Robert Eyre to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Robert Eyre to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 104, p. 62
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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 36; Kirby, item 69
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

69 Robert Eyre1 to Sir Robert Plumpton [possibly 23 March 1488/9] (No.
     104, p. 62)

 

Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me vnto your mastership. Please it
you witt ?at I vnderstand pat my cousin, Ralph Hawgh,2 sendeth to
your mastership for such dues as was granted to his mother & to him
by my master your father & you, vnder your seales, ?e which writting &
your seales to come before men of worship & discretion. I am certayne,
when ye se him, will not be denyed, for your seales be well knowne, &
to show in money other matters <in> this contry, the which are of
great charge. Wherwith, it please your mastership, pat after my poore
advice, take a direction with him at this tyme, for it will els [. . .]a <be
proces>, turne to more cost, & ?at wold I be right sory fore.3 From
Padley on Sunday next before St Mary Day in Lent.

From Yowres     Robart Eyreb

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull master Sir Robart Plompton kt this
bill be deliuered

 

     a be past tyme deleted.

 

     b Appended: Copied ?e 4th day of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 Robert Eyre II, of Padley, Derbys (d. 1498), elder brother of the writer of 67, and
head of the senior branch of the family, 139; App. III.

     2 Of Elton, Derbys. There is no record of this grant in CB.

     3 The parties having agreed to submit to arbitration, Robert Eyre gave his award 1
June 1490, App. II, 51; 77.

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 XXXVI.

 

To my right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. this bill
be delivered.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto your mastership;
please it you witt, that I understand that my cousin, Ralfe
Hawgh,a sendeth to your mastership for such dues as was granted
to his mother and to him, by my master your father, and you,
under your seales; the which writting and your seales, to come be-
fore men of worship and discretion, I am certayne, when ye se
him, will not be denyed: for your seals be well knowne, and to
show in money other matters in this contry, the which are of great
charge. Wherwith, it please your mastership, that after my poore
advice, take a direction with him at this tyme; for it will els be
proces turne to more cost, and that wold I be right sory fore.
From Padley, on Sunday next before St. Mary day in Lent.
                                              From yours,               ROBART EIRE.b
          (anno circiter 1488.)

 

                               a Ralph Haugh, of Derley, com. Derb. gent.

                               b Robert Eyre, of Padley, com. Derb. esq.