Richard Calle to John Paston

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Title
Richard Calle to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 107
Date
20 November 1461
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 492
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

492

 

ABSTRACT1

 

RICHARD CALLE TO JOHN PASTON.

 

     Since I left you I have received at Cotton £4: 2s., with which I have made
purchases of linen shirts, &c. for you. Shall have more money before Christmas.
Debenham, Jenney, nor none of his men ‘come not there sen’ that I was there.’
A letter of attorney is made for Nakton in your name to Sir John Heveningham,
and a rental and fermal sent him. We kept a court this week at Calcotte but
could get little money, not so much as I paid my Lady of Suffolk’s officers.
Farmers will not occupy there till appointment be made between Paston and
Debenham; nor Risynge till he hear from Paston. Can get no day for Mautby.
They will not give a noble, nor even 6 shillings, for a cow. Dey occupies your
lands there till you come home. Risynge would take them and the closes at
Castre if he is not to have Calcotte. The prests shall be paid as soon as we get
money, I hope this week. Wheat 12d. a comb, barley 8d., malt 9d. and 10d.
No good price for malt, ‘saving, as we understand, it is good Flanders.’ John
Russe and Robert Glover are sending a ship with corn over, and we have
ventured with them 100 comb malt. You should make some bargain with your
beer brewers. Can get no money from Aleynes, farmer of Gresham, since ye
rode, but 40s. Has laid in sufficient beef for Paston’s household till ‘Faste-
gang’ (Lent). Sir Thomas Howys advises my mistress not to send Edmund
Paston to Cambridge or elsewhere till after Christmas. Please ask Clement,
your brother, to get a writ against Geoffrey Clerk of West Somerton for the
20s. that Belys gave him to pay Clement. Remember the letter I sent you last
week.

     Caister, St. Edmund’s Day.

     [From what is here said of the levying of rents at Cotton, and from the mention
of Debenham and Jenney in connection with it, we may presume this letter was written
in 1461. With this supposition agrees the reference to John Paston’s brother, Clement,
who, as we see by No. 484, was in London in October.]

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     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

1461
NOV. 20