Thomas Staunton or Stonor to William Stonor

151. THOMAS STAUNTON OR STONOR TO
WILLIAM STONOR

[? 1475]

     Though the signature to this and to No. 153 is certainly Staunton, it seems
clear that the writer was William Stonor's own brother Thomas; in its
language it closely resembles No. 142. Thomas seems to have been of a
jocular turn, and there may be some private jest in the use of the name.
No. 153 shows that the writer had lately been in trouble, and this letter
may perhaps be a little earlier in date. In both letters "Katermanes" is
quoted for a proverbial saying; possibly it may refer to Richard Quarter-
mayns—see Nos. 94 and 141. The letter was printed in Excerpta His-
torica, 356. From A.C., xlvi, 124.⁶⁵

     Rygth worchypfull broder and suster, after dew recomendacion plesse
yt you to hunderstonde þat I have a grett mysse of you thys terme.
And I lett you whitte I am grette with the Kyng: for I com hoppe be
preve sell, and grette nede I hadde now of you and of your counsell for
ther ys no more a counsell agynes me but all the juges and serjaunttes
and no man dare be with me for displessyng of them: so I am in wars
cause then a theffe, for a theff in appell shall have counsell. I purposse
to se my suster or ye com out of Devysshirre, yf I may for the Flete,
but sore I fere lest ye shall fynde me in the Flete when ye com out of
Devysshyre. God send never wras tyryngys to Englonde. Fene I
wolde here tell þat I shulde be sende fore to be your gossheppe, but
yt hys tolde me ye stryke flatte. More over suster, remembre my
pauntener and my pursse, and þat I have the teune of them sende me
shortely, apon pene þat woll fall there on: wat ys þat, trow ye, lossyn my
lordesshyppe &c.: quod Katermanes, for the indyngnacion of a prince
ys dethe. No more to you at thys tyme, but Jhesu have you and yours
ever in kepyng. More over I entende to kepe my gresse tyme in þat
countre, where fore I woll þat no man huntte tyll I have bene there:
purve not for over many for my comyng, for I woll com but with Willm.,
my man, and my selfe: and se þat my wyne be kowged.

                                                        Your fethfull broder Th. Staunton.

    To my well beloved broder Willm. Stonar thys letter be delyvered in
hast.

151. THOMAS STAUNTON OR STONOR TO
WILLIAM STONOR

[? 1475]

     Though the signature to this and to No. 153 is certainly Staunton, it seems
clear that the writer was William Stonor’s own brother Thomas; in its
language it closely resembles No. 142. Thomas seems to have been of a
jocular turn, and there may be some private jest in the use of the name.
No. 153 shows that the writer had lately been in trouble, and this letter
may perhaps be a little earlier in date. In both letters “Katermanes” is
quoted for a proverbial saying; possibly it may refer to Richard Quater-
mayns—see Nos. 94 and 141. The letter was printed in Excerpta His-
torica, 356. From A.C., xlvi, 124.

[ILL] Rygth worchypfull broder and suster, after dew recomendacion plesse
yt you to hunderstonde þat I have a grett mysse of you thys terme.
And I lett you whitte I am grette with the Kyng: for I com hoppe be
preve sell, and grette nede I hadde now of you and of your counsell for
ther ys no more a counsell agynes me but all the juges and serjaunttes
and no man dare be with me for displessyng of them: so I am in wars
cause then a theffe, for a theff in appell shall have counsell. I purposse
to se my suster or ye com out of Devysshirre, yf I may for the Flete,
but sore I fere lest ye shall fynde me in the Flete when ye com out of
Devysshyre. God send never wras tyryngys to Englonde. Fene I
wolde here tell þat I shulde be sende fore to be your gossheppe, but
yt hys tolde me ye stryke flatte. More over suster, remembre my
pauntener and my pursse, and þat I have the teune of them sende me
shortely, apon pene þat woll fall there on: wat ys þat, trow ye, lossyn my
lordesshyppe &c.: quod Katermanes, for the indyngnacion of a prince
ys dethe. No more to you at thys tyme, but Jhesu have you and yours
ever in kepyng. More over I entende to kepe my gresse tyme in þat
countre, where fore I woll þat no man huntte tyll I have bene there:
purve not for over many for my comyng, for I woll com but with Willm.,
my man, and my selfe: and se þat my wyne be kowged.

                                                               Your fethfull broder Th. Staunton.

     To my well beloved broder Willm. Stonar thys letter be delyvered in
hast.