Volume Iii Part 67 (1/2)
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JOHN BERNEY TO JOHN PASTON[291.3]
_To the wors.h.i.+pfull John Paston, and to my cosyn, Wylliam Rokewode, Squyer, with my Lord of Cantyrburi._
[Sidenote: 1461 / JULY 16]
Right wors.h.i.+pfull sir, I rec.u.mmaund me to yow, praying yow hertyli to labour for that the Kyng may wryte unto me, gevyng me thankyng of the good wyll and servyse that I haff doo unto hym, and in beyng with hym a yens his adversaries and rebelyones, as well in the North, as in this c.u.n.tre of Norffolk. And in that the Kyng shold please the Comynnes in this c.u.n.tre; for they grudge and sey, how that the Kyng resayvith sych of this c.u.n.tre, &c. as haff be his gret eanemyes, and opresseors of the Comynes; and sych as haff a.s.systyd his Hynes, be not rewardyt; and it is to be consederyd, or ellys it wyll hurt, as me semyth by reason. And in ayd of this chaungebyll rewle, it wer nessessary to move the good Lords Spiretuall and Temperall, by the whech that myght be reformyd, &c. And in cas that any of myn olde enemyes, Tudynham, Stapylton, and Heydon, with theyr affenyte labur the Kyng and Lords unto my hurt, I am and wylbe redy to come to my souverayn Lord for my exskeus, soo that I may come saff for unlawfull hurt, purveyed by my seyd ennemyes. No more at this tyme, but G.o.d preserve yow in gras. Wretyn at Wychyngham the xvj.
day in the moneth of July, anno regni Regis E. iiij^ti. primo.
JOHN BERNEYE.
Please it yow to move this unto my Lords Cauntyrburi, Ely, Norwych, &c.
[Footnote 291.3: [From Fenn, i. 238.]]
471
JOHN BERNEY TO JOHN PASTON[292.1]
_To the ryght wors.h.i.+pfull John Paston, Squyer, in hast._
[Sidenote: 1461 / JULY 17]
Sir, I recomaund me to zow, &c. And as for my playn dysposyssyon towards the Undyrshrewe, I wyll hym no bodyli hurt, nor shal not be hurt by me nor by noo man that I may rewle. But the Comynnes throw all the schyer be movyd agayn hym, for cause of his lyght demeanyng towards them for this elexsyon of knygtts of the shyer for the Parlement. And I suppose yf that he wyll, he may be hastyli easyd as thus:--lat hym make notys unto the seyd Comynnes that this theyr eleccyon shall stande, or ellys lat hym purchas a new wryt, and lat hym make wrytyng unto them what day they shall come, and they to make a new eleccyon acordyng unto the law.
And, sir, I pray zow, sey to hym that it is nott his oneste to lye upon too many men, noysyng them rebyliones of Norff[olk], and Berney theyr c ... No more to zow at this tyme, but I naff sent zow ij. letteris within this viij. dayes. Wretyn the xvij. day of July anno regni Regis E. iiij^ti. 1^mo.
JOHN BERNEY.
[Footnote 292.1: [From Fenn, iv. 28.]]
472
MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[293.1]
_To my worchepful hosbonde, Jon Pastun, this letter be delyvered in hast._
[Sidenote: 1461 / JULY 18]
Ryth worchepful husbond, I recomawnd me to yow. Plesyt yow to wete that I am desyrid be Sir John Tatersale to wryte to yow for a comyssion or a noyr in termyner [_oyer and terminer_][293.2] for to be sent down in to this c.u.n.tre to sit uppon the parson of Snoryng, and on soche as was cause of Thomas Denyssys dethe, and for many and gret h.o.r.ebyl robryys; and as for the costs ther of the c.u.n.tre wele pay therfor, for they be sor aferd but [_i.e._ unless] the seyd dethe be chastysed, and the seyd robryys, they ar aferde that mo folks xal be servyd in lyke wyse.
As for the prest and vj. of hese men that be takyn, they be delyveryt to Twer [_Twyer_], and iiij. be with hem of the c.u.n.treys cost, for to be sent with to the Kyng; and yf they be browt up at the reverens of G.o.d, do yowr parte that they schape not, but that they may have the jugement of the lawe, and as they have deservyd, and be comytyt to prison, not to departe tyl they be inqueryd of her forseyd robery be soche a comyssion that ye can get, that the Keng and the Lords may hondyrstonde wat rewle they have be of, not hondely for the moderys and the robbryys, but as wele for the gret insurrexsin that they were lyke amade within the shyre. The preests of Castyr they be streytely take hede at be Roberd Harmerer and hoder, so that the seyde prestys may have no thyng out of ther owne, ne of hodyr menys, but they be ra.s.sakyt, and the plase ys watchyd bothe day and nyth. The prestys thynk ryth longe tyl they tydynggs fro yow. At the reverens of G.o.d, be ware hou ye goo and ryde, for that ys told me that ye thret of hem that be nowty felawys that hathe be inclynyng to them, that hathe be your hold adversarys.
The blyssyd Trenyte have yow in hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast, the Sat.u.r.day nex be fore Sent Margarete.
Be yours,