SIR JO. FASTOLF TO SIR THOS. HOWYS, PARSON OF CASTLCOMBE, WILL. COKE,
AND WATKIN SHYPDAM.
[Sidenote: 1450 / APRIL 16]
Bids ‘Sir Parson’ send in all haste ‘the utmost knowledge of all
grievances’ done to him by John Heydon this thirteen years. You have
sent me the costs of the pleas, but not declared particularly how often
I have been wrongfully distrained by the enforcing of the said Heydon.
‘I took never plea in the matter because the world was alway set after
his rule, and as I would have engrossed up [_upon_] my bill.’
London, 16 April 28 Henry VI.
Search the accounts of Drayton Heylesdon, &c., these thirteen years.
[Footnote 137.1: [From a modern copy by Blomefield on the
fly-leaf of a Letter addressed to him. Headed, ‘Gave this
original letter of Sir John’s to Sir Andrew Fountain.’
--MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 229.]]
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