Volume Ii Part 16 (1/2)
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.]
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THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM TO THE VISCOUNT BEAUMONT[75.2]
_To the right wors.h.i.+pful, and with all myn herte right entirely belovid brother, the Viscounte Beaumont._
[Sidenote: Between 1442 and 1455]
Right wors.h.i.+pful, and with all myn herte right entierly beloved brother, I recomaunde me to you, thenking right hertili youre good brotherhode for your G.o.de and gentill letters, the whiche it hath liked you to sende unto me nowe late; and like it you to knowe I perseeve by the tenor of the seid lettre, your G.o.de desire of certein dubete that I owe unto you.
In G.o.de faith, brother, it is so with me at this tyme, I have but easy stuffe of money withinne me, for so meche as the seison of the yer is not yet growen, so that I may not plese youre seide G.o.de brotherhode, as G.o.d knoweth my will and entent were to do, and I had it.
Nevertheless, and it like you, I sende you, bi my sonne Stafford,[76.1]
an obligacion wherof, of late tyme, I have rescevid part of the dubete therinne comprisid; the residue of whiche I prai you to resceve bi the seid obligacion, and that I may have an acquitance therof, and to yeve credence unto my seid sonne in such thing as he shall say unto your G.o.de brotherhode on my behalve.
Right wors.h.i.+pfull, and with all myn herte right entirely belovid brother, I beseche the blissed Trinite, preserve you in honor and prosperite.
Writen at my Castell of Makestok,[76.2] the xvij. day of Marche.
Yowre trew and fethfull broder,
H. BUKINGHAM.
[Footnote 75.2: [From Fenn, i. 16.] There appear to be no means of ascertaining the exact year when this letter was written; but as the writer was created Duke of Buckingham on the 14th September 1441, and his son, the Earl of Stafford, was killed at the battle of St. Albans on the 22nd May 1455, the date must lie between these two limits.]
[Footnote 76.1: Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, the Duke's eldest son, who was slain at St. Albans in 1455.]
[Footnote 76.2: In Warwicks.h.i.+re.]
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WILLIAM YELVERTON TO JOHN PASTON[76.3]
_To my ryght wurchepfull cosyn, John Paston, Esquier._
[Sidenote: Between 1444 and 1460]
Right worchepful cosyn, I recomaunde me to yow, thankyng yow as hertyly as I kan for my selff, &c., and specially for that ye do so moche for Oure Ladyes hous at Walsyngham, which I trust veryly ye do the rather for the grete love that ye deme I have therto; for trewly if I be drawe to any worchep or wellfare, and discharge of myn enmyes daunger, I ascryve it unto Our Lady.
Preyng yow therfore that ye woln ben as frendly to Our Ladyes hous as I wote well ye have alwey ben, and in especyall now, that I myght have of yow the report certeynly be your letter of that, that Naunton your cosyn informyd yow, and told yow be mouth of all maters towchyng Oure Ladyes hous of Walsyngham.