John Neville, Lord Montague, earl of Northumberland to Sir John Mauleverer

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WYL655/2 No. 5, p. 152

Date

7 December, [1464-1469]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir William Plompton', item 17; Kirby, item 19

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

19 John Neville, Lord Montague, earl of Northumberland¹ to Sir John Mauleverer,
7 December [1464 × 1469] (No. 5, p. 152; CB 615)

Right trusty and hartily welbeloued, I greet you oft tymes wel.^a Letting
you wete that Sir William Plompton, knight, hath sent vnto me and
complayneth him that Thomas Wade and Richard Croft dayly threaten
to beat or slay his servants and seeketh them about his place.² Whearfore
I desire and pray you to cause the said Thomas and Richard to
surcease & leaue their said threatnings; and if they haue any matters
against the said servants lett them complaine vnto me therof, and I
shall see that they shall haue such a remedy as shall accord with reason.
And that ye faile nott hereof, as my speciall trust is in you. And God
keepe you. [p. 153] Written att my castle att Warkworth the seaventh
day of December. The earle of Northumberland and Lord Montague,
warden.^b

Northumberlan

Endorsed (p. 152): To my right trusty and hartely welbeloued Sir John
Mauliuerer knight

^a Marginal note: 5 letter.

^b Marginal note: Copied 9 December 1612.

¹ John Neville, Lord Montague (d.1471) married Isabel, daughter of Joan, Lady
Ingoldesthorpe. Created earl of Northumberland, 27 May 1464 after the posthumous
attainder of the 3rd Percy earl, he was induced to surrender the earldom on the
reinstatement of the 4th earl in March 1470, for a ‘pies nest’: the title of Marquis
Montague, and Courtenay lands in Devon, CPR, 1461–67, 332, 341; M.A. Hicks,
’What Might Have Been: George Neville, Duke of Bedford 1465–83: His Identity and
Significance’, in Idem, Richard III and His Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of
the Roses (1991), 294; 23.

² Sir John Mauleverer and Thomas Wade (or Ward) were as ardently Yorkist as Sir
William was, at heart, Lancastrian, and they had probably been exploiting their political
advantage since 1461, Hicks, NH, xiv, 81; 10, 16.

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 XVII.

To my right trusty and hartely welbeloved Sir John Mauliverer,
knight.

Right trusty and hartily welbeloved, I greet you oft tymes wel.
Letting you wete that Sir William Plompton, knight, hath sent
unto me, and complayneth him that Thomas Wade a and Richard
Croft dayly threats to beat or slay his servants, and seeketh them
about his place; wheafore I desire and pray you to cause the said
Thomas and Richard to surcease and leave theire said threatnings;
and if they have any matters against his said servants, lett them
complaine unto me therof, and I shall see that they shall have
such a remedy, as shall accord with reason; and that ye faile nott
hereof, as my speciall trust is in you. And God keepe you. Written
att my Castle att Warkworth, the seaventh day of December.
The Earle of Northumberland and Lord Mountague, wardin.b

(7 Dec. 1464-9.) NORTHUMBERLAND.

^a Thomas Wade of Knarysburgh, yeoman, a zealous Yorkist, convicted of treason,
as an adherent of the Earl of Lincoln on the fourth of June, 2 Hen. VII. 1487, and
attainted 19 Hen. VII. 1503. (Rot. Parl. vi. 545.)

^b John Nevill, Earl of Northumberland (from 27 May 1464 to 25 Mar. 1470),
Lord Montagu, and Warden of the East Marches. He was likewise President of
Yorkshire.