_To my right worchippfull hosbond, John Paston, be thys delyveryd in
hast._
[Sidenote: 1453 / JAN. 30]
Right worchipfull hosbond, I recommand me to yow, desyring to here of
your welfar; praying yow to wete that Sir Thomas Howes hath purveyed
iiij. dormants[281.2] for the drawte chamer,[281.3] and the malthouse,
and the browere, wherof he hath bought iij., and the forte, that shall
be the lengest and grettest of all, he shall have from Heylesdon, whiche
he seyth my Mayster Fastolf shall geve me, be cause my chamer shall be
made ther with. As for the laying of the seyd dormants, they shall be
leyd this next weke, be cause of the malthous, and as for the remenant,
I trow it shall abyde tyll ye come hom, be cause I can nother be
purveyed of pysts [_posts?_], ne of bords not yette.
I have take the mesure in the draute chamer, ther as ye wold your cofors
and cowntewery[281.4] shuld be sette for the whyle; and ther is no space
besyde the bedd, thow the bedd wer remevyd to the dore, for to sette
bothe your bord and your kofors ther, and to have space to go and sitte
be syde. Wherfor I have purveyd that ye shall have the same drawte
chamer that ye had befor ther, as ye shall ly to your self; and whan
your gerr is remevod owte of your lytil hous, the dore shall be lokkyd,
and your baggs leyd in on of the grete koforis, so that they shall be
sauff, I trost.
Richard Charles and John Dow have fetched hom the chyld[282.1] from
Rokelond Toftes, and it is apraty boy; and it is told me that Wyll is
att Blyklyng with a pore man of this town. A yonge woman that was
sometyme with Burton of this town sent me word therof; I pray yow send
me word if ye woll that any thyng that ye woll be do to hym or ye com
hom. Richard Charles sendeth yow word that Wylles hath be at hym here,
and offerd hym to make hym astate in all thyngs according to ther in
dentur, and if he do the contrary ye shall sone have word.
My moder prayith yow to remembr my suster, and to do your parte
feythfully or ye com hom to help to gette her agode mariage. It semyth
be my moders langage that she wold never so fayn to have be delyveryd of
her as she woll now.
It was told here that Knyvet the heyer is for to mary; bothe his wyff
and child be dede, as it was told here. Wherfor she wold that ye shuld
inquyr whedder it be so or no, and what hys lyvelode is, and if ye
thynke that it be for to do, to lete hym be spoke with therof.
I pray yow that ye be not strange of wryting of letters to me be twix
this and that ye come hom. If I myght I wold have every day on from yow.
The blyssed Trinyte have yow in his kepyng. Wrete att Norwyche, on the
Tesday next after the Convercion [of] Seynt Poull.
Be yours,