John Kendal to [William Paston?]

1076

JOHN KENDAL TO [WILLIAM PASTON?]¹

YOUR pore servaunt and bedeman, John Kendale, be
     secheth your good and gracious masterschepp, at the re-
     verence of God and in the wey of charyte, to remembre
that my maister your fader, on whos soule God have mercy,
had fro me x. acres of free londe that I bout of the executours
of Nicholas Pekeryng of Filby for xx. marc paid on j. day,
to pay to executours of Edmonde Norman for purchase of ij.
partes of Holm Halle, somtyme Edmonde Norman.

     Also my seide maister, your fader, had fro John Kendale
the croppe of the seide x. acres londe, sowen with barly and
peson, wherof v. acres were weel somerlayde² to the seid
barly, the whiche croppe the seide John Kendale schulde a
made worth to hym iiijli. xiijs. iiijd., althow ther had be but
xx. quarteres barly growyng on viij. acres and half of londe,
that is to seyn up on an acre ij. quarter, iiij. busshelz, and the
half acre in avayle, besyde j. acre and an half of peson, for the
seide John Kendale solde his malt at Ormesby mad of the
barly growyng the same yer that the foreseid croppe was taken
fro hym, for iiijs. viijd. a quartere; and so he myght a solde
the same and meche more if he had had it.

     Also my seid maister, your fader, hath caused the foreseid
John Kendale to a foreborne the ferme of the seide x. acres
of londe be the space of ix. yer, be the yer xvjs. & viijd., that
is, the ferme of j. acre xxd., wherof the somme conteyneth
vijli. xs. beside j. yer receyved of Hagh.¹

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] If this petition was addressed to any member of the
Paston family, I should think it must have been William Paston, the son of the later
Sir John. That would make the date at least as late as the year 1503, when his father
died. If it was either of the two Sir Johns, ‘my master your father’ would be John
Paston, Esquire, who died in 1466. But Nicholas Pickering of Filby is said to have
been buried in the steeple of Filby church in the year 1466, and it is evident that ‘my
master your father’ survived him more than nine years.

     Edmund Norman, whose executors are here spoken of, died as far back as 1444.
Blomefield says he was seised of two parts of the manor of Filby, but does not mention
him as being also owner of two parts of Holm Hale. The two parts of Filby were
afterwards held in trust by Sir John Fastolf; but William Pickering and Cecily, his
wife, were lords of the whole manor and settled it on John Paston, who released it to
Nicholas Pickering in 1450.—Blomefield, xi. 218, 221.

     ² Kept fallow for some time previous to sowing.

     ¹ Here the MS. ends abruptly.                                                                                                                   

1503,
or
later (?)

1503,
or
later (?)