_To the right worshipfull and my right welbeloved Sir John Paston,
Knyght._
[Sidenote: 1491(?) / JULY 31]
Right worshipfull and right welbeloved, I comaunde me to you. And where
as I late receyved your wrytyng, beryng date the xxvj. day of this
present monthe, by the whiche I understand that one Richard Calle toke
certeyne men of werre robbyng upon the coste there; and in somoche as I
understand that they be under the obeissaunce of the Kyng of Denmarke,
I wolle and desyre you that ye delyver theym unto the seid Richard Calle
to take his avauntage of theym as prisoners, seyng my dutee reserved in
every thyng, as my trust is in you. And Almyghty God kepe you.
Writen at my castell of Hedyngham, the last day of Jule.