[Sidenote: 1479 / NOV. 25]
Receyved at Cressingham, the Thirsday nex aftyr Seynt Edmund[27-4] at
the corte ther v_li._ x_s._ by the handes of me, John Paston, Sqwyer.
Wherof payed to my modyr for costys don up on the berying of Walter
Paston, and whyll he lay sek, and for the hyer of a man comyng with
the seyd Water fro Oxenford xx_d._
xxix_s._ xj_d._
Item, payed to William Gybson for j. horse sadyll and brydyll lent
to Water Paston by the seyd William,
xvj_s._
Item, gevyn the seyd man comyng fro Oxenford with the seyd Water by
the handys of J. Paston,
xx_d._
Item, payed for dyvers thynges whyll Water Paston lay sek,
iiij_d._
Item, for the costes of John Paston rydyng to kepe the coort at
Cressingham, _anno supradicto_, whych was iiij. dayes in doing,
for the styward mygh not be ther at the day prefyxid,
iij_s._ iiij_d._
[Footnote 27-3: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This paper is in the
handwriting of John Paston the younger. The reference to the
burial of Walter Paston proves it to be of the year 1479.]
[Footnote 27-4: St. Edmund’s Day is the 20th November. The
Thursday after it in 1479 was the 25th.]
[[the seyd Water fro Oxenford
_spelling “Water” unchanged_
Item, payed to William Gybson ... xvj_s._
_“s.” in plain (non-italic) type_]]
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