Edmund Stonor to [William Stonor]

156. EDMUND STONOR TO [WILLIAM
STONOR]

[? 1475]

      See the note prefixed to the last letter. This letter must be earlier than
No. 181, since John Blakall is alive. It is not therefore likely to be much
later than No. 155. The right-hand margin of the letter is defaced, and
some words have been supplied conjecturally in brackets. Pishill is the next
 village to Stonor on the north-west. From A.C., xlvi, 8.

      My rygth wurschypfull Brothyr, I recommaund me unto yow, desyryng
to her off your wellfare, the qwyhych almyghty [Jhesu] contynw:
doyng yow to wytt that John Blakall browtt to Stonor a dyker for to
make yowr dykes in . . . feld betwen the hy way and the ew tre: and
John Mathew and I wolde a mad a bargeyn with hym but we [cowd] nott
styll there on, nedyr we wyst nott how ye wold have hytt, whedyr ye
wold have hytt sengyll dydge or [dobyll] dydge, and therffor we mad no
bargeyn with hym: but I askyd hym how he wold do a perdge of sempyll
dydge, and for . . d. he wold a don hytt a dobyll, sett hym with whit
thorn, and a mad the dydge a yerd deppe: and yff hytt wold plesse yow
to [send] word to John or to me whedyr ye wold have hytt dobyll dydge
or senkyll, and what ye wull geve for a perdge we [wull] send for hym,
and yff we can acord off the prys he schall still awayt and begyne. And
also brothyr, wher ye speke to B . . es carpenter so to make yowr
myll hows, he sayeth he can non mak hytt but he mak hytt new: but
Wyllyam Ale . . wyk [sayeth] that [he] with thyn lytyll space wyll
mak ye þat hows to stand ther xx yere, and okapy but lytyll new
tymbyre: and we thy[nk] hyt wer þe lestt schardge to yow so, thane to
mak a new hows. But I beseche yow brothyr latt not yowr carpenter
know þat I send yow thys now. No more to yow brothyr at thys tyme,
but the trinyte have yow in hys kepynge. And ye schuld have a
Monday next comyng a xl plowys in Pyssyll felde.

                                                                                                   S

                                                            Your brothyr Edmund rot.

                                                                                                    n

No endorsement.

156. EDMUND STONOR TO [WILLIAM
STONOR]

[? 1475]

     See the note prefixed to the last letter. This letter must be earlier than
No. 181, since John Blakall is alive. It is not therefore likely to be much
later than No. 155. The right-hand margin of the letter is defaced, and
some words have been supplied conjecturally in brackets. Pishill is the next
village to Stonor on the north-west. From A.C., xlvi, 8.

     My rygth wurschypfull Brothyr, I recommaund me unto yow, desyryng
to her off your wellfare, the qwyhych almyghty [Jhesu] contynw:
doyng yow to wytt that John Blakall browtt to Stonor a dyker for to
make yowr dykes in . . . feld betwen the by way and the ew tre: and
John Mathew and I wolde a mad a bargeyn with hym but we [cowd] nott
styll there on, nedyr we wyst nott how ye wold have hytt, whedyr ye
wold have hytt sengyll dydge or [dobyll] dydge, and therffor we mad no
bargeyn with hym: but I askyd hym how he wold do a perdge of sempyll
dydge, and for . . d. he wold a don hytt a dobyll, sett hym with whit
thorn, and a mad the dydge a yerd deppe: and yff hytt wold plesse yow
to [send] word to John or to me whedyr ye wold have hytt dobyll dydge
or senkyll, and what ye wull geve for a perdge we [wull] send for hym,
and yff we can acord off the prys he schall still awayt and begyne. And
also brothyr, wher ye speke to B . . es carpenter so to make yowr
myll hows, he sayeth he can nott mak hytt but he mak hytt new: but
Wyllyam Ale . . wyk [sayeth] that [he] with thyn lytyll space wyll
mak ye þat hows to stand ther xx yere, and okapy but lytyll new
tymbyre: and we thy[nk] hyt wer þe lestt schardge to yow so, thane to
mak a new hows. But I beseche yow brothyr latt not yowr carpenter
know þat I send yow thys now. No more to yow brothyr at thys tyme,
but the trinyte have yow in hys kepynge. And ye schuld have a
Monday next comyng a xl plowys in Pyssyll felde.

                                                                                                        S

                                                                 Your brothyr Edmund rot.

                                                                                                         n

     No endorsement.