_Endorsed_--‘Plate of William Paston left with John Russhe, the xiij.
day of Sept., a^o xix^o.’
[Footnote 17-2: [Add. MS. 27,451, f. 2, B.M.]]
[Footnote 17-3: Omitted in MS.]
[Footnote 17-4: Erased.]
952
[EDMUND PASTON TO JOHN PASTON[18-1]]
[Sidenote: 1479 / AUG. 21]
Suer dydynges arn com to Norwyche that my grandam is dyssessyd, whom God
assoyle. Myn uncle had a messenger zesterday that she shuld not escape,
and this day cam a nother at suche tyme as we were at masse for my
brother Water, whom God assoyle! Myn uncle was comyng to have offered,
but the last messenger retornyd hym hastely, so that he toke hys hors
incontynent to enforme more of owr hevynes. My syster ys delyverd, and
the chyld passyd to God, Who send us Hys grace.
Dokkyng told me sekretly that for any hast myn uncle shuld ryde by my
Lady of Norffolk to have a iij. skore persons, whyther it is to convey
my grandham hyder or nowght he cowde not sey; I deme it is rather to put
them in possessyon of some of her londes.
Wretyn the Saterdaye the xxi. daye of August, anno E. iiij^ti xix^o.
[Footnote 18-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is neither
signed nor addressed, but is in the handwriting of Edmund Paston,
and is endorsed by John Paston the younger, ‘Dies mortis A. P.’]
953