Dame Elizabeth Stonor to Sir William Stonor

237. DAME ELIZABETH STONOR TO
SIR WILLIAM STONOR

 26 MARCH [1479]

    Since Sir William Stonor is a knight, the date cannot be earlier than 1478.
From No. 205 it appears that Lady Stonor went to London on 25th March,
1478, so that 1479 is the only possible year. ?Lovel?s daughters? may be
the children of William Lovel, Lord Morley, who died in 1476; his son Henry,
died in 1489 and was succeeded by his sister Alice; in No. 282 there is
reference to an Agnes Lovell, apparently a ward of Stonor. Thomas Stedolfe
was a Justice in Eyre in the service of Elizabeth Woodville in 1477 (Cal. Pat.
Rolls, Edw. IV, iii, 52). From A.C., xlvi, 210.

My best beloved housbond, I recommaunde me unto you in my
moost herty wyse, desyring to her of your welfare, and trusted verayly to
have had you at home on our Lady day by night: yf ye had be, I wold
have trusted ye shuld had the warde and possession of Lovels doughters
or this, for whoom Stodolf, the quenes attourney, rodde on Tuesday
last all night towardes the Kinges grace. And yf ye wol spede you
home to speke with hym at his comyng I doubte nat but ye shal have
the oon at the leste, for I undrestand þay be not wardes neyþer to the
King nor quene: praying you þerfore to spede you home, for undre-
stand he wolbe with Bryan to night or to morow without fayle. Also
for all suche Stiwardships ye wrotte unto me for, thay wer graunted a way
in his lyf tyme or he discessed. As for the Stewardship of Henley, I
canne nat tell wheþer it be goo or noo: wherfore Vyne shal ryde ac-
cording to your commaundement. Syr, I thanke you hertyly for your
veneson þat ye wrotte to me to receyve: how be it as yet I have nat
receyved. Over þis the parson of Falley dissessed yorsterday in the
mornyng, and þe parson of Hamelden, and Syr William, prest þere, be
executours. No more unto you at this tyme, but the holy Trynyte preserve
you. Wryten at Stonor, whan I wold fayne have sleped, þe morow after
our Lady day in þe mornyng. Syr, I send you your botes and your
cloke, for þer hath be a wete weder here syth ye departed.

                                               By your owne wyff Elysabeth Stonore.

To my best beloved housbond Sir William Stonor, Knyght.

237. DAME ELIZABETH STONOR TO
SIR WILLIAM STONOR

26 MARCH [1479]

     Since Sir William Stonor is a knight, the date cannot be earlier than 1478.
From No. 205 it appears that Lady Stonor went to London on 25th March,
1478, so that 1479 is the only possible year. “Lovel’s daughters” may be
the children of William Lovel, Lord Morley, who died in 1476; his son Henry,
died in 1489 and was succeeded by his sister Alice; in No. 282 there is
reference to an Agnes Lovell, apparently a ward of Stonor. Thomas Stedolfe
was a Justice in Eyre in the service of Elizabeth Woodville in 1477 (Cal. Pat.
Rolls, Edw. IV, iii, 52). From A.C., xlvi, 210.

     My best beloved housbond, I recommaunde me unto you in my
moost herty wyse, desyring to her of your welfare, and trusted verayly to
have had you at home on our Lady day by night: yf ye had be, I wold
have trusted ye shuld had the warde and possession of Lovels doughters
or this, for whoom Stodolf, the quenes attourney, rodde on Tuesday
last all night towardes the Kinges grace. And yf ye wol spede you
home to speke with hym at his comyng I doubte nat but ye shal have
the oon at the leste, for I undrestand þay be not wardes neyþer to the
King nor quene: praying you þerfore to spede you home, for undre-
stand he wolbe with Bryan to night or to morow without fayle. Also
for all suche Stiwardships ye wrotte unto me for, thay wer graunted a way
in his lyf tyme or he discessed. As for the Stewardship of Henley, I
canne nat tell wheþer it be goo or noo: wherfore Vyne shal ryde ac-
cording to your commaundement. Syr, I thanke you hertyly for your
veneson þat ye wrotte to me to receyve: how be it as yet I have nat
receyved. Over þis the parson of Falley dissessed yorsterday in the
mornyng, and þe parson of Hamelden, and Syr William, prest þere, be
executours. No more unto you at this tyme, but the holy Trynyte preserve
you. Wryten at Stonor, whan I wold fayne have sleped, þe morow after
our Lady day in þe mornyng. Syr, I send you your botes and your
cloke, for þer hath be a wete weder here syth ye departed.

                                                        By your owne wyff Elysabeth Stonore.

     To my best beloved housbond Sir William Stonor, Knyght.