[Sidenote: 1469 / JAN. 18]
Trusty and welbeloved, we grete yow well. And how be it that we late
addressed unto yow our letters, and commanded yow by the same, for the
consideracions in them conteined, to have ceased of makinge any
assemblye of our people for the matter of variance dependinge betwixt
yow on that one partie, and our right trustie and right entirely beloved
cosin the Duke of Norffolk on that other, and to have appeared before
the Lords of our Councell at our Palleys of Westminster at a certeine
day in our said letters specified; yett nevertheless we understonde not
as yet if ye have conformed yow to the performinge of our said
commandement or not. We therefore eftsones write unto yow, willing and
straitly charging yow to cease of the said ryotts and assemblies; and
that incontinent upon the sight of these our letters that ye dispose yow
personally to appear afore the said Lords of our Councell at our said
Pallis, there to answere to such thinges as in that behalfe by them
shall be laid and objected against yow, not failinge hereof, all excuses
laid aparte, as ye will avoide our displeasure. Yeven under our signet
at our citye of Salesbury, the xviij. day of January.
[Footnote 6-2: This letter is reprinted from the Paston Genealogy
in the _Norfolk Archæology_, to which we have already several
times referred (_see_ Nos. 484, 641, 643, etc.). Edward IV. was at
Salisbury in January 1469, one of his privy seals being dated
there on the 16th of the month.]
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