- to Thomas Stonor
- Medieval Family Life
- Title
- - to Thomas Stonor
- Reference
- SC 1/46/87
- Library / Archive
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- The National Archives, UK
- Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
- Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters', item 48; Kingsford, Vol I, item 48
- Transcript from Christine Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483'
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48. TO THOMAS STONOR
[c. 1425]
This is a fragment of a letter, which from the mention of "master Chaucer"
(Thomas Chaucer, who died in 1434) must have been addressed to the first
Thomas Stonor. The reference to "Dymmok" indicates that the letter had
to do with Ermington. "Wonard" may possibly be William Wynnard,
grandfather of Agnes Stonor (see No. 261). John Cottesmore, who was
afterwards (1429-1439) a judge of the Common Pleas and chief justice in
1439. was on the commission of peace for Devonshire from 1424 to 1427;
he had lands in Berks and Oxfordshire, and his grandson married a grand
daughter of Thomas Stonor (see No. 107). From A.C., xlvi, 87.. . . so Wonard sende me yn a letter that he koude not speke wyth
Dymmok att noe leyser sethen my last beyng at home; boot att the
assisis, yf he koude entrete hym to an ende resonable, he and I wuld
make an ende alle so wel after oure day as afore: which assis begynnyth
a goode while after the decollacion above said: boot I may not be
there: wherefore my conceile ys fully that ye yn alle hast doe sende
thether letters, or froe my maister Chauceire, or froe my lord of Wyn-
chester, or rather than to faile froe your selve, by good avice concevid,
and that my maister Cotysmore, that is there justeice &c, may do your
erant by mouthe unto Wonard, and so I wote . . .A mon treshonore et tres reverent Sire et Maister Thomas Stonor.
- Transcript from Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 'The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483, Volume I'
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48. TO THOMAS STONOR
[c. 1425]
This is a fragment of a letter, which from the mention of “master Chaucer”
(Thomas Chaucer, who died in 1434) must have been addressed to the first
Thomas Stonor. The reference to “Dymmok” indicates that the letter had
to do with Ermington. “Wonard” may possibly be William Wynnard,
grandfather of Agnes Stonor (see No. 261). John Cottesmore, who was
afterwards (1429-1439) a judge of the Common Pleas and chief justice in
1439, was on the commission of peace for Devonshire from 1424 to 1427;
he had lands in Berks and Oxfordshire, and his grandson married a grand-
daughter of Thomas Stonor (see No. 107). From A.C., xlvi, 87.. . . so Wonard sende me yn a letter that he koude not speke wyth
Dymmok att noe leyser sethen my last beyng at home; boot att the
assisis, yf he koude entrete hym to an ende resonable, he and I wuld
make an ende alle so wel after oure day as afore: which assis begynnyth
a goode while after the decollacion above said: boot I may not be
there: wherefore my conceile ys fully that ye yn alle hast doe sende
thether letters, or froe my maister Chauceire, or froe my lord of Wyn-
chester, or rather than to faile froe your selve, by good avice concevid,
and that my maister Cotysmore, that is there justeice &c., may do your
erant by mouthe unto Wonard, and so I wote. . . .A mon treshonore et tres reverent Sire et Maister Thomas Stonor.