I pray, get us a wyfe somwher, for _Melius est nubere in Domino quam
urere_. (ca^o primo.)[67-4]
* * *
Noveritis universi per presentes me J. P. mylitem remisisse, &c. Roberto
Cotteler personæ ecclesiæ de Mawtby in comitatu Norfolk et Johanni Seyne
de Rollysby in eodem comitatu, executores testamenti et ultimæ
voluntatis Johannis Dawbeney armygeri, nuper defuncti, omnimodas
acciones, tam reales, &c. quos versus eundem Robertum sive Johannem
Seyne habui, habeo, &c., racione alicujus debyti dicti Johannis
Dawbeney, jam defuncti, mychi dicto J. Paston debite (_sic_) a principio
mundi usque in diem, &c. In cujus, &c. Datum, &c.
As for the yer of the Kyng, let it be set in, but as for the daye and
the monyth let it be owt, for the day must be aftyr probate of the wyll
and the admynystracyon takyng. I pray you, let thys be sped in all hast
possybyll; and as for your obligacyon and syche ger as belongyth to yow,
I shalbe swyr of it er they have the aqwetance.
Item, as for owyr afrayis her, J. Pampyng can tell yow; but and they get
me, ye loose a brodyr, _quod juratum est_.
It is good to do by the comandment of your mastyr whyll I am so well
boryn owte; thys my lord of Norffolk galantis send me woord dayly _ad
confortandum stomacum_. Ye must spek with your mastyr and comon some
remedye hastyly, or be God I enswyr yow, whyll owyr Dwk is thus
cherysheid with the kyng, ye nor I shall not have a man unbetyn or slayn
in thys contre, nor our sylfe nowthyr, as well ye as I, _quod juratum
est_ onys ayen. The Dwke, the Dwches and ther consell ar wrothe that ye
make no meanys to them your sylfe.
Item, I send yow Townysendis endentwre by John Pampyng.
[Footnote 66-1: [Add. MS. 34,889, f. 192.] This letter may be
dated 1470, by comparing the postscript with the beginning of No.
742, which seems to have been written in answer to it. John
Daubeney was killed at the siege of Caister in 1469. _See_ Nos.
725, 733.]
[Footnote 66-2: James Gloys.]
[Footnote 66-3: Robert Cutler or Cotteler. _See_ next page.]
[Footnote 67-1: Halliwell gives ‘jornet’ as ‘a kind of cloak’;
‘murrey’ was a dark red colour.]
[Footnote 67-2: Omitted in MS.]
[Footnote 67-3: Cardinal Bourchier.]
[Footnote 67-4: The reference is as inaccurate as the quotation.
The text referred to is 1 Cor. vii. 9: ‘Melius est enim nubere
quam uri.’]
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