_To my worshipfull maister, John Paston, Escuyr, dwellynge att Norwich,
in hast._
[Sidenote: 1450]
After that myn letter was wretyn, I spak with Maister Yelverton, and
tolde hym the substance of my letter to yow. And he bad me write to yow
that as touchyng the matier of my Lord of Oxeford, he shall lette the
awardyng and th’entre therof als long as he may; and he demyth veryly
that H. Wodehous coude never have take up on his knowelage to have
called up on the matier with owt counseil and enformacion of Heydon, and
it were weel do that my Lord of Oxeford knewe it.
Item, Maister Yelverton told me that the Lord Moleyns was enfourmed that
he and alle his men wern endited of felonye in Norffolk, whiche caused
hym and his to be right wroth toward my maister and yow. And Maister
Yelverton hath tolde a man of the Kyngges Benche called Styrop, whiche
is a man of the Lord Moleyns, the trouth that nothir he ner noon of his
is endited, and Stirop is now in to Wiltshire, and shall telle it to the
Lord M.; for that shall squage weel his hete of wrethe. And as touchyng
Germyn,[183.2] if he be Shiref, William Genney wole undirtake for hym
that he shall and wole be ruled weel inow, &c.
[Footnote 183.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter is
anonymous, but is in the handwriting of James Gresham. It must
have been written in the autumn of the year 1450, while Lord
Molyns was in Wiltshire, and when the nomination of John Jermyn
as Sheriff of Norfolk was expected, but had not yet been decided
on, or at least not known to the writer. It was therefore
certainly written after the preceding number, though the latter
is probably not the letter to which it was intended to serve as
a postscript.]
[Footnote 183.2: John Jermyn was actually appointed Sheriff in
the end of the year 1450.]
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