William Gascoigne to Sir Robert Plumpton

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Reference

WYL655/2 No. 74, p. 42

Date

18 December [?1515]

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 175; Kirby, item 214

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

214 William Gascoigne to Sir Robert Plumpton, 18 December [?1515] (No.
74, p. 42)

Uncle Plompton, I commend me vnto you. It is so I am like to haue
busines for the lordship of Harwood. The kinge is my good and gratias
lord, and hath granted it to me, with all the reuenos and profitts therof
duryng ?e nowne age of the heire of Heire Ridman.¹ And, as I am
enformed, such folkes as be not my louers wold bysie them in the
cause; how be it they haue no matter of law, nor right therin. Wherefore
I desire you, if there be any cause or matter of danger against me in
?at behalfe, ?at ye wilbe with me, with such company as you can
make, at such tyme as I send to you; [at] which your comyng ye shall
se a reasonable suerty to beare me in ?e cause.² And what ye will doe
herin, I pray you send me word in writting be this bearer; & thus our
Lord keepe you. At Gaukthorpe, the xviij day of December.

Your nephew William Gascoygne^a

Endorsed: To my vncle Plompton this letter be deliuered in hast

^a Appended: this letter hath a seale. Copied the 13th day of March 1612.

¹ Joan Redman, only daughter of Henry Redman, of Harewood, and granddaughter
of Edward Redman, of Lincoln?s Inn (1455?1515), Lander, 96; Flower?s Visitation, 262; T.D.
Whitaker, Loidis and Elmete (1816), 166.

² The Plumptons and Redmans were related through Sir William?s 1st wife, Elizabeth
Stapleton, Gooder, 176.

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 CLXXV.

To my uncle Plumpton this letter be delivered in hast.

Uncle Plompton. I commend me unto you. It is so I am like to
have busines for the lordship of Harwood. The Kinge is my
good and gracias Lord, and hath granted it to me, with all the
revenos and profitts thereof, duryng the nowne age of the heire
of Heire Ridman.^a And as I am enformed, such folkes as be not
my lovers, wold bysied them in the cause; how be it, they have no
matter of law, nor right therin. Wherfore I desire you, if there
by any cause or matter of danger against me in that behalfe, that
ye will be with me, with such company as you can make, at such
tyme as I send to you ; at which your comyng ye shall se a reason-
able suerty to beare me in the cause. And what ye will doe
berin I pray you send me word in writting be this bearer. And
thus our Lord keepe you. At Gaukthorpe, the xvii day of De-
cember.

Your nephew,
(18 Dec. anno circiter 1515.) WILLIAM GASCOYGNE.

^a Joanna, only child of Henry Redman, son and heir apparent of Edward, Redman,
esq. lord of a moiety of Harewood, com. Ebor, was five years old in 6 Hen. VIII.
when her grandfather died. (See Pedigree in Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.)