Sir John Hevenyngham to John Paston, Senior

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Title
Sir John Hevenyngham to John Paston, Senior
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 109
Date
12 December 1461
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 494
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

494

 

SIR JOHN HEVENYNGHAM TO JOHN PASTON,
SENIOR3

 

To myn ryght worchipffull cosyn, John Paston the elder, Esquyer,
be this letter delivered in hast.

 

     Ryght worchipffull cosyn, I recomaunde me to you in as hertely wyse I
can, desyryng ever to here off your welffare, whiche I beseche our Lord Jesu
to preserve to your hertes pleaser, &c. Sir, ye sent me a letter of atorney to
reseyve and to ocupye in your name the maner called Burnevyles in Nakton.
Sir, as for that ocupacion, I can litil skylle en, ne I wel not take up on me non
suche ocupacionis; wherffor I beseche you holde me excused, for it is no werd
[world] for me to take suche ocupacionis. I have as moche as I may to gader
myn ownne lyfflode, and truli, cosyn, I can not gader that well. And therffor,
cosyn, I pray you take it to non displeaser. Sir, that I may worchepfulli doo
for you, ye shal fynde me redy be the grace of Jesu, whom I hertely beseche to
have you in Hise mersyfull kepyng. Wretyn at Hevenyngham on Seynt
Lucye Even.                                  Be your cosyn,

                                                                              JOHN HEVENYNGHAM, knyght.

 

     3 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is evidently of the same year as No. 492.
The contents, moreover, seem to show that the date cannot be far distant from that of
Richard Calle’s letter of the 1st of February following.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEC. 12

 

 

1461
DEC. 12