Robert Eyre III to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Robert Eyre III to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 105, p. 63
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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 125; Kirby, item 156
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

                      

156 Robert Eyre III to Sir Robert Plumpton, [20 June 1501]     (No. 105, p.
     63)

 

Right worshipfull brother, I recomend me vnto you. Brother, I haue
receiued your letter, be the which I perceived ye be mynded to be with
my lord of Schrewsbury1 on Munday next, be noune of the day, & þat
ye wold haue me to meet you by the way. Brother, my lord is at
Wynfeld & my lady both, & I wilbe glad to wayte vpon you at Hegham,
a myle from Wynfeld, or els at Chesterfeld, whether it please you.
Brother, I am afrad lese this labour be vayne, for in certayne I caused
all þe labur to be made possible at this tyme, both to my lord & to my
lady, & he wold not be turned, for he myght not, & keepe his truth &
promyse made afore. Notwithstanding, sithe ye be comyng on your
way, I thinke it is well done, ye to speake with my lord yourselfe, as
prevely as ye can, & thus Jesu kepe you. At Padley, the Sunday next
afore the feast of St John Baptise.

     Your loving brother     Robart Eyre esquirea

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull brother Sir Robart Plompton kt these
be deliuered

 

     a Appended: Copied the 7th day of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 The writer was steward of the Derbys estates of George Talbot, 4th earl of Shrewsbury
(d. 1538), whose wife, Anne, was a daughter of William, Lord Hastings (d. 1483). As the
Eyres had been Hastings retainers, Sir Robert must have hoped the writer would prove
an effective suppliant on his behalf, Wright, 62, 79; 70, 77, 106, 143.

 

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER CXXV.

 

To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart Plumpton, kt. these
be delivered.

 

    Right worshipfull brother, I recomend me unto you. Brother,
I have received your letter, be the which I perceived ye be
mynded to be with my lord of Schrewsbury on munday next, be
noune of the day; and that ye wold have me to meet you by the
way. Brother, my lord is at Wynfeld, and my lady both, and I
wilbe glad to wayte upon you at Hegham, a myle from Wynfeld,a
or els at Chesterfeld, whether it please you. Brother, I am afrad
lese this labour be vayne, for in certayne I caused all the labour
to be made possible at this tyme, both to my lord and to my lady,
and he wold not be turned; for he myght not, and keepe his truth
and promyse made afore. Notwithstanding, sithe ye be comyng
on your way, I thinke it is well done, ye to speake with my lord
yourselfe, as prevely as ye can; and thus Jesu kepe you. At
Padley, the sunday next afore the feast of St. John Baptise.b

                                Your loving brother,
(20 June 1501.)                ROBART EYRE, esquire.

 

    a Wingfield, in Derbyshire, a capital manor of the Earl of Shrewsbury.

    b 24 June.