Volume Iii Part 8 (1/2)
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 William Worcester's hand:_-- 'Bre. ad allocand. Vicecomitem de proficuis terr. Thomae Fastolf in custodia Johannis Bokkyng.'
Inrolled, Trin., 33 Hen. VI., rot. 3.
[Memoranda below in William Worcester's hand as to certain statements of Hugh Fenn about the form of the writ of livery directed to the Sheriff.]
[Footnote 36.3: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 261.]]
293
SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN PASTON[37.1]
_To my ryght trusty cosyn, John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1455 / JUNE 22]
Worshypfull Sir and cosyn, I commaund me to yow. And lyke yow wete that accordyng to your desyre I sende John Russe to yow to hafe your informacion of such materis as shall be thought exspedient to be laboured yn your absence for the mater of Wentworth, and hafe geve hym in commaundment to entend it in all that he can or may. And, Cosyn, he hath a lettre of credence to the baylly of Dedham because of doubt of syght of the baylly ys lettre ther for disclosyng, &c., to do after the wrytyng of T. Denys. And y sende yow ij. lettres com to me from London that maketh mencyon of grete besynesse ayenst us, and an accion toke ayenst yow, Howys, Bokkyng, &c., that most nedys be tendred; in case an essoyn[37.2] can be take, so moche the better. And therfor, cosyn, at reverence of G.o.d, dispose yow to London yn all the haste that ye can.
For the atthacment can not be tille ye com. And on partie adverse besyeth hem sore in your absence, _facies hominis facies leonis_. And I have worde yn a nothere lettre that my Lord Chauncellor ys yn the lyke wyse disposed yn owre one syde, and therfor that ye kepe hym ynne to helpe bere the favour of thys mater yn all wyse; And Byngham Justys ys full well disposed also. Dyvers new processe ys ayenst Sir Thomas. And all othere materis I commyt to your discrecion; yf nede be, I com thedre my sylf. Y pray G.o.d kepe yow. Wryt hastly uppon Sonday before Seynt John Baptiste.
Your cosyn,
J. FASTOLF.
Item, after that I have word from yow, so wolle I be gouverned, and com to London yff ye sende me worde, and that I hafe word from yow yf nede be bytyme from London.
[Footnote 37.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 171.] There can be no reasonable doubt that this letter is of the same date as Nos.
289 and 290, _i.e._ of the year 1455.]
[Footnote 37.2: An excuse allowed for not appearing in Court.]
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JOHN JENNEY TO JOHN PASTON[38.1]
_To my wurs.h.i.+pfull maister, John Paston, Esquier._
[Sidenote: 1455 / JUNE 24]
Mi Maister Paston, I recomaunde me to you. And wher ye shulde be enformed that I shulde sey to Howard[38.2] that ye labored to be Knyght of the s.h.i.+re, I seid never soo to hym. I tolde my Lord of Norffolk atte London that I labored diverse men for Sir Roger Chaumberleyn, and they seid to me they wolde have hym, but not Howard, in asmeche as he hadde no lyvelode in the s.h.i.+re, nor convers.e.m.e.nt [_i.e._ acquaintance?]; and I asked them hom they wolde have, and they seid they wolde have you, and thus I tolde hym. And he seid on avysely, as he kan doo full well, I myght not sey ye labored ther, for I herde never sey ye labored therfor, be the feithe I vowe to G.o.d.
As for this writ of the Parlement of Norwich, I thanke you that ye will labour ther in; as for my frendys ther, I truste right well all the aldermen, except Broun[38.3] and sech as be in his dawnger.[38.4] I prey you spekith to Walter Jeffrey[38.5] and Herry Wilton,[38.6] and maketh them to labour to your entent. I prey you that yf ye thenke that it wull not be, that it like you that to sey that ye meve it of your self, and not be my desire. Sum men holde it right straunge to be in this Parlement, and me thenketh they be wyse men that soo doo.
Wreten atte Intewode,[39.1] on Sceint John day, in hast.