[Sidenote: 1450]
I prey zu if ze have any old gownys for lynynges and old schetys and old
schertys that may non lenger seven zu, I prey zu send hem hom in hast,
for I must okupye seche thyngis in hast. Wyndham hath medyd the juryorys
and yaf hem mony that xuld passe on the qwhest be twyn zour modyr and
hym; if ther myt ben purveyd any mene that it myt ben dasched in cas wer
that it xuld passe azens zour modyr, it wer a good sport; for than he
wold ben wode. He sent with his men to the afray iij. gunnys in very
trowth. I have inquiryd veryly ther after. He is wode wroth that Daniel
is amrel, for it is told me that on of his men is indytyd in the
amrellys cort sythyn that Danyel was made amerel. I pray zu bewar in
qhat felaschep ze ryd qhan ze com homward, for ther gon many fals
shrewys and thevys in this contre.
Thomas Skipping rod to Londonward on Friday last past in gret hast and
purposyd hym for to ben at London on Sonday be none on erandys of his
maysterrys: qhat the cawse is I wote nott. On sent me word her of that
knowth it for trowth.
[Footnote 202.1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 150.] The date of this
letter seems to be towards the close of the year 1450; for
though I have not met with the date of Daniel’s appointment as
Admiral, which would prove the year, it will be seen by the last
paragraph of No. 142 that Wyndham was indicted at that time
along with Toddenham and Heydon, as one of the makers of
disorder in Norfolk.]
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