SIR JOHN FASTOLF TO SIR THOMAS, Parson of Castlecombe, and JOHN BOKKING,
in haste, at Princes Inn, in Norwich.
[Sidenote: 1450 / DEC. 5]
As the oyer and terminer in Suffolk is to be on Monday next, desires
them to get Sir John Sypton indicted for forging the false acquittance,
and Bury his advocate also. Has inquired of his tenants at Dedham who
were the chief counsel of breaking his mill-dam, and they say Sir John
Squyer was chief, but John Waryn was of counsel and court-holder there;
also Sir John Buk, Parson of Stratton, who fished his stanks, &c. John
Cole of Stoke has also taken in years past more than twenty of his
swans. Let them be presented. The late Parson of Cotton got F.’s late
bailly, Henry Holm (now dead), pledged out by false representations of
the sufficiency of his bail, &c.
London, 5 Dec. 29 Hen. VI.
_Signed._
[Footnote 195.1: [From MS. Phillipps, 9735, No. 247.]]
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