W Coting to John Cook, draper of Norwich....

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Title
W Coting to John Cook, draper of Norwich....
Reference
Add. 27445, f. 33
Date
9 January 1469
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol V, item 697
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume V'

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ABSTRACT1

 

     W. COTING to JOHN COOK, draper of Norwich, ‘and that he deliver or
send this bill to Richard Kalle in all goodly haste, for the matter is of
substance.’

     This day in the grey morning three men of my Lord of Norfolk with long
spears carried off three good horses from John Poleyn, ‘one of your farmers at
Tichewell,’ telling him to treat with my Lord of Norfolk. Wishes to know
what to do, ‘for such an open wrong unremedied knew I never.’ Saturday
after Epiphany.

     ’Anno viijo’ is written below.

     [The signature of this letter is written in an abbreviated form, ‘W. Cot.’
According to Blomefield, W. Cotyng was rector of Titchwell from 1450 to
1457, and he had been previously rector of Swainsthorp, to which he was pre-
sented by Judge Paston in 1444. This letter is twelve years later than the
date at which his incumbency of Titchwell is said to have terminated; but
doubtless he is the writer. He is referred to as living even in the year 1485,
in a letter written by Dame Elizabeth Browne, who says that he and James
Gresham were clerks to her father Judge Paston.]

 

     1 [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

 

 

 

 

1469
JAN. 9