[Sidenote: 1479-80]
Sir, I pray yow that ye will send sum chyld to my Lord of Bukingham
place, and to the Crown, wich as I conseive is called Gerardes Hall, in
Bred Stret, to inquere whedir I have any answer of my letter sent to
Caleys, whech ye know off; and that ye will remembre my brotheris ston,
so that it myth be mad er I cumm ageyn, and that it be klenly wrowgth.
It is told me that the man at Sent Bridis is no klenly portrayer;
[the]rfor I wold fayn it myth be portrayed be sum odir man, and he to
grave it up.
Sir, it is informyd sum personis in this cuntre that ye know that the
frere will sew a nodir delegaci fro Rome, direkt to sum byschop of
Ingland, to amend his mater, &c.; and how be it that it may not gretly
hurt, yet the seyd persones, &c., wold not he shuld have his entent, in
asmoch as his suggestion is untrew, but rather they wold spend mony to
lette it. I suppose the Abbot of Bery shuld labor for him rather than
anodir, becawse the sey Abbot is a perteynor to the lord that is the
freris mayntener, &c.; wherefor, ser, my moder and I pray yow enquere
after a man callid Clederro, whych is solisitor and attorne with Master
Will. Grey, that late was the Kingges proktor at Rome, and the seyd
Clederro sendith matiers and letters owth of Ingelond to his seyd master
ever[y] monith, &c. He is well knowe in London, and among the Lumbardes,
and with the Bischop of Winchesteris men, but I wot not wher he dwellit
in London, and I suppos if ye speke with him, he knowith me. Plese yow
to comone with him of this mater, but let him not wete of the mater
atwix my modir and him; but desir him to wryth to his master to lett
this, if it may be, or elles to se the best wey that he have not his
intent, and to comon with the proktor of the Whith Freris at Rome to hep
forth, for the freris here have laborid to my moder, and praid her to
lette his ontrewe intent, and have wrete to her proketor befor this. And
I suppose if ye speke to the prior of the freris at London, he will
writh to her seyd proktor, &c., but tell the prior no word that I know
[ther]of, but let him wete if he will wryth to his proktor, odir men
shall help forth.
More over, that ye will tell Cledero that I am not seker that the frere
laborith thus, but be talis of freris and odir; nevertheles let him
writh to his master that [for] whatsomevyr he do herin, he shall be
truly content for his labor and costes. And if ye think that Cledro will
writh effectually herin, geff hym j. noble, [bid] hym let his master
know that my Lord of Wynchester[35-1] and Danyell ow godwill to the part
that he shall labor for. And if thar be fown no sech sewth be the seyd
[fre]re, yet wold I have sum thing fro Rome to anull the old bull, &c.,
or to apeyr [_impair_] it [if] it myth be do esily, &c., and tyding
wheder ther be any sech sute, &c.
Your own, &c.
[For] how beit that it may nowthir avayl ner hurt, yet my moder will
this be do. [I] send yow the copi of the bull, and how execucion was do,
and informacion of the mater imparte, &c. And, sir, I sha content your
noble, &c. And I pray yow red it over, and spede yow homeward, and bring
this letter home with yow, &c.
[Footnote 34-2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] As this letter refers to
the making of a tombstone for Sir John Paston, it may be presumed
to have been written either at the end of the year 1479, or in the
course of the year 1480. The MS. is a rough draft, apparently in
the hand of Edmund Paston. It has been slightly mutilated, and
apparently since the letter was printed in Fenn’s fifth volume.]
[Footnote 35-1: William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.]
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