William Whitaker to Sir Robert Plumpton or Master William Plumpton

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William Whitaker to Sir Robert Plumpton or Master William Plumpton
Reference
WYL655/2 No. 112, p. 67
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  • West Yorkshire Archives
Transcript location(s) in printed volume(s)
Stapleton, 'To Sir Robert Plumpton, Kt', item 83; Kirby, item 101
Transcript from Joan Kirby, 'The Plumpton Letters and Papers'

                       

 101 William Whitaker to Sir Robert Plumpton or Master William
       Plumpton                     (No. 112, p. 67)

 

Right worshipfull [. . .]a Master Plompton, as hartely as I can I recomend
me vnto you, desirying you to be good master vnto this poore woman,
þe bearer hereof. Sir, it is so þat a servant of yours hath gotten a child
with hir, the which is lost for lacke of keeping, as God knowes. She
hath kept it as long as she [. . .]b may, whils she hath not a cloth to hir
back but which I haue given hir since she came to my service. And if
it wold please you to heare this poore woman speake, I trust to God
ye wilbe good master [p. 68] to hir, and rather the better for my sake.
And if I had not bene, she wold haue rune hir way; and all this wilec
I keep the child of my owne proper cost, and will doe till I here some
word from you, as knowes God, who preserve you.

Be your owne to his powr          William Wittcarsd

Endorsed (p. 67): To Sir Robart Plompton or to Master William his son

 

     a Sir deleted.

     b hath deleted.

     c MS wilbe.

     d Appended: Copied þe 9 day of Aprill 1613.

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 LXXXIII.

 

To Sir Robart Plompton, or els to Master William his son.

 

    Right worshipful master Plompton, as hartely as I can I reco-
mend me unto you, desyring you to be good master unto this
poore woman, the bearer hereof. Sir, it is so that a servant of
yours hath gotten a child with hir, the which is lost for lacke of
keeping, as God knowes. She hath kept it as long as she may,
whils she hath not a cloth to her backe but which I have given
hir, since she came to my service. And if it wold please you to
heare this poore woman speake, I trust to God ye wilbe good mas-
ter to hir, and rather the better for my sake. And if I had not
bene, she wold have rune hir way; and all this wile I keep the
child of my own proper cost, and will doe, till I here some word
from you, as knowes God, who preserve you.

                By your owne to his powr,
                        WILLIAM WITTCARS.