Margaret Paston to John Paston the Younger

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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON
THE YOUNGER¹

To John Paston the younger.

I GRETE you wele, letyng you wete that as for² your
     sustrys³ beyng with my Lady, if your fader wull aggrey
     therto I hold me right wele pleasyd; for I wuld be right
clad that she shuld do her servyse be for any other, if she cowde
do that shuld pleas my ladyes good grace. Wherfor I wuld
that ye shuld speke to your fader therof and lete hym wete that
I am pleasid that she shuld be ther if he wuld, for I wuld be
right glad and she myght be preferrid by mariage or be servyce,
so that it myght be to her wurchep and profight in dischargyng
of her frendis; and I pray you do your parte therin for your
owyn wurchep and herys. And assone as ye may with ought
daunger, purvey that I may have ageyn the vj. marks that ye
wote of, for I wuld not that your fader wust it. Item, if ye
pas London, send me ageyn my chene and the litill chene that
I lent you be for, be sum trusty person; and if ye wull have
my good wille, eschewe such thyngis as I spake to you of last
in owr parisch chirch. I pray God make you as good a man
as ever was any of your kynne, and Goddis blissyng mote ye
have and myn, so that ye do wele, &c. Wretyn the Sonday
next after your departyng.

     And I pray you, send me sum tydyngis as sone as ye may
after that ye be comyn to London, how your fader spedyth and
your brother in here materes.

                                                                                  Be your moder.

     ¹ [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 208.] This letter was written at a time when John Paston,
the writer’s husband, and one of his sons, was in London, while the other, to whom
this letter is addressed, was going thither. The date must therefore be before May
1466, but what particular year or month it is impossible to say.

     ² ‘affor,’ MS.

     ³ This may be either Anne or Margery Paston. Who ‘my lady’ was does not
appear.

Before
1466

Before
1466

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Before A.D. 1466

MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON THE YOUNGER

[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 208]

     This letter is No. 1071 in the Inventory at the end of Appendix to
Vol. III. It was written at a time when John Paston, the writer’s husband,
and one of his sons, was in London, while the other, to whom this letter is
addressed, was going thither. The date must therefore be before May
1466, but what particular year or month it is impossible to say.

To John Paston the younger.

I GRETE you wele, letyng you wete that
     as for¹ your sustrys² beyng with my Lady, if
     your fader wull aggrey therto I hold me
     right wele pleasyd; for I wuld be right
clad that she shuld do her servyse be for any other,
if she cowde do that shuld pleas my ladyes good
grace. Wherfor I wuld that ye shuld speke to your
fader therof and lete hym wete that I am pleasid that
she shuld be ther if he wuld, for I wuld be right glad
and she myght be preferrid by mariage or be servyce,
so that it myght be to her wurchep and profight in dis-
chargyng of her frendis; and I pray you do your parte
therin for your owyn wurchep and herys. And assone
as ye may with ought daunger, purvey that I may have
ageyn the vj. marks that ye wote of, for I wuld not that
your fader wust it. Item, if ye pas London, send me
ageyn my chene and the litill chene that I lent you
be for, be sum trusty person; and if ye wull have my
good wille, eschewe such thyngis as I spake to you of
last in owr parisch chirch. I pray God make you
as good a man as ever was any of your kynne, and
Goddis blissyng mote ye have and myn, so that ye
do wele, &c. Wretyn the Sonday next after your
departyng.

     And I pray you, send me sum tydyngis as sone as
ye may after that ye be comyn to London, how your
fader spedyth and your brother in here materes.

                                                                    Be your moder.

     ¹ ‘affor,’ MS.

     ² This may be either Anne or Margery Paston. Who ‘my lady’ was
does not appear.