Robert Fitz John, abbot of Lilleshall, to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Robert Fitz John, abbot of Lilleshall, to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 67, p. 39
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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 30; Kirby, item 104
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

 

104 Robert Fitz John, abbot of Lilleshall,1 to Sir Robert Plumpton [20 March
     1491/2]              (No. 67, p. 39)

 

Right worshipfull Sir, I recomennd me vnto you, thanking you as
hartely as I can for your great kyndnes & gentlenes shewed to me and
to my poore tenaunts in Arkenden. And wheras ye haue written to me
þat one Robert Walkinham2 is iniuried & wronged of his tennor in
Arkenden, contrarie to right & concience. Wherfore I purposse, sonne
after Whitsontide next comying to send a brother of myne and other
officers to Arkenden, and ther to haue a court to be houlden, & right
to be had, according to reason & good concience, with the <grace> of
God, who haue you in his gouernance. Written in hast on Tewsday in
the ijd week of Lent.

     Your good lover     The Abbot of Lilleshilla

Endorsed: To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton kt be thes letter
deliuered

 

     a Appended: This letter hath a seale. Copied 12 of March 1612.

 

     1 Elected abbot of the Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Lilleshall 1464, resigned 1499.
The abbey held property in Arkendale, near Knaresborough and retained Sir Robert as
steward, VCH, Shropshire, ed. A.T. Gaydon, ii (1973), 79: CPR 1461–67, 334; ibid., 1494–
1509, 107.

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 XXX.

 

To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, kt. be this letter
delivered.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, I recomend me unto you, thanking you,
as hartely as I can, for your great kyndnes and gentlenes shewed
to me, and to my poore tennaunts in Arkenden. And wheras ye
have written to me that one Robart Walkinhama is injuried and
wronged of his tennor in Arkenden, contrarie to right and con-
cience; wherfore I purposse, sonne after Whitsontide next comyng,
to send a brother of myne and other officers to Arkenden, and
ther to have a court to be houlden, and right to be had according
to reason and good concience, with the grace of God, who have
you in his governance. Written in hast on Tewsday in the iid
weeke of lent.
                      Your good lover,        THE ABBOT OF LILLESHILL.

 

    a Robert Walkingham, of Plumpton, was living 1 Dec. 1483.    (Chartul. No. 724.)