_To the right worshipful and my right entierly welbeloved cosin and
frende, Sir John Paston, Knight._
[Sidenote: Before 1503]
Right worshipfull sir, I recommaunde me unto you. I wryte this
onely unto you, to advise you that I was mynded that my cousin
Clippesby,[164-2] berer herof, shuld wele have maryed here in thies
partes, wherin your nyce[164-3] toke hevy conceyte, thinking in hir
mynde, that I was not willing that my said cousin shulde marye with hir.
At that tyme I knewe not what love was bitwix them, but now I undrestand
that bothe there myndes is to mary to geders; wherunto on my parte, I am
agreble and wel content, desiring and praying you to be the same, and to
be the better frende unto them at this my prayer and instaunce. And what
pleasir as I may doo unto you in thies partes shal be redye, in that I
may, at your desires. And I pray you to recommaunde me to my cousin your
nyce. And Jesu preserve you.
Writen at London, the first day of Juyn.
Your own, the Priour of Saint Johns,