Volume Ii Part 28 (1/2)
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.'
--MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 229.]]
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LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[137.2]
_To my right trusty and right enterly welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier._
[Sidenote: 1450 / APRIL 22]
Right t[r]usty and enterly welbeloved frend, I grete you welle, and wyll ze wite that a man of Osberd Monford hath declared me how the said Osberd is infourmed that Danyelle shuld be pourposed to enter in the place of Braystone. And as fer as I can undirstande, Danyelle is come in to this c.u.n.tre, for none other cause but for to have suche as the Kyng hath gifen hym in Rysyng, which lieth not in me ner in none of the Kynges subgectes to go ageyns hise graunte and plesaunce. And in cas the said Danyelle wold enter upon the said Osberd otherwise than lawe wold, seyng the said Osberd is my tenaunt and homager, it is my part to holde with hym rather than with Danyelle in hise right, which I wylle do to my pouer. And as zet I can not apperceyve that Danyelle wylle labore in any maters in this c.u.n.tre; and if he wylle be of good governance, I am wel paied. And in cas that he wold do wrong to the lesse gentilman in the chirre, it shal not lye in hise pouer be the grace of G.o.d. He letethe me wite that he wylle be wel governed in tyme commyng.
Right trusty and enterly wel beloved frend, I pray G.o.d have you in hise governance. Writen at Midelton, the xxij. day of Aprille.
SCALES.
[Footnote 137.2: [Douce MSS. 393, f. 100.] It appears by a paper, which will be found further on (No. 119), that Daniel entered the manor of Braydeston or Brayston during the Parliament which was held at Leicester in the spring of 1450.
This letter must have been written at that time.]
109
LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[138.1]
_To my right trusty and welbeloved frende, John Paston, Squier._
[Sidenote: Year uncertain]
Right trusty and welbeloved frend, I grete you hertly wel, and wul ye wite that Wotton is ever creyng and callyng upon me to write un to you for hise londe; wherfore at the reverence of Good, consideryng the symplenesse of hem all, I pray you that ye put hem at a certen, and lete hem all that they aught to have of right, for thaire creyng cause men to thinke ye do hem grete wrong, which I wote wel ye wold be sory to do.
Oure Lord have you in hise governance. Writen at Midelton, the xvj. day of October.
Youre frende,
SCALES.
[Footnote 138.1: [From Fenn, iii. 364.] This and the six letters following, all but one of which are, like the last, written by Lord Scales to John Paston, are placed here merely for convenience, the years in which they were written being quite uncertain, though probably not very far apart. The one letter among them of which Lord Scales is not the writer, is inserted in abstract on account of its bearing on that which immediately precedes it.]
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LORD SCALES TO JOHN PASTON[138.2]
_To my right trusty and enterly welbeloved frend, John Paston, Squier._
[Sidenote: Year uncertain]