_To my right wurshipfull hosbond, John Paston, be this delyveryd in
hast._
[Sidenote: 1454(?) / JAN. 29]
Right worshipfull hosbond, I recommawnd me to yow, praying yow to wete
that I spak yistirday with my suster,[300.2] and she told me that she
was sory that she myght not speke with yow or ye yede; and she desyrith
if itt pleased yow, that ye shuld yeve the jantylman, that ye know of,
seche langage as he myght fele by yow that ye wull be wele willyng to
the mater that ye know of; for she told me that he hath seyd befor this
tym that he conseyvid that ye have sett but lytil therby, wherefor she
prayth yow that ye woll be here gode brother, and that ye myght have a
full answer at this tym whedder it shall be ya or nay. For her moder
hath seyd to her syth that ye redyn hens, that she hath no fantesy
therinne, but that it shall com to a jape; and seyth to her that ther is
gode crafte in dawbyng; and hath seche langage to her that she thynkyt
right strange, and so that she is right wery therof, wherefor she
desyrith the rather to have a full conclusyon therinne. She seyth her
full trost is in yow, and as ye do therinne, she woll agre her therto.
Mayster Braklee[300.3] be her yisterday to have spoke with yow; I spak
with hym, but he wold not tell me what his erond was.
It is seyd her that the cescions shall be at Thetford on Saterday next
komyng, and ther shall be my Lord of Norffolk and other with grette
pupill [_people_], as it is seyd.
Other tydyngs have we none yett. The blissefull Trynyte have yow in his
kepyng. Wretyn at Norwyche, on the Tewysday next befor Candelmasse.
I pray yow that ye woll vowchesawf to remembr to purvey a thing for my
nekke, and to do make my gyrdill.
Yowris,