=Source.=--_Paston Letters_, vol. iii., No. 829.
_Edmund Alyard to Margaret Paston._
Right worshipful mistress, I recommend me unto you as lowly as I can,
thanking you for your goodness at all times; God grant me to deserve
it, and do that may please you.
As for your son Walter, his labour and learning hath been and is in
the Faculty of Art, and is well sped therein, and may be Bachelor at
such time as shall like you, and then to go to law. I can think it to
his preferring, but it is not good he know it until the time he shall
change; and as I conceive there shall none have that Exhibition to the
Faculty of Law. Therefore move the executors that at such time as he
shall leave it, ye may put another in his place, such as shall like
you to prefer. If he shall go to law, and be made Bachelor of Art
before, and ye will have him home this year, then may he be Bachelor
at Midsummer, and be with you in the vacation, and go to law at
Michaelmas. What it shall like you to command me in this or any other,
ye shall have mine service ready.
I pray you by the next messenger to send me your intent, that such as
shall be necessary may be purveyed in season.
And Jesu preserve you.
Written at Oxford, the iv day of March.
Your scholar,
+Edmund Alyard+.