Pampyng to Sir John Paston

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PAMPYNG TO SIR JOHN PASTON¹

To my most reverent and worshipfull master, Sir
John Paston, Knyght.

RIGHT worshipfull sir and my good master, I recomaund
     me unto yow in my moost lowly wise. And please
     yow to wete I have with the mony ye sent me by
Judy rewardid my felaship as ye comaundid, wretyn in a bille
closid herin; and as for William Milsent I lete hym wete
hough ye undirstood he was disposed to goo hoom to his
fadere, wherof ye were pleasid and wold he shuld do so. He
said he intendid not to be with his fadir, ner it was not in
his power so to do; nevirthelesse he is home to his fadir and
ther abidith, but what he purposith to do I wote not. Davy
is at home and takyth heed to his lond. Homeworth is con-
tent and gooth to his labour. As for Stompis, I have be with
the Abbot of Sen Benetts for hym as ye comaundid. And he
recomaundith hym to yow, and said to me he was right glad
that ye wold send to hym for any servaunt ye had, saying
that if he coud do any thyng for yow, and for any servaunt
of yours, he wold do it feithfully. And also he said he wold
not fayle yow whill he levid in that he coud and myght do,
trustyng heraftir to have your help and favour in that he shall
have a do. And he told me and Stompis bothe, whanne so
evir he come he shuld be welcome, and that he wold do as
welle to hym as to fewe servauntes he had for yowr sake,
and that he wold kepe hym for yow. As for my self my
mastres saith she woll geve me mete and drynk for a season;
nevirthelesse I am warnyd to be ware, for it is told me that
ther is processe out upon the appele ayens me and other;
wherfore I beseche yow that that mater may be take heed to
as ye may, that we myght have knowlech of any processe
ther be, that we may be ware, for I thynk verely, and I or
any other come in ther hands this world, we shuld not escape
without shame at the leest.

     Item, as for the remnaunt of the mony biside this bille, ye
owe to the parson of Sent Edmondes Caster for iiij. combe
malt, and ij. combe whete, xs. whiche I promysid hym to pay;
and Rob. Newton lymebrenner for lyme, xiijs. iiijd., calling
upon me for it; and Robert Bery for shoyng, xs.; and if it
please yow that I make payment herof there shall remayne in
my handes xxiijs. iiijd. And what ye woll I do herin, I beseche
yow to send me word. Judy hath be with Thom Fastolff, he
can telle yow answer in that mater. As for the rewle at
Caster, they selle and make mony of such stuffe as they fond
there, and kepe other rewle that the contre is full sory and irk
of, and of my lordes men resortyng to hem, and riden about
the contry onknowen, and by berynges on hand¹ take large
bribys. I pray God be your spede and send yow some good
meane for your wele and ease to them that owe yow servise.
Wretyn at Norwich the Monday next aftir Relik Sonday,

                                     Your pore servaunt,

                                                                                   PAMPYNG.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Reference is made in this letter to the appeal which
the two widows were to sue against Sir John Paston. See Nos. 746, 747.

¹ See vol. ii. p. 110, Note 1.

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