Richard Calle to John Paston

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RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON¹

To my moost reverent and wurshipfful mastre, my Master John
Paston of the Enner Temple, this be delyvered.

     Plesith your maystership to undrestande that as for the ferme that Cheseman
had in Boyton, that is to sey, xl. acre lond erable, j. medwe, and other smale
parcell, payng yerly for it iiijli., weche I can not lete the xl. acre lond abowe
xl. comb barly or xls., and ye to bere al charges of the reparaucion and fense
aboute the place, weche shulde be gret cost. The lond is so out of tylthe that
a nedes [uneath, i.e. scarcely] any man wol geve any thyng for it. Ther can
no man lete it to the walwe that it was lete before, and that I reporte me to my
master, Sir Thomas Howys, not be gret gold. Wherfore I wol not do therin
unto the tyme that I have answere from your mastership, weche I beseche you
it may be hast. And as for Spitlynges, I have lete som of the lond in smale
parcell, because I cowde gete no fermor for it. And as for Sir T. H., in good
feythe I fynde [him] weele disposed in all thynges, excepte for Sir W. Chamber-
leyn for Rees in Stratton. And so the blissid Trinite preserve and kepe you
from all adversite. Wrete at Blofeld, the Thorsday next after Hallowmesday.

                                  Your pore servaunt and bedman,                      R. CALLE.

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     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The date of this letter is uncertain. Its contents
are mere matter of business, and as relating to the same farm mentioned in the last
may be supposed to belong to the same year, especially as in the last Calle mentions
having written to Paston on the subject ‘at Hallowmass.’ There is, however, a dis-
crepancy in the value assigned for the farm.