Elizabeth Greene to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Elizabeth Greene to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 126, p. 76
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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 51; Kirby, item 55
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

55 Elizabeth Greene to Sir Robert Plumpton,1 [possibly 2 November
    1487] (No. 126, p. 76)

 

Right worshipfull Sir, I commend me to your mastership, certifying
you pat I have shewed William Tankard2 your comandment þat he shold
have warned the tenaunts to pay no farme to William Aldburgh;3 & he
letting <them> pay farme to his mother, & wold not warne the tenaunts
to pay none; & as for taking of William Aldburgh, he sayd he wold [p.
77] not take him, for ye let him alone & ye myght have taken him &
ye wold, & may take him when ye wyll. <I> beseech you be so good
master vnto me, & sett me & my husband tenaunts in rest of him, to
God send my husband home, so þat I compleane no further for noe
remedy, as my trust is in your mastership, as God knowes who preserve
you to his pleasure. From Newby, on Munday after Salmesday.4

Your beadwoman           Elizabeth Greenea

Endorsed (p. 76): Unto the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton kt
deliver these

 

     a Appended: Copied þe 14 day of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 Probably Elizabeth, wife of Richard Greene, of Newby, 48, 51.

     2 Son of William Tancred of Boroughbridge and Alice, sister of Sir William Plumpton’s
son-in-law Sir Richard Aldburgh (d.1476). The Tancreds were related to the Greenes of
Newby, Somerville, 524–5; Test.Ebor., vi, 191; Sir Thomas Lawson-Tancred, Records of a
Yorkshire Manor (1937), 136; 36.

     3 65.

     4 All Souls Day.

 

 

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 LI.

 

    Unto the right worshipful Sir Robart Plumpton, Kt. deliver these.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, I commend me to your mastership, certi-
fying you that I have shewed William Tankard a your comand-
ment, that he shold have warned the tenaunts to pay no farme to
William Aldburgh; and he letting them pay farme to his mother,
and wold not warne the tenaunts to pay none. And as for taking of
William Aldburgh, he sayd he wold not take him, for ye let him
alone and ye myght have taken him, and ye wold; and may take
him when ye wyll. I besech you be so good master unto me, and
sett me and my husband tenaunts in rest of him. To God send my
husband home, so that I compleane no further for noe remedy, as
my trust is in your mastership, as God knowes, who preserve you
to his pleasure. From Newby,b on Munday after Salmesday.c
                                 Your Beadwoman ELIZABETH GREENE.d

 

    a William Tankard, otherwise Tancred, was, it seems, at the date of this letter,
bailiff of Boroughbridge, parcel of the liberty of Knaresborough, in which Sir Robert
Plumpton had jurisdiction, and where the disputed lands lay.

    b Newby, in the parish of Topcliffe.

    c Soul-mass-day, Nov.2.

    d She was, it seems, the wife of Richard Greene above named; and from the con-
tents of the letter, appears to have claimed as of her inheritance the land of William
Aldborough, by reason of the son's illegitimacy.