Sir John Fastolf to Sir Thomas, Parson of Castlecombe....

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ABSTRACT¹

SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO SIR THOMAS, Parson of Castlecombe, and JOHN BOKKING,
in haste, at Princes Inn, in Norwich.

     As the oyer and terminer in Suffolk is to be on Monday next, desires them
to get Sir John Sypton indicted for forging the false acquittance, and Bury his
advocate also. Has inquired of his tenants at Dedham who were the chief
counsel of breaking his mill-dam, and they say Sir John Squyer was chief, but
John Waryn was of counsel and court-holder there; also Sir John Buk, Parson
of Stratton, who fished his stanks, &c. John Cole of Stoke has also taken in
years past more than twenty of his swans. Let them be presented. The late
Parson of Cotton got F.’s late bailly, Henry Holm (now dead), pledged out
by false representations of the sufficiency of his bail, &c.

     London, 5 Dec. 29 Hen. VI.                                                            Signed.

     ¹ [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 247.]

1450
DEC. 5