Robert Warcop to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Robert Warcop to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 118, p. 71

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 80; Kirby, item 98

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

98 Robert Warcop¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton (No. 118, p. 71)

Right reuerend & worshipful cosin, I commend me unto you as hertyly
as I kan, euermore desiring to heare of your welfare, the which I
beseech Jesu to continew to his plesure & your herts desire. Cosin,
please you witt that I ame enformed þat a poor man, somtyme
belonging to mee, called Umfrey Bell,² hath trespased to a seruant of
youres, which I am sory for. Wherfore, cosin, I desire & hartily pray
you to take upp the matter into your own hands, for my sake, and
rewle him as it please you. And therin you wil do as I may do that
may be plesur to you, & my contry, [p. 72] the which I shalbe redy
too, by the grace of God, who preserve you.

By your own kynsman Robert Warcopp of Warcopp^a

Endorsed: To his worshipful cosin Sir Robert Plumpton kt

^a Appended: Copied þe 11 day of Aprill 1613.

¹ Of Warcop, Westmorland. Kinsman of the Plumptons through inter-marriage with
the Hammertons, W.H. Hylton and R. Longstaffe (eds), Heraldic Visitation of the Northern
Counties by Thomas Tonge, Norroy King of Arms, A.D.1530 (SS, xli 1863), 100; Anglica Historia,
100.

² Apparently a villein, 56, 164.

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 LXXX.

To his worshipful Cosin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.

    Right reverend and worshipful Cosin, I commend me unto you
as hertyly as I can, evermore desiring to heare of your welfare,
the which i besech Jesu to continew to his pleasure, and your
herts desire. Cosin, please you witt that I am enformed, that a
poor man somtyme belonginf to mee, called Umfrey Bell, hath
trespased to a servant of Youres, which I am sory for. Wherfore,
Cosin, I desire and hartily pray you to take uppthe matter into
your own hands for my sake, and rewle him as it please you; and
therin you wil do, as I may do that may be plesur to you, and
my contry, the which I shalbe edy too, by the grace of God, who
preserve you.
                                       By your own kynsman,
                                                ROBART WARCOPP, of Warcoppe. a

a Warcop, in the county of Westmerland.