Sir John Fastolf to the Worshipful Lady...Sister

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Title
Sir John Fastolf to the Worshipful Lady...Sister
Reference
Add. 39848, f. 35
Date
20 January 1456
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 317
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

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ABSTRACT1

 

SIR JOHN FASTOLF ‘TO THE WORSHIPFUL LADY AND MY RIGHT WELLBELOVED
SISTER, WHYTYNGHAM.’

 

     As all the executors of my Lord Regent, except himself, are dead, and as
he would not have her troubled in her age ‘for execution of my said Lord’s
goods,’ nor for the evidences of his purchased lands, etc., which were left in
keeping ‘with my brother your husband,’ sends John Paston and other his
attorneys to common with her, and settle the matter, which will be a great
discharge for her husband’s soul.

     Castre, 20 Jan.

 

     [This letter must have been written after the death of Lord Cromwell, who was
one of Bedford’s executors, and who died on the 4th January 1456.—See his Epitaph
in Dugdale’s Baronage, ii. 46.]

 

1 [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 266.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1456
JAN. 20