The earl of Northumberland to Sir William Plumpton

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Title
The earl of Northumberland to Sir William Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 2, p. 151
Date
6 June, [1471-1479]
Library / Archive
  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir William Plompton', item 21; Kirby, item 24
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

24 The earl of Northumberland to Sir William Plumpton, 6 June [1471 ×
     1479] (No. 2, p. 151; CB 612)

 

Right trusty and welbeloued cossine, I grete you wele,a and wheras
varience dependenth betwixt you and my right welbeloued servant
Robart Birnand,1 I therfore right hartyly desire [. . .]b and pray you
therin nothing to doe vnto that I come into the contry. As my trust is
in you, confirme you to the performing of this my desire, as ye intend
to doe my pleasure; and our blesed Lord haue you, kussin, in his
blessed kepping. Wryten in my maner of Lekingfeild the sixt day of
June.c

                         Your cossine         H. Northumberland

Endorsed: To my right trusty and wellbeloued coussin Sir William
Plompton knight

 

     a Marginal note. 2 letter.

     b you deleted.

     c Marginal note: Anno 1612, copied 9 December.

 

     1 A man of some standing in Knaresborough, Robert Birnand held substantial
properties in and around the town in 1462, including burgages and land in the town
fields. Concurrently the family leased the mills, market tolls and borough court, B.
Jennings (ed.), A History of Nidderdale (Huddersfield, 1967), 73, 90.

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 XXI.

 

To my right trusty and welbeloved Coussin, Sir William Plompton,
knight.

 

    Right trusty and welbeloved Cossine, I grete you wele; and
whearas varience dependeth betwixt you and my right welbeloved
servant, Robart Birnand,a I therfore right hartyly desire and
pray you therin nothing to doe, unto that I come into the con-
try. As my trust is in you, conforme you to the performing of
this my desire, as ye intend to doe me pleasure: and our blessed
Lord have you, kussin, in his blessed kepping. Wryten in my
maner of Lekingfeild, the sixt day of June.

 

    (6 June 1471-9.)     Your Cossine, H. NORTHUMBERLAND.

 

        a Robert Birnand, of Nidd near Knaresborough, esq.