[Sidenote: 1479 / JULY 19]
Harry Waryns, I grete you well, and I thanke you for youre labour. And
as for the tenauntez of Knapton, I understand by youre writing that they
take non oder consideration to my sendyng but that I call so fast on my
fee, for cause they thynke that I am aferd lest I shuld have it no
longer; and as for that, I pray yow tell them for ther ungentilnes I
woll have my fee of them, and in that maner and in non oder place; and
ferthermor I shall fynd the mene that they shall paye it more hastely
here after. And as for the money that they offyr to pay at the fest of
Advincula Sancti Petri, receyve ye it off them and I shall assign one to
receyve it azen of yow. As for the delivere of the catell, I fele be
zowr wrytyng they will non sounar pay it thow ther catell shuld dye ffor
ffawte off mete. Wer for, affor the money be paid I putt that in zour
discresseon wheder ze will deliver them or nay; as ze do I hold me
content.
Also as for Thomas Child, I understand be zour wrytyng he will not seale
the indenture be cawse ther is no some of mony sertayne ne days of
payment sett in the indentur; and as for that, I will neyther sett some
nor days after his will; and if he will nat seale that, he shall never
seale none for me; and at last I am sure he shall sell. I send zow azen
the same indenture that ze sent me, that ze may kepe it still as long as
Thomas Chyld abyde now at Paston, in aventure the casse may hap that he
will sell yt herafter; and yff he be on departid, than send me both the
indenture[s] to London be some massenger. As for Waryn Kynge, wer I
understand be zour wrytyn that he seyth he delyver me all evydens,
I understand not that; and as for rentall I am sure he deliver me none,
and yff so be that he can make the rentall be hart, I wold he did make
on [_one_], for it war necessare for me; for I understand be zow that
ther was no rent gaderid this xv. ar xvj. zer for defallte off a
rentall; and therfor yt is I had a call on the prior of Bromholm for the
xxx. comb malt that ze toke hym. Wrytyn at Norton the xix. day of Jull’