Lord Fitzwalter to Sir John Paston

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Title
Lord Fitzwalter to Sir John Paston
Reference
Add. 27446, f. 72
Date
1488-1494
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol VI, item 1025
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'

1025

 

LORD FITZWALTER TO SIR JOHN PASTON1

 

To my right wourschippfull and hertely welbeloved cousyn,
Sir John Paston, Knyght, this be delyvered.

 

      RIGHT wourschippfull cousyn, in as hertely wyse as I
           cane, I recommaund me to you. And forasmoche
           as ther was appoynted a day that ye and my cousyn
Heydon, Sir Robert Brandon, the Kynges Attorney, and other
of the worschippfull of this schyr, should have mett here before
this tyme of Estren, it was so longe or the Kynges Attorney
was commen in to the contre, and the tyme so shorte, that it
hathe bene thowght there myght be non convenable tyme affor
this. Wherfor they be agreed that they and ye should mete
here on Thursday next commyng. Prayinge you, therfor,
that ye wolbe here at that tyme, trustynge to Godes mercy
that a right good wey shalbe hadde betyx yow that all grugges
and rancores shalbe layd a parte. And therfor, cousyn, I
praye yow that ye wol not fayle for to be here, and what
I canne do for yow, ye shall fynde it redy with Godes grace,
Who have yow in His most blessed and assured kepyng.

     Wreten on Good Fryday last passed.

                                             Zowir lofyng cosyn,

                                                                     J. SIR FITZ WAUTER.

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter, as of the last, must be
between the years 1488 and 1494.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1488-
94