_This lettre be delyvered to John Paston, beynge at London, in the
Innere In of the Temple._
[Sidenote: 1452(?) / NOV. 16]
I grete you well, and sende you Goddes blissyng and myn. And as touchyng
the mater wheche ye desyryd my cosyn Clere shulde write fore, she hath
doo, and I sende you the copy closed in this lettre. As for the enquerre
I have sent by Pynchemore to enquere and sent myn owen men to William
Bakton, and don hem enquered in dyverse placs, and I can here no woord
of noon suych enquerans; I wot not what it menyth. Roberd Hill was at
Paston thys wyke, and the man that dwelled in Bowres place is oute ther
of, and seid to Roberd he durst no lenger abyde ther in, for Waryn
Herman seyth to him it is his place. As for Cokets mater, my doughter
your wyf told me yester even the man that suyth him will not stonde to
your awarde.
Bertilmow White is condemnyd in Forrenecet Court in xl. marc, as it is
seid.
Item, as for Talfas, the Sherevis hav be hest to do all the favour thei
may. I sente the Parson of Seynt Edmundes to Gilberd, and he seide ther
was come a newe writ for to have him up by the xv. day of Seynt Martyn,
and how Caly hadde ben at hem,[278.2] and desired to carye up Talfas on
his owen cost, and yeve hem goode wages.
Item, John Osbern seide to me this day that he supposed thei will not
have him up be forn Estern, and Margerete Talfas seide to me the same
day that men tolde hire that he shulde never have ende till he wer at
London, and asked me counsell wheder she myte yeve the Sherevys sylver
or non; and I tolde hire if she dede, I supposed she shulde fynde hem
the more frendly.
Item, as for Horwelbur, I sende you a bill of all the rescyts syn the
deth of your fader, and a copy wrete on the bak how your fader lete it
to ferme to the seide Gurnay. I wulde ye shulde write Gurnay, and charge
him to mete with you fro London warde, and at the lest weye lete him
purveye x_li._ for [he] owyth be my reknyng at My helmesse last passed,
be syde your faddes dette, xviij_li._ xiiij_s._ viij_d._ If ye wolde
write to him to brynge suerte for your fadyrs dette and myn, and pay be
dayes, so that the man myte leven and paye us, I wolde for yeve him of
the olde arrerags x_li._; and he myte be mad to paye xx. marc be yer, on
that condicion I wolde for yeve him x_li._, and so thynketh me he shulde
hav cause to praye for your fader and me, and was it leten in my fadres
tyme. I fele by Roberd, his wif is right loth to gon thens, she seide
that sche had lever I shulde have all her gode after her day, than thei
schulde go out ther of.
Item, John Dam teld me that the Lady Boys[279.1] will selle a place
called Halys,[279.2] but he seith sehe speketh it privyly, and seith it
is not tayled, as John Dam kno, wech will she hath seide as largely of
other thyngs that hath not be so.
Item, he tolde me, as he herd seyn, Ser John Fastolf hath sold Heylysdon
to Boleyn[279.3] of London; and yf it be so, it semeth he will selle
more. Wherfor I praye you, as ye will have my love and my blissyng, that
ye will helpe and do your devoir that sumthyng were purchased for your
ij. bretheren. I suppose Ser John Fastolf, and he wer spake to, wold be
glader to lete his kensemen have parte than straunge men. Asay him in my
name of suych placs as ye suppose is most cler.
It is seid in this contre that my Lord of Norfolk seith Ser John Fastolf
hath yoven him Castr, and he will hav [it] pleynly. I sende you a bill
of Osbern hand, whech was the ansuer of the Sheref and John of Dam.
Jon, brynge me my lettre hom with you, and my cosyn Cler is copy of her
lettre, and the copy of the reseyth of Horwelbury; and recomaunde me to
Lomnor, and tell him his best be loved fareth well, but sche is not yet
come to Norwich, for thei deye yet, but not so sor as thei dede. And God
be wyth you. Wreten at Norwych, in right gret hast, the xvj. day of
Novembr.
By your moder,