_To owre Ryght trusty and right welbeloved Frend, Johan Paston,
Esquier._
The Erle of Oxenford.
[Sidenote: 1450(?) / APRIL 30]
Right tristy and welbeloved frend, we grete you right hertily well. And
for asmuche as we be enformed that on [_one_] Thomas Kecham, a servaunt
of owre right welbeloved brothir, Sir Richard de Veer, knyght, hath to
done with Sir Henry Inglose knyght in a certeyn matier in wich youre
good maisterschep may cause his singuler ease and a vaile as anenst the
said knyght, as Thomas Kecham hath enformed us; We pray you hertily
that, at the reverence of us and this oure writyng, ye woll take the
labour upon you to speke unto the said Sir Henry, conceyving a mene and
the weye of an ende to be had be twix thaym of right, causyng the said
knyght to sease of hese malice and wrongful suette as a nenst the said
Thomas. And ferthermore we pray you to see that the said knyght take no
benefeys ne prevayle not as a nenst the Gaoyler of the Castell of
Norwich for the suerte of the said Thomas Kecham, as we verily trust ye
will; in wich feithfully doyng we shall kun you hertily thanke. And
right trusty and welbeloved, the Trynitie have yow in Hese kepyng.
Wreton at oure Manour of Wevenhoo, the last day of Aprill.
Below the text of this letter is written in another hand, ‘Smalwode
Sparhawk.’
[Footnote 144.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 164.] This letter cannot
be later than 1451, as Sir Henry Inglose died in June of that
year. The date may be about 1450, like that of some other
letters of the Earl of Oxford.]
[[we shall kun you hertily thanke
_text unchanged (expected editorial gloss)_]]
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