Henry Percy to William Plumpton

223 Henry Percy¹ to William Plumpton, 18 September [before 19 May
        1527]        (No. 17, p. 196)

Right trusty and welbeloued,^a I great you hartly well, and whear there
is done & trau<ersed> betwixt you and the tennants of Folefeit Poole,^b
of my lord and father lordship of Spofforth, for our courte in this time
within his said township of Folefout, and, as I vnderstand, ye ar
contented to bide the order of me and others of the said lord and my
fathers cowncell of and vpon the premises, so that an end wear maid
before months day next. And so it is now at this time that I haue had,
and yet [p. 197] hath, such buisenes as I can not attent it this time;^c
wherfore I pray you be contented to giue sparing to the next head cort
at Spoforth, at which time ye shall haue an end, with my lord and
fathers fauor and mine. And if you doe break and make iij or iiij gaps
in Folefout feild, as ye clame to doo, of coustam yearly, thearwith I am
content at this time, so that ye doe make noe more buisenes therin to
the time when the said matter be ordered or determined. And herof at
this time, I pray you faile not, as my trust is in you. Written at the
castle of Wresill the xviij day of September.

                                                           H: Pearcy^d

Endorsed (p. 196): To my right trusty and welbeloued William Plompton
esquire

     ^a Marginal note: 17 letter by H. Perce.

     ^b Marginal note: About riolties in Folifoote vsed by Plompton.

     ^c Marginal note: 17 letter by H: Perce.

     ^d Marginal note: Copied 9 of June 1626, Friday.

     ¹ Henry Percy succeeded his father the 5th earl of Northumberland on the latter?s
death, 19 May 1527. The two had recently been on bad terms, A.G. Dickens (ed.), The
Clifford Letters of the Sixteenth Century, (SS, clxxii, 1957), 46; App. III.

LETTER IV.

To my right trusty and welbeloved Wiliam Plompton, ewquire.

    Right trusty and welbeloved, I great you hartely well; and
whear there is done and traversed betwixt you and the tennants of
Folefeit Poole, of my lord and father Lordship of Spofforth, for
our Courte in this time within his said township of Floefot, and
as I understand, ye are contented to bide the order of me and
others of the said Lord and my fathers cowncell of and upon the
premises, so that an end wear maid before months day next. And
so it is now at this time, that I have had and yet hath such buise-
nes, as I can not attend it this time; whearfore, I pray you be con-
tented to give sparing to the next head Cort at Spoforth, at which
time ye shall have and end, with my Lord and fathers favor and
mine. And if ye doe break and make iij or iiij gaps in Folefout
feild, as ye clame to doo of coustam yearly, thearwith I am con-
tent at this time, so that ye doe make noe more buisenes therin to
the time when the said matter be ordered or determined. And
herof at this time, I pray you, faile not, as my trust is in you.
Written at the castle of Wresill, the xviii day of September.

                                                                                     H. PEARCH.^a

    ^a Henry Percy eldest son of Henry, fifth Earl of Northumberland, succeeded his
father in the 18th Hen. VIII. 1526, but the day his father died appears to be
unascertained.