William Paston to the Vicar of the Abbot of Clugny

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Reference

Add. 27443, f. 87v

Date

[?]1430

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Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)

Gairdner, Vol II, item 20

Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume II'

WILLIAM PASTON TO THE VICAR OF THE ABBOT
OF CLUGNY²

     MY ryghte worthy and worshopeful lord, I recomaunde
        me to yow. And for as meche [as I] conseyve
        verrayly that ye arn Vicar general in Inggelond of
the worthy Prelate, the Abbot of Clunie, and have hys power
in many grete articles, and mong other in profession of monkes
in Inggelond of the seyd ordere. And in my cuntre, but a
myle fro the place where I was born, is the poure hous of
Bromholm of the same ordre, in wheche arn divers vertuous
yongge men, monkes clad and unprofessyd, that have abedyn
there. . . . Abbyte ix. or x. yeer; and be lenger delaye of
here profession, many inconvenientez arne lyke to falle. And
also the priour of . . . hath resigned in to your worthy handes
by certeins notables and resonables causes, as it apperyth by an
instrument, and a symple lettre under the comune seal of the
seyd hous of Bromholm, which the berare of this hath redy to
shewe yow, wher up on I prey yow wyt al my herte, and as I
evere may do yow service, that it lyke to your grace to graunte
of your charite, by yowr worthy lettres to the priour of Thet-
ford in Norfolk, of the seyde ordre of Clunye, autorite and
power as your ministre and depute to professe in dwe forme
the seyd monkes of Bromholm unprofessed. And that it lyke
yow overmore to accepte and admitte the seyd resygnacion by
your seyd autoritie and power, wyth the favour of your good
lordshepe in comfort and consolacion of your pouere prestes,
the monkes of the seyd hous of Bromholm, and there up to
graunte your worthy lettres, wittenessyng the same acceptacion
and admyssion of the seyd resignacion, and al your seyd lettres
to delyvere to my clerke, to wham I prey yow to gyve feith
and credence touchant this matier, and to delivere it hym in
alle the hast resonable. And I am your man, and evere will
be by the grace of God, which evere have yow in his kepyng.
Writen at Norwich the                                       ¹ of Aprill.

Yowres, WILL. PASTON.

² [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is printed from a rough draft written
on paper, corrected in William Paston’s own hand, and scribbled over, after his
fashion, with numerous other drafts and jottings on both sides. Some of these occur
upside down between the lines of this letter. At the head of the memoranda on
the back are the words, ‘In parliamento, anno H. vj. viij^o.’ from which we may infer
the date to be at least as early.

¹ Blank in MS.

1430(?)