Thomas Mull to Thomas Stonor

                   111. THOMAS MULL TO THOMAS STONOR

                                                [1470 ?]

     The date is probably early in 1470, since it was more than a year after
the deaths of Richard and Alice Drayton, and Christmas was past. The
goblets, etc., appear to have been valued at ?6 16s. 8d., and were presumably
family plate purchased by Stonor from Mull. From A.C., xlvi, 60.⁴⁷

     Right worshipfull Master and Brother, I recommaund me unto you:
and wher it lykid you to send me iij li. by Robert Barre, sendyng me
by your letter word that yt was for no duete of my ffader, yf it lyke you
to call to remembraunce, ther was by you due for my ffader ys dette,
whos sowle God assoyle, at Alhalowyntyde x. li., of which I have re-
sceyvid by the handes of Robert Barre, before thes iij li., vij li., and so
nowe the full x. li. is content: and when ye wer in Kente and in my
pore hows ye payed me x. li. for my wyfes duete, and ther lefte v
nobles behynd &c of her duete unpayed. Also, and ye be not ther
with displesid, when ye bought in London the goblettes and flat pees
coverid, with spones &c, that sume drewe to viiij li. x. s, wherof at
Cristmes ye sente me by my Cosen Willyam x marcs, and so ther
restyth behynd unpayed therof v nobbles iij s. iiij d. And as for the
summez in your letter, parte of the smethes sume, a xxxiij s., I under-
stand well: for xij moneth passid I had a bill therof of Balam after the
moneth mynde of my ffader Drayton. As for the sum of the carpenter
for the lok, I remembre well what sum of mone was by my mene
assigned therto &c. I shall comyn with you, when I may mete nexte
with you, which with Goddis [grace]¹ shall not be long &c. And I trust
to God that ye woll conceyve your self, that as for the carpenteris wages
ther may by no reson be no mone due to hym therof, but yf it so wer
that the mone to hym assigned wer not payed, for he had it in grete
for that his labour, and a warrant made to Harre Dogett to pay yt. I
wot well it woll come to your remembraunce &c. Notwithstandyng I
ame as much behold to you for the iij li. nowe to me sente, as though
ye had lente it or geve it me. For sumwhat I had endangerid me for
the sowles past to God more than I had mone to. And as for shepe
I bought of you at the xij month mynd vj shepe at the pris of xxij. d.
a pes, which is in dute therfor to you xj. s. &c. Syr, I am yours as
ferre as my pore power may strech: and as for your mater of inquisicion,
I trust to God it be to your plesyr and profyte, but your Councell in no
wyse wold not agre to have the said way found, after they conceyvid that
it was over your ground for other mennes ease: for though of old ther
wer a toll payable to you ther for, and long seth it was payed, yet and
it wer found your Maner were charged for ever ther with: and as for
your toll, never the nerrer for the fyndyng: and the right of your toll
never the ferther fro you, though it be not founde &c. I sende by the
berer herof the dede of lees to my Moder, and the cope of all your
dedes, and the cope of the Inquisicion. And Jhesu preserve you to
your plesyr.

                                                                     Your Thomas Mull.

   To my maister and Brother Stonor.

                                                         ¹ grace, om. MS.

111. THOMAS MULL TO THOMAS STONOR

[1470?]

     The date is probably early in 1470, since it was more than a year after
the deaths of Richard and Alice Drayton, and Christmas was past. The
goblets, etc., appear to have been valued at £6 16s. 8d., and were presumably
family plate purchased by Stonor from Mull. From A.C., xlvi, 60.

     Right worshipfull Master and Brother, I recommaund me unto you:
and wher it lykid you to send me iij li. by Robert Barre, sendyng me
by your letter word that yt was for no duete of my ffader, yf it lyke you
to call to remembraunce, ther was by you due for my ffader ys dette,
whos sowle God assoyle, at Alhalowyntyde x. li., of which I have re-
sceyvid by the handes of Robert Barre, before thes iij li., vij li., and so
nowe the full x. li. is content: and when ye wer in Kente and in my
pore hows ye payed me x. li. for my wyfes duete, and ther lefte v
nobles behynd &c of her duete unpayed. Also, and ye be not ther
with displesid, when ye bought in London the goblettes and flat pees
coverid, with spones &c, that sume drewe to viiij li. x. s, wherof at
Cristmes ye sente me by my Cosen Willyam x marcs, and so ther
restyth behynd unpayed therof v nobbles iij s. iiij d. And as for the
summez in your letter, parte of the smethes sume, a xxxiij s., I under-
stand well: for xij moneth passid I had a bill therof of Balam after the
moneth mynde of my ffader Drayton. As for the sum of the carpenter
for the lok, I remembre well what sum of mone was by my mene
assigned therto &c. I shall comyn with you, when I may mete nexte
with you, which with Goddis [grace]¹ shall not be long &c. And I trust
to God that ye woll conceyve your self, that as for the carpenteris wages
ther may by no reson be no mone due to hym therof, but yf it so wer
that the mone to hym assigned wer not payed, for he had it in grete
for that his labour, and a warrant made to Harre Dogett to pay yt. I
wot well it woll come to your remembraunce &c. Notwithstandyng I
ame as much behold to you for the iij li. nowe to me sente, as though
ye had lente it or geve it me. For sumwhat I had endangerid me for
the sowles past to God more than I had mone to. And as for shepe
I bought of you at the xij month mynd vj shepe at the pris of xxij. d.
a pes, which is in dute therfor to you xj. s. &c. Syr, I am yours as
ferre as my pore power may strech: and as for your mater of inquisicion,
I trust to God it be to your plesyr and profyte, but your Councell in no
wyse wold not agre to have the said way found, after they conceyvid that
it was over your ground for other mennes ease: for though of old ther
wer a toll payable to you ther for, and long seth it was payed, yet and
it wer found your Maner were charged for ever ther with: and as for
your toll, never the nerrer for the fyndyng: and the right of your toll
never the ferther fro you, though it be not founde &c. I sende by the
berer herof the dede of lees to my Moder, and the cope of all your
dedes, and the cope of the Inquisicion. And Jhesu preserve you to
your plesyr.

                                                                              Your Thomas Mull.

     To my maister and Brother Stonor.

¹ grace, om. MS.