Volume Iv Part 54 (1/2)
The following is another extract from the Index referred to in No.
675:--
[Sidenote: 1467 / OCT. 2]
'12. Concessio Joh. Paston militis Johanni Duci Norfolk et aliis manerii sui vocati Hemnales in Cotton in Com.' Suff., ac manerii sui de Haynford, et advocationis ecclesiae ejusdem in Com.' Norff., habit' ex dono Th. Archiepisc. Cant. et Willielmi Episc. Wynton., c.u.m littera attor. ad deliberandum seisinam. Oct. 2. Edw. IV. 7.'
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ABSTRACT[290.1]
PEt.i.tION OF JOHN HERLYNG OF BASYNGHAM TO 'LADY' PASTON
[Sidenote: 1467 or later]
Requests 'her Highness' to confirm some grants of her late husband to him of land at Basyngham. William Swan claims, and has taken from him 2 perches of ground in breadth near his (Swan's) gate, which has always been parcel of Herlyng's tenement of Greyve's during his and his father's time. John Pykerell, too, has made mean to the Abbot of St.
Benet's to remove a boundary stone which has stood there sixty years.
Pykerell also took the writer's horse and used it in his field without leave, on Friday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 6 Edw. IV., which made the beast unserviceable till Fastegong next following.
Pykerell has also done him other injuries.
[As this pet.i.tion refers to the 'Fastegong' or Shrovetide after Holy-Rood Day 6 Edw. IV. as a past date, it cannot have been drawn up earlier than the year 1467. The manor of Basingham, in Norfolk, belonged to the Mauteby family, and came to John Paston by marriage.
This paper, therefore, was addressed to his widow Margaret.]
[Footnote 290.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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CECILY DAWNE TO SIR JOHN PASTON[291.1]
_To the right wors.h.i.+pfull, and with my faithful hert and service full entyerly beloved G.o.de maister, Sir John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1463-7 / NOV. 3]
Right wors.h.i.+pfull Sir, and with my faithfull herte and service full entierly beloved G.o.de maister, in my moste humble wyse I recommaund me unto your goode maistres.h.i.+p. Pleace it the same to wite that I thenke right longe to I have veerey knolege of your welfare, the which undrestande wil be to me right grete comfort. And that causeth me to write unto you as nowe. And also to late you wite that I herde reperte ye shuld be wedded unto a Doughter of the d.u.c.h.ez of Somerset, which mater, and I spake with you, I couth enforme your maisters.h.i.+p that were to longe to write as nowe. But I shal and do pray G.o.d dayly to sende you such one unto your worldes make that wil drede and faithfully unfeyned love you above alle othir erthely creatures. For that is most excellent richesse in this worlde, as I suppose. For erthely goodes bene transsitory, and wedding contynues for terme of lyfe, which with some folke is a full long terme. And therfore, Sir, savyng your displeasir, me semez wedding wolde have goode avys.e.m.e.nt. Moreover, Sir, like it your maisters.h.i.+p to undirstond that wynter and colde weders draweth negh, and I have but fewe clothez but of your gift, G.o.d thanke you. Wherefore, Sir, and it like you, I besech your G.o.de maisterschip that ye will vouchsafe to remembre me your servaunte with some lyverey, such as pleaseth you, ayens this wynter, to make me a gown to kepe me from the colde wedders. And that I myght have it and such answare as ye pleace in the premisses sente unto me be the bringer herof. And I schal contynuwe your oratrix and pore servaunte and hertely pray to G.o.d for your prosperite, Whom I besech have you, Right wors.h.i.+pful Sir, and with my faithful herte and service full entierly beloved G.o.de maister, in His blessed governaunce. Writen at h.e.l.lowe the iii^de. Day of Novembre.
CECILE DAUNE.
[Footnote 291.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 166.] This letter is of course not earlier than 1463, when Sir John Paston received his knighthood, but probably belongs to a period before his flirtations with Anne Haute, who first appears on the scene in the summer of 1468.]
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[Sidenote: 1468 / JAN. 11]
Release by William, Bishop of Winchester, John, Lord Beauchamp, Sir John Howard, Sir William Yelverton, Justice of the King's Bench, Thomas Lytelton, Justice of the Common Pleas, William Jenney, Serjeant-at-Law, William Paston, Esq., Thomas Howys, clerk, and William Grene, to Sir John Paston, Knight, of the manors of Castre, in Flegge, called Vaux and Bosoms, and the lands in Castre called Redham, the manors or tenements in Heryngby called Spensers and Fennes, a third part of the manor of Runham, the manor of Wynterton, called Begvyles, with a windmill, the manor of Reppes in Bastewyk, and messuages, &c., in Yarmouth; the lands called Billes in Stokesby and Cattes in Heryngby, &c.; the manors of Guton in Brandeston, Heynford, the manor of Saxthorp, called Loundhalle, with a watermill, the manor of Lincolnhalle, in Boyton, &c., in Norfolk; and the manor called Caldecotes in Freton, Suff.; the manors of Akethorp in Lowestoft and Spitlyngges in Gorleston, and lands called Havelound in Bradwell, &c.; also in the manor of Tichewell, &c., in the hundred of Smethedon, Norf.; and the manor of Hempnales in Cotton, and Burnevyles in Naketon, Suff.; all which the said Bishop and the others had, _inter alia_, of the gift of Ralph, Lord Sudeley, Sir William Oldhall, Richard Waller, Esq., Thomas West, Esq., William w.a.n.gford, and Nicholas Girlyngton.
Dated 11th Jan. 7 Edw. IV.