Item, send zow a letter directyd to Wollysby. I pray zow lethe it be
delyvered hym as hastely as ze may; and if ze come to this contre I am
leke to se zow, and we schall make rythe mery I trust.
[Footnote 330.1: [Add. MS. 33,597, f. 5.] This letter is in the
handwriting of William Paston, son of the judge; but the
‘Margery’ Paston to whom it is addressed seems to be his brother
John’s wife, Margaret. His nephews, John Paston’s sons, were at
school in London. His sister Elizabeth, who was married to
Robert Poynings in 1458, is here said to be upon the point of
marriage, but no doubt this refers to the negotiations of the
year 1454, as the eldest of John Paston’s sons must have been
sixteen in 1458. St. Laurence’s day, on which the letter was
written, is the 10th August.]
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