Edmund Paston to John Paston

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EDMUND PASTON TO JOHN PASTON¹

Tradatur Johanni Paston, of the Inner In in the Temple,
att Lonaon.

     RYTH worschipfull brothir, I recomaund me to yow,
        &c. I preye write to myn modre of your owne hed
        as for to consell her howh that sche kepe her prevye,
and tell no body ryth nowth of her counsell; for sche woll tell
persones many of her counsell this day, and to morwe sche
woll sey be Goddis faste that the same men ben false. I have
seen parte of the evydence, and the maner² hath be pourchasid
be parcell, and certeyn feffement mad of the avowson, and
certeyn pecis of lond enterlessant the maner; and I wote well
ye have on collaterall rellesse wyth a warente of on of the
wyffys of Hauteyn³ of all the holl maner.

     Steward, the chiffe constable, told me he was enpanellyd up
on the assise be twex yow and Frauncesse; he axyd me counsell
what he myght do ther inne, for he told me it was take in Sir
Thomas Tudham name. He wold fayne be chalengyd. I
concellyd him swere the trewthe of the issue that he shall be
swore to, and thanne he nedyd never to drede hym of noon
atteynte. I yave him this counsell, and noon othir. He
enqueryd me of the rewle of myn master Danyell¹ and myn
Lord of Suffolke,² and askyd wheche I thowte schuld rewle in
this schere; and I seyd bothe, as I trowh, and he that sur-
vyvyth to hold be the vertue of the survyvyr, and he to thanke
his frendes, and to aquite his enmyys. So I fele by him he
wold forsake his master, and gette him a newh yf he wyste he
schuld rewle; and so wene I meche of all the contre is so
disposyd. The holy Trenyte kepe yow.

     Wrete at Norwiche, on the Wednysday after Seynt Peter³
in hast.                   Your Brother,                          E. PASTON.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] From the conversation here reported touching the
anticipated ascendancy of Daniel and the Marquis, afterwards Duke, of Suffolk, this
letter may be referred to the year 1447. In April of the year following, the influence
of Suffolk was paramount, and Daniel was said to be out of favour, as will be seen by
Letter 75 following.

     ² The manor of Oxnead.—See Blomefield, vi. 478.

     ³ Probably Robert, father of John Hauteyn, the friar.

     ¹ Thomas Daniel.

     ² William de la Pole, at this time Marquis, afterwards Duke, of Suffolk.

     ³ St. Peter’s day is the 29th June.

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1447 (?)

1447 (?)