Agnes Paston to John Paston

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AGNES PASTON TO JOHN PASTON⁴

To John Paston dwyllyng in the Tempyll at London
be this letter delyverid in haste.

       I GRET zou well, and lete zou wete that Warne Harman
           on the Sonday after Hallumesday after ensong seyd
           oponly in the cherch zerde that he wyst wyll that and
the Wall were puddoun, thou he were an hundryd myle fro
Paston he wyste well that I wolde sey he ded yt and he xuld
bere the blame, seying Telle yte here ho so wyll, thou it xuld
coste me xx. nobyllys it xall be puddoun azen. And the
seyd Warnys wyfe with a lowd vosse seyd All the deuyllys of
hell drawe her sowle to hell for the weye that she hat mad.
And at euyn a sertyn man suppyd with me and tolde me that
the patent¹ grantyt to closse but a perch on bred, and that I
had clossyd more than the grant of the patent is as men seyd.
And John Marchall tolde me that there was a thryfty woman
come forby the watteryng and fond the weye stoppyde and
askyd hym ho had stoppyd the weye, and he seyd, they that
had pore to zeue it, and askyd here Wat was freer than zyfte,
and he seyd she sey the day that Paston men wold not
asofferyd that. And God be with zou. Wretyn at Paston
on Monday after Hallumys day.—Be zour modyr,

                                                                           ANNES PASTON.

     ⁴ [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 76.] This letter is evidently of the same year as Nos. 194
and 196, which must be 1451 at the earliest.

      1 The patent granted to her husband in 1443 (21 Hen. VI.). See Introduction.

1451
or later
NOV.

1451
or later
NOV.

XXVIII

A.D. 1451 or later, Nov.

AGNES PASTON TO JOHN PASTON

[Add. MS. 34,888, f. 76]

     This letter is evidently of the same year as Nos. 160 and 162 in Vol. 1.,
which must be 1451 at the earliest.

To John Paston dwyllyng in the Tempyll at London
be this letter delyverid in haste.

      I GRET zou well, and lete zou wete that
           Warne Harman on the Sonday after
           Hallumesday after ensong seyd oponly in
           the cherch zerde that he wyst wyll that
and the Wall were puddoun, thou he were an
hundryd myle fro Paston he wyste well that I
wolde sey he ded yt and he xuld bere the blame,
seying Telle yte here ho so wyll, thou it xuld coste
me xx. nobyllys it xall be puddoun azen. And the
seyd Warnys wyfe with a lowd vosse seyd All the
deuyllys of hell drawe her sowle to hell for the weye
that she hat mad. And at euyn a sertyn man suppyd
with me and tolde me that the patent¹ grantyt to
closse but a perch on bred, and that I had clossyd
more than the grant of the patent is as men seyd.
And John Marchall tolde me that there was a thryfty
woman come forby the watteryng and fond the weye
stoppyde and askyd hym ho had stoppyd the weye,
and he seyd, they that had pore to zeue it, and askyd
here Wat was freer than zyfte, and he seyd she sey
the day that Paston men wold not asofferyd that.
And God be with zou. Wretyn at Paston on Monday
after Hallumys day.—Be zour modyr,

                                                             ANNES PASTON.

     ¹ The patent granted to her husband in 1443 (21 Hen. VI.). See Intro-
duction, p. xliii.