_To my right trusty and welbeloved Sir John Paston._
Ih’s.
[Sidenote: 1469(?) / MAY 7]
Right trusty and welbeloved, I grete you hertely well, and sende you by
Thomas your childe xx.^li., prayng you to spare me as for eny more at
this tyme, and to hold you content with thessame, as my singlr truste is
in you; and I shalle within bref tyme ordeigne and purveye for you such
as shalbe unto your pleasir, with the grace of Almightty God, who have
you in His proteccion and keping.
Writen in the manoir of the Mor[20-3] the vij^th daye of Maye.