Anonymous to Margaret Paston

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ANONYMOUS TO MARGARET PASTON⁶

To my mestresse, Margaret Paston, by thys letter delivered.

      PLEASE your good mastreschep to have knowlage that
          as thys day was Master Stevyn of Norwich at Caster,
          and ther he told me he was yesterday at Hoxhon with
the Byschop of Norwych; and ther he seythe that ther is gret
labor mad be Master Phylyp⁷ and be the baly of Cossey; in

so moche ther is mad a comission on to Master John Salet and
Master Robert Ipyswell for an inquerry that the parson¹ that
my master² mad last at Drayton ys deed, as they sey, and in
so moche they purpose to put in the parson of Felthorp, as he
hard sey, for the Duk of Suffolk. And thes he thynkyth it
were a gret urt to my master tytyll. And also another inquerry
howe [who] ys patorne of the seyd chyrche; and thys is leke
to come in revelicion but yf [unless] ther be gret labore mad to
morowe be tymys and that ye have a man at Hoxhon in all
hast for a newe comicion; and in that commysion Master
Stevyn wold that ye shuld have Master Jon Salet, Master
Symond Thornaham, Master Nicholl Stanton. And that it
be mad be the avice of Master Jon Bulman; for he told
Master Stevyn he wold do for you that he may, in so moche
Master Stevyn hathe promyssyd hym a nobyll; and so the
seyd Master Stevyn wold ye shuld send hym a letter and late
hym have knolage that Master Stevyn shall reward hym that
he shall hold hym pleasyd.

     Item, a told me that a sent a letter to Sir William Maryys
of all this mater yesterday, weder ye have er not he can not
sey, but in noo wyse that ye dyskure not Master Stevyn, for
he wold not for an Cli. that it ware knowe that ye knewe ther
of by hym, for he seythe gold gothe gret plenty at Hoxhon
on ther part. And yf it be labord be tymys it may be
remevyd to Caunterbury. Also yet it is good to send to
Norwich to the seyd Sir William for the letter ar the massanger
goth, &c.

     ⁶ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was probably written about or before
the beginning of September 1465, as the proceedings of Salet and Ipyswell on the
commission of inquiry here referred to are alluded to in a letter of Margaret Paston
to her husband on the 27th of that month.

     ⁷ Doubtless Philip Lipgate.

     ¹ This must be John Flowerdew, presented by John Paston and Thomas Howes
in 1461.

     ² John Paston.

SEPT. (?)

1465
SEPT. (?)