Sir John Fastolf to John Paston

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ABSTRACT²

SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO JOHN PASTON.

     Begs him in the end of the term to come home by Dedham, along with
William Worcester and Barker, to see to the accounts of barley and such
husbandry as is used there. As to Wighton in Yorkshire, Bokkyng reminds
me you spoke to me that my son Scrope and his father-in-law³ should have all
the lyvelode of my wife’s in farm, to which I agreed, or else that Lord Vesey
would have Wighton, as he once had, at a rent of £34—much more than I
make it worth yearly. Do as you think best for me. I had rather my son
Scrope had it with sufficient surety.

     Castre, 10 Nov.

     Begs him to common with William Worcester that by means of my Lord
of Canterbury, or otherwise, Master William Clyf and others of the executors
of John Wellis may be spoken to for the recovery of great good that William
Worcester knows Wellis owed to Fastolf.

     [The date of this letter appears to be 1456. Of the years when Fastolf resided at
Caister, it is not 1454, because in that year Barker could not have been in London on
the 10th November (see No. 265). It is not 1455, because Worcester appears to
have been at that time at Caister (see Nos. 305 and 306). The same appears to have
been the case in 1457, though we can only judge by a letter of the 29th October;
and although Worcester certainly was in London in November 1458, Sir John Fastolf
was then in London with him.]

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                                   ² [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 241.]

                                   ³ Richard Bingham, Judge of the King’s Bench.

NOV. 10