Edmund, a scholar, to Sir William Stonor

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Edmund, a scholar, to Sir William Stonor
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Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters', item 195; Kingsford, Vol II, item 195
Transcript from Christine Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483'

195. EDMUND TO SIR WILLIAM STONOR

 

[after 1477]

 

     The date cannot be fixed, but it is not earlier than 1478. Edmund is
mentioned in No. 303, and is perhaps the Master Edmund of Nos. 257, 284,
and 303. From AC, xlvi, 150.17

 

    Right reverent and most special gode mayster, with all reverens I
commaund me onto your maystership: lyketh it your goodnes to have
yn rememberans, at soche tyme as it lykid your maystership to licens
me to depart I shewde the cause of my komyng: paraventur more
chargeful besynes hath othedraw your mynde, therefore I besech your
maystership to have yn consideracion a lytil wilnot quyte at this
solempne feest: yn feyth I woold not sende yf I myght odir wyse. Also
I beseche your maystership to send me worde, yf ye wille cloth them

 

yn your lyvere, other I shall purvey for them, and of ther komyng hom.
Yf yowr maystership commaund me, I shalbe with yow before the feest
and purvey for my cure, other withyn ij dayes after the feest: it shalbe
at your commaundment. I commaund me with all mekenesse and
reverens to my moost singuler good lady, Mr. Thomas, and then to the
hooll house, hom I commit to Goddes governans: he yow ever preserve
by his speciall grace, Amen.

                                            Be your scolar Edmunde.

     To hys most singler and good mayster Sir William Stonor, Knyght.
Transcript from Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 'The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483, Volume II'

 

195. EDMUND TO SIR WILLIAM STONOR

 

[after 1477]

 

     The date cannot be fixed, but it is not earlier than 1478. Edmund is
mentioned in No. 303, and is perhaps the Master Edmund of Nos. 257, 284,
and 303. From A.C., xlvi, 150.

 

     Right reverent and most special gode mayster, with all reverens I
commaund me onto your maystership: lyketh it your goodnes to have
yn rememberans, at soche tyme as it lykid your maystership to licens
me to depart I shewde the cause of my komyng: paraventur more
chargeful besynes hath othedraw your mynde, therefore I besech your
maystership to have yn consideracion a lytil wilnot quyte at this
solempne feest: yn feyth I woold not sende yf I myght odir wyse. Also
I beseche your maystership to send me worde, yf ye wille cloth them
yn your lyvere, other I shall purvey for them, and of ther komyng hom.
Yf yowr maystership commaund me, I shalbe with yow before the feest
and purvey for my cure, other withyn ij dayes after the feest: it shalbe
at your commaundment. I commaund me with all mekenesse and
reverens to my moost singuler good lady, Mr. Thomas, and then to the
hooll house, horn I commit to Goddes governans: he yow ever preserve
by his speciall grace, Amen.

                                                                              Be your scolar Edmunde.

 

     To hys most singler and good mayster Sir William Stonor, Knyght.