Robert Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Title
Robert Plumpton to Sir Robert Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 157, p. 100
Date
12 January [1500/1]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 121; Kirby, item 150
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

            

150 Robert Plumpton1 to Sir Robert Plumpton 12 January [1500/1]     (No.
         157, p. 100)

 

After lowly & all due recomendations, I recomend me vnto your good
mastership & good brotherhode, praying the same ?at it will please
you to send me by this berer the Martynmese farme for such lands &
tenementes as ye haue by lease made betwext you & me; &, Sir, as I
suppose, insomuch as ye pleased not to content me at ?e vntermost
day limytted in ?e sayd lease, ye wylbe agreable ?at I enter to ?e sayd
lands & tenements.2 Wherfore, so I pray you to send me word in a byll
by this berer, whether ye will ?at I enter to the same lands & tenements,
or ?at ye will hold them still, & content according to the sayd lease; &,
Sir, in so much as this is the first day of breach of your payment, I
wyll nothing attempt therin to I haue word from you by this bearer, if
it may please you. And almyghty Jesu preserve you in prosperouse
lyffe, long to endure. From Yorke, the xij day of January.

Your servant     Robt Plompton of Yorkea

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull master and brother Sir Robart
Plompton knight

 

     a Appended: copied ?e 24 of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 ?Robinet?, 26, 154.

     2 The property comprised parcels of land in the Derbys manor of Ockbrook, the
reversion of which was granted by Sir William to his bastard sons Robert and William
for life, CB, 600, 603; 88.

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 CXXI.

 

To my right worshipfull master and brother, Sir Robart Plomton,
knyght.

 

    After lowly and all due recomendations, I recomend me unto
your good mastership and good brotherhode, praying the same, that
yt will please you to send me by this berer the Martynmese
farme for such lands and tenements as ye have by lease made be-
twixt you and me. And, sir, as I suppose, insomuch as ye
pleased not to content me at the untermost day limytted in the
sayd lease, ye wylbe agreable that I enter to the sayd lands and
tenements; wherfore, so I pray you to send me word in a byll by
this berer, whether ye will that I enter to the same lands and
tenements, or that ye will hold them still, and content according
to the same lease. And, Sir, in so much as this is the first day of
breach of your payments, I wyll nothing attempt therin, to I have
word from you by this bearer, if it may so please you. And Al-
myghty Jesu preserve you in prosperouse lyffe, long to endure.
From Yorke the xiith day of January.

                                                         Your servant,
                                                                 ROBART PLOMPTON, of Yorke.a

 

     a Robert Plumpton of York, was another of the bastard sons of Sir William Plump-
ton, kt. and brother of William Plumpton of Kirkby-Overblow, gent. (See Letter
XXVIII. noted.) The land and tenements lay at Ockbrook, com. Derby, and the
deed by which they were held has already been brought under notice in Letter LXVII.