Alys [Butler], Lady Sudeley to Thomas Stonor

53. ALYS, LADY SUDELEY TO THOMAS
STONOR

before 1431

   The writer is Alys, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Powyk, who
married (1) Thomas Boteler of Sudeley (d. 1398) and (2) Sir John Dalyngrygge
of Bodiham, Sussex; she held Sudeley in dower, and died in 1442-3. The
letter must therefore have been addressed to the first Thomas Stonor and
be earlier in date than 1431. From AC., xlvi, 39.

   Right trusty and entierly welbeloved frend y commaund me unto
you: and, where as y of singler trust in you have before this enfeffed
you with other in my Maners, londes and tenements withyn dyvers
shires, wole and hertely prey you, for gret consideracions and causes
touching my worship and gret profyt, that ye seale the deedes, made yn
youre name and other, of the seid Maners to suche persons as be named
in the same, wheche seid deedes the berer of this shall shewe unto you,
as my full trust ys and hathe be unto you, like as the berer hereof shall
enfourme you: to whom y prey you geve credence. And, sir, yf ther
be anything that y may do for you in any mater in tyme comyng, y
wole do yt with all myn hert, and that knoweth God, who have you in
his blessed kepyng. Wreten at Sudely the iiij day of Avrell.
                                                                         Alys, lady Sudeley.

   To the worshipfull and my trusty frend Thomas Stoner.

53. ALYS, LADY SUDELEY TO THOMAS
STONOR

before 1431

     The writer is Alys, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Powyk, who
married (1) Thomas Boteler of Sudeley (d. 1398) and (2) Sir John Dalyngrygge
of Bodiham, Sussex; she held Sudeley in dower, and died in 1442-3. The
letter must therefore have been addressed to the first Thomas Stonor and
be earlier in date than 1431. From A.C., xlvi, 39.

     Right trusty and entierly welbeloved frend y commaund me unto
you: and, where as y of singler trust in you have before this enfeffed
you with other in my Maners, londes and tenements withyn dyvers
shires, wole and hertely prey you, for gret consideracions and causes
touching my worship and gret profyt, that ye seale the deedes, made yn
youre name and other, of the seid Maners to suche persons as be named
in the same, wheche seid deedes the berer of this shall shewe unto you,
as my full trust ys and hathe be unto you, like as the berer hereof shall
enfourme you: to whom y prey you geve credence. And, sir, yf ther
be anything that y may do for you in any mater in tyme comyng, y
wole do yt with all myn hert, and that knoweth God, who have you in
his blessed kepyng. Wreten at Sudely the iiij day of Avrell.

                                                                                   Alys, lady Sudeley.

     To the worshipfull and my trusty frend Thomas Stoner.