John Wyke to Sir John Paston

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Title
John Wyke to Sir John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 150
Date
30 July 1465
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 598
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

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JOHN WYKE TO SIR JOHN PASTON1

 

To my ryght wyrshypfull mayster, Sir John Paston, be
thys letter delyveryd.

      PLEASE it your maistershyp to wyte, uppon Satourday
          last, Mayster Wyll. Paston and I werre with my Lord
          the Byshoppe of York, and enformyd hys Lordshyp of
the entre that was made at Haylesdon in the Duk of Suffolks
name. And my Lord asked of ous whether the C. marc wer
payd or not, and we awnswered that it was payd many day a
goon. And than he sayd, ‘I dar swer uppon a boke that the
Duchesse of Suffolk hath no knowlych therof.’ And so he
comaundyd ous to a wayte uppon hym, for he wold be at
London a yen uppon Tewysday next; and soo we have non
awnswer as yet.

     Item, I have spoken with Mayster Robert Kent for your
maters, and byddeth that ye shold not dowte therof; and as
for the neglygens of your wytnes, Mayster Robert sayth it ys
but a jape, and shall be no hurt. And the copys therof wer
deliveryd or than I cam horn from Parker ys hands, and that
causyd me to spake no word to hym therof.

     Item, the Lord Scales sayd at a soper wher as he soped
within thys iiij. nyztys that he wold ryde home and enter in
ij. fayre maners in hys contray, and desyred Stanhope that
shall wed Gernyngham ys suster to ryde with hym. I suppose
it be to entre in to Caster and Cotton; wherfor maketh gode
wache be tyme, for it ys mery to plede in possession, &c.

     Item, I have send you an unce of myvers(?) by the beror
of thys letter, and thay cost me iiijs. iiijd.

     Item, your gesseren1 and gaunteletts shall be send hom by
the next caryours, for ther be non hyre yete, &c. No more
to you at thys tyme. The Holy Trynyte have you in Hys
kypyng. Wryten at London uppon Tewysday next after
Seynt Anne.

                                       By youre servaunt,    JOHN WYKE.

 

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter is sufficiently apparent
from the reference in the beginning to ‘the entry made at Hellesden in the Duke of
Suffolk’s name.’

 

     1 A sleeveless coat of mail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1465
JULY 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1465
JULY 30