The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Title
The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 50, p. 31
Date
9 October [1481]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 4; Kirby, item 35
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

35 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton,1 9 October
     [1481] (No. 50, p. 31)

 

Right trusty and welbeloued I greet you well, & will and charge you
on the kings our soueraigne lords behalfe, and also on myne, that ye,
with all such persones as ye may make defensibly arrayed, be redy to
attend vpon the kings highness & me, vpon our warnying, as ye loue
me, and will answere to the king at your perill. Written at Lekingfeild,
the ixth day of October.2

Your cousin                   Hen: Northumberlanda

 

Endorsed: To my right trusty and welbeloued friend Sir Robart Plompton
kt

 

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

 

     1 Robert Plumpton was knighted by Northumberland Aug. 1481, Hicks, NH, xiv, 107.

     2 Not until some time in Oct. 1481 did Edward IV announce his decision not to lead
the army against the Scots. Gloucester and Northumberland were therefore left to besiege
Berwick during the winter of 1481–2, Ross, 282–3.

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 IV.

 

To my right trusty and welbeloved friend, Sir Robart Plompton, Kt.

 

    Right trusty and welbeloved, I greet you well, and will and
charg you on the King our soveraigne Lords behalfe, and also on
myne, that ye, with all such persones as ye may make defensibly
arraved. be redy to attend uppon the Kings highnes and me, upon
our warnyng, as ye love me and will answere to the King at your
perill. Written at Lekingfeld, the ixth day of October.
                                                                                   Your Cousin,
                                                                   HENRY NORTHUMBERLAND.