JOHN PASTON _alias_ WORTES.
[Sidenote: 1426 / DEC. 1]
i. Draft writ to the Sheriff of Norwich to attach and bring before the
Council John Paston _alias_ Wortes and others for violation of the
statutes of Provisors 25 Edw. III. and 16 Ric. II., on the complaint of
John Brundale, prior of Bromholm that although he, Brundale, was
canonically elected prior, the said Paston or Wortes had crossed the sea
without royal license, obtained a provision of the said priory in the
Court of Rome, and got himself installed as prior, and the other
expelled. Also the said John Paston or Wortes, and John Gees,
a Carmelite friar of Norwich, Edmund Alderford, late of Norwich, clerk,
Barth. Waryn, parson of Trunche, William Cuttyng of Worsted, clerk, John
Gees of Crowemer, merchant, and Ralph Gunton of Norwich, scrivener,
received the said instruments at Bakton, and put them into
execution.--Dated 1 Dec.
ii. On the back of the preceding is another draft writ of the same date
against the same parties for endeavouring to draw the prior out of the
kingdom by a suit in the Court of Rome.
The paper is endorsed--’S. (?) Billæ vis. Veneris prox. post diem
antedictum (?) Anno H. vj. v^to, et non necessario festinant’. Iterum
supervidendum.’
_Endorsed in a later hand_-- ‘Towchynge Sir John Fastolffes landes
in Norffolk and Surrye.’
[Footnote 29.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
[Footnote 29.2: He is believed to have been son of Geoffrey
Chaucer, the famous poet, and his daughter Alice married William
De la Pole, at this time Earl, afterwards Duke, of Suffolk.]
[Footnote 29.3: [From a Bodl. MS.]]
[[Barth. Waryn, parson of Trunche _text has “Barth,” with , for ._]]
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