Elizabeth Stonor to William Stonor

168. ELIZABETH STONOR TO WILLIAM
STONOR

18 AUGUST, 1476

?My brodyr Stocker? is Sir William Stocker, husband of Elizabeth
Stonor's sister Margaret. ?My brodyr Crooke? is probably her own
brother John. If ?my husbond?s terement? refers to the anniversary of
Thomas Ryche?s death, he must have died nearly a year before his will was
proved. Elizabeth Stonor seems to have spent all the latter part of 1476 in
London. Unlike most of Elizabeth Stonor?s letters this is holograph. Since
18 August, 1476, was on a Sunday, the time to Tuesday next seems short;
but in the following letter there is expectation of an equally speedy reply.
From A.C., xlvi, 114.

Jhesu. Ano. xvj

Right well belovid Cossen, I recomaund me unto you with all myn
hart and I þannke you hartely, gentill Cossen, off youre expediscion

 ¹ i.e. 17 or 18 July.

that ye have made in plesynge off my brodyr Stocker off his bucke: he
is beholdyn unto you: at your comynge to London he will thannke you
I dowt not as reason is; and I, as ffor my parte, þannke you ffor my
venyson, the which I have R[eceived] by my brodyr Crooke. Also,
gentill Cossen, I undyrstond þ^t my douƷther Kateryn is craysed and
hath a desese on hir neke: I marvell what it shuld be: yff it wold lyke
you, I praye you hartely to suffer hir to come to London to me to the
intent she may be holpyn þeroff. I send syr William, Annes Dibdale,
and Howlake for hir, and on Twesday next I trust to see you here at
London, and whanne ye come ye shall be welcom with more. Jesu
spede you ever, amen. At London le xviij jour d?aoust.

                                                                                   Elysabeth Stonor.

P.S. in dorso. Gentyll Cossen, I praye you to bryng with you the ij
baysons and hewers off silver, the silver Candelstikes and the monstrans,
and the letill silver bayson to set it in. I wold have it here ayenst myn
husbonds terement, and it can not come better at no tyme þanne with
you now because off strenght.

To my most worshipffull Cossen Willm. Stonor, Esquyer, this be
delyvered. At Stonor.

168. ELIZABETH STONOR TO WILLIAM
STONOR

18 AUGUST, 1476

     “My brodyr Stocker” is Sir William Stocker, husband of Elizabeth
Stonor’s sister Margaret. “My brodyr Crooke” is probably her own
brother John. If “my husbond’s terement” refers to the anniversary of
Thomas Ryche’s death, he must have died nearly a year before his will was
proved. Elizabeth Stonor seems to have spent all the latter part of 1476 in
London. Unlike most of Elizabeth Stonor’s letters this is holograph. Since
18 August, 1476, was on a Sunday, the time to Tuesday next seems short;
but in the following letter there is expectation of an equally speedy reply.
From A.C., xlvi, 114.

Jhesu. Ano. xvj

     Right well belovid Cossen, I recomaund me unto you with all myn
hart and I þannke you hartely, gentill Cossen, off youre expediscion
that ye have made in plesynge off my brodyr Stocker off his bucke: he
is beholdyn unto you: at your comynge to London he will thannke you
I dowt not as reason is; and I, as ffor my parte, þannke you ffor my
venyson, the which I have R[eceived] by my brodyr Crooke. Also,
gentill Cossen, I undyrstond þ^t my douЗther Kateryn is craysed and
hath a desese on hir neke: I marvell what it shuld be: yff it wold lyke
you, I praye you hartely to suffer hir to come to London to me to the
intent she may be holpyn þeroff. I send syr William, Annes Dibdale,
and Howlake for hir, and on Twesday next I trust to see you here at
London, and whanne ye come ye shall be welcom with more. Jesu
spede you ever, amen. At London le xviij jour d’aoust.

                                                                                     Elysabeth Stonor.

     P.S. in dorso. Gentyll Cossen, I praye you to bryng with you the ij
baysons and hewers off silver, the silver Candelstikes and the monstrans,
and the letill silver bayson to set it in. I wold have it here ayenst myn
husbonds terement, and it can not come better at no tyme þanne with
you now because off strenght.

     To my most worshipffull Cossen Willm. Stonor, Esquyer, this be
delyvered. At Stonor.

¹ i.e. 17 or 18 July.