William Herward to Sir William Stonor

232. WILLIAM HERWARD TO SIR WILLIAM
STONOR

                                                      [? JAN. 1479]

     This is a little later than the previous letter. Herward was vicar of St.
Helen's, Abingdon. From , A.C., xlvi, 247.

     Maister Stonor, I recommende to you, mervelynge that ye wryte me
with any poynt of strayngenesse syn tyme þat I have fulfylled your
poyntment in your letters as touchyng to þe money lent for suche days
as ye desyred and longer, and as the poyntment last taken, when my
servant Stephen Hosyer was with youe, I aggreed, but when Harry
Dokettes servantes came to me þer was noon obligacion, and by cause
þer off I supposed þat þey came not as sufficiently instructe in your
appoyntment, but now I have delyverd your cuppe safe and sownde to
your servantes, Thomas Matthew and William Belsun, and have recevyd
of them x. lib. for halfe my due and an obligacion of x. lib. for þe
remynant: but I trust in your Maistership of a shorter day of payment,
for I borowed xx marcs of the same money: and þowe ye be patron of
Bruscote, I understande þat well and pray for you dayly, but I laste a
benyfice better to me þan þat is, for þe gret desyre of Maister Thomas
Forster; therfor I pray you accepte not me as a stranger, for I can do
as good servyce as som oþer. Valete in domino per Willm. Herward,
capellanum vestrum.

    To his worshipfull maister Syr William¹ Stonor Kny.

    ¹ "Syr William" has been inserted and cannot be read very clearly; but Stonor
was certainly a knight at this time

232. WILLIAM HERWARD TO SIR WILLIAM
STONOR

[? JAN. 1479]

     This is a little later than the previous letter. Herward was vicar of St.
Helen’s, Abingdon. From A.C., xlvi, 247.

     Maister Stonor, I recommende to you, mervelynge that ye wryte me
with any poynt of strayngenesse syn tyme þat I have fulfylled your
poyntment in your letters as touchyng to þe money lent for suche days
as ye desyred and longer, and as the poyntment last taken, when my
servant Stephen Hosyer was with youe, I aggreed, but when Harry
Dokettes servantes came to me þer was noon obligacion, and by cause
þer off I supposed þat þey came not as sufficiently instructe in your
appoyntment, but now I have delyverd your cuppe safe and sownde to
your servantes, Thomas Matthew and William Belsun, and have recevyd
of them x. lib. for halfe my due and an obligacion of x. lib. for þe
remynant: but I trust in your Maisteiship of a shorter day of payment,
for I borowed xx marcs of the same money: and þowe ye be patron of
Bruscote, I understande þat well and pray for you dayly, but I laste a
benyfice better to me þan þat is, for þe gret desyre of Maister Thomas
Forster; therfor I pray you accepte not me as a stranger, for I can do
as good servyce as som oþer. Valete in domino per Willm. Herward,
capellanum vestrum.

     To his worshipfull maister Syr William¹ Stonor Kny.

     ¹ “Syr William” has been inserted and cannot be read very clearly; but Stonor
was certainly a knight at this time.