_To my ryght trusty frende Sir Thomas Howys, Parson of Castelcombe._
[Sidenote: 1454 / JULY 12]
Ryght trusty frende, I grete you well, and wolle ye wete that I thynk it
to greete merveylle of your trouth and wysdom that ye shuld haf, that ye
hafe noysed me, and seyd to John Andreus at Yeppyswych, in presence of
dyvers men, that ye have suffisaunt waraunts undre my lettre and sele to
safe you harmlese, in case ye be condempned yn the somme this Andreus
sewyth you for. And know for certeyn, there passed no such warauntis
undre my sele; nothyr I comaunded you not for to labour ne do thyng that
shuld be ayenst the law, nether unlawfully ayenst ryght and trouth. And
therfor y ought not ne wolle not pay for yow. Wherfor I charge you sende
me your warauntis and lettres or acomp of them, and of whoos hand
wrytyng they ben; and whate evidences, instruccions and informacions ye
had and by whom, as well as of my lerned councell as of othyrs. And also
that ye comyn with my cosyn John Paston, &c., and take his gode avice
whate remedie ys best, whethyr to sew an atteynt ayenst th’enquest a
_decies tantum_ in your oune name or by the parlement; for y wolle do
seke all the remedies that may be had ayenst the seyd Andreus. And kepe
ye close and sure from hym in all maner wyse, for your oune welfare; for
know ye for certeyn that Andreus wolle ley all the wayt and aspies of
such as ye wene to take for your true frendys to arrest you; and then be
ye as it were be thout remedie, for ye not be tyme to sende me the
materes abofe specyfied.
Item, Robert Inglose hath spoke wyth me and hath offred me to by lond to
satisfye my dewtee that lyeth in Rakhyth, and y am avysed to by it,
if ye can send thedre som trusty man that can telle whate it ys worth
cleerly, and off whome it ys halde, and also yf it be sure lyvelode, and
your avice wythall; but beware that ye com not owt, God kepe you. Wryt
at London in haste the xij. day of Julle, Aº. xxxij^do. Regni Regis
Henrici VJ.
JOHN FASTOLF, ch’l’r.
[Footnote 326.1: [Add. MS. 34,888, f. 102.]]
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