_To our right trusti and welbelovid John Paston, Squier. The Duc of
Norff._
[Sidenote: Before 1444 (?)]
Trusti and right welbelovid, we grete you weel, lating you witte that
for the trust that as weel we, as the heires of Edmund Swathyng, have
unto you, we have appointed you to be one of the makeres up
indifferently of the evydences betwix us and the seide heires. Wherfor
we pray you hertily, that ye wil yeve attendaunce at such day and place
as ye and our right trusti and welbelovid frende William Yelverton, with
oure welbelovid servaunt Jenney, shal mow attende to the making up of
the seide evidencez; and we shal send summe of our servauntz to awayte
upon you for your reward and costis, that ye shal be pleasid with by the
grace of God, who have you ever in his keping.
Wreten undir our signet in oure Castel of Framlyngham,
the xviij. day of ----.
{ JOHN[69.1] } NORFF.
{ MOWBRAY. }
[Footnote 68.4: [From Fenn, i. 10.] Fenn thinks this letter must
have been written before 1444, when Yelverton was made a judge.
This is, doubtless, most probable. There is, however, an Edmund
Swathing, Esq., mentioned by Blomefield (_Hist. of Norfolk_,
viii. 42) as alive in 1446, and if it be his executors who are
referred to, the date would appear to be later.]
[Footnote 69.1: The name ‘John Mowbray’ is represented by a
curious monogram, in which every letter both of the Christian
and the surname can be traced.]
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