Edward Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 189, p. 124

Date

4 November [1490]

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 71; Kirby, item 92

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

92 Edward Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton, 4 November [1490] (No.
189, p. 124)

In my most humble & lowly wyse I recomend me vnto your mastership &
to my singular good lady. Sir, I sent to you late wryttings of all matters
by Sir Edward Bothom, prest. I thinke long vnto I here word from
you, whether they come to you in tyme or no, & of your welfare. Sir,
I had no word seth I parted from Plompton, as many as hath comyn
to London. I cannot gyt myne entent of my Lady Delphes,¹ wherfore
I haue comyned with Masters Blunt & Shefeld² in this form: the say
they will take yt in forme or els make yt exchaunce with you of <lands>
lyeing in Yorkshire, or els pay to you redy money therfore. Which of
these iij wayes ye wyll take, I pray you take good advise & send to me
word as hastyly as ye can, for they will not tary here, & I will haue no
further communycation therin tyll I know your pleasure & mynd, for
they wyll take hold at a letle thing. <All> such newes as I here John
Bell can shew ye by mouth, for he made so great hast I had no leasure
to writt more at larg of al things at this tyme. I thinke long till I here
from your mastership, þe which Jhesu preserue. At London, the iiij
day of Nouember.

Your most humble servant Ed: Plompton^a

Endorsed: To my master Sir Robt Plompton knyght

^a Appended: Copied þe 3 iiij of May 1613.

¹ 84, 93.

² The heirs of James Delves (exec.1472) were his two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of
James Blount, and Ellen, who married the lawyer Sir Robert Sheffield. The land in
question was Ellen, Lady Delves’s dower in Crakemarsh, Staffs, where the Plumptons
held land, and upon which Blount and Sheffield were casting covetous eyes, 180; App.
III.

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 LXXI.

To my master Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.

In my most humble and lowly wyse I recomend me unto your
mastership, and to my singuler good lady. Sir, I sent to you late
wryttings of all matters by Sir Edward Bethom, prest. I thinke
long unto I here word from you, whether they come to you in
tyme, or noo, and of your welfare. Sir, I had no word seth I
parted from Plompton, as many as hath comyn to London. I
cannot gyt myne entent of my lady Delphes, wherfore I have
comyned with Masters Blunt and Shefelda in this forme; the say
they will take yt in ferme, or els make yt exchaunce with you of
lands lyeing inYorkshire, or els pay to you redy money therfore;
which of thes iij wayes ye wyll take, I pray you take good ad-
vise, andsend to me word as hastyly as ye can, for they will not
tary here; and I will have no further comunycation therin, tyll
I know your pleasure and mynd, for they wyll take hold at a letle

thing. All such newes as I here, John Bell can shew ye by
mouth, for he made so great hast, I had no leasure to writt more
at larg of al things at this tyme. I thinke long till I here from
your mastership, the which Jesu preserve. At London, the iiij
day of November.
Your most humble servant,
(4 Nov. 1490.) ED. PLOMPTON.

a See note a to Letter LXIII.