_To oure trusty and welbeloved John Paston, Squier._
By the King.
[Sidenote: 1450 / SEPT. 18]
Trusty and welbeloved, for asmuche as oure right trusty and welbeloved
the Lord Moleyns is by our special desire and comaundement waitting upon
us, and now for divers consideracions moeving us, we purpose to sende
hym in to certaine places for to execute oure commaundement, for the
whiche he ne may be attendant to be in oure countees of Northfolk and
Suffolk at the time of oure Commissioners sitting upon oure commission
of oier determiner within the same oure counties: We therfore desire and
praye that considering his attendance upon us, and that he must applie
hym to execute oure commaundement, ye wol respite as for any thing
attempting ayenst hym as for any matiers that ye have to do or seye
ayenst hym, or any other of his servants, welwillers, or tenaunts, by
cause of hym, unto tyme he shal mowe be present to ansuere there unto;
wherein ye shall ministere unto us cause of pleasure, and over that,
deserve of us right good thanke. Yeven under oure signet at oure Palois
of Westmynster, the xviij. day of September.
[Footnote 171.2: [From Fenn, iii. 362.] The bearing of this
letter upon the contents of Nos. 135 and 136 proves it to be of
the same year.]
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