Lady Neville to Dame Isabel Plumpton

200 Lady Neville to Dame Isabel Plumpton,¹ 28 April [?1506]     (No. 135,
       p. 82)

My nown good Lady Plompton, I recomende me unto yow, & to your
gud husband, & right sory I am of his & your troubles. If I could
remedy it. But God is where he was, & his grace can & will pooruey
euery thing for ?e best, & help his seruants at their most needes. And
so I trust his Hynes he wildo you. My lord, my husband, recommends
<him> unto you both, and sends you yowr obblegasiyn, & has receyued
but 4li & a [. . .]^a <marke> of the 20 li & 2 li. The remnant my lord
giues to your good husband & you. And I pray almighty Jesu send you
both wel to do, as your own herts can desire. Written in hast [. . .]^b
with the hand of your mother [p. 83] the 28 day of April. Give credence
to this good bearer, for surely he loues you full well.

Edith Neuill

Endorsed (p. 82): To my Lady Plompton

     ^a ryall deleted.

     ^b by deleted.

     ¹ Dame Isabel Plumpton?s mother, although married to Thomas, Lord Darcy, retained
her first husband?s title (189, 201). She died 22 Aug. 1529. There is an account of her
funeral, from a transcript by Dugdale of a manuscript in the College of Arms, cited as
MS.I.3, in Stapleton, 268?9.

LETTER CLX.

To my Lady Plompton.

    Myn own good Lady Plumpton, I recomende me unto you and
to your gud husband, and right sory I am of his and your
troubles. If I could remedy it, but God is where he was, and his
grace can and will poorvey every thing for the best, and help his
servant at their most needes, and so I trust his hynes, he will do
you. My lord, my husband, recommends him unto you both, and
sends you yowr obblegasiyn; and has receyved but 4li and a
marke of the 20li and 2^li: the remnant my lord gives your good
husband and you. And I pay Almighty Jesu send you both wel
to do, as your own herts can desire. Written in hast with the
hand of your mother, the 28 day of April. Give credence to this
good bearer, for surely he love you full well.

                                                                             EDITH NEVILL.^a

    ^a Edith, wife of Ralph Lord Nevill, eldest son and heir apparent of Ralph, Earl of
Westmoreland, was daughter of Sir William Sands, of the Vine, com. Hants, kt. by
Edith, daughter of John Cheney, of Shirland, com. Derb. kt. Her husband died in
the lifetime of his father, before 12 July 13 Hen. VII. 1498, at which time his father
was likewise dead; for the death of his son, says Leland, so affected the Earl his father,
that he quickly followed him to the grave, dying at the seat of his son-in-law William Lord
Conyers, at Hornby in Richmondshire, in the church of which parish he lied buried.
(See Lel. Itin. vol. I. f. 80.) His widow, at the date of this writing, had become the
second wife of the ill-fated Lord Darcy of Templehurst, whom Henry VIII. in the first year
of his reign, probably by reason of this marriage, made steward and surveyor of all the
King's lands beyond Trent, during the minority of her son. (Orig. 1 Hen. VIII. rot. 62,
as cited by Dugdale.) That there was other issue of the marriage of Ralph Lord Nevill with
Edith Sands, beside Ralph, fourth Earl of Westmoreland, and an elder brother, buried
at Brancepeth, who died young, is evinced by this letter, though hitherto unnoticed by
genealogists. Dame Isabel Plumpton, their daughter, was married to Sir Robert
Plumption, of Plumpton, com. Ebor. kt. about 18 Sep. 21 Hen. VII. 1505, for by deed
of that date, the latter conveyed to Sir William Sands, kt. (afterwards the first Lord
Sands), Sir John Rainsford, kt. Sir John Norton, Kt. Edward Rainesford, esq. Tho-
mas Ratclife, gent. Thomas Pigot, esq. Richard Mauleverey, esq. and William Croft,
chaplian, all his lands and tenements lying in the vills and fields of Knarsbrough,
Matheloftus near Knarsbrough, Heuby, Elthwatehill near Harwode, Ripon, Acton,
Spopherd field, and Arkendon, in the county of York; which feoffees settled the same
premises the day but one following upon Sir Robert Plumpton, of Plumpton, kt. and
Isabella his wife, and either of them, the longer liver. (Chartul. No. 825-6-7.)