_To my right reverent and worchepful maister John Paston in the Iner In
of the Temple be this delyverid in hast._
[Sidenote: 1452 / MAY 14]
Please it your maisterchep to weete that John Reyner and Nicholas
Strecok of Sparham have gete a respyte of Nicholas Byschop for the
distresse that the seid Byschop had take, as ye knowe wele, tyl seche
tyme as ye may speke wyth Symond Blake for the trought of the mater; not
wythstandyng this respite myght never be gete tyll that Byschop had a
reward of mony; it is told me he toke viij_d._ for hese reward. The
dryvers ought of the catell fro Sparham ground to Lyng grownd were Hugo
Sadde of Baldeswell, Byschoppis man, Nicholas Gatesend, Roberd Joye,
Jacobis Baxter of Lyng. James Gloys hath a bill of the tyme and day.
I pray your maisterchep to know that on Fryday in the afftyr none I spak
with my lord of Norwiche in hese chamber more than the space of j. owre
and ther I dede to hym myn erand that ye commaunded me for to a do to
chalanches, and when my lord woost that ye were to London he was right
sory that he had not a spoke wyth yow or that ye reden; he told me that
he had iij. letters fro my lord of Norffolk the day before. Alle I wet
wel were they not for yowre mater of Charlys Nowell. Aftyer that he had
told me of these letteris he askid me how ye dede. I sayde wel, for I
trostid to my lord of Norffolkis lordchep and ritewesnesse that he wold
see that Charles shuld be sharply correctyd for hese trespasse and
mysrewle, or ellis the jentelmen of the shire must to giddyer purvey
anodyer meane; and he seid it wold never odyerwyse be, but if he had
spoke wyth yow or ye redyn to London he hopid be your avys he shuld a
perveyd a meane to a set that in correccion, and also the trobyl for the
maner of Brayston, for that was cause of all. For he seide he had spoke
wyth my lord Skales and he is wel disposid to yow and vn the best wyse
and wel do . . . yow that he can, so that he wold forsake Danyell. This
was seyde in a diswere, savyng he told me he must . . . . pleayne he
told me many more thyngges and tales I pray you of your maistechep
(_sic_) hold me excusid that I wryte hem [not], but they were not alle
of gret substans, &c. I had gret cher, he comaunded me to be had into
the seler, and for to drynk wyne and ale bothe; and so I had and goode
chere. My mastras recomendith her to yow and pray yow that ye wol do the
cost vn my mastras Margery for to do make her a new gyrdyl a yens
Witsontyde, for she shal never have, my mastras seith, till she hath
nede; and my mastras prayith yow to send her tydyngges, as hastely as ye
may, how ye do in your maters. The Holy Trenyte have yow in hese kepyng.
Wrete at Norwiche the xiiij. day of Maii.
Be your seruaunt,