The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 51, p. 31

Date

14 February [?1481/2]

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 7; Kirby, item 36

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

36 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 14 February
[?1481/2] (No. 51, p. 31)

Right hartely beloued cousin, I commend me vnto yu. And wheras I
conceiue þat wheras award was ordred in the matter of variance
depending betwixt John Polleyn,¹ on the one partie, and George
Tankard,² with other taking his part, or the other party, I am enformed
þat ye said parties bene now at trauerse in that behalfe, contrary to
such derections as were taken. I, willing ye pacefying and reformation
hereof, by the aduyse of you and other of my counsell, desire & pray
you, cousin, at your comying to me at Yorke vppon Thursday next
comying, to cause the sayd Georg & the other persones to com with
you, and þat ye shew your good will for the performance herof, as my
very trust is in you, whom God kepe. Written in my castell of Wresell,
the xiiij day of February.

Your cousin Hen: Northumberland^a

Endorsed: To my right hertely beloued cousin, Sir Robart Plompton kt

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

¹ Possibly John Pullein, of Scotton (d.c.1519), sergeant of the kitchen to Richard III,
W.E. Hampton, ‘Sir Robert Percy and Joyce his Wife’, in Richard III, Croum and People,
185 & n; 53.

² Presumably a kinsman of the Tancreds of Boroughbridge, George Tancred witnessed
a deed dated 15 Dec. 1480, CB, 708; 55. Feudal settlements by magnates such as
Northumberland were known as ‘derections’, J.G. Bellamy, Criminal Law and Society in Late
Medieval and Tudor England (Gloucester, 1984), 79.

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 VII.

To my right hartely beloved cousin, Sir Robart Plomton, kt.

    Right hartely beloved cousin, I commend me unto you. And
wheras I conceive, that wheras award was ordred in the matter of
variance depending betwixt John Polleyn a on the one partie, and
Georg Tankard b with other taking his parte on the other party, I
am enformed that the said parties bene now at traverse in that
behalfe, contrary to such derections as were taken. I, willing the
pacefying and reformation herof by the advyse of you and other
of my counsell, desire and pray you, Cousin, at your comyng to
me at Yorke uppon thursday next comyng, to cause the sayd
Georg and the other persones to com with you; and that ye shew
your good will for the performance herof, as my very trust is in
you, whom God kepe. Written in my Castell of Wresell, the xiiij
day of Februarie.
                                         Your Cosin,
                                                     HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.

a John Polleyn of Knaresborough, esq. son of John Polleyn the elder, gentleman.

b George Tankard, gentleman, was brother of William Tankard, ancester of the
Tancreds, Baronets, of Boroughbridge, com. Ebor. He was a witness to a deed,
15 Dec. 20 Edw. IV. 1480. (Chartul. No. 708.)