John Paston to -

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Title
John Paston to -
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 16
Date
April 1452
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol II, item 213
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume II'

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JOHN PASTON TO ——2

 

        RYTH worchepfull sir and cosyn, I recommaund me
              to yow, [and] pray yow that ye will in mi behalf
              inform my Lord of the domag of Charlis Nowell to
meward, withow occacion gef on min part, as the berer herof
knoweth (?).3 I am and was my Lords man and homagier,
or the seyd Charlis knew my Lord, and will do my Lord
sech servis as I can, and that ye will tendre the god sped
of the mater of the letter direct to you from serteyn jentilmen
of thes shir, with whech jentilmen or odir to bere recor of
this thowt, I have bene dayly toward my Lord to compleyne
to his Lorship, but the continuall tydings of my seyd Lords
coming heder hath cawsid us to awayt ther opon. Beseching
yow, cosine, as my trust is in yow, that ye will help to kepe
the god rewll of thes shir, and my por honeste, and geff
credens to the berer herof, and be his god master if any
querel be mad to him. And what I may do for you, I am
and ever shall be redi to do it be the grace of God, hoo ——

    

     2 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, like the preceding, is from a rough
draft in Paston’s handwriting. It is clearly of the same date as the two last, or
perhaps a day or two later. There is nothing to show with certainty who was the
person addressed; but we should think it was probably Sir John Fastolf.

     3 The reading is very uncertain, being partly interlined in a very cramped hand,
partly corrected in the text.            

 

 

 

 

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