Volume Iii Part 30 (1/2)

_To my Maister Paston._

[Sidenote: 1458]

Sir, as I went to my horsward by Lincoln c.o.ke ys place, hyt fortuned that Wymondham and H. Fenne talked to gedre, and called me by my name, and both asked how my maister[133.4] fard, &c. Then Fen desyred me abyde to see astate taked yn Lyncoln place by hym boght of Markham. In the meene tyme the seyd Wymondham sent hys man to speke with hym, and yede yn talkyng of Sir Thomas[133.5] how he wille help labour to an ende, and had spoke with Heydon yersten efe for the seyd cause. I seyd the cruell amerciementes by their labour, and the [_they ?_] not beneficed, shewed to grete a malice to undo a preest innocent yn such a cause, &c. After my takyng leefe, he called me ageyn, and seyd that he desyred Sir Thomas to be G.o.de meene to my maister to hafe affeccion to the chylde, &c.

I aunsuerd, yff my maister had before the maryage be laboured [_i.e._ if my master had been applied to before the marriage], hyt had [been] moche esyer to bryng aboute then now. And because hys fadre was so maryed ayenst my maister wille, he nevere wold hafe affeccion to hym all hys lyfe dayes. He seyd that Thomas[134.1] was with hys modre ther she duellyth, and yff it please my maister to sende for hym by Sir Thomas meene, &c.

I ensure yow by my soule I brake no mater to hym but of Sir Thomas undoyng, and hys adversaries nevere the better, whych to my power wold help make it knowen to Lordes and all othyrs of the cruell amerciementes, the cruell juge to be knowen as he ys, for I am of hys contrey, and know hys rysyng and maryages as well as hym sylfe. At ix.

at clok to hors bake. I pray yow breke my bille (?).

Your,

H. R.

[Footnote 133.3: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 249.] This letter clearly relates to the subject of the preceding No.]

[Footnote 133.4: Sir John Fastolf.]

[Footnote 133.5: Howes.]

[Footnote 134.1: Apparently Thomas Fastolf.]

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ABSTRACT[134.2]

ROLL OF THE PERSONAL AND OTHER EXPENSES OF JOHN PASTON IN THE 36TH AND 37TH YEARS OF HENRY VI.

For dress and cloth, various.

'Liberat' hospitio,' 57, 17_s._ 7_d._ 'Item, uxori et pueris domi,' 8, 19_s._ 1_d._ 'Item, pueris Cantabrig' c.u.m v. marke (?) per Wekeys,'

101_s._ 'Item, eisdem et sosiis (_sic_) suis in regard',' 4_s._ 2_d._ 'Item, eisdem apud London,' etc.

'Item, Henr' Bolte, capellano pro stipendio usque Pascha, x.x.xv^{to.}'

13_s._ 4_d._ 'Et 17 die Julii pro ij. quart',' 26_s._ 8_d._

'Expencae forinsecae.' --'Pro fine Domino Regi facto quod Johannes Paston non sit miles.' Expenses with Munford at Thetford, 2_s._ 1_d._ 'Item, in exemplificatione Ecclesiae de Gresham, Magistro Bulman,' 3_s._ 8_d._ 'Item, expenc' equorum Fastolf Norwici ij. vic. et Alexand' apud Forncet,' 3_s._ 1_d._ 'Item, praesentatio angnellorum data Radclyff,'

18_d._ To Alexander coming from Cambridge. 'Item, in coltellis apud Dancaster datis servientibus Fastolf et meis,' 3_s._ 4_d._ Glazing Chapel at Mauteby, 10_s._ 'Pro arrestatione Carroli Nowell apud Bury septimana Matthiae,' 3_s._ 8_d._ Expenses of Ball's horse at Berkwey for six weeks, 10_s._ 'Item, expenc' meae versus Snaylwell et redeundo de Bury,' 5_s._ 4_d._ 'Item, expenc' Norwici ad cess' hospic' existent'

apud Heylysdon,' 18_d._ 'Item, expenc' meae apud Sweynsthorp,' 8_d._

In Easter and Trinity terms.--Paid to William Wyrcester 'equitanti super negotia maritagii sororis,' 10_s._ For wine and spice with Fortescu and Wentworth, 23_d._

Hilary term.--Lent to James Arblaster at London, 40_s._ 'Item, exequiae Edmundi Paston,' 2_s._ 4_d._ To divers poor people of Norwich for relief of their charge 'circa reparationem murorum civitatis,' 7_s._

[Footnote 134.2: [From Add. Charter 17,246, B.M.]]

[[10s. For wine _printed in roman (non-Italic) type_]]