John Paston to Sir John Paston

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JOHN PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON³

To Sir John Paston, Knyght, at the George,
by Powlys Wharf, in London.

      AFTYR all dwtes of recomendacyon, lyeketh yow to
          wete, that with in thys owyr past, I receyd your
          letter wretyn the xxvij. day of Januar, by whyche
I undyrstand that Scarlet wold have an end with me; but
lesse then xls. is to lytyll, for iff I wold do the uttermost to
hym, I shold recover by the statwte, I trow xlli. or more, but
lesse then xxxiijs. iiijd. I wyll in no wyse; and ye may sey
that ye of your owne hed wyll geve hym the ode nobyll of
xls., and if ye have the v. noblys I prey yow let Parker of
Flett stret have therof xxxs. and lete Pytte and Rychard and
Edward drynk the xld. As for your gownys, they shalbe sent
yow in as hasty wyse as is possybyll. Thys must be consayll:
—It is promysyd my lady by my Lord Chamberleyn that the
diem clausit extremum for my lord shall not be delyverd tyll
she be of power to labore hyr sylff her most avauntage in that
mater, wherfor ye ned not to dele ov r largely with the-
xchetoures. Also consayll:—Robard Brandon and Colevyle
have by meanys enformyd my lady that ye wold have gotyn
Caster fro hyr by stronge hand, now thys frost whyll the
mote is frosyn, in so myche that she was porposed to have
sent thedyr R. Brandon and other to have kept the place tyll
syche tyme as she made axe me the questyon whedyr ye
entendet that wey or not, and I avysed hyr that she shold
rather sofyr R. Brandon and hys retenew to lye in Norwyche
of hys owne cost then to lye at the taverne at Yermouthe on
hyr cost, for I lete hyr have knowlage that ye never entendyd
non entre in to that place, but by hyr assent and knowlage
I wast well. Syr, for Godes sake, in as hasty wyse as is possy-
byll, send me woord how ye feele my Lord Chamberleyn and
Bowen dysposed to me wardes, for I shall never be in hertes
ease tyll I undyrstand ther tweys dysposysyon. Also, I prey
yow, let Symond Dame have knowlage as soone as ye have red
thys lettyr that I wold in eny wyse that he swe forthe the
axions a yenst Darby and other for Byskley, notwithstandyng
the bylle that I sent hym to the contrary by Edmund Jeney,
for Darby and I are brokyn of, of our entrete whyche was
apoyntyd at Thettford. God sped yow in thes maters, and in
all other. Ye send me woord of a good maryage for my
syster Anne. I prey yow aspye some old thryffty draff wyff
in London for me. Thomas Brampton at the Blak Fryers in
London wyth syche other as he and I apoyntyd wyll helpe
yow to aspye on for me on ther part. I prey yow that I
may be recomandyd to hym, and prey hym that he wyll, in as
hasty wyse as he can, comforte me with on letter fro hym, and
fro the other persone that he and I comond of, and I prey
yow as ye se hym at the parvyse¹ and ellys where, calle on
hym for the same letter and telle hym that ye most nedys have
on to me, and when ye have it breke it and ye lyst or ye send
it me.

Endorsed—iij. Februarij, anno xv^o.

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     ¹ The church porch. In London it commonly meant the portico of St. Paul’s
Cathedral, which is doubtless the place here intended.

     ¹ Ellenor, only daughter of William Bourchier, Earl of Ewe, in Normandy, and
widow of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.—F.

     ² Margaret, daughter of Richard Nevile, Earl of Salisbury, and wife of John de
Vere, Earl of Oxford, now a prisoner in the Castle of Hammes, in Picardy; or it
may refer to Elizabeth, widow of the late Earl of Oxford, and daughter and heir of
Sir John Howard, Knight.—F.

     ³ [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

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