Margaret Paston to John Paston

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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON¹

     RIGHT worchepful hosbond, I recommand me to yow,
        and pray yow hertely at the reverence of God that
        ye be of good comfort, and trost veryly be the grase
of God that ye shall overcome your enemys and your trobelows
maters ryght welle, yf ye wolle be of good comfort, and not
take your maters to hevely that ye apeyr not your self, and
thynk veryly that ye be strong inowe for alle your enemys be
the grace of God. My moder is your good moder, and takyth
your maters ryght hertely. And zif ye thynnk that I may do
good in your maters yf I come up to you, after I have know-
lage of your entent it shall not be longe or I be with you be
the grace of God. And as for any othyr thyngs of sharge that
be in this contre, I hope I shall so ordeyn therfore that it shall
be safe. I have delyveryd your older sonne xx. mark that I
have received of Ric. Calle, and I kowd no more of hym syn
ye departyd. [And I send yow another bage of mony that
was in your square cofyr.¹] And I pray God hertely send us
good tydyngs of yow, and send the victory of your enemys.
Wretyn in hast on Saterday.     Your M. P.

     Item, I take your sonne of your faders oode mony, that
was in the lytyll trussyng cofyr x. mark, for my broder
Clement seythe that xx. mark was to lytyll for hym.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Margaret Paston, as will be seen by subsequent
letters, was in London with her husband in September 1465. This letter seems
to have been written not long before, when she first entertained the thought of going
thither.

     ¹ This sentence is struck out.

[JULY ?]

1465
[JULY ?]