Thomas Shotbult to John Paston

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Title
Thomas Shotbult to John Paston
Reference
Add. 27444, f. 85
Date
n.d.
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol III, item 434
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume III'

434

 

THOMAS SHOTBOLT TO JOHN PASTON1

 

To my worshipfull maister, Maister Paston of the Temple.

 

WORSHIPFULL Sir, soo ye will send a polletik
     person to Ludgate in secrete wise to comune with
     me, and lete hym not in no wise speke of you to
hove (?) youre good maistership, and a resonable remedy shall
ease you of a gret part that the criour cleymeth of you for
Maister Fastolffs detts of xiij. or xiiij. yere at the lest, and be
that perave[ntu]re of the hole qui in uno est reus morbus [in
omnibus] reus . . . . . . . Sir, remembreth your worship if y
doo to ease you, lete me not be discoveryd, for ye knewe
not your worship y wold not doo thus. What ever ye have
of me, ye may sey it is found in the stywardes boks, and y
know that ye have desired favour to have hym seese for your
worship that procur hym ageyns you; whoo so shall kom to
me, he may kom in Maistre Nevills name, for with hym have
y a doo. As for your own servaunts, y ferd me lest they be
knowyn whethir it be servaunt or othir, send knowleche of my
reword and a bille under your seall or your own hands, or
bothe on your worship to have it close that y be not blamyd
for that; y shall telle you her after. Wretyn in Ludgate.

                        Your servaunt and there prisoner,

                                                                          THOMAS SHOTBOLT.

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.] Beyond the evident fact that this letter was written
between the death of Sir John Fastolf in 1459 and that of John Paston in 1466, there
is not much clue to the date.