James Gresham to John Paston

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JAMES GRESHAM TO JOHN PASTON¹

To my worshipfull maister, John Paston, Escuyr, dwellynge
att Norwich, in hast.

AFTER that myn letter was wretyn, I spak with Maister
     Yelverton, and tolde hym the substance of my letter
     to yow. And he bad me write to yow that as
touchyng the matier of my Lord of Oxeford, he shall lette the
awardyng and th’entre therof als long as he may; and he
demyth veryly that H. Wodehous coude never have take up
on his knowelage to have called up on the matier with owt
counseil and enformacion of Heydon, and it were weel do that
my Lord of Oxeford knewe it.

     Item, Maister Yelverton told me that the Lord Moleyns
was enfourmed that he and alle his men wern endited of
felonye in Norffolk, whiche caused hym and his to be right
wroth toward my maister and yow. And Maister Yelverton
hath tolde a man of the Kyngges Benche called Styrop, whiche
is a man of the Lord Moleyns, the trouth that nothir he ner
noon of his is endited, and Stirop is now in to Wiltshire, and
shall telle it to the Lord M.; for that shall squage weel his
hete of wrethe. And as touchyng Germyn,² if he be Shiref,
William Genney wole undirtake for hym that he shall and
wole be ruled weel inow, &c.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is anonymous, but is in the handwriting
of James Gresham. It must have been written in the autumn of the year 1450,
while Lord Molyns was in Wiltshire, and when the nomination of John Jermyn as
Sheriff of Norfolk was expected, but had not yet been decided on, or at least not
known to the writer. It was therefore certainly written after the preceding number,
though the latter is probably not the letter to which it was intended to serve as a
postscript.

     ² John Jermyn was actually appointed Sheriff in the end of the year 1450.

1450