[Sidenote: 1469]
Mr. Wyngfeld, I recomande me to you. Please you to wit I have sent a
lettre joyntly to you and to al my Lordes[52-2] counsel; nevirtheles,
for the special favor and service that I bere and owe to you, I write to
you aparte, praying you to put your hasty devoir to the delyverans of my
servaunt, with th’answere of the same; and ovir that for Goddis sake
remember you hou that ye stond my Lordes nygh kynnesman, and by whom my
Lordes wulle gretly be steerid, that ye eschewe and avoide to be non of
those that my Lordes here thenk shuld set or cause my Lord to do thynges
otherwise than accordith to the pleasir of my Lordes; for it is so that
there be dyvers of my Lordes counsel stond in hevy report of my Lordes,
of which I wold ye were non; certifieng you that I know so ferre that
yif ye any thyng doo in this mater to the pleasir of my Lordes, it will
neither be unremembrid ne unrecompensid, not doutyng but that hereafter
to have a large thonk of you for this my counsel; praying you ferthermor
to move Sir John Hevyngham, and such as ye knowe wele disposid, to
assist you in this; and that this bille be kept secrete, as my trust is
in you. Wreten at London.
[Footnote 52-1: [From Paston MSS., B.M.] This and the letter
following are corrected drafts upon the same paper, and both
evidently written at the same time, and by the same writer, as the
last letter.]
[Footnote 52-2: The Duke of Norfolk’s.]
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