[Sidenote: 1450 / NOV. 11]
‘Right trusty and welbeloved friends,’ I thank you for the quittance of
Richard Sellyng you have sent me by Worcestre, with a quittance of
Fauconere for the purchase of Davyngton, and another of Roys for the
purchase of Tychewell. Ask my cousin Herry Sturmer’s wife to search for
an indenture and other writings between me and Sellyng or Lady
Wiltshire. As you inform me that Sir Thomas Todenham has sent to John
Clerc to be at London, you must ask him and his wife to go before the
bailiffs of Yarmouth, and certify how it was Bysshop’s wife did not
receive the £100 I was ruled to pay her. John Clerc must not come up
till I send for him.--(_In margin_, ‘eyer and determiner.’) Special
labour has been made that Justice Yelverton should not come down this
Martinmas, but the King and Lords have determined that he shall keep his
day; ‘and the labour that ye, with my cousin Paston, made late to my
Lord Norfolk was right well avised, in case that the Justice should be
countermanded.’ Urge my friends to do their very best for me now in the
matters ‘labored last at the oyer and terminer,’ that they may take a
worshipful end. Thank Nicholas Bokkyng for what he did about the
certificate of the jury in the office[188.2] of Tychewell, and beg him
to get it sealed in time, which will be a great evidence for the
recovery of my manor. Sends home some horses ‘to be occupied in the
cart.’ Commendations to his cousin John Berney.
_Signed._
Send for William Cole about the accounts, and thank the Parson of
Haylesdon[189.1] for the three writings of Wiltshire’s will and Gorney
he sent me by Worcester; but say I prayed him to search for more.
London, St. Martin’s day.
[This letter is dated on Martinmas day, at which date in the year
1450 it will be seen by the preceding number that Justice Yelverton
was going down into Norfolk, and an _oyer and terminer_ was going to
be held at Norwich. The reference to the ‘office,’ or inquisition,
of Tychewell also proves the year to be 1450. --_See_ Nos. 162 and
164, pp. 199-201.]
[Footnote 188.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 226.]]
[Footnote 188.2: An inquisition taken by the escheator of a
county by virtue of his office was frequently called an
‘office.’ Its object was to ascertain the King’s title to
certain lands.]
[Footnote 189.1: Thomas Hert was presented to Haylesdon by Sir
John Fastolf in 1448.]
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