Robert Greene to Sir Robert Plumpton

48 Robert Greene¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton, [c.1486 × 1487] (No. 110, p.
     66)

Right worshipful Sir, in the most hartyest wyse I recomend me to you,
thanking you of your tender mastership to me shewed in all causes.
Please it your mastership to wyt þat I am some what in hevyness, for
such sicknes as my wyfe hath, once or twyce at the least euery day,
puts hir in ioperty of hir life with a swonnying, þat the morow next
after the assise^a I passe not from hir. Wherfore, Sir, I besech you to
take no displeasure þat I se not you & my lady at Plompton no rather.
And wherfore [blank] þat your mastership hath Robart Ward, clarke,
in your ward at Knarsbrough. Sir, I purpasse to persew the law against
him in þer names whomes cattell he heretofore helped to stele, now
eftsonnes, entending the same to haue done forth of the lordship, if so
be þat the awenness of the same cattell will mayntayne þer sute in þer
name, at my cost. And in the meane tyme, I pray your mastership þat
this pure woman, the bearer herof, beadwoman to your mastership,
may haue suerty of peace of the same Robart, which I trust she will
desire of your mastership of him. Written at Newby, the Wedensday
next after our Lady Day in Lenten. And as for William Bulloke, I shall
shortly send him to your mastership to know your gud aduice &
counsell, & all causes concernyng me.

Your servant                Robart Greene^b

Endorsed: To his right worshipfull master Sir Robart Plompton kt deliuer
these

     ^a MS assiste.

     ^b Appended: copied þe 9th day of Aprill 1613.

     ¹ Stapleton suggests the writer was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Greene, of Newby,
and that he married Isabel, sister of William Tancred, bailiff of Knaresborough, Stapleton,
84n.; 51, 55; App. III.

LETTER LV.

To his right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt. deliver
these.

    Right worshipfull Sir, in the most hartyest wyse I recommend
me to you, thanking you of your tender mastershp shewed me in
all causes. Please yt your mastership to wyt that I am somewhat
in hevynes, for such sincknes my wyfe, hath, once or twice at the
least every day, puts her in joperty of hir life with a swonnyng;
that the morow next after the assise I passe not from hir. Wher-
fore Sir I besech you to take no displeasure, that I se not you and
my lady at Plompton no rather. And wherfor . . . . . . . . . .
that your mastership hath Robart Ward, clarke, in your ward at
Knarsbrough; Sir, I purpasse to persew the law against him in
ther names, whomes cattell he heretofore helped to stele, now
eftsones: entending the same to have done forth of the lordship, if
so be that the awenners of the same cattell will mayntayne ther
sute in ther name at my cost. And in the meane tyme I pray
your mastership that this pure woman, the bearer hereof, bead-
woman to your mastership, may have suerty of peace of the same
Robart, which I trust she will desire of your mastershipe of him.
Written at Newby, the Wedensday next after our lady day in Len-
ten. And as for William Bulloke, I shall shortly send him to
your mastership to know your gud advice and counsell, and all
causes concernyng me.
                                            Your servant,             ROBART GREENE.a

    a Robert Grene, groom of the pantry to king Edw. IV. had a grant of the office of
Bailiff of Burghbrigge, in the county of York, for terme of his life, 8 Sep. 2 Edw. IV.
1462 (Rot. Parl. V. 593b.); and was probably the same person as was concerned in
the affray upon Papplewick Moor 35 Hen. VI. and described of Plumpton, near Knares-
borough. (See note to Letter III.p.3.)?Robert Greene, who married Isabel, sister of
William Tankard, of Boroughbridge, and was of Newby, I presume to have been his
grandson, son of Richard and Elizabeth Green, and the writer of this letter.