Copy of an indenture

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ABSTRACT¹

     Copy of an indenture bearing date 11th April, 4 Edward IV., witnessing
the delivery to Richard Calle, servant of John Paston, Esquire, by John, prior
of the monastery of Holy Trinity, Norwich, by virtue of the King’s writ, of a
red box containing seventeen bundles of evidences, with £40 of silver in groats,
and 80 nobles of gold, in a bag, and other valuables.

     An inventory of the articles referred to in the foregoing indenture is contained in
a separate paper mutilated in the right-hand margin, which we give verbatim as
follows:—

     This is the parcell be endenture received by Richard Calle of . . . .
. . . . . . . day of Aprile the forthe yere . . . . . . as it
apperit by the copye that the seyde Richard sendeth me by John Threcher.

     Unam cistam rubeam cum xvij. bundellis evidenciarum in eadem cista
          contentis.

     Quadraginta libras argenti in grossis et iiij^xx. nobil.

     Duo turribula² argenti et deaurata.

     Unam pixidem argenti et deauratam.

     Unum osculatorium cum imagine Sancti Jacobi et . . . .

     Unum cruett argenti et deauratum.

     Unum crismatorium rotundum.                                                    Md.³

     Unum calicem argenti et deauratum.

     Unum alium calicem cum imagine Sanctæ Trinitatis.

     This is the copy of a bille drawin in Englyche that I sent home [of all]
manner of suche stuff as was in myne coffre in the abb[ey] . . . . . .
by a letter sent with the same bylle that he chowlde take hede that . . .
yf he fonde aney more, well be it, as it aperit in the seyd lett[er] . . .
woulle be lokyd [locked] uppe.

     Unum calicem de auro playne ponderis duas li[bras].

     Unum alium calicem de auro cum scriptura ‘Cal[icem salutaris accipiam,’¹
          ponderis xix. unc’].

Unam tabulam de auro cum imagine Sancti J[acobi positam cum lapidis
          pretiosis,] ponderis xiij. unc’ et iij. quarteria.

     Unum par turribulorum argenti et deaurat’ cum scriptura, viz., in prima parte
          ’Dat’ est eis,’ &c.; et in secunda parte ‘Ascendit fumus,’ pond’ xiij.
          lb. et [x. unc’].

     Unam pixidem argenti pro sacramento deaurat’ cum cruce [in summitate ac
          chased cum] liliis, pond’ v. lb. et iij. unc’ di’.

     Unam ampullam argenti deaurat’ pond’ i. lb.³

     ⁴ All this was put in a paner togyddre and . . . . for to berit in to
          the coffre.

     Item, xl. mark in noblis and xl. li. in gro[tis].

     Item, evydens.

                                ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

                                ² Thuribula, censers, from thus.

                                ³ These marginal notes are in John Paston’s hand.

     ¹ Psalm cxv. [cxvi.] 13.                            ² See Note 3 on last page.

     ³ The plate in this list is the same as that described in No. 554, by which the
words lost in this MS. have been supplied.

     ⁴ Added in John Paston’s hand.

APRIL 11

I left no
cruet in the
cofer.³

I left non
soch in the
cofer but
chalis of
gold.³

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APRIL 11

Thes to
chalis after
the unc’
xx.s. ar
worth
xliij. li.²

This is
worth xiij.
li. xv. s.²

Thes be
worth, after
xxx. d. the
unch
xxviij. li.
xiij s. ix. d.²