Anonymous to Yelverton and Paston

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ANONYMOUS TO YELVERTON AND PASTON¹

To the right worshipful Seres, my right welbeloved and trusted
cosyns, William Yelverton, Justice, and John Paston.

     SIR, please your right worshipfull maystership that
         Mayster Paston come to London as on Thursdaye
         att none last past, and I trust verelye all maters here
were resonablye labored to his comyng, and now they shal be
better. Neverthelesse, I have ben mevid of tretye by dyvers
personez sith I came hidre, as wele for Tudenham, Wentworth,
Heydon, and other at this tyme not wel willed to yow and
yourez, seyng that such money as is spent a twix yowe is but
wastfully expendid and to non use vertuouse. I fele by theym
they be not right corageous in theyr werkes, ner nought wold
if they myght have a resonable trete. I meve not this that ze
shold thenk that they had conquered me by noyans, but I do
it to avertyse yow for th’eschewyng of the importable costes
that hath ben born by yow, and yet lyke to bee, aswele in the
elde maters hangyng as in newe at this tyme to be grownded,
if this werre shal rest and hold a twyx yowe, and specially for
the ease of hym that shalbe solicitour in the same. Ye nede
at this terme rather to have had thre solicitours than in any
other terme past this iij. yere, on concyderyng the maters
hangyng, &c.; of which please yow to send yowr gode advyse
and wille yf ye thenk it to be don, and els not, for this is but
a mocion, &c.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is by an unknown writer, and very
uncertain as to date. It shows that Tuddenham, Wentworth, and Heydon, all
adherents of the House of Lancaster, were desirous of a compromise with Yelverton
and Paston. The year 1460, some time after the battle of Northampton, is perhaps
as likely a period as any.

1460(?)