_To our right trusty and welbeloved John Paston, Esquire._
_The Duc of York._
[Sidenote: 1454 / AUG. 19]
Right trusty and welbeloved, we grete yow hertily wel. And of your
benivolence, aide, and tendre love by yow, at th’instance and at the
reverence of us, to our right trusty and welbeloved in God, the prior
and convent of the hows of Our Lady of Walsingham, of our patronage, in
suche matres as they had adoo for certain lyvelood by tham claymed to
belonge unto the seid hows, favorably and tendrely shewed,--as hertily
as we can we thank yow, and desire and pray yow of your good
continuance; and as far as right, lawe, and good conscience wol, to have
in favorable recommendacion suche personnes as been or shal bee
committed to take possession and saison, in the name and to the use of
our ful worshipful nepveu, th’erl of Warrewic, in and of the manoirs and
Lordeships of Boules and Walcots,[332.1] with th’appertenauntes in Litel
Snoring in the countee of Norffolk, as our grete trust is unto yow. And
God have yow in His keping.
Yeven undre our signet at our castel of Sandhall the xix. day of August.