_To the right worshipful, and with all myn herte right entirely belovid
brother, the Viscounte Beaumont._
[Sidenote: Between 1442 and 1455]
Right worshipful, and with all myn herte right entierly beloved brother,
I recomaunde me to you, thenking right hertili youre good brotherhode
for your gode and gentill letters, the whiche it hath liked you to sende
unto me nowe late; and like it you to knowe I perseeve by the tenor of
the seid lettre, your gode desire of certein dubete that I owe unto you.
In gode faith, brother, it is so with me at this tyme, I have but easy
stuffe of money withinne me, for so meche as the seison of the yer is
not yet growen, so that I may not plese youre seide gode brotherhode,
as God knoweth my will and entent were to do, and I had it.
Nevertheless, and it like you, I sende you, bi my sonne Stafford,[76.1]
an obligacion wherof, of late tyme, I have rescevid part of the dubete
therinne comprisid; the residue of whiche I prai you to resceve bi the
seid obligacion, and that I may have an acquitance therof, and to yeve
credence unto my seid sonne in such thing as he shall say unto your gode
brotherhode on my behalve.
Right worshipfull, and with all myn herte right entirely belovid
brother, I beseche the blissed Trinite, preserve you in honor and
prosperite.
Writen at my Castell of Makestok,[76.2] the xvij. day of Marche.
Yowre trew and fethfull broder,