Sir Richard Tunstall to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 116. p. 70

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 23; Kirby, item 70

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

70 Sir Richard Tunstall to Sir Robert Plumpton, [early 1489] (No. 116, p.
70)

Right worshipfull cousin, I recomend me vnto you. And wheras I late
wrote to you for one Skaggell¹ to haue come to me for a matter of
causes betwixt him & [. . .]^a certayne other, with myne officer Thomas
of Pomfret, wherin I understand by such an answer as I had from you
since, ?at he will not be aduertysed by you therein. Cousin, <I>
eftsomes will desire & pray to advise him to come, for & he will not so
doe, I intend to shew his obstynance to ?e king & his counsell,² which
if I so doe I think it will not be for his case; and also I intend, when I
can finde a convenient time & place, to attach him if he thus contynew
in his sayd obstynance.

Your cousin Rich: Tunstall^b

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull cousin Sir Robart Plompton kt

^a me deleted.

^b Appended: Copied ?e 10 day of April 1613.

¹ William Scargill, 69.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER XXIII.

To my right worshipfull Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.

    Right Worshipfull Cousin, I recomend me unto you, and
whereas I late wrote to you for one Skaggell a to have come to
me, for a matter of causes betwixt him and certayn other, with
myne officer, Thomas of Pomfret; wherin I understand by such
and answer as I had from you since, that he will not be advertysed
by you theirn. Cousin, I eftesones will desire and pray to advise
him to come, for and he will not, I intend to shew his obstynance
to the King and his counsell, which if I so doe, I thinke it will not
be for his ease. And also I intend, when I can finde a conve-
nient tyme and place, to attach him, if he thus contynew in his
sayd obstynance.
                                                               Your Cousin,
                                                                             RICH. TUNSTALL.

a William Scargill, of Thorpe-Stapleton, com. Ebor. esq. (See preceding letter and
postea.)