John Doddington to William Plumpton

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Title
John Doddington to William Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 24, p. 202
Date
7 October [?1542]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To other members of the Plumpton family', item 18; Kirby, item 237
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

237 John Doddington to William Plumpton, 7 October [?1542] (No. 24, p.
        202)

 

Right worshipfull Sir,a my deuty to you premised, in my hartyest maner
I commend me vnto you and to my mistress, your wife. Pleaseth yt
you to vnderstand my master1 hath wryten his letter to Mr Goldsbrough2
for a do for your mastership in Bilton park, or the peark of Heay,3 at
your pleasur. I trust it will be signed, and if it be not, [p. 203] my
masterb desires your mastership to send him word therof. The same
letter is herin closed. And I pray your mastership if ther be any service
that I doe your mastership, it will please you to commaund me as your
servant. And thus pray almighty God to preserve you. Scribled in hast
the vij day of October.

Your servant to comaund          John Dodingtonc

Endorsed (p. 202): To the right worshipfull Mr William Plompton esquire

 

     a Marginal note: 24 letter by John Dodington.

     b Marginal note, as above.

     c Marginal note: Copied the 12 June, Mondey.

 

     1 Robert Plumpton.

     2 Possibly Edward Goldsborough, king’s sergeant at arms (d. by Oct. 1543), who
received a regrant for life of the office of feodary of Knaresborough with the forestership
of wards in Knaresborough forest, 6 July 1523, Somerville, i, 526; L & P, xv, 473; xvi,
432, 708; xviii (i), 184.

     3 Hayah Park, Knaresborough.

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 XVIII.

 

           To the right worshipfull Mr. William Plompton, esquire.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, my deuty to you premised, in my hartyest
maner I commend me unto you and to my Mistres your wife ;
pleaseth yt you to understand my Master hath wryten his letter
to Mr. Goldsbrough for a do for your mastership in Bilton park or
the park of Heay at your pleasur. I trust it will be signed, and
if it be not, my Master desires your mastership to send him word
therof. The same letter is herin closed ; and I pray your master-
ship, if ther be any service that I [may] doe your mastership, it will
please you to commaund me as your servant. And thus Almighty
God to preserve you. Scribled in hast, the viith day of October.

                                               Your servant to comaund,

                                                                     JOHN DODINGTON.