Richard Neville, earl of Warwick and Salisbury to Sir William Plumpton

13   Richard Neville, earl of Warwick and Salisbury¹ to Sir William Plumpton,
       19 September [?1465] (No. 7, p. 153; CB 617)

Right trustie and welbeloued^a I gret you wele. And whereas I am
enformed ye pretend clayme and title to a closse called Spencer Close
belonging to my welbeloved Thomas Scarbroughe, whearin with others,
I stand infeoffed,² I therefore desire and pray you that ye will suffer
the said Thomas the said closse in peaceable wise to haue and occupie
without vexation or trouble vnto time that, by such persons as therevpon
by your both assents being elect and chosen, the matter be thoroughly
determined whether of you the same ow<e>th to haue of right. And
our Lord haue you in his keeping. Written att Toplife the ninetenth day
of September.³ Therle of Warwick and Salisbury, grete chamberlaine of
England and captaine of Calais.^b

                                                              R. Warwick

Endorsed: To my right trustie and welbeloved Sir William Plompton
knight

     ^a Marginal note: 7 letter.

     ^b Marginal note: Copied December 9 Anno 1612.

     ¹ Warwick had been Great Chamberlain of England since 1461, and captain of Calais
since 1455. Granted the Percy manor of Topcliffe in the spring of 1462, he may at this
time have been looking after the interests of George, duke of Clarence in Spofforth, a
lordship granted to the duke in 1461, but for which he did not do homage until 1466,
CPR, 1461–67, 45, 71, 86, 189; GEC; Pollard. NE England, 287.

     ² Visiting Kildwick church in 1666 Dodsworth saw the arms of the Scarboroughs of
Giusburn in the east window of the north choir, and an inscription recording the death
of William Scarborough, in 1528, Whitaker, Craven, i, 212, 216.

     ³ Topcliffe, worth £90 a year in 1478–9, was granted to Warwick by Edward IV in
April 1462, CPR, 1461–67, 186, 189; J.M.W. Bean, The Estates of the Percy Family, 1416–1537
(Oxford, 1958), 47.

LETTER XI.

To my right trustie and welbeloved Sir William Plompton, knight.

    Right trustie and welbeloved, I grete you wele, and whereas I
am enformed that ye pretend clayme and title to a closse called
Spencer close, belonging to my welbeloved Thomas Scarbroughe, ^a
whearin with others I stand enfeoffed, I therefore desire and pray
you that ye will suffer the said Thomas the said closse in peaceable
wise to have and occupie without vexation or trouble, unto time
that by such persons at thereupon by your both assent being elect
and chosen, the matter be thoroughly determined whether of you
the same oweth to have of right. And our Lord have you in his
keepeing. Written att Toplife the ninetenth day of September.
Therle of Warwick and Salisbury grete chamberlaine of England
and Captaine of Calais.                                       R. WARWICK.^b

    ^a Thomas Scarborough was of Glusburne in Craven.

    ^b Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, held Topcliffe with the other
manors and lordships of the Percies in Yorkshire, from 1461 to 1469, when Henry
Percy was restored.