Geoffrey Beyton, abbot of Lilleshall, to Sir Robert Plumpton

134 Geoffrey Beyton, abbot of Lilleshall,¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton 26 May
        [?1499] (No. 66, p. 39)

Right worshipfull Sir, I comand me to you, beyng glad to here of your
welfaire. Sir, I hartely thank you for my tennaunts of Arkenden, praying
you of good contynuance, and also for your wryting, the which ye send
vnto me towching to the lands of myne in Arkenden. Sir, I haue sent
to you by my servant, Thomas Morton, the copis of my evydents of
the ix acres of land, the which they clame intrest for the king, and I
trust þat I haue sent to you such wrytting as shall dyscharg that matter.
Sir, I pray you þat ye will shew my matters according to right & after
your good mynd, for I remytt all vnto your good wysdome. Sir, it is so
þat I am a yong beginner of the world in my office, & Sir, for your
good will and counsell I will þat my officer reward to you yearly vjs
viijd as was rewarded to other men afor tyme, praying you of your
good contynuance; and anything as I can, [I will,] as God [knoweth,]
who have you in his blessed keeping. Amen. Written at Lilleshull, the
xxvj day of May.

Your loving frind     the Abbot of Lilleshull^a

Endorsed: To the worshipfull in God, Sir Robart Plompton knight these
letters be deliuered in hast

     ^a Appended: Copied the 11 day of March 1612.

     ¹ Elected 1499, in office 1516. Presumably Sir Robert’s stewardship would require
confirmation by a new abbot, 104n.

LETTER XXIX.

To the worshipfull in God Master Plompton, knight, these letters
be delivered in hast.

    Right worshipfull Sir, I comand me to you, beyng glad to hare
of your welfaire. Sir, I hartely thank you for my tennaunts of
Arkenden,a praying you of good contynuance, and also for your
wryting, the which ye send unto me towching to the lands of
myne in Arkenden. Sir, I have sent to you by my servant, Tho-
mas Morton, the copie of my evydents of the ix acres of land,
the which they clame intrest for the King. And I trust that I
have sent to you such wrytting as shall discharg that matter. Sir,
I pray you that ye will shew my matters according to right; and
after your good mynd, for I remytt all unto your good wysdome.
Sir, yt is so that I am a yong beginner of the world in my office;
and Sir, for your good will and counsell I will that my officer re-
ward to your yerly vis. viiid. as was rewarded to other men afor
tyme, praying you of your good contynuance, and any thing as I
can, I will, as knoweth God, who have you in his blessed keeping.
Amen. Written at Lilleshull, the xxvi day of May.
              Your loving frind,               THE ABBOT OF LILLISHULL.

    a Arkendale, in the parish of Knaresborough, had been given to the abbey of Lil-
leshull, com. Salop, by Hilaria Trusbut in the reign of Hen. II. with housebote and
haybote in the woods of Kirkdighton and Ingmanthorp. (Mon. Ang. vol. I.p. 146b.)
She was the wife of Everard de Ros. Sir Robert Plumpton, as was usual with men of
worship at the time of writing, acted as steward for the abbey.