John Paston to James Gloys

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JOHN PASTON TO JAMES GLOYS²

To Sir James Gloys.

   THER be dyvers thynges in your letter sent to me; one
     that a slaw[n]derus noyse shuld renne ageyns Yel-
     verton, Alygton and me, to brynge us owte of the
conceytes of the puple be Heydon and his dyscyplis, of a bill
that shuld have do put uppe in to the Parlement ageyns my
Lord of Norwich and odir. I lete yow wete this is the furst
day that I herd of any seche, but I wold wete the namys of
hem that utter this langage and the mater of the bill. As for
my Lord of Norwych, I suppose ye know I have not usid to
meddel with Lordes maters meche forther than me nedith;
and as for Sir Thomas Todynham, he gaff me no cawse of late

tyme to labor ageyns hym, and also of seche mater I know
non deffaut in hym. And as for Heydon, when I putte a bill
ageyns hym I suppose he shall no cause have, ne his discyplis
nother, to avante of so short a remedy ther of, as ye wrygth
they sey now. As for that ye desyr that I shuld send yow
word what I shuld sey in this mater, I pray yow in this and
all other lyke, ask the seyeres if thei will abyd be ther langage,
and as for me, sey I prupose me to take no mater uppon me
butt that I woll abyde by; and in lek wys for Yelverton and
Aligton. And that ye send me the namys of them that ye
wryte that herd this langage seyd shrewedly, and what they
seyd; and that ye remembre what men of substance wer ther
that herde itt; for if this can be dreve to Heydon or his
dissyplis, as ye wryte, it wer a gode preve that they fere to be
appelyd of seche materes. And I thank yow for your godwill.
Wrete att Norwych, on Seynt James day.

     ² [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, which is printed from a draft in John
Paston’s hand, was written in answer to the preceding, to which the reader is referred
for the evidence of its date.

1455
JULY 25