John Gascoigne to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 129, p. 78

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 115; Kirby, item 148

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

148 John Gascoigne¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton (No. 129, p. 78)

Brother, I recomend me vnto <you>. This Sunday my nephew Sir
William Gascoygne is ryden from home towards Colyweston,² &
whether further or nay I know not. Howbeit I trow better he had not.
Brother, he desired me to wrytt vnto you [. . .]^a praying þat ye wille
content vnto this bringer, my cousin Robart Hastings³ iiij markes and
xxd now dew vnto him at this Martynmasse last, which is right gredy
therupon, & gladly my nephew wold he were content. If ye wold any
thing to London, send me word, þat I can; for I thinke I send one
right shortly after my nephew. Thus farewell. At Gaukthorpe, this
Sunday.

Your owne at his power John Gascon^b

Endorsed: To my hartyly beloved brother Sir Robart Plompton knight

^a wilbe deleted.

^b Appended: Copied the 16 of Aprill 1613.

¹ Younger son of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe (d.1460), and Sir Robert’s
brother-in-law.

² 113.

³ 157.

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 CXV.

To my hartyly beloved Brother, Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.

Brother, I recomend me unto you. This Sunday my nephew
Sir William Gascoygne is ryden from home towards Colyweston,^a
and whether further or nay I know not; howbeit, I trow better, he
had not. Brother, he desired me to wrytt unto you, praying that
ye wille content unto this brings, my Cousin Robart Hastings,
iiij mark and xxd. now dew unto him at this Martymasse last,
which is right gredy therupon, and gladly my nephew wold he
were content. If ye wold any thing to London, send me work;
that I can, for I thinke I send one right shortly after my nephew.
Thus farewell. At Gaukthorp, this Sunday.

Your owne at his power,
JOHN GASCON.^b

^a Coly-Weston, com. Northampton, where the King's mother resided.

^b John Gascoigne, esq. brother to Dame Agnes Plumpton, wife of Sir Robert Plump-
ton, kt. and uncle to Sir William Gascoigne, of Gokethorp, com. Ebor. kt. from
whom see next Letter.