[Sidenote: 1452]
Itt is to remembre under hos rule that the gode lord[273.2] is at this
day, and whiche be of his new cownseyll.
Item, that Debenham, Lee, Tymperle, and his old cownseyl and attendans,
as well as the gode ladijs servawntys, be avoydyd, and Tymperle of malys
apelyd of treson.
Item, that the sescionys of the pees wyth owte cause was warnyd in the
myddys of hervest, to grette trobill of the contre, whiche was never se
in Norffolk at seche tym of the yere; and itt was unlawfully warnyd to
appere with inne iiij. or v. days after the warnyng. Howbeitt the contre
was before warnyd at the shyer day to have had the sescionys the
Tewysday befor Michelmes.
Item, that at the seid sescionys was non other cawse of settyng thereof
declaryd but a commysyon beryng date before Estern, &c., to arest, take,
and expungne traytorys and rebellys, of whiche, be Goddis grace, is no
nede in this contre at this tyme, &c.
Item, be the demenyng of the seyd sescionys was verily conseyvid be the
jantylmen of the shyer that it was set of purpose to have, be
indytements, defowlyd seche personys as wer of the old counseyl with the
seid Lord, and seche as kepe Wodhows lond, or seche as help or confort
Osbern Munford, marchale of Kalys, in his rygth of the maner of
Brayston, of whiche he is now late wrongfully dyssesyd,[273.3] and
generally to have hurt all other that wold not folwe the oppynyons of
the seyd new cownseyll; whiche malysiows purposid oppynyon the jantylmen
of the seyd shyer that wer sworyn att the seyd sescions kowd not fynde
in her conciens to observe, but dede the contrarye as it apperyth be
here verdyte if itt be shewyd, &c. Remembre the verdyt of Brayston, &c.
And where on Roger Chirche, wyth on Robert Ledham, Charlys Nowell, John
son of Hodge Ratcleff, and on Robert Dallyng had the rewle and kepyng of
the seid maner of Brayston to the use of Thomas Danyell after the
dyssesing of the seyd Osbern Monford, the seyd Roger be the comon ascent
of his seyd felashep, be the colowre of xv. personys gadderid be the
exitation of the seyd Roger Chyrche and his felashep, accusid many
notable and thryfty men that were well willid to the seyd Munford for
the seid maner of Brayston, to be ryseris, wher as the seyd thrifty men,
as well as all that contre, hath at all tymys be pesyble and of no seche
disposicion: It was purposid after the seid sescions, whan the intents
of the seyd new cownseyl mygth not be executyd be indytements, than to
have had the seyd Roger Chirche owte of the Kyngs gayle, seying that he
shuld appele for the Kyng, and wold have do the sheryff delyverid hym
owt of prison, howbeit he was comyttyd thidder be the justyse of assyse
and gayle delyvere be cawse he was indyted of fellonye, and that ther
apperid not suffycient inquest to delyver hym.
Item, day seth thei labour feynid materis to hurt jentilman and odir be
soch acusements, &c.
Memorandum, as itt semyth be the confescion of dyvers of the seid xv.
personys that thei were innocent and knew not whi thei assemelyd but
only be the excitacion of the seyd Chirche and his menys, and after the
tyme of that they conseyvid itt was do to no good intent, thei never
medillid forther in the mater. Item, to remembre how suttely the seyd
Chirche was, be his owyn assent, led to my Lord of Norffolk be his owyn
felashep to the entent to accuse and defame seche as they lovyd not.
Memorandum, of the sescion at Norwich. Memorandum, of my Lord of
Somerset and of the Blak frers.
Memorandum, that Charlys Nowell is baly of Brayston, and hath ther
ij_d._ on the day, and of that mater growyth his malys.
Item, memorandum of them that for fer of disclosid of her falsenes
acusid odyr that they shuld not be thowth gilti hemself, and labour to
have the mater handlid be her frends that the trowth shuld not be triid
owt.
[Footnote 273.1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This paper bears upon
the same matters as the last, and must be attributed to the same
date. The MS. is a draft, with corrections in John Paston’s
handwriting.]
[Footnote 273.2: The Duke of Norfolk.]
[Footnote 273.3: Mountford was disseised of Brayston by Daniel
in the spring of 1450, but recovered possession on the 23rd
September. I find no note of his having been disseised again,
but I should think he must have been, as this paper is certainly
two years later.]
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