[Sidenote: 1479 / NOV.]
Well beloved fader, my master prayed you that ye will sende knowlach be
my broder as sone as these men be come to Knapton, and that ye may laye
a weche to knowe ho sone they be come, and sende me be your sone ar else
be some other trusty man; and I have take your son a grote for his
laubour. And do this in hast; for wheder they com or nat I wille take a
distresse ther, and thatt will abide[26-3] till I knowe the dealing of
them this ij. ar iij. dayes for to know wheder they wille come or nat,
and ther after shall I be demeaned.
_Endorsed in William Paston’s hand_--A letter fro ----[26-4] Jullye,
clark of Sent Edmundes, to his fadyr, to North Walsham, the ----[26-4]
day Novembr’, anno xix.
[Footnote 26-2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 26-3: ‘Wer I lothe’ has been crossed through, and ‘thatt
will abide’ written over.]
[Footnote 26-4: Blanks in MSS.]
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