John Latoner, prior of Newburgh, to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 59, p. 35

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 24; Kirby, item 71

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

71 John Latoner, prior of Newburgh¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton (No. 59, p.
35)

Right worshipfull Sir, I commend me to you, & am full sory ?at ye
should be displeased agaynst the writting which came last to you in my
name. I comaunded the officer to write to you in my name, but I saw
not the same after. Sir, ye haue alway bene good master to our house,
and I pray you so contynue, & in any thing which ye are myscontent
with, it shall be amended by the sight of your selfe; & I beseech you
be good master to this bearer, for he is giltles in this matter. And as
for our land, we pay our dymes therefore, and trust in you that ye will
not ses none thereof, wherby we should haue cause to make further
labor; for it is not the kings mynd to ses no dymeable land,² & we haue
no suit land, but it is dymable, as God knoweth, who preserue you
euermore.

Your louing frind the Prior of Newbrough^a

Endorsed: To the right worshipfull knight Sir Robart Plompton

^a Appended: This letter hath a seale. Copied the 8 day of March 1612.

¹ Newburgh Priory held lands in Spofforth. John Latoner was elected prior in 1483
and resigned in May/June 1518, VCH, Yorks, iii, 226, 230.

² Land subject to assessment for the tenth, OED.

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 XXIV.

To the right worshipfull knyght, Sir Robart Plompton.

Right worshipfull sir, I commend me to you, and am full sory

that ye should be displeased agaynst the writting, which came last
to you in my name. I comaunded the officer to writ to you in
my name, but I saw not the same after. Sir, ye have alway bene
good master to our house and I pray you so to contynew, and in
any thing which ye are myscontent with, it shall be amended by
the sight of yourselfe. And I besech you be good master to this
bearer, for he is giltles in this matter. And as for our land, we
pay our dymes therfore, and trust in you that ye will not ses none
thereof, wherby we should have cause to make further labor; for
it is not the Kyngs mynd to ses no dymeable land, and we have
no suit land, but it is dymable, as God knoweth, who preserve
you ever.
Your lovyng freind,
the PRIOR OF NEWBROUGH.a

a Newbrough, or Newburgh, a township in the parish of Coxwold, com. Ebor. was
the site of a priory for Canons regular of the order of St. Augustin, which was en-
dowed with lands in the parish of Spofforth, of the fee of Mowbray, their founder.