_To my right welbiloved Edmond Paston, Esquier._
[Sidenote: Between 1486-9]
Right welbiloved, I grete you wele. And where as certein landes which
late were the Lord Scales by title of enheritaunce, be discendid to me,
and to my welbiloved cousin William Tyndale, it is accordid bitwixt me
and my said cousin that the profites of the said landes, shalle neither
be taken by my resceivoire nor his, but that an indifferent persone
shalle take and resceive the same profittes to the use of us bothe till
suche tyme as a resonable particion may laufully be made in that behalf.
Wherfore as wele as I my said cousin, havyng speciall confidence and
trust in you, desire and hertly pray you to take the laboure and peyn
atte oure costes and charges, to take and resceive the profites of alle
the said landes, to oure use and behofe, deliveryng alwey the oon moyte
of your receites to my resceivoure, and the other moitee to my said
cousin Tyndale, whan so ever the said profites by you so shalle be taken
and resceived. Yevyng you full auctorite and power by this my writyng to
execute the same.
Written atte Newe Market the vij^th day of Aprill.