William Elleson to Sir Robert Plumpton

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William Elleson to Sir Robert Plumpton
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WYL655/2 No. 141, p. 86
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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 104; Kirby, item 130
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

 

130 William Elleson to Sir Robert Plumpton [1498/9] (No. 141, p. 86)

 

Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you. Sir, this day I receyued
your letter, by the which ye desyred me to be at Helagh1 vpon
Myghellmas even. Sir, pat day I may not keepe, for I must then be at
Malton for my Lord Clifford, for keeping of his court.2 But if it please
you to send to Master [...]a Babthorppe, which is yet at Dighton,3 to
appoynt Fryday or Satterday before Myghellmas Day, or Fryday or
Satterday next after Myghellmas, I shall then attend of you, with the
grace of God; & of the day that ye appoynt, I pray you send me word
by my servant. Sir, I pray you [. . .]b hold me excused of the breaking
of my promyse, for I was vij nyghts from home more then I went I
should haue bene when I rodde forth; & thus God preserve you.
Wrytten at Selby this Wedensday.

By your servant             William Elesonc

Endorsed: To his right worshipfull master Sir Robart Plompton kt

 

     a Which is y deleted.

     b send me word deleted.

     c Appended: Copied the 19 of Aprill 1613.

 

     1 In CB, fols 159–62 are extracts from the Coucher Book of the Augustinian priory of
St John the Evangelist, Healaugh Park, near Wetherby, recording grants made by Peter
de Plumpton and others.

     2 Henry, 10th Lord Clifford, later 1st earl of Cumberland (d.1542). Elleson was
apparently his steward at Malton.

     3 Kirk Deighton, near Plumpton.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER CIV.

 

To his right worshipfull master, Sir Robart Plompton, kt.

 

    Right worshipfull Sir, I comend me to you. Sir, this day I
receyved you letter, by the which ye desyred me to be at Helagha
upon Myghellmas even. Sir, that day I may not keepe, for I
must then be at Malton for my lord Clifford,b for keeping of his
court; but if it please you to send to Mr. Babthorppe, which is
yet at Dighton,c to appoynt fryday or satterday before Myghellmas
day, or fryday or satterday next after Myghellmas, I shall then
attend of you, with the grace of God. And of the day that ye
appoynt, I pray ye send me word by my servant. Sir, I pray you

hold me excused of the breaking of my promyse, for I was vii
nyghts from home more then I weut I shold have bene when I
rodde forth. And thus God preserve you. Wrytten at Selby the
Wedensday.

                By your servant,
                        WILLIAM ELESON.

 

    a Healaugh, a parish town in the Ainsty, com. Ebor.

    b Henry Lord Clifford and Westmoreland, inherited Malton, com. Ebor. from his
mother Margaret, daughter and coheir of Henry Bromflete, Baron Vescy.

    c Kirk-Dighton, near Plumpton.