Volume V Part 34 (2/2)
The Northende toward Dunham lx.x.x. rodde, Summa, xxvj_s._ viij_d._
The West syde toward Sporle be the Loyes vj^xx. rodde, Summa, xl_s._
Summa, vj_li._ xiij_s._ iiij_d._
Where off sum is repayrid, sum maye be sperid, but at the lest it woll coste yow a vj. marc, &c.
If it please yow to take myn symple avyse in your wode sale, selle non in gret, but make f.a.gottes and astell and lete alle your grete and goode tymber and trees stande, and ze shall make resonably mony to your worchep, and to your best avayle as John Shawe your servaunt shall telle yow, if I maye do zow any service in this c ... . ze shall ffynde me redy, so that ze sende sufficient warant be the grace off Jesu, Who haue y[ow in His] kepyng. Wrete in hast, at Walsyngham, the Sundaye next aftyr the feest off the a.s.sencion off owr [Lord] Jesu Cryste.
Be your
JOHN OSBERN.
I praye yow geff credens in alle these materes to Shawe, for he can telle yow more shortlyer then I shuld wryte, and I hold hym trewe to yow in hese menyng.
_Endorsed_--Per John Osbern, pro Sporl Wood.
[Footnote 167-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 167-2: _Sic_, _qu._ 'there'?]
820
RICHARD CALLE TO MARGARET PASTON[168-1]
_To the ryght reverent and wors.h.i.+pffull my mastres, Margaret Paston, in haste._
[Sidenote: 1472 / NOV. 27]
Plesith it you to wete that I have receyved your letter, wherin I conceyve ye wolde undrestonde how I do with the sale of Sporle Wode. It is so that I have begonne to felle a.s.she at the townes ende for to sette the contre on werke, and be that I shall undrestonde how the remnaunt wol doo. I have sette suche a cla.s.se [_gla.s.s_] before here ien [_their eyes_] ther, that they are madde upon it, so that I truste be Ester to make of money, what with the barke and with the a.s.she, at the leest l.
marke for to retayle the wode our selfe, and be Cristemas next after that, other l. marke, and so yerely l. marke at Cristemesse as longe as the wode lasteth, to the some that I tolde you, and I truste more; and to this I durste be bound. Nevertheles, I am a bowte to selle it all a grete and to brynge it to all moste to as goode proffe as thowe we retayled it oure silffe, for it is so that ther is a man of Carbroke, they calle hym Saunders, I may have of hym for all the wode and barke that is in Sporle xj^xx. marke, to paye at suche dayes a fore reherseyd, we to bere the costes of the fense and of the t.i.the; but we are not throw yet, nor nought shal be tille I have worde from you a yene, weche I must have be Sonday come sevenyte at the fertheste, for on the Wednesdaye nexte after that we shal mete a yene at Sporle. Wherfore I beseche you sende me your avice how ye thynke herein, and I shal doo that in me is be G.o.des grace; if I can do better with hym I shall. It shal be harde werke, but if I haunse hym som what, for ther is moche money be twix us, and therfore spare not to sende my master, Sir John, worde to take suche dayes of payment as is a bove wreten, for it shalbe performed what wey som ever we take be G.o.des grace.
Item, mastres, as for your write [_wright_] ye may not have hym tille after Cristemas, for he had taken an howse to make while I was with you, it wolbe this iij. wekes yet or then he make an ende, &c.
Item, I mette with Robert at Heythe of Matelaske at Norwiche, when I come from you. I felle on hande with hym for Matelaske Kerre, I myght have had of hym for that vij. marke and xx_d._ Dele nogh as ye thynke.
Item, as for money of the fermour of Sporle, he telles me he is bounde to Tounesende to pay hym at this Candelmesse. And he seythe if he may be discharged a yenst hym your money shalbe redy at hys daye, be G.o.des grace, Who have you in His blissed kepyng.
Wreten at Sporle, the Friday next after Seint Edmund the Kynge.
Your servaunt,
R. CALLE.
[Footnote 168-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] It is evident that this letter must have been written some time after the preceding, but very probably in the same year.]
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