Robert Browne to Sir John Paston

711

ROBERT BROWNE TO SIR JOHN PASTON²

To the right worshipful Sir John Paston knyght be
this delivered.

RIGHT worshipfull Sire, I recommaunde me to you, &c.,
     certefying you for certeyn that the kyng sent a lettre
     unto my Lord of Norffolk for to contenue all maner
of materes unto suche tyme as he sholl take a direction therin,
as I am enformed by Master Haute, and by a messenger of his
owne [it was sent³], &c. Acordyng to the same entent and
the rehersall by estimacion by cause the Secretary of his Clerkes
was with the Kyng the Quene hath sent a¹ lettre unto my
Lady of Norffolk and a nother lettre unto my Lady of Suffolk
the elder, desyeryng theym to common with my lordis that all
such materis as the Kyng wrote unto them fore mabe kept so
that no defaute be founden in them, as ye may understand by
youre lettre sent frome the Quene, &c. Also Roger Ree the
Shirereve of the Shire wilbe at Caster, as my Lord Tresourer
told me, upon Tuesday or Wedynsday, to se that goode rule
be kept. Also my Lord of York² sendis you a lettre, &c.
My Lord Scalez is with the Kyng, &c. I take unto the
brynger herof xxs. that is sufficaunt as he wille telle you, also
the secretarye, vjs. viijd. As for all othere materes for haste
I contenue unto that I may have leyser to write to you. I
pray you to recommaunde me to my mastres your moder.
At London upon Sonday in hast.

                                                                                        ROBERT BROWNE.

     The letter is endorsed in another hand:—

     ’The Counsell of my Lord of Suffolk, Robert Harlesdon. The Counsell
of my Lord of Norffolk, Sir Thomas Walgrave, knyght [sergeant at] lawe and
Richard Southwell and to everiche of them.’

     ² [Add. MS. 33,889, f. 70.] The date of this letter is fixed by Roger Ree being
Sheriff of Norfolk, which he was from November 1468 to November 1469. The time
would seem to be April or May 1469, when the Duke of Norfolk was proposing to
take forcible possession of Caister.

     ³ These words are interlined before ‘&c.,’ but possibly are intended to be read
with the next sentence, which is difficult to construe, there being no punctuation in
the MS.

     ¹ Before the word ‘a’ ‘nothere’ is interlined, probably by inadvertence.

     ² Archbishop Nevill.

1469

1469

LXXVIII

A.D. 1469

ROBERT BROWNE TO SIR JOHN PASTON

[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 70]

     The date of this letter is fixed by Roger Ree being Sheriff of Norfolk,
which he was from November 1468 to November 1469. The time would
seem to be April or May 1469, when the Duke of Norfolk was proposing
to take forcible possession of Caister.

To the right worshipful Sir John Paston knyght be
this delivered.

RIGHT worshipfull Sire, I recommaunde me to
     you, &c., certefying you for certeyn that the
     kyng sent a lettre unto my Lord of Norffolk
     for to contenue all maner of materes unto
suche tyme as he sholl take a direction therin, as I
am enformed by Master Haute, and by a messenger
of his owne [it was sent¹], &c. Acordyng to the
same entent and the rehersall by estimacion by cause
the Secretary of his Clerkes was with the Kyng the
Quene hath sent a² lettre unto my Lady of Norffolk
and a nother lettre unto my Lady of Suffolk the
elder, desyeryng theym to common with my lordis
that all such materis as the Kyng wrote unto them
fore mabe kept so that no defaute be founden in
them, as ye may understand by youre lettre sent
frome the Quene, &c. Also Roger Ree the Shirereve
of the Shire wilbe at Caster, as my Lord Tresourer
told me, upon Tuesday or Wedynsday, to se that
goode rule be kept. Also my Lord of York³ sendis
you a lettre, &c. My Lord Scalez is with the Kyng,
&c. I take unto the brynger herof xxs. that is
sufficaunt as he wille telle you, also the secretarye,
vjs. viijd. As for all othere materes for haste I
contenue unto that I may have leyser to write toyou. I pray you to recommaunde me to my mastres
your moder. At London upon Sonday in hast.
                                                                           ROBERT BROWNE.

     The letter is indorsed in another hand:?

     ?The Counsell of my Lord of Suffolk, Robert Harlesdon.
The Counsell of my Lord of Norffolk, Sir Thomas Walgrave,
knyght [sergeant at] lawe and Richard Southwell and to everiche
of them.?

     ¹ These words are interlined before ?&c.,? but possibly are intended to
be read with the next sentence, which is difficult to construe, there being
no punctuation in the MS.

     ² Before the word ?a? ?nothere? is interlined, probably by inadvertence.

     ³ Archbishop Nevill.