Testimony of Sir Roger Chamberlain

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ABSTRACT²

     Testimony of Sir Roger Chamberlain, witnessed by Reginald Tylneye,
prior of Ixworth, and Sir John Rose [a brother of the house], that he was with
the Duke of Norfolk in September before Sir John Fastolf died, when my
Lord urged Fastolf to sell him the reversion of Caister, or (as he wished to
give it to the Abbey of St. Benet’s) to exchange it for a manor of my Lord’s
in South Walsham, which lay more convenient for the Abbey. Sir John,
however, begged him not to press it, as he had appointed with his cousin, John
Paston, to have Caister and all his other livelode in Norfolk and Suffolk in
order to endow a college of seven priests and seven poor men. My Lord said,
many thought Sir John would make Paston his heir; to which he replied that
there was no man living that he would like better to be his heir, and begged my
Lord to be his good lord if it so fortuned, which the Duke promised to do.
Has heard the Duke since often acknowledge that Sir John had declared plainly
he would make Paston his heir. Not having his own seal present, has sealed
this with that of the prior of Ixworth, and requested him to put his seal to it
besides. Ixworth, 6 April 1463.

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                                         ² [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 280.]

1463
APRIL 6

1463
APRIL 6