(_On the back_)--Item, I have sende ij. lettres to my Lord Erle of
Oxford, the ton by Robson ys man, a squyer of my Lordys. And the grete
substaunce of the lettre ys that the issues forfeted may be sent upp be
tyme to my Lord Tresorer; for there shall be none assignment made, ne
may not, till it com yn wrytyng; it be don, had it be sent. Grete sute
ys made to pardon it, but the Kynges Councell woll not suffre it. The
ij. lettre Nicholas Bokkyng beryth for excuse of my cosyn Inglose,
because grete labor hath be made to my Lord York ayenst my cosyn Inglose
and Seggeford, that they shuld endyte the Priour of Walsyngham tenaunt
yn Salle. Wheruppon my Lord York, unadvertised of the trouth, sent a
lettre to my Lord Oxford to support the Pryor ys tenaunt ayenst
Seggeford namely.
Item, I desyre that and John Berney or onye man can mete wyth Dallyng,
that fals undre eschetor, in onye place proviable, that he may by force
brought to Castre without damage of hys bodye, and there to be kept yn
hold, that he may confesse the trouth of the fals office he forged off
my maner of Tychewell.
Item, forasmoche as ye shall have to doon at Lynne for my maters there
as for Tychewell and othyr, therfor I wolle that yee doo purvey of gode
frendys as be aboute Flegg that passen yn jureez, that they may wayt
uppon yow there at Lynne, and other suche trusty men that ye can ghete
to spede my processe. And that ye do hem goode chier and cost uppon hem
after that the case shall requyre. I commyt thys mater to be ruled by
your wysdom, that it be net forzeten.
[Footnote 195.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M., and MS. Phillipps,
9735, No. 248.] The original of this letter has been torn in
two, and the first portion is now among the Paston MSS. in the
British Museum, while the latter part is in the library of Sir
Thomas Phillipps at Cheltenham.]
[Footnote 195.3: Tuddenham and Heydon.]
[Footnote 196.1: ‘Forbear to execute’ doubtless was intended.]
[Footnote 197.1: Most publicly known.]
[Footnote 198.1: A knight’s fee was an amount of land sufficient
to maintain a knight, and held subject to a knight’s service.]
[Footnote 198.2: _See_ p. 152, Note 3.]
[Footnote 198.3: Here begins the portion in the Phillipps MS.]
[Footnote 199.1: Three words indistinct.]
[Footnote 199.2: _See_ p. 188, Note 2.]
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