_To our welbeloved John Paston._
Th’erl of Oxenford.
[Sidenote: 1450 / DEC. 23]
Right trusty and welbeloved, we grete you well. And for as moche as the
qwene and my Lord of York have writyn to us for a matier that is
depending betwix the toun of Salle and on [_one_] Sechforth of the same
toune, we pray yow that at such tyme as we purpose yow to be with us now
this Cristemesse at Wynche that ye lete the sayd Sechforth have wetyng
ther of, and that he may be with us that same tyme, for diverse matiers
wich that we have to speke with hym; and that ye fayle not, as we trust
yow. Wretyn in owr manor of Wynche, the xxiij^ti. day of Decembre.
[Footnote 201.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 168.] The subject of this
letter is evidently referred to in the postscript of the last.]
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