The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 39, p. 27

Date

1 April [?1489]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 44; Kirby, item 73

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

73 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 1 April [?1489] (No.
39, p. 27)

Right trusty and welbeloued cousin, I commend me vnto you, and
desire and [. . .]^a pray you that in such things as my right intierly
beloued cousin, Mary Gascoigne, hath to doe with you as touching hir
right of herytaunce,¹ that ye will giue vnto hir ayde and supportance,
as right law & conscience will, as my speciall trust is in you, whom
God keep. Written in my mannor of Seamer the first day of Aprill.

Your loving cousin Hen: Northumberland

Endorsed: To my right hartely beloued cousin Sir Robart Plompton kt

^a A word deleted.

^b Appended: this letter hath a seale. Copied the 22 day of February 1612.

¹ The matter relates to the house in Plumpton referred to by Sir William Gascoigne
in 61 as belonging to his uncle, Ralph Gascoigne, of Burnby in the East Riding, 4th son
of Sir William Gascoigne (d.1463/4), who died, 1488. In his will he mentions two
unnamed daughters, Test.Ebor., iv, 15; CB 747, 748.

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 XLIV.

To my Right hartely beloved Cousin, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.

    Right trusty and welbeloved cousin, I commennd me unto you,
and desire and pray you that in such things as my right intierly
beloved Cosin, Mary Gascougne, a hath to doe with you, as
touching hir right of herytaunce, that ye will give unto hir ayde
and supportance, as right law and conscience will, as my speciall
trust is in you, whom God keep. Written in my mannor of Se-
mar, the first day of Aprill.
                                                Your loving Cousin,
                                                           HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.

a This May Gascoigne may have been the daughter of Ralph Gascoigne, esq. who
had, it seems, been possessed of a house in Plumpton, the fine of which was parcel of
the evidence of William Middelton in 1502. (Vide Letter of Sir William Gascoigne,
kt. postea.)