_To my right trusty and intierly welbeloved John Paston, Squyer._
[Sidenote: 1450(?) / AUG. 21]
Right trusty and intierly welbeloved, I grete yow wele, and wole and
pray you that ye dispose your self to be with my Lord of Norffolk in al
hast goodly, to that intent that where it was desired by dyvers
gentilmen of this shire[163.2] that I shuld my self a be with his
Lordship at Framyngham, to excuse me to his Lordship; for truly I haf
suych writyn to my said Lord for myn excuse, which writyng I send to yow
by Thomas Denyes, to whome I pray you to gif credens. And the Trinite
kepe yow. Wretyn at Bury Seynt Edmond, the xxj. day of August.
I pray you to speke with Sir Miles Stapilton and Brewes, and to delyver
to thaym my lettres, wherof I send you copies, and make Brewes to send
over a man to me with th’entent of my Lord of Norffolk, and with
th’effect of your deligens, with a more credible message than Brewes ded
to my wif; for I had never a wers jurney for a jape in my lif, ne a
lewder, as ye shal wele conceyve.