[Sidenote: 1478 / OCT. 17]
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,[4-1] Edyngthorpe, and
Wytton.
Norwich, Saturday after St. Edward,[4-2] the ---- October.
[The MS. is a draft with corrections in the handwriting of William
Paston, endorsed--‘The copy of a lettre to William Pope of Bacton,
the xvij. day of Octobre, anno xviij^o E. iiij^ti, by William Dam of
Rughton.’]
[Footnote 3-3: _Ibid._]
[Footnote 4-1: 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.]
[Footnote 4-2: 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.]
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