Dame Agnes Plumpton to Richard Plumpton, clerk

189 Dame Agnes Plumpton to Richard Plumpton, clerk, 13 April [1504]         (No.
     85, p. 47)

Sir Richard Plompton, I recomend me vnto you, dessiring & praying
you ?at ye will se some remydy for your prosses, ?at they may be
stopped; & ?at ye will goe to my Lord Dayrsse¹ and make on letter for
me in my name, & shew him how they delt with my housband
tenaunts & servants, and ye thynke it be to dowe; & I pray you ?at ye
will se that nether thes nor none other prosses pas, but be stoppyd, as
my speciall trust is in you. For I have sent up the copy of the capias,
with one letter from William Elesson, & one other from vnder sherife,
?at ye may, after the scest of them, labor as ye think best by your
mynd. Also, Sir Richard, I pray you to remember my [order,]^a for
Thomas Stabill hath taken ?e west rod & the est rod, and hath mayd
the fenses, & so she hath no gresse to hir cattel; & also they sow hir
land and will not let hir occupy nothing as yet, & ?at discomfortheth
<them> much. No more, but the Trenetie kepe you. From Plompton
in hast, the xiij day of Aprill.

By me     Dame Agnes Plompton^b

Endorsed: To Sir Richard Plompton be thes byll deliuered in hast

     ^a MS other.

     ^b Appended: Copied ?e 20 day of March 1612.

     ¹ Thomas, 1st Lord Darcy of Templehurst (exec.1537), married, secondly, Edith, widow
of Ralph, Lord Neville, whose daughter, Isabel, was to become Sir Robert?s 2nd wife.
Darcy was probably summoned to the parliament which met in Jan. 1503/4, GEC; 199,
200.

                                               LETTER CLII.

         To Sir Richard Polompton be the byl delivered in hast.

    Sir Richard Plompton, I recomend me unto you, dessiring and
prayng you that ye will se some remydy for thes prosses, that
they may be stopped; and that ye will goe to my lord Dayrsse,a
and make on letter for me in my name, and shew him how they
delt with my housband tenaunts and servants, and ye thinke it be
to dowe. And I pray you that ye will se that nether thes, nor
none other prosses, pas, but be stoppyd, as my speciall trust is in
you. For I have sent up the copy of the capias, with one letter
from William Elesson and one other from Under Sherife, that ye
may, after the scest of them, labor as ye thinke best by your mynd.
Also, Sir Richard, I pray you to remember my other [order];
for Thomas Stabill hath taken the west Rod and the est Rod, and
hath mayd the fenses, and so she hath no gresse to hir cattell; and
also they sow hir land, and will not let hir occupy nothing as yet,
and that discomfortheth them much. No more, but the Trinete
kepe you. From Plompton in hast, the xiii day of Aprill.
        (13 April 1504.)                 By me Dame AGNES PLOMPTON.

    a Thomas Darcy de Darcy, Chl'r, was summoned to Parliament: 17 Oct. 1 Hen.
VIII. 1509, the same year in which William Lord Conyers had also his first summons
upon record. The latter, it is known, bore the title of Lord Conyers in 1506, and
now the evidence of this letter, that Sir Thomas Darcy was a Baron in 1504, makes it
more than probable that both these noble personages sat in the Parliament which
assembled on Thursday, 25 Jan. 19 Hen. VII. 1503-4, and that the writs of summons
are lost. Moreover, the Herald whose diary of the ceremony of the interment of
King Henry VII. on the 8th, 9th, and 10th days of May 1509, is printed by Hearne,
(Lelandi Collectanea, vol. IV. p. 303,) likewise calls him "the lord Darcye, beinge
Captayn of the Garde;" so that it is certain he had the title before any summons for
the new Parliament in that year was issued.