[Sidenote: After 1479]
Encloses the will of his father, ‘such as my brother hath’; who says he
had it out of the register. My business is no further advanced since I
left you, except that my brother has got a pardon of the alienation made
by the Bishop of Winchester. Can get no estate in it except according to
his father’s will, viz. to himself and his heirs-male. My brother’s will
is that I should have Runham, which is £8 a year at least, in recompense
of the 10 marks out of Sporle, if he would release all his right in that
manor. There is nothing touching you in my brother’s[40-1] will, for I
read it over and will write it also; ‘so that I woll have the same for
my copy that he wrote with his own hand.’
Recommend me heartily to my sister your wife.
London, 22 Feb.
[The writer of this was William, the son of the eldest John Paston,
not that uncle William with whom the two younger John Pastons had so
many disputes. I see nothing to fix the date beyond the fact that
the letter was written after Sir John Paston’s death.]
[Footnote 39-2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 40-1: Sir John Paston, who died in 1479.]
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