=Source.=--_Paston Letters_, vol. i., No. 158.
_Sir Thomas Howys to Sir John Fastolf._
Right reverend and worshipful master, I recommend me lowly unto
you.... The more special cause of my writing at this time is to give
you relation of the untrue demeaning of this our _determiner_, by the
partiality of the judges of it; for when the council of the city of
Norwich, of the town of Swafham, yours, my master Inglos, Pastons,
and many other plaintiffs had put in and declared, both by writing
and by word before the judges, the lawful exceptions in many wise,
the judges by their wilfullness might not find in their heart not as
much as a beck nor a twinkling of their eye toward, but took it to
derision. God reform such partiality.... It was the most partial place
of all the shire, and thither were called all the friends, knights and
squires and gentlemen that would in no wise do otherwise than they
would. And the said Tudenham, Heydon and other oppressors of their set
came down hither with four hundred horse and more; and considering how
their well-willers were there assembled at their instance, it had been
right jeopardous and fearful for any of the plaintiffs to have been
present....