Robert Hastings to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Title
Robert Hastings to Sir Robert Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 137, p. 84
Date
30 August, year unknown
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 112; Kirby, item 145
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

145 Robert Hastings1 to Sir Robert Plumpton 30 August (No. 137, p. 84)

 

Right worshipfull cousin, I hartyly recomend me vnto you desiring you
to send me my letter John Talloyr delyvered you. Please yt you to doe
so much for me in this terme, to leyn me & send vnto me by this
berrer, James Potsay, v marke. I by this my wrytting fathfully I promyse
you to content & pay you the sayd v markes by the date of this my
byll at Mighellmas the next, & for þat defalt, I hearby dyscharg me, &
ye to have all my lands & rents at Kyrby uppone Wharfe for ever.2
And also I desire you to take credence unto this berer which knowes
my mynd; & also this letter may recomend me vnto [. . .]a my lady your
wyfe; & euermore fare ye well, the xxx day of August.

 

Your cousin     Robert Hastingsb

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull cousin Sir Robart Plumpton knight

 

     a your deleted.

     b Appended: Copied the 19 of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 Probably a younger brother of Sir John Hastings, 124, 127, 148.

     2 131.

 

 

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 CXII.

 

To my right worshipfull Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Knyght.

 

    Right worshipfull Cousin, I hartyly recomend me unto you,
desiring you to send me my letter John Talloyr delyvered you.
Please yt you to do soe much for me in this terme, to leyn me
and send unto me by this berrer, James Potsay, V marke. I by
this wrytting, faythfully I promise you to content and pay you the
sayd V markes by the date of this my bill at Mighellmas the next;
and for that defalt, I clearly dyscharg me, and ye to have all my lands
and rents at Kyrby uppon Wharfe for ever. And also I desire
you to take credence unto this berer which knowes my mynd;
and also this letter may recomend me unto my lady your wyfe.
And evermore fare ye well, the xxxt day of August.

                                                                    Your Kinsman,
                                                                         ROBART HASTINGS.a

 

    a Robert Hastings, esq. and William Dalyson of Laghton in Lindsay, com. Line,
gent. submitted their differences to the arbitration of Sir Robert Plumpton, Sir John
Hastings, knights, and Nicholas Mydleton, esq. 23 Sept. 13 Hen. VII. 1497. (Chartul.
No. 790.) He was probably a younger brother of Sir John Hastings, who under
Dame Margaret Babthorpe had acquired lands and rents at Kirby-Wharf.