Denyes to John Paston

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DENYES TO JOHN PASTON¹

To my maister Paston.

RIGHT wurshipfull sir, and my right good maister, I
     recomaunde me to yow. It is so that up on an hasty
     sodeyn warnyng I departid from London and spake
not with yow at my departyng, Wherof I was full sory. I
pray yow, neverthelesse, that ye wole eftsones speke to William
White with my Lord Cardinall, for I desire his maistership
and good will and wole do to my power. And as touchyng to
that that he semith I haf don agayn hym, in good feith I wole
abide your rule or, by Seynt Kateryne, his owen rule. He is
a gentilman and I wole don it with good will. I am right sory
ye had not set me thorgh with hym erst I went, for I haf
prayed yow ther of, as ye know your self dyvers tymes. The
Holy Trynite preserve yow. Wretyn at Wevenho the iiii.
day of Merche.—Your servaunt,                        DENYES.

     Sir, my Lord² hath kept sessions at Colchestre, and my
maister Yelverton with hym, and he desired me to write to
yow to be wel ware if ony fals suggestion or lesynges wer made
by Tuddenham and Heydon and that to your power thei be
answerd in his absence. As for my Lord Scales, her be seven
of housold meny indited of felony, which are strong thefes.
Item, I pray yow, write in hast to the Meir of Norwich to gif
credens to me whan I come to hym, and if ye so do I shal
shape their articles in billes in to a nother facion I trust, and
make thaym redy and delyver thaym resonably wele. My
Lord purposeth to be at London the ende of the first weke of
Lent, and not erst. I pray your maistership, se sum meane
that White do me not that harme in the Chauncery wherof ye
sent me word by Brayn, for, as God sauf my soule at the day
of Jugement, I fonde surete for the pees, but the Maister of
the Rolles¹ ful untruly recordeth that surete takyn as a baile,
wher of treuth it was otherwise, and ful synnefully ruleth that
mater, and never wold suffir me to execute the acte but lettid
me, notwithstandyng it is a law private in the self as I shal
clerly declare whan I come. The Holy Trinite preserve yow.
I write to yow thus that ye may kyt awey this lower part of
this lettre.

     ¹ [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 169.] This letter must have been written in a year when
Easter fell after the 20th April, as Lent does not appear to have begun on the 4th
March; and as it was during the life of Cardinal Kempe, we may pretty safely fix it
to the year 1451. The year 1454, indeed, might be possible as regards Easter, but
there is no indication here of those troubles of which the writer complains so bitterly
in that year on the 20th March. See No. 239.

     ² The Earl of Oxford.

     ¹ Thomas de Kirkeby.

1451
MARCH 4

1451
MARCH 4

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A.D. 1451, 4 March

DENYES TO JOHN PASTON

[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 169]

     This letter, No. 1029 of the Inventory at the end of Vol. III., must have
been written in a year when Easter fell after the 20th April, as Lent does
not appear to have begun on the 4th March; and as it was during the life
of Cardinal Kempe, we may pretty safely fix it to the year 1451. The year
1454, indeed, might be possible as regards Easter, but there is no indication
here of those troubles of which the writer complains so bitterly in that
year on the 20th March. See No. 199.

To my maister Paston.

      RIGHT wurshipfull sir, and my right good
          maister, I recomaunde me to yow. It
          is so that up on an hasty sodeyn warnyng I
         departid from London and spake not with
yow at my departyng, Wherof I was full sory. I pray
yow, neverthelesse, that ye wole eftsones speke to
William White with my Lord Cardinall, for I desire
his maistership and good will and wole do to my
power. And as touchyng to that that he semith I haf
don agayn hym, in good feith I wole abide your rule
or, by Seynt Kateryne, his owen rule. He is a gentil-
man and I wole don it with good will. I am right sory
ye had not set me thorgh with hym erst I went, for I
haf prayed yow ther of, as ye know your self dyvers
tymes. The Holy Trynite preserve yow. Wretyn at
Wevenho the iiii. day of Merche.—Your servaunt,

                                                                        DENYES.

     Sir, my Lord¹ hath kept sessions at Colchestre,
and my maister Yelverton with hym, and he desired
me to write to yow to be wel ware if ony fals sug-
gestion or lesynges wer made by Tuddenham and
Heydon and that to your power thei be answerd in
his absence. As for my Lord Scales, her be seven of
housold meny indited of felony, which are strong
thefes. Item, I pray yow, write in hast to the Meir
of Norwich to gif credens to me whan I come to hym,
and if ye so do I shal shape their articles in billes in
to a nother facion I trust, and make thaym redy and
delyver thaym resonably wele. My Lord purposeth
to be at London the ende of the first weke of Lent,
and not erst. I pray your maistership, se sum meane
that White do me not that harme in the Chauncery
wherof ye sent me word by Brayn, for, as God sauf
my soule at the day of Jugement, I fonde surete for
the pees, but the Maister of the Rolles¹ ful untruly
recordeth that surete takyn as a baile, wher of treuth
it was otherwise, and ful synnefully ruleth that mater,
and never wold suffir me to execute the acte but
lettid me, notwithstandyng it is a law private in the
self as I shal clerly declare whan I come. The
Holy Trinite preserve yow. I write to yow thus
that ye may kyt awey this lower part of this lettre.

¹ The Earl of Oxford.