[Sidenote: About 1442]
Thanks him for what he did for her at Sparham at their last interview.
He then expected to have more leisure to attend to her affairs at London
after this Hallowmass, when he would ordain that she should have lawful
estate for life in the partition made ‘betwixt you and me, to for such
that was there for my husband and for me at that time.’ Begs him to do
it now, and deliver it to her brother, John Chambre, or her servant,
John Coke, the bearer. Sends the deed of annuity under her husband’s
signet and hers, which she must pay to Paston’s children.
Welouby, Sunday after St. Martin.
[Alianore, widow of Robert Mauteby, Esq., remarried Thomas Chambers,
Esq., lord of Sparham in her right, in 20 Henry VI. Her son, John
Mauteby, was the father of Margaret, wife of John Paston. --_See_
Blomefield, xi. 228.]
[Footnote 52.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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