Sir John Fastolf to Sir Thomas Howys....

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ABSTRACT¹

SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO SIR THOS. HOWYS, Parson of Castlecombe,
‘being at Castre.’

     Begs him to solicit the expedition of the matters of which he wrote since
Easter.—Debts of Thos. Symmys for rents and sale of wools not yet paid to
F. in Dedham.—As for the matter of Rydlyngfold and Hykele, ‘seth it ys
soo the world is changed gretely over it was, y pray you, and charge you,
parson, labour ye to my frendz Lampet and others’ to get a copy of their
evidences; for ‘howbeit the said prioress say that her evidence be in the Duke
of Suffolk’s keeping or his counsel,’ she had a book in which all the evidence is
copied. The thing would have been sped long ere this, if ‘my Lord Norwich[‘s]
Chancellor’ or Master Pope, had labored as they promised. For God’s sake
send me a good answer. ‘If an inordinate book be made, remembering the
deliverance’ of cloths, &c. into F.’s wardrobe, let the indentures be engrossed.
Wonders Howys cannot furnish him with a full account of the damages sustained
by F. and his tenants these ten or twelve years past. He has only sent a
declaration of costs in defending some of them. Get a letter of Nich. Bokkyng
of the £100 to whom it was paid.

     London, 7 May 28 Henry VI.                                                                     Signed.

     ¹ Probably John Crane of Woodnorton, of whom there are some notices in
Blomefield (Hist. Norf. viii. 313, 316; x. 282).

     ² [MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 223.]

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