Margaret Paston to John Paston

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Title
Margaret Paston to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 106
Date
29 November 1461
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 489
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON2

 

To my ryth worchepfull [hus]bond, John Paston, be thys
delyveryd in hast.

RYTH worchepfull husbond, I recomand me to yow.
     Plesyt yow to wet that I receyvyd yowyr lettyr that
     ye sent by the gold smyth, as thys day in the morn-
yng. As for Syr Thomas, he sent me word he schold to yow
ward as on Twysday last past; if he fayle ony thyng that ye
sent word he schold bryng with hym, it is not for no lak of
remembrans, for I sent to hym thryis or fowyr tymys ther
for, and that he schold hast hym ther in. As for Rychard
Call, he was not at home thys fortnyth. When he comyth
I schall do yowir erendys to hym; and as for all yowyr odyr
erendys I schall do hem as well as I can. I sent yow a byll
yestyrday by old Taverham, and a byll of Jone Gaynys mater,
the whyche bylle I pray yow may be delyveryd to Thomas
Playter. I spak to hym of the same mater or he yed hens,
and I pray yow, if it plese yow, to geve hym yowyr avyse
what ye thynk is best to do ther in. Sche seyth sche is ryth
sory, and if hyr old mastyr demene hym not well to yow sche
prayith yow that ye wole be hyr good mastyr, and I that sche
fare never the werse for hys defawtys. And also I pray yow
that ye wele be John Lysterys good mastyr in hys mater. He
spak to Playter ther of, and Playter seyd he hopyd to fynd a
mene aftyr that he had spook with yow, that schold ese hym
ther in. I thank yow hertly for yowyr lettyr, for it was to
me gret comfort to her fro yow. God knowyth my modyr
and I thowt ryth longe tyll we herd tydyngys fro yow. And
the blyssyd Trinite have yow in Hys kepyng. Wretyn in hast
on Seynt Edmundys Day the Kyng.

                                                                           By yowyr M. P.

 

     The pepyll was nevyr bettyr dysposyd to yow than they be
at this owyr. The byll that Howard hathe mad a yens yow
and odyr hathe set the pepyll in thys contre a rore. God yeve
grace it be no werse than it is yet.

 

     2 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter seems to have been written in 1461, the
year of John Paston’s great dispute with Howard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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