SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO SIR THOS. HOWYS, Parson of Castlecombe, ‘being at
Castre.’
[Sidenote: 1450 / MAY 7]
Begs him to solicit the expedition of the matters of which he wrote
since Easter.--Debts of Thos. Symmys for rents and sale of wools not yet
paid to F. in Dedham.--As for the matter of Rydlyngfold and Hykele,
‘seth it ys soo the world is changed gretely over it was, y pray you,
and charge you, parson, labour ye to my frendz Lampet and others’ to get
a copy of their evidences; for ‘howbeit the said prioress say that her
evidence be in the Duke of Suffolk’s keeping or his counsel,’ she had a
book in which all the evidence is copied. The thing would have been sped
long ere this, if ‘my Lord Norwich[’s] Chancellor’ or Master Pope, had
labored as they promised. For God’s sake send me a good answer. ‘If an
inordinate book be made, remembering the deliverance’ of cloths, &c.
into F.’s wardrobe, let the indentures be engrossed. Wonders Howys
cannot furnish him with a full account of the damages sustained by F.
and his tenants these ten or twelve years past. He has only sent a
declaration of costs in defending some of them. Get a letter of Nich.
Bokkyng of the £100 to whom it was paid.
London, 7 May 28 Henry VI.
_Signed._
[Footnote 149.2: [MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 223.]]
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