James Gresham to [John Paston]

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JAMES GRESHAM TO [JOHN PASTON]³

      PLEASE it your maistership to wete that, as touchyng
          Blake of the Kyngges hous, I spak with hym, and he
          told me that if the Lord Moleyns wold take suyche
appoyntement as ye agreed to, that he shuld lete me wete
therof on Satirday after noon, as I tolde yow whanne ye dyd
on your botes, &c. And sith that tyme I herd no word of
hym. Item, there is laboured a supersedeas for alle them that
th’exigend⁴ is ageyn, that arn convycted by record of my Lord
of Oxenford, except ij. men which the Lord M. gyveth no fors
of. Item, I send yow Treshams letter and a copie of the same.
Item, I send yow the cerciorari for my maistresse your modir.
Item, I send yow the scire facias for Osbern and Foke versus
Heydon and Wyndam. Item, I send yow a distringas ageynst
Tudenham, &c. Item, I beseche yow if it may be in cas my
Lord of Oxenford have not Holt hundred, that ye wole take
it to suyche on as yow seme best, for it is told me that Pertriche
laboureth therfore. And that is by the setting on of Heydon,
&c. As touchyng the capias ageynst Pertrich, and the pros. a
geynst Costard, &c., it wole not be hadde, &c.

     ³ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is anonymous, but it is in James
Gresham’s handwriting. In Letter 190 we have Lord Molyns offering to treat with
Paston for the injury done to his property at Gresham. Apparently Paston has now
mentioned what terms he would accept. From what is said of the supersedeas, it
would seem that this letter was written not long before the next, which is dated on
Trinity Sunday.

     ⁴ A writ of exigent lies where the defendant in a personal action cannot be found,
or anything of his to distrain. The sheriff is therein directed to proclaim him on five
county court days, requiring him to appear on pain of outlawry.

JUNE?

1451

JUNE?