Thomas Bradbury to Dame Elizabeth Stonor

252. THOMAS BRADBURY TO
DAME ELIZABETH STONOR

 1 OCTOBER, 1479

    This is an invoice from Thomas Bradbury, a London mercer, who was
sheriff in 1498 and mayor in 1509. On 7th April, 1481, he was one of the
sureties for the payment of ?758 19s. 0½d.due to the orphan children of John
Fenne (see vol. i, p. xxx). He died in January, 1510, and was buried at St.
Stephen, Coleman Street (Stow, Survey, i, 284; ii, 180). Bradbury had been
an apprentice of Richard Ryche, the father of Elizabeth Stonor's first husband
(Ryche's Will ap. P.C.C., 4 Godyn). From AC., xlvi, 239.

Jhesus.

    After due ffourme I recommaunde me unto your ladyship: lyke it
you to wytte that I have R[eceived] a letter fro you by Master Makeney,
and accordyng to your letter I send you: þat is—
 

    vj elles holland at ij s. an ell, Summa                                                 xij. s.

    Itm. ij elles holland at ij s. viij d., Summa,                                  v. s. iiij. d.

    Itm. xij elles holland at xvj d. Summa,                                                 xvj. s.

    Itm. xxxviij yerdes grene sarcenet at v s. the yerd.Summa,       ix. li. x. s.

    Itm. j. p. greene bokame to lyne it with, pris,                              vj s. viij d.

                                             Totalis, xj. li. x. s.

    Madame, the sarcenet is verry ffyne. I thynke most profytable and
most worshipfull for you, and shall [last]¹ you your lyff and your chyldes
after you, wher as harlatry of xl. d. or xliiij. d. a yerd wold nat indure
too sesons with you: Therfor for a lytill more cost, me thinketh most
wysdom to take of þe best. In certen I have bought the most part of
þe sarcenet, for I had nat I-now to perfourme yt. I wynne never a peny
in þat &c. I shall see your ladyship hastly by Goddes grace, who pre-
serve you to his plesour &c. Wret at London the xv daye of Octobr.,
A^o lxxix.

                                                   Be your servaunt, Thomas Bradbury.
   To my right worshipful Dame Elizabeth Stonore be this delivered.

¹ Malvesey.

252. THOMAS BRADBURY TO
DAME ELIZABETH STONOR

15 OCTOBER, 1479

     This is an invoice from Thomas Bradbury, a London mercer, who was
sheriff in 1498 and mayor in 1509. On 7th April, 1481, he was one of the
sureties for the payment of £758 19s. 0½d. due to the orphan children of John
Fenne (see vol. i, p. xxx). He died in January, 1510, and was buried at St.
Stephen, Coleman Street (Stow, Survey, i, 284; ii, 180). Bradbury had been
an apprentice of Richard Ryche, the father of Elizabeth Stonor’s first husband
(Ryche’s Will ap. P.C.C., 4 Godyn). From A.C., xlvi, 239.

Jhesus.

     After due ffourme I recommaunde me unto your ladyship: lyke it
you to wytte that I have R[eceived] a letter fro you by Master Makeney,
and accordyng to your letter I send you: þat is—

     vj elles holland at ij s. an ell, Summa                                               xij. s.

     Itm. ij elles holland at ij s. viij d., Summa,                                v. s. iiij. d.

     Itm. xij elles holland at xvj d. Summa,                                               xvj. s.

     Itm. xxxviij yerdes grene sarcenet at v s. the yerd. Summa,    ix. li. x. s.

     Itm. j. p. greene bokame to lyne it with, pris,                            vj s. viij d.

Totalis, xj. li. x. s.

     Madame, the sarcenet is verry ffyne. I thynke most profytable and
most worshipfull for you, and shall [last]¹ you your lyff and your chyldes
after you, wher as harlatry of xl. d. or xliiij. d. a yerd wold nat indure
too sesons with you: Therfor for a lytill more cost, me thinketh most
wysdom to take of þe best. In certen I have bought the most part of
þe sarcenet, for I had nat I-now to perfourme yt. I wynne never a peny
in þat &c. I shall see your ladyship hastly by Goddes grace, who pre-
serve you to his plesour &c. Wret at London the xv daye of Octobr.,
A^o lxxix.

                                                    Be your servaunt, Thomas Bradbury.

     To my right worshipful Dame Elizabeth Stonore be this delivered.

¹ “Last” omitted in MS.