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Item, I suppose bothe Pytte and Kothye Plattyng shall goo ffrom me in hast; I wyll never cherysshe knaves soo as I have don, ffor ther sakys.
Item, I praye yow sende me a newe vestment off whyght damaske ffor a dekyne, whyche is among myn other geer at Norwiche, ffor he shall ther too as ye woot off: I wyll make an armyng doblett off it, thow I sholde an other tyme gyff a longe gown of velvett ffor another vestment, and send it in all hast to Hoxon to send me.
I hopyd to have been verry mery at Caleys thys Whytsontyde, and am weell apparayled and apoyntyd, saff that thes ffolks ffayle me soo, and I have mater ther to make off ryght excellent. Som man wolde have hastyd hym to Caleys thowe he had hadd no better erand, and som men thynke it wysdom and profyght to be theer now weell owt off the weye.
Item, as ffor the Bysshop[188-1] and I, we bee nerrer to a poynt than we weer, so that my part is nowe all the londes in Flegge Holly, the maner off Heylesdon, Tolthorpe, and tenements in Norwyche and Erlham, excepte Fayrechylds, but ffarweell Drayton; the Devyll do ytt them.
Item, large and fferr comynycacion hathe ben bytwyen Sir John Fogge, Ric. Haulte, ffor ther suster and me, byffor Doctor Wyntborne and ellys wher, so that I am in better hope than I was, by Seynt Lawrens[188-2]
that I shall have a delyveraunce.
Item, as ffor tydyngs heer, I trow ye have herde yowr parte, howe that the Erle off Oxenfford landyd by Seynt Osyes in Ess.e.xe, the xxviij. daye off Maye, saff he teryed nott longe, ffor iff he had, the Erle of Ess.e.xe[188-3] rod to hym wardys, and the Lords Denham and Dura.s.se, and other mor, whyche by lyklyod sholde have dystrussyd hym; but yit hys comyng savyd Hogan hys hed, and hys profesye is the mor belevyd ffor he seyde that thys troble sholde begyn in Maye, and that the Kynge sholde northwards, and that the Scotts sholde make us werke and hym batayle.
Men loke afftr they wot not what, but men by harneys ffast; the Kyngs menyall men and the Duke off Claraunces, ar many in thys town; the Lord Ryverse[188-4] com to daye, men seye to purveye in lyke wyse.
Item, how that the Cowntesse off Warwyk[188-5] is now owt off Beweley Seyntwarye, and Sir James Tyrell conveyth hyr northwarde, men seye by the Kynges a.s.sent, wherto som men seye that the Duke off Clarance is not agreyd.
Item, men seye that the Erle off Oxenfford is abowt the Ilde off Tenett hoveryng, som seye wyth grett companye, and som seye, with ffewe.
No mor, but G.o.d kepe yow.
Wretyn at London the iij. daye off June, Anno E. iiij^ti xiij^{o}.
JOHN PASTON, K.
[Footnote 187-1: [From Fenn, ii. 138.]]
[Footnote 187-2: Whitsunday fell on the 6th June in 1473.]
[Footnote 187-3: A royal, a gold coin of 10_s._ value.]
[Footnote 188-1: Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.]
[Footnote 188-2: 10th of August.]
[Footnote 188-3: Henry Bourchier, Earl of Ess.e.x, Lord Treasurer.]
[Footnote 188-4: Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers, beheaded at Pontefract, 1483.]
[Footnote 188-5: Anne, widow of Richard Neville, the great Earl of Warwick, sister and heir to Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick, and mother of Isabel, the wife of George, Duke of Clarence.]
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[Sidenote: 1473 / JUNE 13]
Norf. and Suff. Deeds, No. 67. 'Relaxatio Willielmi Paston facta Will.
Wainflet et aliis de toto jure suo in manerio vocat' Caldecots, Akethorp, Spitlings, Habland, Broweston, etc. Jun. 13, Edw. IV. 13.'