_To myn ryght worchypfull cosyn, Sir John Paston, knyght._
[Sidenote: 1488-1492 / MARCH 4]
Cosyn Paston, I recommend me to you and wn to myne good ladie your wiff.
As for your mater betwyx you and your wncle,[150-2] I have shewid it soe
to my ladie of Norffolk and to hym, that it is agreed yee to entre in to
Marlyngford and all other maners in debate in your name, and to kepe
your courtes, sell your wodis, and to doo therwith as with your own.
Wherupon I avise you, as soone as ye may, send som discrete man to kepe
your courtis and to lette your fermys and selle your wodis to your most
avayll. Your presens theer shall bee costly, and what is bee heende in
the fermourz or tenauntz handez sethyn the rekenyng last be ffor myne
ladiez servauntz and yourz, that thei bee warnyd kurtesly to paie it by
a day, except in ony wise I avyse you nat to make ony thretis to ony
fermour or tenaunt, for ony dealing affor this tyme, but to gett in
fayernesse till I speke with you; and in ony wyse that yee nor ony your
servauntz have noon wordis in this mater, but that it is agreed bee myne
ladie you to have your peasebill possession. And as for Huntingffeldis,
as yee have beffore ocupyed, ocupie still without noyse. I pray you
folowe myne avise in this. I have hadde laubour, I trust thorowe your
cause it shall nat be in vain _laboraverunt_, and suffyr this bill
hyddyr too to speke to your sellf in privite, and to noon other. How yee
and myne ladie, and in what sylk or clooth yee will have these tweyn
yong innocentis[150-3] maried inne, iff it shuld bee purveyed at London
to send me word, or ellys at Norwich, as it shall please you and myne
ladie, ther after I shall applie me. For it must bee ordyrd be you in
the yong husbondis name. Your penauns off your wncles mater shall yee
knowe whan I kom hoome. Ther is non other meane but to sell your wodis
and tymber in all your manors to your most avayll, except theere as it
kan nat bee forborn for diverse causys. And iff you list to command mee
ony thyng in these partyez, send me word be myn servaunt, berer heerof.
Wretin the iiij^th day off March.
Your own to his powr,