Ralph Ryther to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Ralph Ryther to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 76, p. 43
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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 79; Kirby, item 97
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

97 Ralph Ryther,1 to Sir Robert Plumpton [c.1490 × 1491]     (No. 76, p. 43)

 

Right worshipfull cousin, I comennd me vnto you, desiring to here of
your well fare, praying you to giue me ij cople of conyesa to stocking
of a little ground þat I make at Ryther, and I shall doe you as great a
pleasure. I pray you þat I may be recommend to my lady your wyfe.
We haue rest, & past this summer I wyll pray you to come and kill a
bucke with me. I pray you, cousin, þat þe brynger herof, my servant,
may haue the conyes; & Jhesu keepe you. At Ryther, this Fryday.

By your cousin              Ralfe Rytherb

Endorsed: To my cousin Robert Plompton kt be these byll

 

     a Marginal note: 2 cuple of conies.

     b Appended: Copied the 15 day of March 1612.

 

     1 Younger son of Sir Wm. Ryther, of Ryther, near Harewood (d.1476). Succeeded to
the family estate after the deaths of two elder brothers without issue. Knighted by the
time he was sheriff, 1503. Will pr. 26 April 1520, Test.Ebor., v, 125; 187.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER LXXIX.

 

To my cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Knyght, be these byll.

 

    Right worshipfull Cousin, I recomend me unto you, desiring to
here of your wellfare; praying you to ggive me ij cople of conyes
to stocking of a litle ground that I make at Ryther, and I shall doe
you as great a pleassure. I pray you that I may be recommend to
my lady your wyfe. We have rest; and past this summer, I wyll
pray you to come and kill a bucke with me. I pray you, Cousin,
that the cringer hereof, my servant, may have the conyes, and Jesu
keepe you. At Rither, a this fryday.
                                                                          By your Cousin,
        (1490?1520.)                                                RALFE RYTHER. b

 

    a "We have rest," that is to say, no bucks were to be killed out of the stock in the
park at Ryther in that year.

    b Ralph Ryther of Ryther, com. esq. ?tatis 40, 6 Hen VII. 1490, when he
succeeded to the family estates. He died 2 April 1520, being a knight.