Sir John Fastolf to John Paston

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Title
Sir John Fastolf to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 30
Date
1454-1459
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 269
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

269

 

SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN PASTON1

 

To my right welbilovyd cosyn, John Paston.


                            wise, and for asmoche as it is . . . .
                                                                       the Lady Hastinges2
doughter, as I undrestande . . . . . . is
lyneally descendid of my Lady Felbrig3 is sustre . . .
                                         she was maried to Sir Hug’ Fastolf,
graunsir to this same Thomas; and the Lady Hastinges is
comen of Sir Robert Clyfton, which dwellid besyde Lynne.
I prey yow, cosyn, enquere of my Lady Felbrigge how nygh
they bethe of kynrede, and whethir they mow marie to ghedre
or not, and how many degrees in lynage they bethe a sundre,
for I reporte me to yowr wyse discrescion what the law wol
sey ther ynne.

     Item, it is so that Wyndam4 came yesterday to Jernemouth,
and is at Stapletons; and this day a man of Stapletons came
to me to wete if they sholde come speke with me or not, and
I have sent Sir Thomas to hem to know ther entent and what
they meane; and also he shal sey unto theym that I woll not
medle ther with but as law and consciens will.

     This is the tydinges that I have; I pray yow send me
some of yours. As towching the North cuntre, Sperling hathe
tolde yow. And God kepe yow. Wretyn at Castre this same
day.                                                                          J. FASTOLF.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is mutilated and its date is uncertain,
except that, being dated at Caister, it must have been written between 1454 and
1459.

     2 Margery, widow of Sir Edward Hastings of Elsing, and daughter of Sir Robert
Clifton. After her first husband’s death she married John Wymondham, who bought
the manor of Felbrigg from Lord Scales and the executors of Sir Simon Felbrigg.—
See Blomefield, viii. 112.

     3 Catherine, widow of Sir Simon Felbrigg. She was the daughter of Anketill
Mallory, Esq. of Winwick, in Northamptonshire.

     4 John Wymondham or Wyndham.—See Note 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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