_To my welbeloved cosyn, John Bockyng._
[Sidenote: 1450 / NOV.]
Worshipfull and right welbeloved cosyn, I comaunde me to you, prayng you
to recomaunde me to my Maister Fastolf, and thank hym in my name hertily
for his man and his hors. And also for to meve hym for that we may have
a good shereve and a good undershereve that neythir for good favore no
fere wol returne for the Kyng, ne betwix partie and partie, none othir
men but such as ar good and trewe, and in no wyse will be forsworne; for
the pepil here is loth to compleyne til thei here tidynges of a good
shereve. And that William Jenney and Brayne, the clerk of the Cessions,
and Thomas Denys, ben hastid hydirward as fast as thei may, and than men
supposen he nedith not to dowghtyn his materes. And also that my cosyn
Paston be so hastily holpen in his maters that he may sone come hedir
ageyn. And also that my maistir be my sheld and my defense ageyns all
fals noyses and sclaundres meved ayens me by her menes in myn absens.
At Walsyngham, and in othir places in the duche of Lancastre, men shal
be redy to seche Heydon at hom in his own hous, if he come home; and in
lyke wyse standith Sir Thomas Tudenham his neighburs to hymward as the
more part of the pepil seth in this cuntre. His men have told here the
falsest tales of Sir William Oldhall and of me that evere I herd speke
of. It wer ful necessarye and profitable to the Kyng and to his pepil
for to have othir officers in his duche.
Asay how ye can sett hem a werk in the Parlement, for if this maters be
sped as it is aforn desired, thei ar lyke to be sett a werk here well
inough, by the grace of God, which have you in holy kepyng.
By your cosyn,
WILLIAM YELVERTON, Justice.
[Footnote 190.3: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] The correspondence of
this letter with the last is such as to leave no doubt that they
were written at the same period. The MS. is a contemporaneous
copy.]
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