5: 'Quaere this abbreviated word,' says Fenn. It is probably _eme_, meaning uncle.]132 THE EARL O
- 36 or vij. thrifty apprentisez; at whiche tyme the Lord Moleyns t.i.tle was shewed, and clerly answerid, in so meche that his own counseil seide they cowde no forther in the matier, desiryng me to ride to Salesbury to the Lord Moleyns, promyttyng of their pa
- 37 THOMAS DENYES.This day I deme thei come beforn us. If ye help not now, Tudenham and Heydon shal achieve in their desese the conquest that thei coude never achieve in their prosperite.[Footnote 173.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 45.] This is evidently the same ye
- 38 _Endorsed:_ Literae Fastolff, Yelverton, circa le oyrdeterminer.--Memorandum de billa actus justic' apud Walsingham.[Footnote 179.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The tone of this letter so closely resembles that of William Wayte of the 6th October 1450,
- 39 _To owr welbeloved John Paston._ [Sidenote: 1450 / OCT. 18]Right welbeloved, I grete yow well. And as towchyng for tydyngs, I can none, savyng that my Lord of Norffolk met with my Lord of York at Bury on Thursday, and there were to gedre til Friday, ix. o
- 40 [Footnote 188.2: An inquisition taken by the escheator of a county by virtue of his office was frequently called an 'office.' Its object was to ascertain the King's t.i.tle to certain lands.][Footnote 189.1: Thomas Hert was presented to Hay
- 41 Thanks them for their diligence. Has respited the matter against Wyndham touching the Lady Bardolf till next term, as he offers to come to an agreement.[192.3] Is ready to agree with all persons who will find sufficient surety, except Sir Thomas Tudenham,
- 42 J. FASTOLF.(_On the back_)--Item, I have sende ij. lettres to my Lord Erle of Oxford, the ton by Robson ys man, a squyer of my Lordys. And the grete substaunce of the lettre ys that the issues forfeted may be sent upp be tyme to my Lord Tresorer; for ther
- 43 I pray yow, therfore, that ye wole write to me your disposicion how ye purpose to be demened, and how I shal take yow for th'execucion of the Kyngs Comission, and the pupplik wele of all the s.h.i.+re; and aftir that that ye write to me, so wole I ta
- 44 [Footnote 208.1: _I.e._ the _estreats_.][Footnote 208.2: Omitted in MS.][[Ryght seuere and ryght worchepfull mayster _printed "ana"_]]171 ABSTRACT[209.1]SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN A BERNEY AND SIR THOMAS HOWES.[Sidenote: 1451 / JAN. 7]Sends John B
- 45 _Praesentationes factae et fiendae in audiendo et determinando._[213.2][Sidenote: 1451]For as meche as the _oyer and termyner_ is thus restreynyd, not vythstandyng the wrytyngs and all the materis utterid be my Lord of Oxenford, but if ther folow sumwhat
- 46 Sir John Curson,} Est'.Will. Thurton. } [Footnote 213.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This paper must belong to the early part of the year 1451, when it was proposed to indict Tuddenham and Heydon at Norwich.][Footnote 213.2: This t.i.tle is taken from a
- 47 Item, Gonnore kept a court at Routon the Thursday[220.2] next after Seynt Mathy[220.3] the Appostell, and it was told me that Bettes was ther with hym; wherefore I rode theder. And be cause that it was a fraunchised town and within the Duchye,[220.4] and
- 48 [Footnote 226.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 169.] This letter must have been written in a year when Easter fell after the 20th April, as Lent does not appear to have begun on the 4th March; and as it was during the life of Cardinal Kempe, we may pretty safely f
- 49 [Footnote 232.3: A Cistercian monastery in Huntingdons.h.i.+re.][Footnote 233.1: A writ to inquire whether a jury gave a false verdict.][Footnote 233.2: This is written on the back.][Footnote 233.3: John de Tyrington. He was succeeded in 1449 by Richard P
- 50 [Footnote 236.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter has no address, but there can be no doubt from the contents it was intended for John Paston. It was evidently written about the same time as the last, while the Sessions was sitting at Walsingham, and
- 51 On Thurisday the wall was mad zarde hey, and a good wylle be fore evyn it reyned so sore that they were fayne to h.e.l.le the wall, and leve werke. And the water is fallyn so sore that it standyt ondyr the wall a fote deppe to Ballys warde [i.e. _towards
- 52 199 JOHN BERNEY TO JOHN PASTON[249.1]_To the Ryght worshpful John Paston, Esquyer._ [Sidenote: 1451 / JUNE 20]Ryght wors.h.i.+pfull, &c. Please zou to comfort and help my pouer tenaunt, Symond Sparre, whech ys a restyd by warant, at the sute of the Lord S
- 53 204 ABSTRACT[253.3]SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN A BERNEY, JOHN PASTON, AND SIR THOMAS HOWYS.[Sidenote: 1451 / SEPT. 14]As the _oyer and termyner_ is to be at Norwich on Thursday next,[253.4]sends John Bokkyng to wait upon his counsel there to see to his matte
- 54 Right wors.h.i.+pful Sir, and my Right G.o.de Maister, I Recommaunde to yow with al myne hert. Plese yow that I have understanden that Daniel hath entred in to Brayston, and put owte my servantes and dispoiled my G.o.des, notwithstandinge I am here in the
- 55 _To the Kyng and the Lordes of his Councell._ [Sidenote: 1452 / [APRIL 30]]I John Clopton, Shereffe of Norffolk, certifie that wher oon John Falyate and othre were take within the hundred of Blofeld in the seid s.h.i.+re, and led to the castell of Framlyn
- 56 Item, the seid felechep make seche affrayis in the contre abowte the seid Ledehams place, and so frayith the people that dyvers persones for feer of mordyr darnot abyde in her howses, ne ride, ne walke abowte ther ocupacions, wyth owte they take gretter p
- 57 [Footnote 273.3: Mountford was disseised of Brayston by Daniel in the spring of 1450, but recovered possession on the 23rd September. I find no note of his having been disseised again, but I should think he must have been, as this paper is certainly two y
- 58 223 THE DUKE OF YORK AND SIR JOHN FASTOLF[280.1][Sidenote: 1452 / DEC. 18]This endenture witnesseth that where Richard, Duc of York, by his lettre of saal [_sale_] bering date the xv. day of the monneth of Decembre, the x.x.xj^ti yere of the regne of oure
- 59 M. PASTON.[Footnote 284.1: [From Fenn, i. 68.] According to Blomefield (_Hist. of Norf._ iii. 158), Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI., visited Norwich in the spring of 1452; but by the same authority, it would appear that she had returned to Westminst
- 60 [Footnote 289.1: Mutilated.][Footnote 289.2: Erased in MS. Apparently some further correction should have been made.][Footnote 289.3: Omitted in MS. 'Do your devoir,' _i.e._ endeavour, seems to have been the phrase intended.]230 THE DUKE OF NORF
- 61 ELYZABETH.[Footnote 295.1: [Douce MS. 393, f. 82.]]235 NEWSLETTER OF JOHN STODELEY[295.2][Sidenote: 1454 / JAN. 19]As touchyng tythynges, please it you to wite that at the Princes[295.3]comyng to Wyndesore, the Duc of Buk' toke hym in his armes and p
- 62 236 MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[300.1]_To my right wurs.h.i.+pfull hosbond, John Paston, be this delyveryd in hast._ [Sidenote: 1454(?) / JAN. 29]Right wors.h.i.+pfull hosbond, I recommawnd me to yow, praying yow to wete that I spak yistirday with my s
- 63 240 JOHN PASTON TO [THE EARL OF OXFORD][306.2][Sidenote: 1454 / MARCH 31]Right wurchepfull and my right especiall Lord, I recomaund me to your G.o.de Lordshep, besechyng your Lordshep that ye take not to displesauns thow I write you, as I here say that Ag
- 64 242 JOHN CLOPTON TO JOHN PASTON[314.1]_Un to ryth reverent Sir, and my good mayster, John Paston._ [Sidenote: About 1454]Ryth wurthy and wurchypfull Sir, and my ryth good mayster, I recomaunde me on to you, thankyng you evermore of your gret jentylness an
- 65 Youre frend, THE LORD SCALES.[Footnote 320.1: [From Fenn, iii. 200.] This letter is dated by a contemporary note at the bottom of the original, which is given thus in Fenn: 'Li't a?a Mich. x.x.xiij.' But for 'a?a,'according to the
- 66 WILLIAM BOTONER TO JOHN PASTON[323.3]_To my G.o.de maister, John Paston, Escuier, in Norwich, and yn hys absence, to John Berney, at Caister, Squyer._ [Sidenote: 1454 / JULY 5]Worshypfull Sirs, I recomaund me to yow. Lyke yow wete that as to the waraunts
- 67 [Sidenote: 1454 / JULY 20]Rygth wors.h.i.+pfull Sir, and my rygth good maister, I recomend me to you.Lyke you to wete I have spoken wyth my lord Chaunceler[328.2] and put the bylle by for hym and all the lordis upon Wednesday at after non last past, wenyn
- 68 [Footnote 332.1: According to Blomefield (vii. 186), Catherine, widow of John c.o.kerell of Albergh Wykes in Suffolk, died seised of the manors of Walcotes and Boles in 6 Henry VI., which she left, with others, to Catherine, daughter of John c.o.kerell, j
- 69 The Paston Letters.Volume III.by James Gairdner.THE PASTON LETTERS _Henry VI_ WILLIAM PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[1.1]_To my rith wurchipfull brodir, Jon Paston, be this delyveryd._ [Sidenote: 1454 / SEPT. 6]Ryth wurchyfull brodyr, I recomande me to zow, desiry
- 70 [Footnote 7.1: [From Fenn, iii. 224.]][Footnote 8.1: Thomas Fastolf of Cowhawe. --_See_ vol. ii. p.323, Note 1.][Footnote 9.1: Thomas Bourchier.][Footnote 9.2: Ralph, Lord Cromwell.]267 THOMAS HOWES TO JOHN PASTON[9.3]_To the wurshepfull Sir, and my good
- 71 And on the Moneday after noon the Queen came to him, and brought my Lord Prynce with her. And then he askid what the Princes name was, and the Queen told him Edward; and than he hild up his hands and thankid G.o.d therof. And he seid he never knew til tha
- 72 [Sidenote: 1455 / MARCH 17]Wurchepefull Sire, and right well be lovyd, I grete yow well, desyryng to here of youre well fare, praying you interlych to bie with me at dyner on Seynt Benett day, the whiche xall be on Friday next comyng, or ell[es] in brief
- 73 Castre, 3 May.[This letter, being dated at Caister in the month of May, cannot be earlier than 1455, and the references to the matter of the ward and the suit against Sir Thomas Howes seem to fix it to that year.][Footnote 22.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735,
- 74 The Lord Clyfford.Rauff Percy.Thorpe.Tresham and Josep.The inony [_enemy's_] batayle was in the Market-place, and the Kynges standard was pight, the Kynge beynge present with these Lordes, whos namys folwe:-- The Duke of Bokyngham. } The Duke Somyrce
- 75 The Baron of Dudley is in the Towre; what shal come of hym, G.o.d wote.The Erle of Dorsete is in warde with the Erle of Warrwyk.Hit was seyd, for sothe, that Harpere and ij. other of the Kynges chamber were confedered to have steked the Deuk York in the K
- 76 ABSTRACT[36.3][Sidenote: 1455 / JUNE 21]Writ to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in pursuance of patent, 12th December last, granting to John Bokking and William Worcester the wards.h.i.+p, etc., of the heir of John Fastolf of Cowghawe._Above in
- 77 [Sidenote: About 1455(?) / JUNE 29]Ryght wors.h.i.+pfull cosyn, I recomaund me unto you, desyryng to here of youre welfare; and if it like you to her of my welfar, at the makyng of this letter I was in good hele, loved be G.o.d. The cause of my wrytyng to
- 78 And, Sir, as touchyng al maner of newe t.i.thinges, I knoo well ye are averous; truly the day of makyng of this letter, ther were nonn newe, but suche I herd of, ye shalbe served with all.As for the first, the Kyng our souverain Lord, and all his trwe Lor
- 79 Also there is gret varyance bytwene the Erll of Devens.h.i.+re and the Lord Bonvyle, as hath be many day, and meche debat is like to growe therby; for on Thursday at nyght last pa.s.sed, the Erll of Denshyres sone and heir come with lx. men of armes to Ra
- 80 MARGARET PASTON.[Footnote 52.1: [From Fenn, iii. 252.] St. Andrew's day fell on Sunday in 1455 and 1460. This letter must be written in one of these two years, and the probabilities are greatly in favour of the former, as John Paston and William Worc
- 81 Item, the seyd Fastolf lent to the voyage that Thomas Danyell made in to Breteyn, as it is notorily knowen, of which he ys not yhyt payd, the somme of C_li._ Item, the seyd Fastolf hath born grete charge and cost of a lone made for the spede and help of a
- 82 NOTE 'Many of the letters in this collection,' says Fenn (iii. 261, Note 1), 'mention the disputes between the Duke of Suffolk and Sir John Fastolf concerning different manors and estates.' This remark is made with reference to the com
- 83 The true date cannot be many years before or after 1456.][Footnote 68.3: Sir John Fastolf.]317 ABSTRACT[69.1]SIR JOHN FASTOLF 'TO THE WORs.h.i.+PFUL LADY AND MY RIGHT WELLBELOVED SISTER, WHYTYNGHAM.'[Sidenote: 1456 / JAN. 20]As all the executors
- 84 And [_i.e._ if] Maister Nevyle,[74.1] the whych hath wedded my Lady Wyllughbye, have power or intrest to resseyve the Lord Wyllughby ys debts, then he to be labured untoo. And my Lord of Salysburye woll be a grete helper yn thys cause.The Kyng, whych ys S
- 85 Your, HUGH A FENNE.[Footnote 77.1: [From Fenn, iii. 332.] The first paragraph of this letter seems to relate to Fastolf's claims against the Crown set forth in Nos. 309 and 310, and as these seem to have been drawn up in the end of 1455, this letter
- 86 [Footnote 81.2: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 173.] The year of this letter is uncertain, but it must belong to the latter part of Henry VI.'s reign, and there is great probability that it was written in 1456, like No. 324, which is also written by Hugh Fenn
- 87 After humble and due recommendacion, please it your G.o.de maisters.h.i.+p to understand that atte makyng of this my pour letter ther were no noveltees with us, but suche as yee understode full well afor your departyng, except the Kyng woll in to Scotland
- 88 [Footnote 91.6: Here, in the original, followed various pa.s.sages relating to law business, which Fenn has not printed.][Footnote 92.1: Archbishop Bourchier.][Footnote 92.2: Henry, Viscount Bourchier, was appointed Lord Treasurer on the 29th May 1455 (_P
- 89 [Footnote 96.2: St. John the Baptist's Day is the 24th June._Feria tertia_ means Tuesday.]339 FRIAR BRACKLEY TO JOHN PASTON[97.1]_Magistro meo venerabili Johanni Paston Armigero detui._ Dixi enim magistro meo gardiano ante meum exitum quod magistri m
- 90 _To my right trusty and welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier._ [Sidenote: About 1456(?)]Right trusty and welbeloved frend, I grete you hertly well. And for as mych as I u[ndyrstond] a bill was made at Yermuth ageyns my cousyn Bryan Stapylton and hise wy.
- 91 W. BOTONER.I hafe and do purcha.s.se malgre to remembre of evidenses lakkyng by negligence, &c. And therfor I most be muet and suffre gretter losses but [_unless_] it be othyrwyse concydered. I sende yow the copie of your patentes,[105.1] in parchement, a
- 92 Begs him in the end of the term to come home by Dedham, along with William Worcester and Barker, to see to the accounts of barley and such husbandry as is used there. As to Wighton in Yorks.h.i.+re, Bokkyng reminds me you spoke to me that my son Scrope an
- 93 [Footnote 113.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 170.] The name of Dory occurs only once elsewhere in these letters, and then without a Christian name; but the person so referred to (at the end of No.330) is probably the under-sheriff of Norfolk; and this letter, wh
- 94 [Footnote 118.3: Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury.][Footnote 118.4: John Neville, afterwards Marquis Montague, married Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir Edmund Ingoldesthorpe of Burgh Green, in Cambridges.h.i.+re, by his wife Jane, sister, and at
- 95 _To the right worchipful and with al myn hert rigt entierly welebiloved Brother, the Viscount Beaumont._ [Sidenote: 1458(?) / JAN. 24]Right wors.h.i.+pful, and, with al myn hert, right entierly wele bilovede brothre, I recomaunde me unto yow. And for somo
- 96 W. BOTONER, _dit_ WORCESTYR.[Footnote 125.1: [From Fenn, i. 150.] Fenn states that he has omitted, as of no consequence, the first part of this letter relating to the holding of some courts and some other law matters wherein Yelverton, Fylongley, and othe
- 97 [Footnote 129.2: John Paston signs for both.]369 JOHN JERNYNGAN TO MARGARET PASTON[129.3]_Unto my ryght wurchipfull Cosyn, Marget Paston, this lettre be delyvered in haste._ [Sidenote: 1458 / JUNE 1]Ryght wurchipfull and my moste beste beloved maystres an
- 98 _To my Maister Paston._ [Sidenote: 1458]Sir, as I went to my horsward by Lincoln c.o.ke ys place, hyt fortuned that Wymondham and H. Fenne talked to gedre, and called me by my name, and both asked how my maister[133.4] fard, &c. Then Fen desyred me abyde
- 99 SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN PASTON AND SIR THOMAS HOWES, PARSON OF BLOFELD [Sidenote: 1459 / APRIL 13]As you desire me to write letters to certain lords, etc., on 'such matters as ye beth now to London for,' and as you know best what it would be mo
- 100 Castre, 3 July 37 Hen. VI.Would like Paston and Hue at Fenne to see a speedier mean for the recovery of the 300 marks adjudged to Fastolf to be received of the Lady Fulthorp for the ward of Thomas Fastolf.[Footnote 142.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 25