_To my ryght worchippfull hosbond, John Paston, be this delyveryd in
hast._
[Sidenote: 1449(?) / JAN. 31]
Right worchipfull hosbond, I recommand me to yow, praying yow to wete
that I have receyved your letter this day that ye sent me be Yelvertonys
man. As for your signette, I fond itt uppon your bord the same day that
ye went hens, and I send it yow be Richrad Heberd, bringer herof. As for
your eronds that ye wrete to me fore, Richard Charles is owte abough
your eronds abowte Gresham, and for his awyn maters also, and I suppose
he komyth not hom tyll it be Tesday or Weddenesday next komyng; and
alssone as he komyth hom, he shall go abowte your eronds that ye wrete
to me fore.
I sent yow a letter wreten on Tesday last past, whiche, as I suppose,
Roger Ormesby delyveryd yow. I toke it to Alson Pertryche. She rod with
Clyppysbys wyff to London.
I pray yow if ye have an other sone that you woll lete it be named
Herry, in remembrans of your brother Herry;[95.1] also I pray yow that
ye woll send me dats and synamun as hastyly as ye may. I have speke with
John Damme of that ye bad me sey to hem to sey to Thomas Note, and he
sey he was wel payd that ye seyd and thowgh therin as ye dede. Ner’les I
bad hym that he shuld sey to the seyd Thomas therin as it wer of hymself
with owte your avys or any others; and he seyd he shuld so, and that it
shuld be purveyd for this next weke at the ferthest. The blyssed Trinyte
have yow in his kepyng.
Wretyn att Norwyche, in hast, the Fryday next befor Candelmesse day.
Be your gronyng wyff,