[Sidenote: 1503, or later (?)]
Your pore servaunt and bedeman, John Kendale, be secheth your good and
gracious masterschepp, at the reverence of God and in the wey of
charyte, to remembre that my maister your fader, on whos soule God have
mercy, had fro me x. acres of free londe that I bout of the executours
of Nicholas Pekeryng of Filby for xx. marc paid on j. day, to pay to
executours of Edmonde Norman for purchase of ij. partes of Holm Halle,
somtyme Edmonde Norman.
Also my seide maister, your fader, had fro John Kendale the croppe of
the seide x. acres londe, sowen with barly and peson, wherof v. acres
were weel somerlayde[171-2] to the seid barly, the whiche croppe the
seide John Kendale schulde a made worth to hym iiij_li._ xiij_s._
iiij_d._, althow ther had be but xx. quarteres barly growyng on viij.
acres and half of londe, that is to seyn up on an acre ij. quarter,
iiij. busshelz, and the half acre in avayle, besyde j. acre and an half
of peson, for the seide John Kendale solde his malt at Ormesby mad of
the barly growyng the same yer that the foreseid croppe was taken fro
hym, for iiij_s._ viij_d._ a quartere; and so he myght a solde the same
and meche more if he had had it.
Also my seid maister, your fader, hath caused the foreseid John Kendale
to a foreborne the ferme of the seide x. acres of londe be the space of
ix. yer, be the yer xvj_s._ & viij_d._, that is, the ferme of j. acre
xx_d._, wherof the somme conteyneth vij_li._ x_s._ beside j. yer
receyved of Hagh.[172-1]
[Footnote 171-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] If this petition was
addressed to any member of the Paston family, I should think it
must have been William Paston, the son of the later Sir John. That
would make the date at least as late as the year 1503, when his
father died. If it was either of the two Sir Johns, ‘my master
your father’ would be John Paston, Esquire, who died in 1466. But
Nicholas Pickering of Filby is said to have been buried in the
steeple of Filby church in the year 1466, and it is evident that
‘my master your father’ survived him more than nine years.
Edmund Norman, whose executors are here spoken of, died as far
back as 1444. Blomefield says he was seised of two parts of the
manor of Filby, but does not mention him as being also owner of
two parts of Holm Hale. The two parts of Filby were afterwards
held in trust by Sir John Fastolf; but William Pickering and
Cecily, his wife, were lords of the whole manor and settled it on
John Paston, who released it to Nicholas Pickering in
1450.--Blomefield, xi. 218, 221.]
[Footnote 171-2: Kept fallow for some time previous to sowing.]
[Footnote 172-1: Here the MS. ends abruptly.]
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