William Paston to William Pope of Bacton

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Title
William Paston to William Pope of Bacton
Reference
Add. 27446, f. 17
Date
17 October 1478
Library / Archive
  • The British Library
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Gairdner, Vol VI, item 938
Transcript from James Gairdner, 'The Paston Letters, A.D., 1422-1509, New Complete Library Edition, Volume VI'

938

 

ABSTRACT3

 

WILLIAM PASTON TO WILLIAM POPE OF BACTON

 

     Cannot be at the Court at Paston on Monday next. Bids him warn the
tenants to keep the Court on Friday instead, and to bring their rents, for he will
be there himself. He is also to warn the tenants of Bakton to-morrow openly
in the church of the said Court to be kept on Friday next; also the tenants of
Swaffeld, Mundesley,1 Edyngthorpe, and Wytton.

     Norwich, Saturday after St. Edward,2 the —— October.

 

     [The MS. is a draft with corrections in the handwriting of William Paston, en-
dorsed—’The copy of a lettre to William Pope of Bacton, the xvij. day of Octobre,
anno xviijo E. iiijti, by William Dam of Rughton.’]

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     3 Ibid.

 

     1 This name is very ill written, and looks more like ‘Maxsley’; but Mundesley
is the only place in the neighbourhood that seems at all probable.

     2 Translation of St. Edward the Confessor, 13th October. The Saturday after it
in 1478, was the 17th, but the writer has left only a blank for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

OCT. 17

 

1478
OCT. 17