William Paston to Henry Waryns

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WILLIAM PASTON TO HENRY WARYNS¹

       HARRY WARYNS, I grete you well, and I thanke
            you for youre labour. And as for the tenauntez of
            Knapton, I understand by youre writing that they
take non oder consideration to my sendyng but that I call so
fast on my fee, for cause they thynke that I am aferd lest I
shuld have it no longer; and as for that, I pray yow tell them
for ther ungentilnes I woll have my fee of them, and in that
maner and in non oder place; and ferthermor I shall fynd the
mene that they shall paye it more hastely here after. And as
for the money that they offyr to pay at the fest of Advincula
Sancti Petri, receyve ye it off them and I shall assign one to
receyve it azen of yow. As for the delivere of the catell, I
fele be zowr wrytyng they will non sounar pay it thow ther
catell shuld dye ffor ffawte off mete. Wer for, affor the
money be paid I putt that in zour discresseon wheder ze will
deliver them or nay; as ze do I hold me content.

     Also as for Thomas Child, I understand be zour wrytyng
he will not seale the indenture be cawse ther is no some of
mony sertayne ne days of payment sett in the indentur; and
as for that, I will neyther sett some nor days after his will;
and if he will nat seale that, he shall never seale none for me;
and at last I am sure he shall sell. I send zow azen the same
indenture that ze sent me, that ze may kepe it still as long as
Thomas Chyld abyde now at Paston, in aventure the casse
may hap that he will sell yt herafter; and yff he be on
departid, than send me both the indenture[s] to London be
some massenger. As for Waryn Kynge, wer I understand be
zour wrytyn that he seyth he delyver me all evydens, I under-
stand not that; and as for rentall I am sure he deliver me
none, and yff so be that he can make the rentall be hart, I
wold he did make on [one], for it war necessare for me; for I
understand be zow that ther was no rent gaderid this xv. ar
xvj. zer for defallte off a rentall; and therfor yt is I had a call
on the prior of Bromholm for the xxx. comb malt that ze toke
hym. Wrytyn at Norton the xix. day of Jull’

                                                              By                  W. PASTON.

     Endorsed by the writer:—

     ’A letter to Harry Waryns the xix day of Jule, A^o xix E. iiij^ti by John
Ancell off Paston.’

     ¹ [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 133.] The year of this letter appears by the endorsement.
The MS. is a draft, partly in a clerk’s hand, corrected and continued in that of
William Paston himself.

JULY 19

1479
JULY 19

XCIII

A.D. 1479, 19 July

WILLIAM PASTON TO HENRY WARYNS

[Add. MS. 34,889, f. 133]

     The year of this letter appears by the indorsement. The MS. is a draft,
partly in a clerk’s hand, corrected and continued in that of William Paston
himself.

FARRY WARYNS, I grete you well, and I
     thanke you for youre labour. And as for
     the tenauntez of Knapton, I understand by
     youre writing that they take non oder con-
sideration to my sendyng but that I call so fast on my
fee, for cause they thynke that I am aferd lest I shuld
have it no longer; and as for that, I pray yow tell
them for ther ungentilnes I woll have my fee of them,
and in that maner and in non oder place; and
ferthermor I shall fynd the mene that they shall
paye it more hastely here after. And as for the
money that they offyr to pay at the fest of Advincula
Sancti Petri, receyve ye it off them and I shall assign
one to receyve it azen of yow. As for the delivere of
the catell, I fele be zowr wrytyng they will non sounar
pay it thow ther catell shuld dye ffor ffawte off mete.
Wer for, affor the money be paid I putt that in zour
discresseon wheder ze will deliver them or nay; as
ze do I hold me content.

     Also as for Thomas Child, I understand be zour
wrytyng he will not scale the indenture be cawse ther
is no some of mony sertayne ne days of payment sett
in the indentur; and as for that, I will neyther sett
some nor days after his will; and if he will nat seale
that, he shall never seale none for me; and at last I
am sure he shall sell. I send zow azen the same
indenture that ze sent me, that ze may kepe it still as
long as Thomas Chyld abyde now at Paston, in
aventure the casse may hap that he will sell yt her-
after; and yff he be on departid, than send me both
the indenture[s] to London be some massenger. As
for Waryn Kynge, wer I understand be zour wrytyn
that he seyth he delyver me all evydens, I understand
not that; and as for rentall I am sure he deliver me
none, and yff so be that he can make the rentall be
hart, I wold he did make on [one], for it war necessare
for me; for I understand be zow that ther was no
rent gaderid this xv. ar xvj. zer for defallte off a rentall;
and therfor yt is I had a call on the prior of Brom-
holm for the xxx. comb malt that ze toke hym. Wrytyn
at Norton the xix. day of Jull’

                                                                    By W. PASTON.

     Indorsed by the writer:—

     ’A letter to Harry Waryns the xix. day of Jule, A^o xix. E.iiij^ti
by John Ancell oft Paston.’