Volume Ii Part 42 (1/2)
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 there shall be none a.s.signment made, ne may not, till it com yn wrytyng; it be don, had it be sent. Grete sute ys made to pardon it, but the Kynges Councell woll not suffre it. The ij. lettre Nicholas Bokkyng beryth for excuse of my cosyn Inglose, because grete labor hath be made to my Lord York ayenst my cosyn Inglose and Seggeford, that they shuld endyte the Priour of Walsyngham tenaunt yn Salle. Wheruppon my Lord York, unadvertised of the trouth, sent a lettre to my Lord Oxford to support the Pryor ys tenaunt ayenst Seggeford namely.
Item, I desyre that and John Berney or onye man can mete wyth Dallyng, that fals undre eschetor, in onye place proviable, that he may by force brought to Castre without damage of hys bodye, and there to be kept yn hold, that he may confesse the trouth of the fals office he forged off my maner of Tychewell.
Item, forasmoche as ye shall have to doon at Lynne for my maters there as for Tychewell and othyr, therfor I wolle that yee doo purvey of G.o.de frendys as be aboute Flegg that pa.s.sen yn jureez, that they may wayt uppon yow there at Lynne, and other suche trusty men that ye can ghete to spede my processe. And that ye do hem goode chier and cost uppon hem after that the case shall requyre. I commyt thys mater to be ruled by your wysdom, that it be net forzeten.
[Footnote 195.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M., and MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 248.] The original of this letter has been torn in two, and the first portion is now among the Paston MSS. in the British Museum, while the latter part is in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps at Cheltenham.]
[Footnote 195.3: Tuddenham and Heydon.]
[Footnote 196.1: 'Forbear to execute' doubtless was intended.]
[Footnote 197.1: Most publicly known.]
[Footnote 198.1: A knight's fee was an amount of land sufficient to maintain a knight, and held subject to a knight's service.]
[Footnote 198.2: _See_ p. 152, Note 3.]
[Footnote 198.3: Here begins the portion in the Phillipps MS.]
[Footnote 199.1: Three words indistinct.]
[Footnote 199.2: _See_ p. 188, Note 2.]
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THE EARL OF OXFORD TO JOHN PASTON[201.1]
_To our welbeloved John Paston._
Th'erl of Oxenford.
[Sidenote: 1450 / DEC. 23]
Right trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. And for as moche as the qwene and my Lord of York have writyn to us for a matier that is depending betwix the toun of Salle and on [_one_] Sechforth of the same toune, we pray yow that at such tyme as we purpose yow to be with us now this Cristemesse at Wynche that ye lete the sayd Sechforth have wetyng ther of, and that he may be with us that same tyme, for diverse matiers wich that we have to speke with hym; and that ye fayle not, as we trust yow. Wretyn in owr manor of Wynche, the xxiij^ti. day of Decembre.
[Footnote 201.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 168.] The subject of this letter is evidently referred to in the postscript of the last.]
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ABSTRACT[201.2]
SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN BERNEY AND SIR THOMAS HOWYS.
[Sidenote: 1450 / DEC. 27]