John Taylor to Sir Robert Plumpton

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John Taylor to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 172, p. 111
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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 105; Kirby, item 131
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

                     

131 John Taylor to Sir Robert Plumpton, [20 March 1499]      (No. 172, p.
     111)

 

Right honorable Sir, I humbly recomend me vnto [your] mastership.
Please yt your mastership, I wold be right glad þat ye wold haue a
commynyng with my master in such matters as in parte I haue shewed
you, Sir. Sir, I have so spoken to my master, if ye please to be at
Poumfrett on Munday, ther & then my master will meet you, [p. 112]
and ther your mastership to know in thosse ye wilbe content; and or
els your mastership will pardon me þe reuersion of Kirkbey,1 & <I>
wyll abyde with my master Sir John Hastynygs. Sir, I thinke, if yt
please your mastership, I haue desarveda a dobellett in laboring him to
showe your mastership a pleasure.b No more at this tyme, but Jhesu
haue you in his protecion. Wrytten at Watterton on Wedensday after
St Edward Day.c

By your servant     John Tayler

Endorsed (p. III): To my right worshipfull master Sir Robt Plompton kt

 

     a MS resarved.

     b Marginal note: John Tailoir.

     c Appended: Copied the 29 of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 Kirkby Wharfe, near Tadcaster, part of the Babthorpe inheritance, App. I, 5.

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 CV.

 

To my right worshipfull Master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.

 

    Right honorable Sir, I humbly recomend me unto your master-
ship. Please yt your mastership, I wold be right glad that ye
wold have a comynyng with my master in such matters as in
parte I have shewed you, Sir. Sir, I have so spoken to my mas-
ter. if ye please to be at Poumfrett on Munday, ther and then my
master will meet you, and ther your mastership to know in
those ye wilbe content; and or els your mastership will par-
don me the reversion of Kirkbe,a and I wyll abyde with my
master, Sir John Hastyngs.b Sir, I thinke, if yt please your mas-
tership, I have desarved a dobellett in laboring him to showe your
mastership pleasure. No more to you at this tyme, but Jesu have
you in his proteccion. Wrytten at Watterton, on Wedensday
after St. Edward day.

                            By your servant,
    ( 20 Mar. 1499.)                    JOHN TAYLOR.

 

    a Kirkby-Wharfe, a parish town in the liberties of St. Peter and of Pontefract. Sir Ralph
Babthorp, father of Dame Isabel Hastings, died seised inter alia of two messuages and
forty acres of land in Kirkby, held of the King as of his duchy of Lancaster. ( Esc.
5 Hen. VII.) With Waterton it was at this date held in dower by Margaret, widow of
Sir Ralph Babthorp.

    b Sir John Hastings, kt. was deceased before 16 Nov. 20 Hen VII. 1504, when by
their deed of that date William Plompton, esq. and Isabel his wife bestowed the office
of bailiff of their manor of Savacum, com. Hert. on Edward Oglethorp. (Chartul. No.
823.)