Richard Banke to Sir William Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 20, p. 165

Date

24 March, year unknown

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir William Plompton', item 23; Kirby, item 25

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

25 Richard Banke to Sir William Plumpton, 24 March (No. 20, p. 165)

Right reverent and my full worshipfull maister,^a I recomend me vnto
[you] in the hertelyest wise I kan. And for asmuch as a poore widow
called Ellen Helme is my son in law William Nesfeildes¹ tenant, is
greeueously vexed in her sons; whearfore I pray you hartely to be their
tender and especiall maister, as I and my said son may haue cause to
doe you service, the which we shalbe ready to doe with Gods grace,
who haue you in his blessed keeping. Written att Newton on St
Cudberts Day^b

By your awne Rich. Banks²

Endorsed: To my reverent & worshipfull maister Sir William Plompton
knight

^a Marginal note: 20 letter.

^b Marginal note: Copied 21 of January, Friday.

¹ William Nessfield, of Nessfield in Craven, possibly the father of John Nessfield, esquire
of the body to Richard III, W.E. Hampton, ‘John Nessfield’, in J. Petre (ed.), Richard III,
Crown and People (Richard III Society, 1985), 178–9.

² Richard Banke, of Bank Newton in Craven. A retainer of Richard III, he joined the
earl of Lincoln’s rebellion and was attainted after Stoke, Hampton, 187; Collectanea, vi, 321.

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 XXIII.

To my reverent and worshipfull maister, Sir William Plompton,
knight.

Right reverent and my full worshipfull maister, I recommend
me unto you in the hertelyest wise I kan. And for as much as a
poore widdow, called Ellen Helme, is my son-in-law Will. Nes-
fields^a tenant, is greeveously vexed in her sons; whearfore I pray
you hartely to be their tender and especiall maister, as I and my
said son may have cause to doe you service, the which we shal-
be ready to doe, with Gods grace, who have you in his blessed
keeping. Written at Newton on St. Cudberts day

(20 March 14 . .) By your awne, RICH. BANKS. ^b

^a William Nesfield, esq. was of Flasby in the parish of Gargrave in Craven.

^b Richard Banks, of Cold Newton or Bank Newton, in the same parish, esq. This
match with Nesfield is omitted in the pedigree of the family of Banks inserted in
Whitaker's History of Craven.