_To my Modr, and to my brother, John Paston._
[Sidenote: 1469 / JUNE]
Brother, it is so that the Kyng schall come in to Norffolk in hast, and
I wot nat whethyr that I may come with hym or nowt; if I come I most do
make a livere of xx^ti gownes, whyche I most pyke owt by your advyse;
and as for clothe for suche persones as be in that contre, if it myght
be had ther at Norwyche, or not, I wot not; and what persones I am not
remembryd.
If my modre be at Caster, as ther schall be no dowt for the kepyng of
the place whyl the Kynge is in that contre, that I may have the most
parte at Caster; and whether ye woll offre your selfe to wayte uppon the
Lorde of Norfolk or not, I wolde ye dyde that best wer to do; I wolde do
my Lorde plesur and servyse, and so I wolde ye dyde, if I wyst to be sur
of hys gode lordeschyp in tyme to kome. He schall have CC. in a lyverye
blewe and tawny, and blew on the leffte syde, and bothe darke colors.
I pray yow sende me worde, and your advyse by Judd of what men and what
horse I cowde be purveyd off, if so be that I most nedys kome, and of
your advyse in all thyngs be wryghtyng, and I schall send yow hastely
other tydyngs. Late Sorell be well kept.
JOHN PASTON, Kt.
[Footnote 29-1: [From Fenn, ii. 22.] This letter must have been
written in the beginning of June 1469. Edward IV., as appears by
the dates of his privy seals, was at Windsor on the 29th May and
at Norwich on the 19th June in that year. Fenn says he was also in
Norfolk in the year 1474, but I can find no evidence of the fact.]
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