William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to Edmund De Stonor, sheriff of Oxford [and Berkshire]

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Title
William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to Edmund De Stonor, sheriff of Oxford [and Berkshire]
Reference
SC 1/46/32-33
Date
[1378]
Library / Archive
  • The National Archives, UK
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters', item 12; Kingsford, Vol I, item 12
Transcript from Christine Carpenter, 'Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers, 1290-1483'

12. WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER, TO EDMUND DE STONOR

 

11 JANUARY, [1378]

 

      There are remains of the bishop's seal. The next letter in the Collection
(A.C., xlvi, 33) is also addressed by Wykeham to "E. Stonor, viscount de
Berkes," but is too fragmentary for reproduction. From A.C., xlvi, 32.

 

     Trescher et tresffiable amy, Nous vous prions trescherement de coer
qe es busoignes, qe nostre cher amy, Johan Beverleye, ad affaire en voz
parties touchans vostre office en le Counte doxenford, lui veuilletz estre
entier amy eidant et consellant par touz les bones et resonables voies
qe vous purriez. Issint qe le dit Johan puisse effectuelement sentir qe
ceste ma priere lui purra valoir. Pur la quelle chose, trescher amy,
nous vous volons tresbon gree savoir et especialement estre tenuz. Et,
trescher amy, le seint esprit vous veulle tous jours garder. Escrit a
nostre Manoir de Suthwerk, le xj jour de Januer.

                                                                           levesque de Wyncestre.

      A nostre trescher, et tresffiable amy, Esmond Stonore, Visconte
Doxenfort.

Transcript from Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 'The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483, Volume I'

12. WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM, BISHOP OF
WINCHESTER, TO EDMUND DE STONOR

 

11 JANUARY, [1378]

 

     There are remains of the bishop’s seal. The next letter in the Collection
(A.C., xlvi, 33) is also addressed by Wykeham to “E. Stonor, viscount de
Berkes,” but is too fragmentary for reproduction. From A.C., xlvi, 32.

 

     Trescher et tresffiable amy, Nous vous prions trescherement de coer
qe es busoignes, qe nostre cher amy, Johan Beverleye, ad affaire en voz
parties touchans vostre office en le Counte doxenford, lui veuilletz estre
entier amy eidant et consellant par touz les bones et resonables voies
qe vous purriez. Issint qe le dit Johan puisse effectuelement sentir qe
ceste ma priere lui purra valoir. Pur la quelle chose, trescher amy,
nous vous volons tresbon gree savoir et especialement estre tenuz. Et,
trescher amy, le seint esprit vous veulle tous jours garder. Escrit a
nostre Manoir de Suthwerk, le xj jour de Januer.

                                                                            levesque de Wyncestre.

 

     A nostre trescher, et tresffiable amy, Esmond Stonore, Visconte
Doxenfort.