Sir John Paston to Lord Beauchamp

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Title
Sir John Paston to Lord Beauchamp
Reference
Add. 35251, f. 25
Date
?August 1467
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol IV, item 674; Gairdner, 'Paston Letters', item 75
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume IV'

674

SIR JOHN PASTON TO LORD BEAUCHAMP1

 

To the Lord Bechampe2

AND forasmuch as I am credibly enformed that my lord
     of Winchestre hath sent to you desiring that ye shold
     ensele dyvers writinges of graunt and relesse of your
estat in alle such maners, londes and tenementes as late wer of
J. Fastolf knyght, and wheryn ye togider with other be jointly
enfeffed to th’ use of the seid J. Fastolf, I, considering the
honorable disposition and great sadnesse of my seid lord of
Winchestre which3 hath now taken upon [him]4 th’ administra-
cion of testament of the seid J. F., trusting veryly that my
seid lord wol as conscience requireth consider my title and
interest in that behalf, praie you right hertely that not with-
stonding any labour or mocion on my part or for me in tyme
passed made to you to ensele any writyng of graunt or relesse
of your seid estat to me or to myn use, that ye wol now
ensele and perfourme the entent and desir of my seid lord
of Winchestre now made unto you.

                                                                        SIR JOHN PASTON, K.

     Indorsed: Dominus de Bewchamp.

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     1 [Add. MS. 35,251, f. 25, B.M.] This letter apparently was written in 1467,
probably in August, just before No. 675. The original is a corrected draft.

     2 This address is written in the margin, with a note a little way below: ‘To myn
oncle Wylliam in lyke forme.’

     3 Here occurs an interlineation of an incomplete clause: ‘is feffe of the seid—
(word crossed out) and also therein and——.’

     4 Omitted in MS.
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, 1422-1509'

LXXV

 

A.D. 1467?

 

SIR JOHN PASTON TO LORD BEAUCHAMP

 

[Add. MS. 35,251, f. 25. Brit. Mus.]

 

     This letter apparently was written in 1467, probably in August, just
before No. 577. The original is a corrected draft.

To the Lord Bechampe.1

AND forasmuch as I am credibly enformed
     that my lord of Winchestre hath sent to
     you desiring that ye shold ensele dyvers
     writinges of graunt and relesse of your
estat in alle such maners, londes and tenementes as
late wer of J. Fastolf knyght, and wheryn ye togider
with other be jointly enfeffed to th’ use of the seid
J. Fastolf, I, considering the honorable disposition
and great sadnesse of my seid lord of Winchestre
which1 hath now taken upon [him]2 th’ administra-
cion of testament of the seid J. F., trusting veryly
that my seid lord wol as conscience requireth con-
sider my title and interest in that behalf, praie you
right hertely that not withstonding any labour or
mocion on my part or for me in tyme passed made
to you to ensele any writyng of graunt or relesse of
your seid estat to me or to myn use, that ye wol now
ensele and perfourme the entent and desir of my
seid lord of Winchestre now made unto you.

                                                          SIR JOHN PASTON, K.

     Indorsed: Dominus de Bewchamp.

 

     1 This address is written in the margin, with a note a little way below:
’To myn oncle Wylliam in lyke forme.’

 

     1 Here occurs an interlineation of an incomplete clause: ‘is feffe of the
seid——(word crossed out) and also therein and——.’

     2 Omitted in MS.