[Sidenote: 1469 / JAN. 9]
W. COTING to JOHN COOK, draper of Norwich, ‘and that he deliver or send
this bill to Richard Kalle in all goodly haste, for the matter is of
substance.’
This day in the grey morning three men of my Lord of Norfolk with long
spears carried off three good horses from John Poleyn, ‘one of your
farmers at Tichewell,’ telling him to treat with my Lord of Norfolk.
Wishes to know what to do, ‘for such an open wrong unremedied knew I
never.’ Saturday after Epiphany.
‘Anno viij^o’ is written below.
[The signature of this letter is written in an abbreviated form, ‘W.
Cot.’ According to Blomefield, W. Cotyng was rector of Titchwell from
1450 to 1457, and he had been previously rector of Swainsthorp, to which
he was presented by Judge Paston in 1444. This letter is twelve years
later than the date at which his incumbency of Titchwell is said to have
terminated; but doubtless he is the writer. He is referred to as living
even in the year 1485, in a letter written by Dame Elizabeth Browne, who
says that he and James Gresham were clerks to her father Judge Paston.]
[Footnote 6-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.]]
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