Some Gentelemen of Norfolk to [The Sheriff?]

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Title
Some Gentelemen of Norfolk to [The Sheriff?]
Reference
Add. 27444, ff. 13-15
Date
23 April 1452
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol II, item 211
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume II'

211

 

SOME GENTLEMEN OF NORFOLK TO
[THE SHERIFF?]1

 

      RIGHT wurchipfull, we commawnd us to yow. Please it
           yow to wete that we and other jentilmen of the shyer
          of Norffolk hath be in purpose assewyd [have sued] to
the hygh and myghty Prynce and owr ryght gode Lord the
Duke of Norffolk to Framlyngham, to have enformyd his
Highnesse of dyvers assaughtes and ryottes made be Charles
Nowell and other ageyn the Kyngs lawe and peas, withowte
any cause or occacion, up on John Paston and other of owre
kynne, frendes and neyghborys, ne had be that dayly this x.
days it hath be do us to wete that his Highnesse shuld come
in to Norwych or Claxton, we not beyng in certeyn yet
whedyr he shall remeve; praying yow as we trust, that ye
woll tender the welfare of this shyer and of the jentylmen ther
in, that ye woll lete owr seyd Lord have knowyng of owr
entente in this, and after to send us answher wheder it please
his Highnesse we shuld come to his presens, and in what
place, or to send owr compleynt to hym if mor informacion
be thowth behoffull, trostyng to his gode Lordshep of remedy
in this mater; whiche do [i.e. done], semyth us, shall be owr
seyd Lordys honur and gret rejoyng to all the jentylmen of
the shyer, and cause the peas to be kept her after be the grace
of God, how have yow in hys blyssed kepyng. Wretyn at
Norwyche, on Seynt Georgys day.

SIR JOHN HEVENYNGHAM. JOHN FERRERS. THO. GURNAY.

JOHN GROOS. W. ROKEWODE. JOHN BAKON, Senior. JOHN
BAKON, Junior.1

J. PAGRAVE. ROBT. MORTIMER. NICHOLAUS APPILYARD.

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] There are two copies of this paper, besides a draft
written on the back of that which follows. The date both of this and of the two
following letters will be seen by comparing them with No. 217 following.

 

 1 The names subscribed thus far are in the same handwriting as the document.
Those below may perhaps be autograph signatures, although the names of Pagrave
and Mortimer are in a hand much like that of John Paston.

 

 

 

 

 

APRIL 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1452

APRIL 23