Edward Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Title
Edward Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 186, p. 122
Date
23 September [1490]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 70; Kirby, item 91
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

               

91 Edward Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton, 23 September [1490]    (No.
     186, p. 122)

 

In my most humble wyse I recomend me vnto your good mastership
[and] to my especyall good ladys. This day I haue spoken with Master
Schereff,1 &, Sir, I send Master Blakwall,2 master of þe chancery, as
the berer can shew to you more by mouth, & they both comend them
to you. Master Schereffe hath & wyll doe as much in your matters as
I can of reason desire him. At Nothingham vppon Munday come a
senit must we fynda a office for you. I haue bene with Thomas Horston,
by þe advice of Master Schereffe, & pennyt ij inquisicions of diuerse
ways: if one will not serue vs, the other shall. Sir [. . .]b ye [. . .]c <have>
a simple tenant in Maunsfeld Woodhouse.3 I wold haue sent him to
Rich. Saxton for to mete with me at Master Schereffs, & he absent
him. Any service ye wyll comannd me, send me word, & I am yours,
as knoweth our Lord, who preserve you. Wrytten at Southwell, þe xxiij
of September.

     Your seruant     Ed: Plomptond

Endorsed: To my master Sir Robt Plompton knight

 

     a MS finyd.

     b ther deleted.

     c am deleted.

     d Appended: Copied þe iij of May 1613.

 

     1 Nicholas Kniveton, the elder, of Mercaston, List of Sheriffs, 104; 79.

     2 147.

     3 84, 147; App. II, 44.

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 LXX.

 

To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.

 

    In my most humble wyse I recomend me unto your good mas-
tership, and to my especyall good Lades. This day I have spoken
with master Schereffe, and ther I send Master Blakwall, Master
of the Chancery,a as the berer can shew to you more by mouth,
and they both comend them to you. Master Schereff hath and
wyll doe as much in your matter as I can of reason desire him.
At Nothingham, uppon Munday come a senit, must we fynd a
office for you. I have bene with Thomas Horton, by the advice of
mr. Schereffe, and pennyt ij inquisicions of dyverse wayes; if one
will not serve us, the other shall. Sir, ye have a simple tenant in
Maunsfeld Woodhouse. I wold have sent him to Rich: Saxton,
for to mete with me at Mr. Schereffs, and he absent him. Any ser-
vice ye wyll comand me, send me word, and I am yours, as
knoweth our Lord, who preserve you. Wrytten at Southwell, the
xxiij of September.
        (23 Sept. 1490.)              Your servant,         ED. PLOMPTON.

 

    a In the windows of the choir of the church at Mansfield Woodhouse, com. Nott.
was this painting and scroll; "a man with a shaven crowne kneeling, a booke open
before him."?Blakewall unus Magistrorum. (MS. of Gervase Hollis, Bibl. Harl. N.
6829.)