Memoranda

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Title
Memoranda
Reference
Add. 27446, f. 29
Date
August 1479
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol VI, item 954
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'

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MEMORANDA3

 

     MEMORANDUM, uppon the presse at the ferther
         ende is a box with ij. or iij. bondellis with evydence
         off Oxenhed and Hawteyn.

     Memorandum, that ther is rollis tytelyd uppon them
’Contra Willelmum Pas[ton],’ and they be owther uppon the
presse, or on the cowntre, or on the shelffe by the cowntre,
or ellys in the cowntre on ...................... that syde next the
shelffe.

     To enquire, off myn, oncle William, off Jane, off my
grauntd[ames] wylle, and whoo wrot itt, and whether she
be buried or noo, and who were present at hyr wylle makyng,
and iff she spoke ...................... owte off her londes.

     Inquire—

             Off the Kynge,

             The Chaunceler,

             Milorde Chamberleyn,

             Sir Thomas Mongomere,

             Mi Lorde Cardynall,

             Master Bele, and hys clerke, ffor my faderes wille.

     

     3 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] These memoranda are in the handwriting of
Sir John Paston. From the inquiry whether Agnes Paston was yet buried the date
is evidently in August 1479.

 

 

 

 

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1479
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