[Sidenote: 1436]
Paston recomaund hym to youre good lordeship, willyng with all his herte
to doo yow servise to his symple power. And as touching the maner of
Walsham he seyth that at your comaundement he wille be redy to shewe yow
and preve that the seid maner and all the vesture and crop therof this
yeer by trewe title in lawe and conscience is his owen trewly, bowth and
in gret party payed for, and that John Roys never hadde non estate in
the seid maner, but oonly occupied it by suffraunce of the seid Paston
and other feffes in the seid maner, and that be bargayn of the seid
maner th’estate that the seid Roys shuld have hadde in the seid maner
and in stoor therof shul have be condicionel to be voide and nought for
defaute of payement, and that the seid John Roys ne kept not his dayes
of the payementz, &c.; and that the seid William Paston, in the lyve of
the seid John Roys, for defaute of payment entred in the seid maner with
the seid the crop and the vesture of this yeer therof than therupon, and
that the seid John Roys never at noo tyme payed to the seid John Baxtere
sith the seid bargeyn, nother for the seid bargeyn ne for the dette he
aught to hym, more thaune an C. and xl. marcz, wherof he borwed ageyn of
the seid John Baxtere xl_li._; and over that he oweth and beforn the
seid bargeyn aught by his obligacion to the seid John Baxtere, of trew
dette of mony borwed, other xl_li._, and hath hadde and taken the
profitz of the seid maner by iij. hool yer before his deth to the value
of xxx_li._ and more, and that he receyved in his said bargayn of the
seid John Baxtere xl. marcz worth of stoor; the which iiii^{xx}li. of
dette and xxx_li._ of the profitz of the seid maner, and xl. marcz worth
of stoor, maketh the somme of Cxxxvi_li._ xiij_s._ iiij_d._ Wherof,
thogh the lawe wille it not, were abated, if conscience required it,
Cxl. marcz payed by the seid John Roys and x_li._ for the value of the
seid crop, over the value of the verray ferme of the seid maner for this
yeer, yet remanyneth dwe to the executoures of the seid John Baxter
liij_li._ vj_s._ viij_d._, and all the title and interesse of the seid
John Roys his heyres and assignes in the seid maner lawfully and in
conscience extincted and adnulled. Wher upon the said Paston lowly
besecheth your good lordeship that if it may be preved this mater be
trew that ye wille not be displesed thogh he desire to have his fre
disposicion of the seid maner.