Thomas Mull to Thomas Stonor

100.       THOMAS MULL TO THOMAS STONOR

[1469]

   The reference to "my moder and your" shows that this was written to
Thomas Stonor. Mull had presumably married a daughter of Alice Drayton
by her second husband. The date is probably some time early in 1469, or
at all events within a year of Alice Drayton's death; it is clearly earlier than
that of No. III. "Rayne of Devonshire" is perhaps the lawyer Reyny, who
was an arbitrator in the suit of Stonor v. Fortescue, see No. 79. From A.C.,
xlvi, 106.

    Right worshipfull Master and Brother, I recommaund me unto you:
prayng you to conceyve that or Robert Barre come I had borowed
iij. li. to content and paye Rayne of Devonshir for your offis upon the
diem clausit extremum after the dethe of my good Mastres and Moder
and your, whos sowle God assoyle, which I have payd hym. And syr,
I conceyve by Robert ye wold I shold make up the offis accordyng to
suche instruccion as ye sent by hym to my cosyn Willyam in a bille,
which I dar not take uppon me, for I conceyve it not a right: wherefor
I pray you to come your self and to bryng with you the cope of all thos
dedes: or ell, and ye be not disposid to come here this terme, send us
 a pleyn cope of al your dedes made seth the dethe of your ffader with a
more playne instruccion, and ye shall have my service: and I woll
call to me sum good master or felowe: and I will geve him for his
labor, and spede your mater as well as we can. And as for the mater
of my lord of Caunterbury, thowgh ye come not this terme, I truste to
God to kepe me from al hurtes in that behalf. And syr, as for this
mone whiche ye have sente me, before God I have leyd oute for you
therof, which I borowed, iij. li.: and so with me abydeth therof no
more but xl. s.: and I shold have resceyvid of you at this tyme x. li.
and v. nobles, which I must paye and dispose or Wennesday nexte
cummyng, or ellys I must be untrewe to God and to them that be dede,
and fals of my promys, which God defend me fro. Wherfor I praye
and beseche you, as my servis may and shalbe redy to you at al tymes,
that I may have my mone her uppon Tewesday nexte commyng: and
I shal be redy to your plesyr with Goddes grace, which preserve you
and yours.

                                                                                        T. M¹¹ (Mull).

          To my master Stonor.

100. THOMAS MULL TO THOMAS STONOR

[1469]

     The reference to “my moder and your” shows that this was written to
Thomas Stonor. Mull had presumably married a daughter of Alice Drayton
by her second husband. The date is probably some time early in 1469, or
at all events within a year of Alice Drayton’s death; it is clearly earlier than
that of No. 111. “Rayne of Devonshire” is perhaps the lawyer Reyny, who
was an arbitrator in the suit of Stonor v. Fortescue, see No. 79. From A.C.,
xlvi, 106.
 

     Right worshipfull Master and Brother, I recommaund me unto you:
prayng you to conceyve that or Robert Barre come I had borowed
iij. li. to content and paye Rayne of Devonshir for your offis upon the
diem clausit extremum after the dethe of my good Mastres and Moder
and your, whos sowle God assoyle, which I have payd hym. And syr,
I conceyve by Robert ye wold I shold make up the offis accordyng to
suche instruccion as ye sent by hym to my cosyn Willyam in a bille,
which I dar not take uppon me, for I conceyve it not a right: wherefor
I pray you to come your self and to bryng with you the cope of all thos
dedes: or ell, and ye be not disposid to come here this terme, send us
a pleyn cope of al your dedes made seth the dethe of your ffader with a
more playne instruccion, and ye shall have my service: and I woll
call to me sum good master or felowe: and I will geve him for his
labor, and spede your mater as well as we can. And as for the mater
of my lord of Caunterbury, thowgh ye come not this terme, I truste to
God to kepe me from al hurtes in that behalf. And syr, as for this
mone whiche ye have sente me, before God I have leyd oute for you
therof, which I borowed, iij. li.: and so with me abydeth therof no
more but xl. s.: and I shold have resceyvid of you at this tyme x. li.
and v. nobles, which I must paye and dispose or Wennesday nexte
cummyng, or ellys I must be untrewe to God and to them that be dede,
and fals of my promys, which God defend me fro. Wherfor I praye
and beseche you, as my servis may and shalbe redy to you at al tymes,
that I may have my mone her uppon Tewesday nexte commyng: and
I shal be redy to your plesyr with Goddes grace, which preserve you
and yours.

                                                                                       T. M^ll (Mull).

     To my master Stonor.