Margaret Paston to John Paston

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Title
Margaret Paston to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27445, f. 9
Date
27 September 1465
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 611
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

611

 

MARGARET PASTON TO JOHN PASTON2

 

To my ryght worschipfull husbond, John Paston, in haste.

      ITEM, it was tolde me thys day that Master John Salatt
          hathe made a serge in the regestre this monethe aftre the
          wylles and testements of suche as hought the maners of
Heylesdon and Drayton this c. yere, and be that hathe they
founde suche evidence as schal be gret strenghthyng to the
Duks tittle, as it is seide. I undrestonde verely that Mastre
John Salet is all on that partye, and no thyng with you.

     Item, as for the bill that ye sent to Sir Thomas Howys
touchyng on Edmond Carvyll and on Fraunces, I wote ner
whether he had hem or nought, for he is not spoken with yett
in the maters. As wee spede owr materys, we chall sende yow
answers of them as hastely as we maye. At the reverense or
God, spede ye yowr materys that ye maye come owte of that
loggyng that ye ar in as hastely as ye maye, for I have non
fansey with some of the felechipp. I tolde yow, as me thowth,
I praye yow be ware, &c.

     I praye yow yf it plese yow that I may be recommaundyd
to my Lorde Percy, and to myn mastres, and to my Lorde
Abott. And I pray God bryng yow and them owt of troble,
and send yow good spede in alle yowr materys. Wretyn in
hast, the Fryday next afor Michellmes.

                                              Be yowr,                                 M. P.

 

     Yf it plese yow to send aney thyng by the berer herof, he
is trusty inough.

 

 

     2 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is apostyled in the handwriting of John
Paston, and numbered ‘V’ at the head. As it refers to Paston’s dispute with the
Duke of Suffolk about the manors of Hellesden and Drayton, it must belong to the
year 1465. The reader will also perceive that it contains an allusion to John Paston’s
imprisonment in the Fleet, and to my Lord Percy, who is mentioned in Letter 609,
and who must have been a fellow-prisoner of Paston’s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

To get a
copy [of]
that he
hath
. . hed;
notwith-
standyng
[I] wote
well thei
have found
non such
evidens as
ye wene.

 

 

 

 

 

1465
SEPT. 27