Sir John Fastolf to John Berney and Sir Thomas Howys

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ABSTRACT²

SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN BERNEY AND SIR THOMAS HOWYS.

     Begs them to have heed to his matters to be sped on Tuesday after the
Twelfth, especially ‘to labor the jury that was supposed to’ a past in the office
found for Tychewell,³ that they may appear at Lynne, and there make a
certificate before my Lord of Oxford, and the Justice William Yelverton, that
they were never privy nor consenting to such an office-finding.’ On this an
action may be founded against Dallyng, ‘the false harlot.’ Would like Berney
rewarded for his labor, if it were secretly done, and Dynne also. ‘Ye wete
what I mean. I pray you see well forth, for Mitte sapientem, &c.’

     London, in haste, St. John’s day in Christmas;⁴ ‘for he cam to Castre,

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and there seye myn evydence, and than made the office therby, and for Suffolk
also, the fals offices found there in likewise, &c.’ You must sue him to the
utmost.

     [The date of this letter is determined by the reference made in it to the Sessions
held at Lynn, in the January following, before the Earl of Oxford and Justice
Yelverton.—See No. 167. At the foot of the original MS. is this inscription:—
‘Donum Rev. Fra. Blomefield, 10 Dec. 1735.’]

     ² [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 237.]

     ³ See No. 153; also PS. to No. 162.

     ⁴ This, which is written after the date, would appear to apply to Dallyng.

DEC. 27

1450
DEC. 27