[Sidenote: 1470]
Letter in English, on paper (signed W. W., but unaddressed), desiring
some one to propose to ‘my Lord’ [the Bishop of Winchester?] the
obtaining of a letter from Sir John Paston to the tenants of Titchwell
that he will not claim any rents from them, and another from ‘my Lord,’
to the same effect, on behalf of Sir William Yelverton; and the sending
a warrant to expend 4 or 6 marks upon making up the sea banks before the
Titchwell pastures, because at Spring the sea breaks in upon them.
Desires to know whether Sir W. Yelverton’s advice shall be taken upon
business matters. ‘Frere’ Geffrey Westvale is going to be created Doctor
in Theology at Cambridge, at the Feast of St. John, who twenty years
past, when at Yarmouth convent, belonged to ‘my Maister Fastolf’; and
Sir Thomas Howys, a month before his decease, promised to help him on
Mr. Fastolf’s order. He would have come now to ‘my Lord’ to ask his alms
had not the writer letted him. Desires to be informed whether ‘my Lord’
will help him. ‘Maister Briston yn lykewyse Maister Spicer, and Maister
Stevyns, trustyn appon me and dyvers others to speke to my Lord for a
relyeve,’ and Thomas Fastolf and Milcent Fastolf, and many others, ‘that
make me noyed and werye.’
[Footnote 71-2: [From MS. Titchwell, 120, in Magdalen College,
Oxford.] From internal evidence it would seem that this letter
must have been written shortly before that which follows it. The
abstracts of these two letters have been kindly supplied to me by
Mr. Macray.]
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