Thomas Platter to John Paston

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Title
Thomas Platter to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 79
Date
[October] 1460
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 421
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

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THOMAS PLAITER TO JOHN PASTON2

 

To my rygth worchipfull and my good maister,
John Paston, Esquyer, in hast.

 

         RYGTH worchipfull and my most speciall synguler good
               maister, I recomend me to you, besechyng your mais-
               tership not to be dysplesed with my long taryans, and
also to take it to no gref thou it were long or 1 wrot to you;
for in good feyth I wend my self with in sevenygth after Seynt
Feythesmesse3 to have ben at London, and for asmoche as
Suthwell4 desyred me to tarye for evydens gevyng, &c. I
promysed hym so to do and tarye tyll the Munday after Seynt
Feythesmesse, or tyll the Tewysday sevenyth after at the

ferthest, and at tho dayes I hard no word fro hym. And so
uppon the Thursday after had I word that the under-eschetour
schuld sytte at Ocle1 the Tewysday after Seynt Luce;2 and so
I tarye as yette, and trust verely to be with you the Saterday at
the ferthest after Seynt Luce. Item, Sir, if my Maister of the
Rolles3 be not come, I trust to God to com tydely i now, as
for the traversys; and if ye besi you to the innyng ther of or
I com, Richard Ley schall delyver hem you, if ye send to hym
for it; for I left hem with hym to gete hem in if he mygth, and
promysed hym a reward for his labour. Item, my maistres4
and all folkes be heyll and mery, blyssed be Jesu, ho have you
in his blyssed governans and proteccion.

                                     By your,                                THOMAS PLAITER.

 

 

     2 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The writer of this excuses his delay in coming to
London, as he had been asked to stay and give evidence before the under-escheator,
who was to sit at Acle on Tuesday after St. Luke’s Day. This refers to the
inquisition on the lands of Sir John Fastolf, which was taken at Acle on that day
in 1460.                                    3 St. Faith’s Day is on the 6th of October.

     4 Richard Southwell, Escheator of Norfolk.

 

 

     1 Acle in Norfolk.

     2 St. Luke’s Day is the 18th October. The Tuesday after it was the 21st in 1460.

     3 Thomas de Kirkeby.                            4 Margaret Paston.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1460
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