Queen Elizabeth Woodville to Sir William Stonor

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Title
Queen Elizabeth Woodville to Sir William Stonor
Reference
SC 1/46/151
Date
August [1482]
Library / Archive
  • The National Archives, UK
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters', item 319; Kingsford, Vol II, item 319
Transcript from Christine Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483'

319. QUEEN ELIZABETH WOODVILLE TO
SIR WILLIAM STONOR

 

AUGUST [1482]

 

    Comparison with the next letter, and with No. 313, which show that Stonor
was out of favour with the Queen, suggests that 1482 is a likely year. This
letter can hardly belong to the same time as No. 293. The signature is
autograph. From A.C., xlvi, 151.

 

By the Quene.

 

    Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wel: and where as we under-
stand by report made unto us at this tyme that ye have taken upon
yow now of late to make maistries withynne our fforest and Chace of
Barnewod and Exsille,68 and Þat in contempt of us uncourteisly to hunt
and slee our deer withynne Þe same to our grete mervaille and displeasir,
we wol ye wite Þat we entend to sew suche remedy therynne as shall
accorde with my lordes laws. And whereas we ferÞermore understand
Þat ye purpose under colour of my lordes Commyssion in Þat behalf
graunted unto you, as ye sey, hastly to take Þe view and reule of our
game of dere withyn our said fforest and Chace, we wol Þat ye shew
unto us or our Counsell your said Comission, if any suche ye have.
And in Þe mean season Þat ye spare of huntyng withynne our said fforest
or Chace, as ye wol answere at your perill. Yoven under our signet at
our Maner of Grenewiche the first day of August.

                                                                             Elysabeth.

 

     To our trusty and welbeloved Sir William Stonor, knyght.
Transcript from Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 'The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483, Volume II'

 

319. QUEEN ELIZABETH WOODVILLE TO
SIR WILLIAM STONOR

 

1 AUGUST [1482]

 

     Comparison with the next letter, and with No. 313, which show that Stonor
was out of favour with the Queen, suggests that 1482 is a likely year. This
letter can hardly belong to the same time as No. 293. The signature is
autograph. From A.C., xlvi, 151.

 

By the Quene.

 

     Trusty and welbeloved, we grete you wel: and where as we under-
stand by report made unto us at this tyme that ye have taken upon
yow now of late to make maistries withynne our fforest and Chace of
Barnewod and Exsille, and þat in contempt of us uncourteisly to hunt
and slee our deer withynne þe same to our grete mervaille and displeasir,
we wol ye wite þat we entend to sew suche remedy therynne as shall
accorde with my lordes laws. And whereas we ferþermore understand
þat ye purpose under colour of my lordes Commyssion in þat behalf
graunted unto you, as ye sey, hastly to take þe view and reule of our
game of dere withyn our said fforest and Chace, we wol þat ye shew
unto us or our Counsell your said Comission, if any suche ye have.
And in þe mean season þat ye spare of huntyng withynne our said fforest
or Chace, as ye wol answere at your perill. Yoven under our signet at
our Maner of Grenewiche the first day of August.

                                                                                                     Elysabeth.

 

     To our trusty and welbeloved Sir William Stonor, knyght.