B. Roos to Lady Plumpton, senior

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B. Roos to Lady Plumpton, senior
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WYL655/2 No. 184, p. 121
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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 40; Kirby, item 49
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

49 B. Roos1 to Lady Plumpton, senior, [1480 × 1497] (No. 184, p. 121)

 

Right reuerend Lady,2 with due recomendacions, I haue wounder þat
ye doe so vnkindly to me, but of great nede I wold not haue sent. I
lent to my kynsman c marke, I haue yt not. They haue forfit cc
marks, & for þe lake of þat I send more besily to you, praying you to
send me iijli by this messenger, without delay, & than yt is but xls
owing, of þe which I shall suffer to Pasch; & Jhesu preserue you.
Wrytten at Cristall in hast.

By your                B. Roosa

Endorsed: To my worshipfull Lady Plompton the elder

 

     a Appended: Copied þe ij day of May 1613.

 

     1 Possibly Brian Roos, priest (d.1529), rector of Kirk Deighton, near Wetherby, and
brother of Thomas Roos of Ingmanthorpe. Described as ‘Doctor of Decrees in the
University of Valence’, and as ‘incorporated’ at Oxford 3 Feb. 1510/11, Test. Ebor., iv,
223–4.

     2 Joan, Lady Plumpton died between 19 Oct.1496, when she passed some copyhold
land to Sir Robert, and the following year, when her son gave a twentieth part of a
ducat to the rebuilding of the hospital of St James at Compostella, for prayers to be said
for the soul of his mother, CB, 785.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER XL.

 

To my worshipfull Lady Plompton thelder.

 

    Right reverend lady, with due recomendacions. I have wounder
that ye doe so unkindly to me, but of great nede I wold not have
sent. I lent to my kynsman c. marke, I have yt not; they have
forfit cc. marke. And for the lake of yt, I send more besily to
you, praying you to send me iijli by this messinger without delay,
and than it is but xls owing, of the which I shall suffer to Pasch;
and Jesu preserve you. Wrytten at Cristalla in hast,
                                                                      by your B. Roos.

 

a Kirkstall.