Davy Hervy to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Title
Davy Hervy to Sir Robert Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 170, p. 110
Date
31 August [1490]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 69; Kirby, item 90
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

90 Davy Hervy1 to Sir Robert Plumpton, 31 August [1490]             (No. 170, p.
     110)

 

Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you, and yt is so þat I am
through with my brother Edward Plompton touching Haveray Parke,a
and hath made a pare of indentures2 betwixt you & me touching the
same; & now at our Lady Day in Lent next comyng ther is to be payd
due to me viijli, which I trust you comaund me, I am yours, as knowes
God, who keepe you. At Waryngton, the last day of August.

Your     Davy Hervyb

Endorsed: To þe right worshipfull & my good master Sir Robt Plompton
kt

 

     a Marginal note: Haveray parke in Edward Plo: hands.

 

     b Appended: Copied þe 28 of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 David ap Griffith, 86.

     2 88n.

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 LXIX.

 

To the right worshipfull and my good master, Sir Robart Plomp-
ton, kt.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you, and yt is so that I
am through with my brother, Edward Plompton,a touching Haveray
parke, and hath made a pare of indentures betwixt you and me
touching the same:b and now, at our lady in lent next comyng,
there is to be payd due to me viiili, which, I trust your mastership,
wilbe redy at that day: and any service yt list you, comannd me;
I am yours, as knowes God, who keepe you. At Waryngton,
the last day of August.
        (31 Aug. 1490)                      Your , DAVY HERVY.c

 

    a David Griffith was, it appears from this letter, brother of Agnes, the first wife
of Edward Plumpton, and through this connexion the latter probably got placed
in his situation of secretary to Lord Strange.?See also Letter VI. as to his recep-
tion by his kinsmen in Lancashire.

    b This lease is transcribed in the Plumpton Coucher-book, No. 758, and purports
to be between David app Griffith of the one party and Sir Robert Plompton, knight,
of the other, whereby the office of the keeping of Haverey Parke, with the herbage and
pannage, &c was granted for the term of six years to the latter, at a rent of viiili to
commence from lady day next coming; Sir Richard langton and Sir John Langton,
clerk, being sureties in 20li for the performance of the covenants on the part of Sir
Robert; the date, 26 Aug, 6 Hen. VII. 1490.

    c Sic, sed lege Griffith.