_To Mestresse Margret Paston, be thys delyveryd._
[Sidenote: 1469 / [OCT.]]
Ryght worchypfull Moodre, I comand me to yow, and beseche yow of yowr
blyssyng and Gods. Thanke yow for yowr tendrenesse and helpe bothe to
me, my brother, and servants.[62-2]
. . . . . . .
The Kynge is comyn to London, and ther came with hym, and roode ageyn
hym, the Duke of Glowcestr, the Duke of Suffolke, the Erle of Aroundell,
the Erle of Northumbreland, the Erle of Essex, the Lordes Harry and John
of Bokyngham, the Lord Dakres, the Lorde Chambreleyn, the Lorde
Montjoye, and many other Knyghtys and Sqwyers, the Meyr of London, xxij.
Aldremen, in skarlett, and of the Crafftys men of the town to the nombre
of CC., all in blewe. The Kynge come thorow Chepe, thowe it wer owt of
hys weye, be cawse he wold not be seyn, and he was accompanyed in all
peple with m^l. horsse, som harneysyd and som nat. My Lorde
Archebysshop[62-3] com with hym from Yorke, and is at the Moor,[62-4]
and my Lorde of Oxenfford roode to have mett the Kyng, and he is with my
Lorde Archebysshop at the Moor, and come nat to town with the Kynge;
some sey that they wer yesterdaye iij. myle to the Kyng wards from the
Moor, and that the Kyng sent them a massangr that they scholde com when
that he sent for them. I wot not what to suppose therin; the Kyng
hymselffe hathe good langage of the Lords of Clarance, of Warwyk, and of
my Lords of York [and] of Oxenford, seyng they be hys best frendys; but
hys howselde men have other langage, so that what schall hastely falle I
cannot seye.
My Lorde of Norffolke schall be her thys nyght. I schall sende yow mor
when I knowe mor.
Item, iff Ebysham come not home with myn oncle W., that than ye sende me
the ij. Frenshe bookys that he scholde have wretyn, that he may wryght
them her,
JOHN PASTON, Kt.
[Footnote 62-1: [From Fenn, i. 292.] The allusion in an unprinted
passage in this letter to the approaching marriage of Richard
Calle with Margery Paston proves it to be of the year 1469. In
that year it appears by the dates of the privy seals that Edward
IV. remained during the whole of September in Yorkshire, having
been detained by Warwick at Middleham as a prisoner during the
month of August; but he was in London as early as the 13th
October.]
[Footnote 62-2: Here, according to Fenn, follow passages touching
‘an account of monies, debts, &c., a dispute with his uncle
William, and a desire to defer his sister Margery’s marriage with
Richard Calle till Christmas.’]
[Footnote 62-3: George Nevill, Archbishop of York.]
[Footnote 62-4: _See_ p. 20, Note 3.]
[[... that he may wryght them her,
_text has “be”: corrected from Fenn_]]
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