The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 44, p. 29

Date

2 April [?1499]

Library / Archive

Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 45; Kirby, item 133

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

133 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 2 April
[?1499] (No. 44, p. 29)

Right hartely beloued cousin, I commennd me vnto you, (and desire
and) pray you to cause suer search to be made what horse & cattaille
(there be) that goes in my spring within my parke at Spofford, and
such as can (be found) their, I pray you to se them dryven & voyded
out therof, & also henceforth þat ye will se neither horse nor cattell
goe not into my said spring, as my speciall trust is in you, whom God
preserue. Written in my mannor of Semar, the ij day of Aprill. Ouer
this, cousin, I hartely pray you to se my said parke vewed, & <þat>
the dere within the same may be easily delt withall, & what remains
within the same, I pray you to certifie me after the said vew be taken.

Your louing cousin Hen: Northumberland^a

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

^a Appended: this letter hath a seale at [the copying]. Copied the 23 day of February
1612.

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 XLV.

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

    Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you, and
desire and pray you to cause suer search to be made, what horse
and cattaille ther be, that goes in my spring within my parke at
Spofford;a and such as can be found their, I pray you to se them
dryven and voyded out therof: and also henceforth, that ye will
se neither horse nor cattell goe within my said spring, as my
speciall trust is in you, whom God preserve. Written in my
mannor of Semar, the ij day of Aprill. Over this, Cousin, I har-
tely pray you to se my said parke vewed, and that the dere within
the same may be easily delt withall, and what remaines within
the same I pray you to certefie me, after the said vew be taken.
                                                        Yor loving Cousin,
                                                                   HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.

a It appears from this and the following letters, that Sir Robert Plumpton was
steward of the manor of Spofford under the Earls of Nothumberland, as his father
had been before him.