Sir Richard Graystoke to William Stonor

  181. SIR RICHARD GRAYSTOKE TO
WILLIAM STONOR

 20 APRIL [? 1477]

     Since Stonor is not a knight the date cannot be later than 1477. The
reference to John Blakhall's death shows that this letter is later than No. 156;
it may possibly belong to 1476. Sir Richard Graystoke was presumably a
son of Ralph de Greystoke (d. 1487), but if so died before his father (Complete
Peerage, iv, 116). From A.C., xlvi, 96.

     Right trusty and welbelovede, I commende me to yow. I sent yow
not long agoo by my chaplan writyng in þe wyche I desyrede youe to
contente me of þe money þe wyche ye or your deputtes au to pay to
þe heyrres of John Blakhall as ye dyde to hym: and ye sent me word
þat ye wolld spek with me at Oxforth: how be itt I heyre no worde of
yow yit: I am now sent for by my lorde, my fadyr, to se hys lordship,
and may not tary in þis countee: wherfor I sende my servante now to
yow for þe sayd money to þe exhibucion of þe sayd heyre: for I am
purposed þat he shall goo with me northwarde for þe season, itt shall
not be longe with þe grace of Gode: þerfor I pray yow withowt any
delay of or fenyng after concience doo: for, as your neyburs saye, ye be
well conscience in such matyrs: Ʒe shall not fynd me rigguos in þis
matyr, iff ye will do as ye au to doo, as I soppose ye will, þer be oþer
particular dettes wych I will lat alone to I come aƷane, and þane ye and
I shall acorde well I-now, bot I pray yow remembre þis monay wych is
dew for þis Ʒeyre passed and over hallso: for iff Ʒe will send never so
simpell a tokyn or writyng to Rob. Warner of Watlyngton, he will
delyver itt, as he telld my chaplan when he was with hym: itt must nedes
be doon, for ye know þe finall concorde well I-now betwyx your father
and his heyrres John Blakhall and his heyrres, as my chaplan shewed
yow: and Ʒit itt more stronger þane soo: I pray yow let me have no
mor coste in sendyng heyr for, nor my servant no more labor: for I
have hade cost right grete afor of þe sayd heyre and dayly has. I pray
yow remembre þis my writyng and зife credence to þe brynger heyrof, as
I may doo for you by ?e grace of God, who preserve yow. At Oxforth,
þe xx day of Aprill.

                                                                    Sir Ric. Graystoke.

      To my right trusty and welbeloved Willm. Stonor, Squier.

181. SIR RICHARD GRAYSTOKE TO
WILLIAM STONOR

20 APRIL [? 1477]

     Since Stonor is not a knight the date cannot be later than 1477. The
reference to John Blakhall’s death shows that this letter is later than No. 156;
it may possibly belong to 1476. Sir Richard Graystoke was presumably a
son of Ralph de Greystoke (d. 1487), but if so died before his father (Complete
Peerage, iv, 116). From A.C., xlvi, 96.

     Right trusty and welbelovede, I commende me to yow. I sent yow
not long agoo by my chaplan writyng in þe wyche I desyrede youe to
contente me of þe money þe wyche ye or your deputtes au to pay to
þe heyrres of John Blakhall as ye dyde to hym: and ye sent me word
þat ye wolld spek with me at Oxforth: how be itt I heyre no worde of
yow yit: I am now sent for by my lorde, my fadyr, to se hys lordship,
and may not tary in þis countee: wherfor I sende my servante now to
yow for þe sayd money to þe exhibucion of þe sayd heyre: for I am
purposed þat he shall goo with me northwarde for þe season, itt shall
not be longe with þe grace of Gode: þerfor I pray yow withowt any
delay of or fenyng after concience doo: for, as your neyburs saye, ye be
well conscience in such matyrs: Зe shall not fynd me rigguos in þis
matyr, iff ye will do as ye au to doo, as I soppose ye will. þer be oþer
particular dettes wych I will lat alone to I come aЗane, and þane ye and
I shall acorde well I-now, bot I pray yow remembre þis monay wych is
dew for þis Зeyre passed and over hallso: for iff Зe will send never so
simpell a tokyn or writyng to Rob. Warner of Watlyngton, he will
delyver itt, as he telld my chaplan when he was with hym: itt must nedes
be doon, for ye know þe finall concorde well I-now betwyx your father
and his heyrres John Blakhall and his heyrres, as my chaplan shewed
yow: and Зit itt more stronger þane soo: I pray yow let me have no
mor coste in sendyng heyr for, nor my servant no more labor: for I
have hade cost right grete afor of þe sayd heyre and dayly has. I pray
yow remembre þis my writyng and Зife credence to þe brynger heyrof, as
I may doo for you by þe grace of God, who preserve yow. At Oxforth,
þe xx day of Aprill.

                                                                                       Sir Ric. Graystoke.

     To my right trusty and welbeloved Willm. Stonor, Squier.