Henry Columbell to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 176, p. 114

Date

6 March [1500/1]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 122; Kirby, item 151

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

151 Henry Columbell¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton 6 March [1500/1] (No. 176,
p. 114)

[p. 115] Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me vnto you, desiring to here
of your welfayre. Certyfiing you I haue receyued your letter and hath
spoken with Sir Edmond Batmon, & he is right glad of the mocion,
and wyll abyde by yt for his dede, & by all things þat his attorney doth
in his name, & so will shew to all men þat spurns² him any wher. But
he is feard lest they wyll not appeare without a suppena; & if ther be
any thing þat ether he or I can doe you seruice or plesure, we are you.
No more at this tyme, but Jhesu preserue you. Wrytten at Darley in
þe Peke, the vj day of March

By your lover & seruant Herrie Cullumbell^a

Endorsed (p. 114): Vnto Sir Robt Plompton knight be this letter deliuered
in hast

^a Appended: Copied þe 29 of Aprill 1613.

¹ The Columbells were probably tenants of the Plumptons in the Derbys manor of
Darley.

² Spur = to seek out, ask, J. Wright (ed.), The English Dialect Dictionary (6 vols, Oxford,
1898–1905).

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 CXXII.

Unto Sir Robart Plompton, knight, be this letter delivered
in hast

Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you, desiring to
here of your welfare; certifiing you I have receyved your letter
and hath spoken with Sir Edmond Batmon, and he is right glad
of the mocion, and wyll abyde by yt for his dede, and by all
things that his attorney doth in his name, and so will shew
to all men that spurns^a him any wher. But he is feard lest they
wyll not appeare without a suppena, and if ther be any thing, that
ether he, or I, can doe you service or plesure, we are yours. No
more at this tyme, but Jesu preserve you. Wrytten at Darley in
the Peke, the VI day of March.

By your lover and servant,

HERRIE CULLUMBELL.^b

^a To spur, to ask. See the Hallamshire Glossary, by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.
Lond. Pickering,1829.

^b Henry Collumbell of Derley, com. Derb. esq.