The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 57, p. 34

Date

16 July [?1488]

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 41; Kirby, item 67

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

67 The earl of Northumberland to Sir Robert Plumpton, 16 July [?1488] (No.
57, p. 34)

Right hertely beloued cousin, I commend me vnto you. And wheras I
conceiue that there is a grudge depending betwixt you & Sir William
Beckwith, knight,¹ I, entending the peacifiying thereof, desire & pray
you to forbere and contynue to doe anything in that behalfe against
the said Sir William foresaid vnto my next comying into Yorkshire.
And then I shall shew me in such wyse for the reformation therof, as
I trust shall agre with right law & conscience. Wherefore I pray you to
the accomplishment herof, as my very trust is in you. I haue wrytten
in likwyse vnto sayd Sir William. That now God conserue you. Wrytten
in my castell of Warkworth, the xvi day of July. Ouer this, cousin, ye
shall understand that the sayd Sir William Beckwith will committ him
vnto my rule in all behalues, & therefore I pray you to se the premysse
performed.

Your cousin Hen: Northumberland^a

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

^a Appended: this letter hath a seale. Copied the 4 day of March 1612.

¹ Husband of Sir Robert’s step-sister, Elizabeth. Both protagonists were feed by
Northumberland, Hicks, NH, xiv, 106; 6; Stapleton, 6, 72n.

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 XLI.

To my right hartely beloved Cousin Sir Robart Plompton, kt.

    Right hartely beloved Cousin, I commennd me unto you;
and wheras I conceive that ther is a grudge depending betwixt
you and Sir William Beckwith, knight,a I, entending the peacifiyng
thereof, desire and pray you to forbere and contynue to do any
thing in that behalfe against the sayd Sir William unto my next
commyng into Yorkshire. And then, I shall shew me in such
wyse for the reformacion therof, as I trust shall agre with right
law and conscience. Wherefore I pray you to conforme you
to the accomplishment herof, as my very trust is in you. I have
wrytten in like wise unto the sayd Sir William. That now God
conserve you. Wrytten in my castell of Warkworth, the xvi day
of July. Over this, Cousin, ye shall understand, that the sayd
Sir William Beckwith will committ him unto my rule in all
behalves, and therfore I pray you to se the premysses per-
formed.
                                             Your Cousin
                                                           HEN. NORTHUMBERLAND.b

a Sir William Beckwith, kt. one of the feed-man of the Earl of Northumberland, (see
Letter XIV.) was dead before 19 Aug. 11 Hen. VII. 1496, when Elizabeth, his relict,
released to Sir Robert Plumpton, kt. and his heirs, all right and title in the lands of
which their father, Sir William Plumpton, kt. died seised. (Chartul. No. 782.) See
also Letter V, notec at page 6.

b As it is impossible to distinguish with certainty between the undated letters of
Henry the fourth Earl, and those of his son the fifth Earl of Northumberland, in
every instance, I have inserted several consecutively in this place, though there can be
no doubt that this letter is to be attributed to the father. The son was born 13 Jan.
1477-8, and had a special livery of his lands in the thirteenth year or Hen. VII. before
he had fully attained his majority; his letters will therefore date from after the year
1497-8.