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Title

Two items

Reference

SC 1/53/19

Date

June 1483

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Malden, item 114

Transcript from Henry Elliot Malden, 'The Cely Papers: Selections from the correspondence and memoranda of the Cely family, merchants of the Staple, A.D. 1475-1488'

114

This is the only document, we cannot call it a letter, in the collection, which
deals with the violent revolutions of the English Court during the period covered
by the correspondence. The style is so guarded as to be very obscure, but the
date is clearly fixed as between the death of Hastings on June 13, 1483, and the
creation of Lord Howard as Duke of Norfolk on June 28. It is also evidently
before the assumption of the crown by Richard III. on June 25. The fear for the
life of the king, Edward V., is ominous of the future; but the writer, George Cely
by the hand, or his informant, Sir John Weston, is still uncertain how the revolu-
tion may turn.

Ther ys grett romber in the reme, the scottes has done grett
[sic] yn Ynglond,^b schamberlayne^c ys dessesset in trobell the
chaunseler^d ys dysprowett and nott content the boshop of Ely^e
ys ded yff the kyng^f God saffe his lyfe wher desett, the Dewk of
Glosetter^g wher in any parell, geffe my lorde prynsse^h wher God
defend wher trobellett, yf my lord of Northehombyrlond^a wher
dede or grettly trobellytt, yf my lorde Haward^b wher slayne

De Munsewr Sent Jonys.

Summa.

(The rest of the page torn off.)

On the Dorse:^c

The Som of Nycolas Brystall hys partyshon of bothe oblygacyons amuntes . . . .	xxxj^li viij^s vij^d ster:
Item thys amountes in fl. at xxvj^s le li. to .	xl^li xvij^s j^d fl.
Item Nycolas Brystallys partyshon of bothe oblyggacyons amountes unto. . . .	xxxj^li iiij^s vij^d ster:
Item ytt amountes in fl^s at xxvj^s le pound . .	xl^li xj^s xj^d fl^s.
The rest of bothe oblygacyons amountes unto.	x^li viij^s j^d ster:
Item I must pay unto Hary Bryan at Synysyon marte be an byll of my hond for his wharrant and the rest of his oblygacyons. . . . . . . . . .	l^li fl^s.

^a Alveley.

^b On January 12, 1483, the Duke of Albany had re-opened treasonable com-
munications with England, which resulted in a treaty on his behalf, and on that
of the banished Earl of Douglas, signed in London on February 11. A recru-
descence of Border warfare resulted, but what damage precisely is referred to
here does not appear.

^c Lord Hastings, executed June 13.

^d Not Dr. Russell, Bishop of Lincoln, the actual Lord Chancellor, but Thomas
Rotherham, Archbishop of York, who had been deprived of the Great Seal in May,
and who was arrested when Hastings was killed.

^e Morton, Bishop of Ely, afterwards Archbishop, Chancellor and Cardinal,
arrested when Hastings was killed.

^f Edward V. ^g Richard III. ^h The Duke of York.