Letters of Privy Seal to Thomas Stonor

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Title
Letters of Privy Seal to Thomas Stonor
Reference
SC 1/46/42
Date
3 April 1470
Library / Archive
  • The National Archives, UK
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters', item 112; Kingsford, Vol I, item 112
Transcript from Christine Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483'

                        112. LETTERS OF PRIVY SEAL TO THOMAS

                                                STONOR

 

                                              3 APRIL, 1470

 

    From A.C., xlvi, 42. Printed in Archaeologia, xvi, 1-2.
By the King.

            Edw.

      Trusty and welebeloved We grete you wele; Letting you wit þat our
Traitours and Rebelles þe Due of Clarence and Therl of Warrewik,
which daily labour þe weyes moyens at þeir power of our final destruct-
cion, and þe subversion of this owre Realme and þe comon wele of þe
same, been fledde westwardes: Whome we wol folowe and pursue with
our Ooste with al diligence possible, and let and represse þeir fals and
traiteroux purpose and entent with Goddes grace. Wherfore we wol
and straitely charge you þat immediatly after þe sight of þies owre
lettres ye arredie you, with such a fellasship on horssebak in defensible
arraye as ye goodly can make, to come unto us wheresoever ye shal
undrestande þat we þen shalbee, to aide and assiste us to thentent
aforesaid, without failling as ye love and tendre the wele of us and of
owre said Realme, and uppon the feith and liegeaunce that ye owe unto
us. Yoven undre owre Signet at owre Citie of Coventre, þe iijde day of
Aprill.

   

    To our trusty and welebeloved Thomas Stoner of Stoner.
Transcript from Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 'The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483, Volume I'

112. LETTERS OF PRIVY SEAL TO THOMAS
STONOR

 

3 APRIL, 1470

 

     From A.C., xlvi, 42. Printed in Archaelogia, xvi, 1-2.

 

     By the King.

                 Edw.

     Trusty and welebeloved We grete you wele; Letting you wit þat our
Traitours and Rebelles þe Duc of Clarence and Therl of Warrewik,
which daily labour þe weyes moyens at þeir power of our final destruc-
cion, and þe subversion of this owre Realme and þe comon wele of þe
same, been fledde westwardes: Whome we wol folowe and pursue with
our Ooste with al diligence possible, and let and represse þeir fals and
traiteroux purpose and entent with Goddes grace. Wherfore we wol
and straitely charge you þat immediatly after þe sight of þies owre
lettres ye arredie you, with such a fellasship on horssebak in defensible
arraye as ye goodly can make, to come unto us wheresoever ye shal
undrestande þat we þen shalbee, to aide and assiste us to thentent
aforesaid, without failling as ye love and tendre the wele of us and of
owre said Realme, and uppon the feith and liegeaunce that ye owe unto
us. Yoven undre owre Signet at owre Citie of Coventre, þe iijde day of
Aprill.

 

     To our trusty and welebeloved Thomas Stoner of Stoner.