William Senhouse, abbot of St Mary's Abbey, York to Sir Robert Plumpton

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WYL655/2 No. 63, p. 37

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Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 58; Kirby, item 50

Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

50 William Senhouse, abbot of St Mary’s Abbey, York¹ to Sir Robert Plumpton
[1485 × 1495] (No. 63, p. 37)

Master Plompton, I recommend me vnto you, and thanke you for your
letter. And it happyned Miles² went with me þat day, with whom I
haue broken the matter. I felt him well disposed and even forthwith. I
haue sent my mynd to Sir Thomas Maleverer,³ þat he wilbe appliable
to reason and doe wel. I shall in hast haue word againe from him. I
pray you labor [p. 38] herin, and soe will I doe. And in conclusion, if
other of them be obstynat & will not be counselled by frinds, the kings
grace will be myscontent with him, whatsoeuer he be, and I & you.

Written in hast at my poor mannor of [. . .]^a Wreton.

Your owne William abbot of Yorke^b

Endorsed (p. 37): To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton knight

^a MS Overton deleted.

^b Appended: Copied pe 11 day of March 1612.

¹ William Senhouse (or Sever) elected abbot of the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York
in 1485, provided to the bishopric of Carlisle, 1495, translated to Durham 1502. He
continued as titular abbot until 1502. Lieutenant in the North 1499–1502, R.R. Reid, The
King’s Council in the North (1921), 78, 84; A.B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University
of Oxford to A.D. 1500 (3 vols, Oxford, 1957), iii, 1669; Lander, 23–4; HBC.

² Possibly Miles Wilstrop, 18, 40.

³ Sir Thomas Mauleverer was dead by 1495. His son and heir, Richard, married Sir
Robert’s daughter Joan.

Transcript from Thomas Stapleton, 'Plumpton Correspondence: A series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII'

LETTER LVIII.

To the right worshipfull Sir Robart Plompton, knyght.

Master Plompton, I recomennd me unto you, and thanke you
for your letter; and it happyn (ed Miles went with mea) that day,
with whom I have broken the matter. I felt him well disposed,
and even forthwith I have sent my mynd to Sir Thomas Male-
verer,b that he wilbe appliable to reason and doe wel. I shall in
hast have word againe from him. I pray you lobor herin, and soe
will I doe; and in conclusion, if other of them be obstynat, and
will not be counselled by frinds, the Kings grace will be myscon-
tent with him, whatsover he be, and I, and you. Written in hast
at my poore mannor of Overton.c
Your owne, WILLIAM, ABBAT OF YORKE.d

a The words between brackets are in paler ink, their place having been at first left
blank. We should probably read, Miles Willesthorp was with me, for the words at-
tempted to be decyphered which had puzzled the copyist.

b Sir Thomas Maulevere, of Allerton, knight banneret, died before 2 Sept. 11 Hen.
VII. 1495, leaving Elizabeth his wife executrix, and a son and heir Richard, married
to Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Plumpton. (Chartul. No. 799.)

c At Overton the abbots of York had their chief country residence. Over this
word is written in the pale ink Wreton.

d William Sever, alias Seveyr, elected Bishop of Carlisle, 11 Dec. 1495.