Margaret Paston to John Paston

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Title
Margaret Paston to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27445, f. 63
Date
23 November 1472
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol V, item 816
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume V'

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MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON1

 

To John Paston, Esquyer, be this delivered.

 

IGRETE you wele, letyng you wete that Doctor Aleyns
     wyffe hath be with me and desired me to write to you to
     desire you to be good mayster to her husband and to her
in her materes, for she tellith me that her trost is full in you,
and if she myght have walked she shuld have come to have
spoke with you or than ye departed; therfor, I pray you do
your devoir for her, for I conceyve that she feyneth not, not-
withstandyng that I had her in suspecion as I have wretyn to
you before, be cause that she came not, but I conceyve now
the trought and that sikenesse caused thatt she absent her.
Therfore I pray you help her, for, so God help me, I have
right gret pete on her, and it is right grete almes to help her,
and I trow she wull put her most trost and sewe specialle to
you. Also I wuld ye shold desire your brother to be good
mayster on to her, for I suppose be that tyme ye have herd
her excuse in such materes as he shuld be displeased with her
husband, ye shall hold you pleased. God kepe you and send
you Hes blyssyng, with myn. Wretyn on Sent Clementes
Day at nyght, in hast,

                                                                    Be your Moder.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] It is evident that this letter was written in the same
year as No. 814.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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