Sir Stephen Hammerton, to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 80, p. 44

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 28; Kirby, item 78

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

78 Sir Stephen Hammerton,¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton [1481 ? 1500] (No.
80, p. 44)

Right worshipfull brother <& syster>, I hartely recommend me vnto
you. Where ye haue made a search, they for me thanke you hartely
therefore, & I shall do service to you & I may therefore. I besech [you]
to make a [. . .]^a throw search for my matter, as my trust is to you, & I
wilbe ruled according to right, as my frynds, & ye in specyally, thinke
?at I should be. No more at this tyme, but the Holy Trenite haue you
in keeping. I pray you giue credence to the bringer of this byll.

Your loving brother Sir Stephen Hamerton^b

Endorsed: To my right worshipfull brother Sir Robart of Plompton
deliuer thes

^a tryall deleted.

^b Appended: Copied the 17 day of March 1612.

¹ Of Hammerton in Craven, he married Sir Robert?s half-sister Isabel, and succeeded
his father in 1480; knighted 1481; died 1500, Hicks, NH, xiv, 106; CB, 524.

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 XXVIII.

To my right worshipfull brother, Sir Robart of Plompton, deliver
these.

Right worshipfull Brother and Sister, I hartely recommend me
unto you. Where ye have made a search, they for me thanke you
hartely therfore, and I shall do service to you, and I may, therfore.
I besech to make a thorow search for my matter, as my trust is to
you, and I will be ruled according to right, as my frynds, and ye in
specyall, thinke that I should be. No more at this tyme, but the
holy Trenetie have you in keeping. I pray you give credence to
the bringer of this byll.
Your loving brother, Sir STEPHEN HAMERTON.a

a Sir Stephen Hamerton, of Hamerton and Wigglesworth, com. Ebor. kt. suc-
ceeded his father Sir Richard in 1480, and married Isabel, half-sister of Sir Robert
Plumpton. (See Memoirs) He died 16 Hen. VII. 1500-1.