Richard Calle to Margaret Paston

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Title
Richard Calle to Margaret Paston
Reference
Add. 27446, f. 30
Date
1479 or earlier
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol VI, item 955
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'

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RICHARD CALLE TO MARGARET PASTON1

 

     Plesith it your mastresship to witte, that I sende you a boxe with evidence of
Baktons londes, weche plesith it you to delyver to my master, Sir John, so
that I may have my money that is behynde. And as for Sporle, I sende you
an endenture of the bercars2 and iij. obligacions eche of v. marke. And as
for any endenture of the wode sale I made non, but a noote breefely of the
effecte, wech I sende you, as I tolde my mastre at Cristemas, and that tyme
he seide to me he was the better plesid, and so I ded no more therto; and an
obligacion of Cli. weche they be bounde to hym to performe ther ther covi-
nauntes; weche remayneth in the handes of the veker of Sporle. And I send
you also ij. billes of the parcell of the wode sale, bothe the wynter sale and
the somer sale, wherof the veker of Sporle and William Halman have the other
parties of them, as he comaunded hym selfe at the begynnyng. And lete my
countrelle doo what hym liste. I fynd hym a trewe man; he dothe as he hath
reported that he shuld go on my harond, and so I undrestond from the[m] he
hath do; but thow I have lost a frende of hym in that quarter, I have mo
frendes in that contre the[n] hee, etc. Mastres, it were goode to remembre
your stuffe of heryng nough this fisshyng tyme. I have goten me a frende in
Lestoftot to helpe to purvey me of an vij. or viij. barell, and shal not stonde
me upon above vjs. viijd. a barell, so that he may have money nough in the
begynnyng, ye shal do more nough with xls. then ye shal do at Cristemes with
v. marke. The fisshyng at Yermouth wol not be so goode as it wolbe at
Leystoft, for the haven wol not prove yette, etc. Almyghty God kepe you.
Wrete this daye.

                                                                                          Be your servaunt, R.C.

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     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is not addressed, but seems to have been
intended for Margaret Paston. The date is not very material, but as it mentions Sir
John Paston, it cannot be later than 1479, the year in which he died. Perhaps it is
about the year 1472. See Nos. 819, 820.

     2 Barkers, or tanners to whom the bark of the woods had been sold.

 

 

 

 

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1479,
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earlier