[Sidenote: 1486 / AUG. 12]
Trusty and welbeloved, we greet you well. And whereas we send at this
time our trusty and welbeloved clerke and counseilor, Mr. Edmunde
Chaderton, to do and execute certein things by our commandement in those
parties, like as he can shew to you more at large; We desire and pray
you that ye not only yeve unto him therein credence, but also, for the
effectuall and speedy performance of the same, ye will be unto him from
time to time in everythinge, as the case shall require, adviseinge,
aidinge, and assistinge, as we singularly trust you, and as ye desire to
do us pleasure.
Yeven under our Signet at our manner of Shene, the xij^th day of August.
[Footnote 93-2: [From Sandford’s Genealogy of the Paston Family.]
This letter is derived from Mr. Worship’s article in the _Norfolk
Archæology_ on a MS. Genealogy of the Paston family. The date must
be 1486, during John Paston’s shrievalty. The transcript is of the
seventeenth century.]
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