[Sidenote: 1452 / APRIL]
Ryth worchepfull sir and cosyn, I recommaund me to yow, [and] pray yow
that ye will in mi behalf inform my Lord of the domag of Charlis Nowell
to meward, withow occacion gef on min part, as the berer herof knoweth
(?).[262.3] I am and was my Lords man and homagier, or the seyd Charlis
knew my Lord, and will do my Lord sech servis as I can, and that ye will
tendre the god sped of the mater of the letter direct to you from
serteyn jentilmen of thes shir, with whech jentilmen or odir to bere
recor of this thowt, I have bene dayly toward my Lord to compleyne to
his Lorship, but the continuall tydings of my seyd Lords coming heder
hath cawsid us to awayt ther opon. Beseching yow, cosine, as my trust is
in yow, that ye will help to kepe the god rewll of thes shir, and my por
honeste, and geff credens to the berer herof, and be his god master if
any querel be mad to him. And what I may do for you, I am and ever shall
be redi to do it be the grace of God, hoo ----
[Footnote 262.2: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This letter, like the
preceding, is from a rough draft in Paston’s handwriting. It is
clearly of the same date as the two last, or perhaps a day or
two later. There is nothing to show with certainty who was the
person addressed; but we should think it was probably Sir John
Fastolf.]
[Footnote 262.3: The reading is very uncertain, being partly
interlined in a very cramped hand, partly corrected in the
text.]
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