John Bocking to John Paston

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Title
John Bocking to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 55
Date
?2 April 1457
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 354
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

354

 

JOHN BOCKING TO JOHN PASTON1

 

SIRE, lyke it your maistership to wete that I sende you
     at this tyme the rolle of the copies of all patentes, and
     the appoyntement with Wentworth laste, and also a
abstracte drawen as it come simply to my remembrance. And
I shalbe with you sumtyme the next weke. All men ar owte
at this tyme, as the Parson,2 Worcester, and Barker; and
therfore til thei come, I may not owte. H. Wyndesor
departid on Monday, and will doo that he can. He telleth
me Lumleys patent is in his awarde, but it is of noo force.
And also he hathe Constable is ij. [second?] patente, and that
is moste ayenst us, &c. He wil purveie therfore as ye knowe
myn maister3 comaundit hym to yow.

     Here hath ben Wilton with the dede of feffement yester-
day, and all men hadde ensealed sauf myn maister that now
hathe ensealed, and H. Inglose is right soory. I can no newe
tidinges, but that myn maister hath put his matier of Issabells
in Scroudeby, and the rente of the priour of Norwiche dieu to
Heilesdon in your hande and Thomas Grene. Ye shal the
next weke have the evidences. And Jesu kepe you and
youres.

     I sende myn Maistres Crane a lettre fro hir brother, but I
have the credence, whiche I can not say but if she appose me
for certeih materes of hir brotheres.

     Writen at Castre, the ij. day of Aprill.

                                 Your owen servaunt,                         J. B.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter is very uncertain. In 1456
the writer dates from Southwark on the 8th of May, and in 1458 from London on the
14th of March, so that there is rather a presumption against his being at Caister on
the 2nd of April in either of these years. But these points, it must be owned, are
little to be relied on, as Bokking certainly passed to and fro a good deal between
London and Norfolk. The date must, however, be between 1455 and 1459. The
letter has no address, but was doubtless intended for John Paston.

     2 Thomas Howes.                                                 3 Sir John Fastolf.

     

 

 

 

 

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