_To my ritht worchipfull Mayster John Paston, be this deliveryd in
hast._
[Sidenote: 1453 / JULY 6]
Rytht worchipfull hosbond, I recommawnd me to yow, praying yow to wete
that I have spoke with Newman for his place, and I am thorow with hym
therfor, but he wold not lete it in no wyse lesse than v. marc. I told
hym that sekyrly ye shuld not know but that I hyrid it of hym for
iij_li._ I seyd as for the noble,[287.1] I shuld payt of myn owyn purse,
that ye shuld no knowlech have therof. And this day I have had inne ij.
cartfull of hey, and your stabyl shall be made I hope this next weke.
I kowd not gette no grawnt of hym to have the warehows; he seyth if he
may in any wyse forber itt her after, ye shall have itt, but he wull not
grawnt itt in no convawt [_covenant_]. He hath grawntyd me the hows be
twix the vowte and the warehows, and that he seyd he grawntyd not yow.
And as for the chamer that ye assygnyd to myn unkyl,[287.2] God hath
purveyd for hym as hys will is; he passyd to God on Monday last past, at
xj. of the clok befor none, and Sir John Hevenyngham passyd to God on
Tewysday last past; hois sowlys both God assoyle. His sekenesse toke hym
on Tewysday, at ix. of the clok befor none, and be too after none he was
dedd.
I have begonne your inventare that shuld have be made or this tym, if I
had ben well at ease. I hope to make an ende therof, and of other thyngs
both this next weke, and ben in that other place, if God send me helth.
I must do purvey for meche stuff or I come ther, for ther is nother
bords ne other stuff that must neds be had or we come there. And Richard
hath gadderid butt lytill mony syth he come from yow. I have sent John
Norwod this day to Gresham, Besigham, and Matelask to gete als meche
mony as he may. The blissid Trinyte have yow in his keping. Wretyn at
Norwych, on the Utas day of Peter and Powll.[287.3]
Yowrs,