Lumen Haryson to [Sir John Paston]
- Medieval Family Life
- Title
- Lumen Haryson to [Sir John Paston]
- Reference
- Add. 27446, f. 81
- Date
- ?about 1490
- Library / Archive
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- The British Library
- Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
- Gairdner, Vol VI, item 1041; Fenn, Vol V, Henry VII item 19
- Transcript from John Fenn, 'Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III…. Volume V' (1st transcript)
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LETTER XIX.
ONER Abyll and well be louyd knythe I comend me on to
zour mastrchepe and to my lady zowyr wyffe J thanke
zowyr mastyrchepe yt ze haue don for me J sen my lady a
lytyll pes of renysch wyne of ye best of X gallons and halfe
a hondryd orrygys J schall send hyr mor A geyns pencost
yt sche may haue fresche and renold haue not gyue me ye
to nobyls and xl jd yt ze told me of for ye wyne and my
sruys be nygt and be day to zowr Comawndment zyff zowyr
mastyrchep wyll ony thyng wyth me I xall be at cley No
mor than God he wyth zow Wrytyn up on ye tuysday
aftyr Palme sonday.LUMEN HARYSON
At zowyr comawndment.
8¾ by 5½.
This is a complimentary note, with a present of wine and oranges for Lady
Paston, in acknowledgment for some services performed by Sir John to the
writer.I have given it as a specimen of a grateful heart in the person obliged.
Autograph, Pl. xxxi. No. 21. - Transcript from John Fenn, 'Original Letters, written during the reigns of Henry VI., Edward IV., and Richard III…. Volume V' (2nd transcript)
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LETTER XIX.
HONOURABLE and well-beloved Knight, I commend me
unto your Mastership, and to my Lady your wife; I thank
your Mastership [for] that ye have done for me; I send my
Lady a little piece of Rhenish wine of the best, of ten gal-
lons, and half an hundred oranges; I shall send her more
against Pentecost [Whitsontide], that she may have fresh;
and Renold has not given me the two nobles and forty-one
pence, that ye told me of, for the wine; and my service by
night and by day to your commandment, if your Mastership
will any thing with me, I shall be at Cley.No more than God be with you. Written upon the
Tuesday after Palm Sunday.LUMEN HARYSON,
at your commandment.Tuesday, 6th April,
about 1490. 5 H. vii.This is a complimentary note, with a present of wine and oranges for Lady
Paston, in acknowledgment for some services performed by Sir John to the
writer.I have given it as a specimen of a grateful heart in the person obliged.
Autograph, Pl. xxxi. No. 21. - Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'
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1041
LUMEN HARYSON TO [SIR JOHN PASTON]3
ONERABYLL and well be lovyd knythe, I commend
me on to zour masterchepe and to my lady zowyr
wyffe. I thanke zowyr mastyrchepe that ze have
don for me. I sen my lady a lytyll pes of Renysch wyne of
the best, of x. gallons, and halfe a hondyrd orrygys. I schall
send hyr mor a geyns Pencost that sche may have fresche.
And Renold have not gyve me the to nobyls and xljd., that ze
told me off for the wyne. And my servys be nyzt and be day
to zowr commawndment. Zyff zowyr mastyrchep wyll ony
thyng wyth me, I xall be at Cley. No more than God be
wyth zow.Wrytyn up on the Tuysday aftyr Palme Sonday.
LUMEN HARYSON.
At zowyr comawndment.
3 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter was printed in volume v. of the original
edition, p. 380. I do not know Sir John Fenn’s reason for considering it to have
been written ‘about 1490,’ but as I see nothing to the contrary, I keep it under his
date. The writer was probably one of the German merchants of the Hanse, and the
name with which he signs the letter seems to have been a little Anglicised. It is
endorsed by Sir John, ‘Lumen Henrikson.’About
1490(?)