Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston

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Title
Margaret Paston to Sir John Paston
Reference
Add. 27445, f. 40
Date
15 July 1470
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol V, item 752
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume V'

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MARGARET PASTON TO SIR JOHN PASTON1

 

I GRETE yow well and send yow Goddes blissyng and
     myne, letyng yow wete that your fermours have brought
     me a gret bille of reparacion, the which I send yow, with
lxs. in mony. I wold have had the residue of the mony of
them, and they said it was your agrement that this reparacion
shuld be do and alowed now at this payment, and so I coud
get no more mony of them. And they say that the parson2
was prevy to the reparacion. If ye were thus agreed and woll
have the reparacion examined ye may send word; but I wold
ye shuld purvey for your self as hastely as ye may, and come
home and take heed to your owne and to myn therto, other-
wise thanne ye have do bifore this, bothe for my profite and
for yours, or ellis I shall purvey for my self otherwise in hast,
so that I trust shall be more ease and avayle for me and non
ease nor profite to yow in tyme to come. I have litell help
nor comfort of non of yow yet, God geve me grase to have
heraftir. I wold ye shuld assay whedir it be more profitable
for yow to serve me thanne for to serve such masters as ye
have servid afore this, and that ye fynde mooste profitable
theraftir do in tyme to come. Ye have assayed the werld
resonabilly, ye shall knowe your self the bettir heraftir. I pray
God we may be in quyete and in rest with oure own from hens
forth. My power is nat so good as I wold it were for your
sake and other; and if it were, we shuld not longe be in
daungere. God brynge us oute of it; who have yow in His
kepynge. Wretyn with onhertes ease the Monday next aftir
Relike Sonday.                                                  By your Modir.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, although subscribed ‘By your mother,’
is neither signed nor addressed. It is, however, undoubtedly from Margaret Paston
to her son Sir John. It is written in Pampyng’s hand, and seems to be of the same
year as his own letter immediately preceding, which is dated on the same day.

     2 Sir Thomas Howes.

 

 

 

 

 

JULY 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1470
JULY 15