[Sidenote: 1470]
1470, 10 Aug., 10 Edw. IV., at Eshher. Undertaking in English by John
Paston, Esq., son of John Paston, Esq., who was one of the feoffees and
executors of Sir John Fastolf, that whereas Bishop Waynflete, also one
of the feoffees, and now sole executor, has taken upon him to perform
the will of the said Sir John, so far forth as it may be performed (it
being in most substance not yet performed, and his property wasted and
devoured), out of his manors and lands in Essex, Surrey, Norfolk,
Suffolk, and the city of Norwich, he (the said John Paston) will do true
and faithful service to the said Bishop, and will be aiding and
assisting to him and Magdalen College, in order that the lands may be
let to their greatest profit, he being rewarded by the Bishop, to show
his very good will to the due performing of Fastolf’s will; and that
before the Feast of All Saints next he will deliver up to the said
Bishop all charters, deeds, evidences, rentals, accounts, etc.,
pertaining to any of the said manors, excepting such as concern solely
the manor of Castre, which by covenant of the said Bishop with Sir John
Paston, Knight, brother of the said John Paston, Squire, must remain
with the same Sir John.
[Footnote 81-3: The following abstract, like some others
preceding, is taken from Mr. Macray’s Report to the Historical
MSS. Commission on the Records of Magdalen College, Oxford.]
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