Mrs Ann Pole to Mrs Isabel Plumpton

252 Mrs Ann Pole¹ to Mrs Isabel Plumpton,² 6 March [1551/2] (No. 7,
         p. 186)

Right worshipfull sister,^a after most harty and louing commendations,
with like desire of your good health and the long continuance of the
same, this shal bee to giue you most harty thanks for al your gentlenes
unto mee shewid, and in especially for your goodness shewid unto John
Pool my son: he hath you most hartily commended, as your poor
kinsman and bedesman, and he desires you and I both to take no
displeasure with him for his long tarrijng here, for as yet he is at no
point for his childs part of my husbands goods. Therfore I desire you,
as my trust is, that you wil bee so good aunt unto him. Also, I desir to
haue me commended to my sister Clare and to my son Dennis [p. 187]
sending him Gods blessing and mine,^b and to al other my kin and
frends. Also my son Richard and John commends them unto [. . .]^c
<you> and their Aunt Clare, and to Master Dennis, and to al other
their good frends. And so Jhesu preserue you. From Rodburne, the 6
of March,

                         By your sister to her power        Ann Poole^d

Endorsed (p. 186): To her worshipful sister Mistress Plompton at Plompton
Hall deliuer these

     ^a Marginal note: 7 letter by Mrs Ann Poole.

     ^b Marginal note: 7 letter.

     ^c you deleted.

     ^d Marginal note. Copied the 5 day of June 1626, Munday.

     ¹ Daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton and widow of German de la Pole (d. Jan. 1551/2),
138n.

     ² Isabel Plumpton died 30 July 1552, Test. Ebor., vi, 260–2; Introd., p. 17, App. II, 86,
88.

LETTER XXXII.

       To her woshipfull sister Mistres Plompton, at Plompton Hall,
                                             deliver these.

    Right Worshipful sister, after most harty and loving commenda-
tions, with like desire of your good health and the long continu-
ance of the same ; this shall bee to give you most harty thanks for
al your gentlnes unto mee shewid, and in especially for your good-
nes shewid unto John Pool my son : he hath you most hartily
commended, as your poor kinsman and bedesman, and he desires
you, and I both, to take no displeasur with him for his long tar-
riing here, for as yet he is at no point for his childs part of my
husbands goods. Therfore, I desire you, as my trust is, that you will
bee so good Aunt unto him. Also I desir to have me commended
to my sister Clare and to my son Dennis, sending him Gods bless-
ing and mine, and to al other my kin and frends. Also my son
Richard and John commends them unto you and their aunt Clare,
and to Master Dennis, and to al other their good frends. And so
Jhesu preserve you. From Rodburn the 6 of March.

                                             By your sister to her power

(6 March 1551-2.)                                                      ANN POOLE.^a

    ^a German Pole, the husband of Ann Pole, the writer of this letter, died 4 Jan.
5 Edw. VI. 1551-2, when German Pole was found to be his cousin and heir, son of
Francis, son and heir of the said German, and of the age of seven years. (Esc. 2 July,
6 Edw. VI. No. 21.) Mrs. Isabel Plumpton, to whom these letters are addressed, died
on the 10th of June in this same year, leaving her second son, Dennis, her only sur-
viving child, to whom Mrs. Ann Pole, his aunt, had stood godmother ; on which account
she here calls him her son, and sends him God's blessing.