_To my trusty and wele belovid John Paston, Squyer, be this lettre
delivered._
[Sidenote: 1454 / JULY 11]
Trusty and welebelovid frend, I comaund me to zow, certifying zow that
and zour sustyr be not zit maried, y trust to God y know that where she
may be maried to a gentylman of iii. C. [300] marc of lyvelod, the which
is a grete gentylman born, and of gode blode; and yf ze think that y
shall labore ony ferder therynne, y pray zow send me word by the bringer
of this lettre, for y have spoke with the parties, and they have granted
me that they wolle precede no ferder therynne tyll y speke with hem
azen; and therefore, y pray zow, send me word in hast how that ze wylle
be desposed therynne; and God have zow in hys kepyng. W[r]ettin at
Ampthill, the xj. day of July last past.
By EDMOND GREY, LORD OF HASTYNGES, WAIFFORD, AND OF RUTHYN.
[Footnote 325.2: [From Fenn, iii. 214.] This letter is dated by
a memorandum at the bottom of the original, in the handwriting
of John Paston-- ‘Liberat. per Will. Aleyn, valetum dicti domini
xiiij. die Julii anno xxxijº. H. vi.’]
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