Richard Calle to Sir John Paston

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RICHARD CALLE TO SIR JOHN PASTON¹

To my ryght reverent and worschipfull mayster, Sir
John Paston, Knight.

PLESITH it you to wete that I have spoken with Henre
     Inglouse, and I fynde hym disposid weele; hough be
     it he hath be labored to nough of late be divers, never-
theles he woll not come withoute he have a suppena, and if he
come up be suppena, he can sey nor nought woll sey, any
thynge that schulde be prejudice or hurte to your mater, and
so he hathe tolde them that hath labored to hym for it, weche
hym thynkyth causith them to have no grete hast to have hym
up. He tellith me that the Abbot of Langley schal come up
and Wichyngham. Thes have her writtes of suppena delyverd
unto them. Also ther cometh up Doctor Vergraunt and Frier
Bernard. And as for Robert Inglouse, I have spoken with
hym, and I fynde hym no thyng so weele disposid as his
brother is; he hath be sore labored be the meanes of my Lord
of Norffolk and of my Lord of Suffolk; he seyth largely that
he knoweth moche of this mater, seyng to me that if he schulde
be examyned be for a juge, he wolde my master your uncle¹
wer his juge, for he knoweth the mater as weele as any man.
He seith if he be sworn be fore my Lorde Chaunceler, he woll
desire of my Lord that Maister William schulde be sworn as
weele as he; nevertheles I have so mevyd hym that withoute
ther come a suppena for hym he woll not come, as he seth it
is hard to truste hym. It were weele doo if ther were no
suppena out for hym to cauce that ther schulde non come,
nouther to hym nor to hes brother, &c. I can not undre-
stonde of no moo that schulde come up yet, but I schal
enquere, and sende you word as hastely as I can. I have not
spoken with John Maryot yet, but I schall speke with hym
within this iij. dayes and sende you worde. &c.

     Ferthermore, sir, like you to remembre the lees of the
maner of Sporle; your fermours goth out at Michelmes next
comyng. Henry Halman wolde have it for his sones, and if
be schulde have it he wolde wete at this tyme, be cauce he
wolde somerlay² and tylle the londe, otherwise then it is; it
were tyme to lete it, wo so ever schulde have it. Henry woll
geve for it but xxli.; wherfor, if ye wol that he have it, plese
you to sende word how we schal do with all, &c. Almyghty
Godde spede you in all youre maters, and sende you hastely
a goode ende in hem. Wreten at Castre on Friday next after
Esterne Day.

                                                           Your own Servaunt, RIC. C.

     ¹ [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter seems to relate to the summoning of
witnesses to London for the probate of Fastolf’s will, and being addressed to Sir John
Paston, we may presume that it was written in the year after his father’s death, and
before the final settlement of the dispute.

     ¹ William Paston.

     ² Halliwell gives the expression ‘to summerland a ground’ which is used in
Suffolk, meaning to lay it fallow a year. For this he refers to Ray.

1467
APRIL 3

1467
APRIL 3