Sir John Weston, prior of the Hospital of St. John in England, to Sir William Stonor

200. SIR JOHN WESTON TO SIR WILLIAM
STONOR

[after 1477]

   The date cannot be earlier than 1478 as Stonor is a knight. Sir John
Weston became Prior of St. John in 1477, he was absent from England from

July, 1481, to some time in 1483 (or later, though No. 329 rather implies
that he was then at home). The signature is autograph, the body of the
letter being written by a secretary. See Trans. Royal Hist. Soc, 3rd Series,
x, 160. From A.C., xlvi, 200.

     Right wurshipfull syr, I commaund me unto you: and for as moch
as ther is lykly variaunce to faule betwyxt Syr Thomas More, prest, the
which by my presentacion is incombent and parson of Chepyng Ilslay,
and a prest of Syr Thomas Vaghan, for certeyn consideracions of which
ye be somwhat instructed, and mor largly shalbe infurmed by my
Solucitor, Alysaunder Dykys, to whom I pray yow gyff ffaith and credens:
and for as moch syr Thomas More and the forsaid prest claym to be
parsons of the sayd chyrch by several grauntes therof mad by me, I
ther for hertely dissyr and pray yow to kaul the partes afor yow and my
said Solucitor and assay yf ye and he kan mak a convenient end bytwyxt
tham in exchewyng of the costes and salvacion of myn honeste in that
byhalve. And whedyr party as ever holdys hym not content at this
tym I shal so recompence hym her after, that he shal hold hym content
and plessid at the contemplacion of tham that wold have tham preferd
in that byhalffe, iff I shuld ber a payn ther for my selff, as God knowes:
who graunt yow long to endure in felicite. Wryten at my Maner of
Balsall in Warwykshyre the x day of Jull.

                              Be your owne Syr John Weston, Pryor of Sant Johns.

      To the reverent and wurshipfull Syr William Stonor, knyght.

200. SIR JOHN WESTON TO SIR WILLIAM
STONOR

[after 1477]

     The date cannot be earlier than 1478 as Stonor is a knight. Sir John
Weston became Prior of St. John in 1477, he was absent from England from
July, 1481, to some time in 1483 (or later, though No. 329 rather implies
that he was then at home). The signature is autograph, the body of the
letter being written by a secretary. See Trans. Royal Hist. Soc., 3rd Series,
x, 160. From A.C., xlvi, 200.

     Right wurshipfull syr, I commaund me unto you: and for as moch
as ther is lykly variaunce to faule betwyxt Syr Thomas More, prest, the
which by my presentacion is incombent and parson of Chepyng Ilslay,
and a prest of Syr Thomas Vaghan, for certeyn consideracions of which
ye be somwhat instructed, and mor largly shalbe infurmed by my
Solucitor, Alysaunder Dykys, to whom I pray yow gyff ffaith and credens:
and for as moch syr Thomas More and the forsaid prest claym to be
parsons of the sayd chyrch by several grauntes therof mad by me, I
ther for hertely dissyr and pray yow to kaul the partes afor yow and my
said Solucitor and assay yf ye and he kan mak a convenient end bytwyxt
tham in exchewyng of the costes and salvacion of myn honeste in that
byhalve. And whedyr party as ever holdys hym not content at this
tym I shal so recompence hym her after, that he shal hold hym content
and plessid at the contemplacion of tham that wold have tham preferd
in that byhalffe, iff I shuld ber a payn ther for my selff, as God knowes:
who graunt yow long to endure in felicite. Wryten at my Maner of
Balsall in Warwykshyre the x day of Jull.

                              Be your owne Syr John Weston, Pryor of Sant Johns.

     To the reverent and wurshipfull Syr William Stonor, knyght.