The Yorkist Lords to the Authorities in Norfolk

410

THE YORKIST LORDS TO THE AUTHORITIES
IN NORFOLK¹

The Erlys of Marche, Warwyke, and Salysbury.

     RYGHT welbeloved, we grete you wele; and wher, for
         the tendre love that we have to the concervacion of
         the Kyngs peas, lawes, and justice in this his realme
of Englonde, we have comaunded the Kyngs peeple in his

name, be oure letters and diverse writyngs, that no man shulde
robbe or dispoile Sir Thomas Todenham, Knyght, John
Heyden, John Wyndham, Herry Todenham, and John
Andrws, and other weche have sued to us for oure seide
letters; we, wolyng to eschewe that any person shulde have
colour be oure seide letters to noyse us, or any of us, that
the seide Sir Thomas, John Heyden, John Wyndham, Herry,
and John Andrws, or any other of suspecte fame, be accorded
with us, or any of us, for suche wrongs as they, or any of
ham, have do to us, our servaunts and tenants or wellwellers,
or that we shulde hafe hem in tendrenesse or favour to dis-
corage trewe people to swe a yen hem be the lawe; We
therfore notyfie to yow, as we woll that it be notyfid to all
people, that we, ne noon of us, intende not to favour or tendre
hem, or any other of suspecte fame, but rather to corecte
suche be the lawe, for we made our seid letters soly for kepyng
of the pease and justice, and not for favour of suspecte con-
dicione. And the Holy Trynyte kepe yow.

     Wreten at London the xxiij^ti day of Jule.

           To all Meyers, Sceryves, Balyfys, Constables, and all
                 the Kynges Offecers and Ministres in Norffolk, and
                 eche on of hem.

     ¹ [From Fenn, iii. 244.] This manifesto must have been issued in July 1460,
after the battle of Northampton, when the King was in the hands of the confederate

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