Volume Ii Part 39 (1/2)
_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. of the clokke, and than they departed. And there a gentilman of my Lord of York toke unto a yeman of myn, John Deye, a tokene and a sedell of my Lords entent, whom he wold have knyghtts of the shyre, and I sende you a sedell closed of their names in this same lettre, wherfore me thynkith wel do to performe my Lords entent.
Wretyn the xviij day of Octobr, at Wynche.
OXENFORD.
_Com. Norff'_, {Sir William Chambirlayn.[185.1]} {Henry Grey. }
[Footnote 184.2: [From Fenn, i. 98.] For evidence of date, see note to preceding letter.]
[Footnote 185.1: The names actually returned by the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for this Parliament were--for Norfolk, Sir Miles Stapleton and Henry Gray; for Suffolk, Sir _Roger_ Chamberleyn and Sir Edmund Mulso.]
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THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TO JOHN PASTON[185.2]
_To oure right trusty and welbeloved servaunt, John Paston, Squier._
_The Duc of Norfolk_.
[Sidenote: 1450 / OCT. 22]
Right trusti and right welbelovid, we grete yo hertily well, prayng you specially that ye will make you redy to awayte upon us at Yippiswich toward the Parlement the viij. day of Novembre in youre best aray, with as many clenly people as ye may gete for oure wors.h.i.+p at this tyme; for we will be there like oure estate in oure best wise without any delay.
Yeven under oure signet in oure Castell of Framlyngham, the xxij. day of Octobre.
[Ill.u.s.tration {signature}]
[Footnote 185.2: [Douce MS. 393, f. 93.] This letter must have been written either in 1449 or in 1450, in both of which years Parliament met on the 6th of November; and as we have other letters, both of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Oxford, relating to the Parliament of 1450, we are inclined to think this also belongs to the later year. Framlingham, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk, is not more than thirty-two miles from Bury, from which he wrote on the 16th.]
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JOHN DAMME AND JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON[186.1]
_To my wors.h.i.+pfull and good maister, John Paston, Escuyer._
[Sidenote: 1450 / NOV. 11]
Please it yow to wete that Sir William Oldhall is chosyn Speker of the Parlement, and admytted by the Kyng, &c. Item, the day of oier and termyner shall holde at Norwich on Moneday next comyng, and by that cause my Lord of Oxenford shall be disported of his comyng to the Parlement for to attende to the Sessions of oier, &c.
Item, the Lord Moleyns hadde langage of yow in the Kynggs presence as my Maister Yelverton can telle yow by mouthe. Your presence shuld have do meche ease here in your own matiers and other, as your weel willers thynkyn, and your absence do non ease here; netheles my Maister Yelverton shall telle you all, &c.
It is seid here that the Duke of York and the Duke of Norffolk shulln not come here this vii. nyght.
Item, it is supposed that an oier and determyner shall come hastily into Norwich. William Dynne abydeth therfore.