[Sidenote: 1503 / FEB. 6]
Where Sir John Paston and Roger Townesende have agreed and promysed to
obey as we, Jamys Hobart and John Yaxley will devyse for the varians of
the maner of Estbekham: We devyse and a warde that Sir John Paston shall
have the seid maner to hym, and to his heires; and he therfor shall paye
to the seid Rogyr xl_li._ at Pentecoste nexte, and at Halowmesse nexte
aftyr that xl_li._, and at Pentecoste next aftyr that xx_li._; and the
same Syr John shall have the arrerages of the seid maner. And if the
seid Sir John refuse to have the maner, then the seid Rogyr to have the
same maner, with the arrerages as is a forseid, payeng to the seid Sir
John the seid C_li._ at the dayes aforseid; and the seid Syr John to
geve answer which he will chose the viij. daye of this moneth.
Yevyn the vj. daye of Februarii, anno R. R. H. vij. xviij^o.
And all this to be perfurmyd and put in surte after our avise. And we
devise that he that shall have the land, shall paie to th’ other at
Halwemes come twelvemonyth, ten mark, besides the seid C_li._, because
th’arrerages have ben long in the tenauntes handes.