_To oure right trusty and welbeloved servaunt, John Paston, Squier._
_The Duc of Norfolk_.
[Sidenote: 1450 / OCT. 22]
Right trusti and right welbelovid, we grete yo hertily well, prayng you
specially that ye will make you redy to awayte upon us at Yippiswich
toward the Parlement the viij. day of Novembre in youre best aray, with
as many clenly people as ye may gete for oure worship at this tyme; for
we will be there like oure estate in oure best wise without any delay.
Yeven under oure signet in oure Castell of Framlyngham, the xxij. day of
Octobre.
[Illustration {signature}]
[Footnote 185.2: [Douce MS. 393, f. 93.] This letter must have
been written either in 1449 or in 1450, in both of which years
Parliament met on the 6th of November; and as we have other
letters, both of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Oxford,
relating to the Parliament of 1450, we are inclined to think
this also belongs to the later year. Framlingham, the seat of
the Duke of Norfolk, is not more than thirty-two miles from
Bury, from which he wrote on the 16th.]
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