[Sidenote: 1479 / NOV. 22]
Yet wold I tary, all be yt I have taryd your comyg this halff yer, for I
deme her suche men as schall well undyrstond myn titill good; yff any
man have good tytyll I am suyr that myn is gode. I dar well juperde to
take a dystres, wedyr they come or nat, and so I wyll ze know. Wer for,
in so much as I left myn distress for iowr dysyr, so that I be answerid
off myn mony acordyng to myn ryth, ar else send me answer, one ar oder
[_one or other_], and lett me take the avantage that the Kynge lawys
will zeff me be dystress qweche I have delayed, me thynk to long, for
any thank that I have.
Wretyn at Norwich, the xxij. Novembre.
[Footnote 26-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter or fragment
of a letter is a corrected draft in William Paston’s hand, and is
endorsed by him:--‘A letter to Roberd Walsche of Colby, the ----
day off Novembre, anno xix.’]
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