William Paston to his brother Edmund Paston

969

ABSTRACT²

WILLIAM PASTON TO HIS BROTHER EDMUND PASTON

     Encloses the will of his father, ‘such as my brother hath’; who says he
had it out of the register. My business is no further advanced since I left you,
except that my brother has got a pardon of the alienation made by the Bishop
of Winchester. Can get no estate in it except according to his father’s will,
viz. to himself and his heirs-male. My brother’s will is that I should have

Runham, which is £8 a year at least, in recompense of the 10 marks out of
Sporle, if he would release all his right in that manor. There is nothing
touching you in my brother’s¹ will, for I read it over and will write it also;
’so that I woll have the same for my copy that he wrote with his own hand.’

     Recommend me heartily to my sister your wife.

     London, 22 Feb.

     [The writer of this was William, the son of the eldest John Paston, not that uncle
William with whom the two younger John Pastons had so many disputes. I see
nothing to fix the date beyond the fact that the letter was written after Sir John
Paston’s death.]

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      ² [From Paston MSS., B.M.]

     ¹ Sir John Paston, who died in 1479.

After
1479

After
1479