The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 49, p. 30

Date

27 March [?1499]

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 46; Kirby, item 132

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

132 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 27 March
[?1499] (No. 49, p. 30)

Right hartely beloued cousin, I commend me vnto you. And whereas
I of late hath had in ward two servants of Thomas Myddleton¹ for
hunting within my parke of Spofford, which I send vnto you by my
servant, Richard Saxton, praying you, therefore, to take an obligation
of them, and two sufficient men bounden with them in the (sume of
xxli to be) of good bearing, and in law themselves [p. 31] vppon viij
dayes warning whensoever I send for them. Not failing, as my singuler
trust is in you, whom God keepe. Written in my mannor of Semar, the
xxvij day of March. Over this, cousin, I hartely thanke you in executing
my commaundment.

Your cousin Hen: Northumberland

Endorsed (p. 30): To my right hartely beloued cousin Sir Robart Plompton kt

^a Appended: this letter hath a seale. Copied the 27 day of February 1612.

¹ 14; App. III.

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 XLVI.

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

    Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you. And
wheras I of late hath had in ward two servaunts of Thomas Myd-
dleton,a for hunting within my parke of Spofford, which I send
unto you by my servant, Richard Saxston, praying you therfore.
to take an obligation of them, and two sufficient men bounden
with them in the sume of xxli, to be of good bearing and in law
themselfes uppon viii dayes warning, whensoever I send for them;
not failing herof as my singuler trust is in you, whom God
keepe. Written in my mannor of Semar, the xxvii day of March.
Over this, Cosin, I hartely thanke you in executing my com-
maundement.
                                               Your Cousin,
                                                         HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.

a Thomas Middelton, married to a sister of Sir Robert Plumpton, has a brass to
his memory in the church of Spofforth, with this quaint epitaph:

                                          With humble prayer I beseech thee
                                          That this scripture shall here or see
                                          To say De profundis if you lettered be
                                          For the soules of Jone my wife and me
                                          Thomas Middleton sometyme man of law
                                          Under this stone am laid full lawe;
                                          If thou be unlearned and cannot reed
                                          For our soules and all christen soules med
                                          Say a Pater Noster and Ave and a Creed.

Above was the shield of Middleton of Stokeld impaling Plumpton. (Dugdale's York-
shire Arms, MS. in Coll. Arm. And see Letter XII.)